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by caseyy 1y ago
My experience was very different. But I did start in the games industry as a contractor working for abysmally poor pay. If you take a portfolio with actually decent programming skills, and flush self-worth down the drain along with labor pr
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That is true but do they discern based on degrees? I found that AAA studios will pick someone with game shipping experience and some good code examples on GitHub over someone with a university degree 9 times out of 10. The degree does matte
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I think they meant eternal life much more in the “I have no mouth, and I must scream” sense. Much has been said and written about the cruelty of immortality, since the myth of Sisyphus and probably before. “The Mortal Immortal” is a story a
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I disagree. There is increasing conversation in the medical community[0] about living past one’s health-span for years. While fear of death is widely considered universal, many people (for various reasons) fear death significantly less than
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I think death being natural lends a lot of credence to the idea that it’s normal — as normal as life. And I’d say most people probably don’t fear death or non-existence itself, but rather the process of dying (suffering, stress, pain, sham
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I don’t fear death, it is natural. I fear the suffering society will put me through when I’m old and ill, because they can’t cope with death. It’s good we are starting to develop dignified death laws. With the world population as it is, mor
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> Many of the best co-workers that I remember had physics degrees. In fact, it was so pronounced I personally consider a physics degree to be a top tier signal of programming ability, but that's my own personal prejudice. Hah, I als
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by caseyy 1y ago
A degree is indeed more necessary in some disciplines/industries than others, and in some job markets rather than others. I'll say, sometimes what matters most is who you know, rather than what you know. Mentors and industry event
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In the AAA games industry, a portfolio speaks much louder than a degree. Junior software engineers with five simple, well-coded games (such as Asteroids, Lunar Lander, etc) on GitHub stand head and shoulders above people fresh out of univer
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From my experience, about 1-2 in 10 co-founders are like that. They bring negotiation and networking to the table and demand compensation that no hardworking and honest co-founder would ever ask. I think Sturgeons law applies to co-founders
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I wonder if Starlink et al won't soon solve the global internet access problem.
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> How do you set boundaries? I don’t, I just naturally hang out with the people who are most reciprocating and being the most good vibes. Ultimately, it’s about me first. I function better and am happier when I have recently socialized.
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I added a little bit about that in my comment above. Yeah, I feel the same way, it’s not a pleasant feeling. I think many people don’t make the effort anymore, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you if you do — nothing to be
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Maintaining adult relationships post-Covid is hard as a millennial. Or rather, getting friendly relationships started/restarted has gotten very awkward. But I’ve noticed that most people respond very well to my efforts. I started texti
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> This is the kind of implicit lying that seems pervasive today and I am so tired of it. I am so tired of it, too. Toying with the legal boundary of lying in communication is pathological, maybe even sociopathic. Everyone knows when some
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by caseyy 1y ago
No need to respect a culture of paranoia and overcriminalization. The same culture is in the US with regard to lawful minority immigrants, do you respect it?
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Thanks for sharing. I fed it three photos, and it got the one I was close to right (using my location), but for the other two, it could only guess the country. That's still pretty cool.
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I love that the glowing orb is a component. Many websites could use an orb.
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Similar thoughts by Jason Schreier: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-10/why-so... https://archive.is/oLwbP
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There is much to be said about the industry. Most game releases compete for significantly less than 20% of the net bookings each year. Others are black hole games (the multi-year/multi-decade lifespan games that attract players and har
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by caseyy 1y ago
Llama 3 license: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/LICENSE Calm it with the ad hominem attacks. It's not the place for it.
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> Yeah, just like a turd is a piece of gourmet food if there is no other good food around. I didn't mean it's on a continuum, as you assumed. Apologies for phrasing it unclearly. I meant that the weights are public. They are op
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What users want, and what they collectively consume, are two different things. This is very evident in the AAA games industry, which is facing a 10x downturn in funding, abysmally bad (negative) ROI, and exhausted growth engines because it
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I understand I was supposed to say “no” and question the open-source label. We’ve heard many arguments that if something can’t be reproduced from scratch, it’s not true open-source. To me, they sound a bit like “no true Scotsman”. Llama is
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There are many things to be said about open-source projects and, more broadly, the capabilities of the open-source community. The most capable parts are for-profit organizations that release open-source software for their business imperativ
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That’s a healthy view. Unfortunately, the industry is heading towards agentic coders at 200mph.
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Vibe coding is what I’m selfishly expecting to take out many projects and keep my principal level swe skills in demand. Someone will have to mop all the vibes up when it’s time to deliver products.
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We've accumulated much bloat in macOS since "big cat" days... and what seems like only 10% more OS utilities/functionality. Interesting to think about it in retrospect.
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Yes. ML has advanced many fields related to modelling - meteorology, climate, molecular. Classification models have done much for genomics, particle physics, and other fields where experiments produce inhumane amounts of data. DeepVariant,
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Of the current widely accepted papabili, Peter Turkson is from Sub-Saharan Africa. He is softly pro-LGBT, and he seeks to harmonize the progressive homosexuality views with traditional African culture[0]. I don't think Robert Sarah is

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