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by maccard 4mo ago
> you just want to retrieve relevant documents with laser precision My experience with using LLMs for search is that they do _not_ have laser precision. Far from it in fact. If you want to retrieve documents with laser precision AI is th
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by maccard 4mo ago
Im not entirely sure this helps with your point but; The contract is that the reference is still non-null, and that the error is dereferencing the pointer. There’s two big problems with defining the behaviour of the deterrence - 0 is a vali
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by maccard 4mo ago
Everything massively increased in price. Also you won’t get anything for less than a fiver jn pret. A regular baguette is 6.25 and add a coffee it’s now £10
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by maccard 4mo ago
> Most VPN companies won't implement age verification, because their purpose is privacy. They will when it's law. Their purpose is most likely either snake oil, or bypassing geo restricctions on netflix or sports.
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by maccard 4mo ago
No. It has laws that websites must follow to serve content in the UK. It’s up to the websites to do the age verification themselves, and the majority use third party ID verification services. Reddit used an American company to do it,
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by maccard 4mo ago
The government use VPNs. The ban will target individual use.
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by maccard 4mo ago
I ran a quick test this morning - it took 7 minutes to load the app after a reboot, 90 seconds to load the second time, and 50 seconds after a reboot with windows defender disabled. All on an NVMe drive with basically nothing else running (
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by maccard 4mo ago
In an ideal world sure. But we have versioned closed source third party tools that need to be shared with the team. The industry standard in games is to dump that stuff in perforce. I’ve only got so many battles in me.
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by maccard 4mo ago
I know nothing about how defender works internally but it seems to do a synchronous scan on every single file access and an extra long one on a DLL or exe. It seems to cache them but throws the entire cache away on restart. The behaviour is
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by maccard 4mo ago
> Why would everyone be hosed just because a binary got committed to version control? We’re hosed if someone submits malware to source control and other people run it? > Either way, surely you can set up some policies or monitoring fo
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by maccard 4mo ago
I need to write the blog post. I keep being told this, and it’s not the solution. After a reboot, on an NVMe dev drive with no disk encryption, first launch of our internal application (unreal editor) takes 9 minutes on my workstation. If I
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by maccard 4mo ago
We’re spending $4-8000 on these machines to try and offset these problems. The problem is that there’s 100 of these “little” issues - and I have a full time job that _isnt_ doing IT support. If someone can help me find an IT support contra
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by maccard 4mo ago
The person mentioned is a special case but the reality is that most people do need _something_. What happens if one trusted person makes a mistake and submits an exe to perforce? Now absolutely everyone is hosed.
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by maccard 4mo ago
I replied above but basically we still need something; some people are just incapable of not making a total mess and they will literally go to Trojan.com and install dangerous.msi, ignore all the optional dismissible pop ups that say this i
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by maccard 4mo ago
I am the enterprise here. We enforce it on because the alternative is worse.
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by maccard 4mo ago
Because the alternative is worse - no protection. Because we have everything in Intune we get the per device scan reports (I lied - we do enforce _some_ stuff as a group policy. We disable turning off certain features and we manage the wind
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by maccard 4mo ago
I'm not IT, I'm' just the senior most engineer in a game studio. Ive got WPA captures that point to windows defender, even with processes and folders excluded. But I have literally no idea what to do with those traces, hence
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by maccard 4mo ago
At my last job I was responsible for 70 windows 11 machines. At my current job it’s 20. These are i7/i9 spec with 64+GB memory and NVMe drives. No endpoint management software, just Intune for device registration. They all have _very s
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by maccard 4mo ago
> Honestly, when our backend team merged into one that was using Perforce for the backend learning how to use Perforce wasn't realistically even a blip on the radar of what to get used to. I think a lot of what people are assuming h
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by maccard 4mo ago
A quick reply; > p4 tracks file metadata of client workspaces on the server Honestly, using P4 necessitates a plugin for $EDITOR of choice. The jetbrains IDEs do full on integration, but I managed a decade with an addon that just ran &qu
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by maccard 4mo ago
I mostly agree. I think for games you want per commit versioning 95% of the time. You don’t _really want developers building with cherry picked old revisions etc, but you don’t want an artist to have to pull down the 8TB of new art content
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by maccard 4mo ago
> Perforce does get the job done and it's reliable and stable. Well… perforce does get the job done, but it does need a lot of hand holding from an admin (and you need someone who knows p4 server if you’re using it). It’s also stabl
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by maccard 4mo ago
Sorry - I didn’t intend to be vague! Entra, yep.
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by maccard 4mo ago
> It’s just GitHub became popular because people didn’t understand that you can rebase from any remote source. If everyone uses it wrong, it was designed wrong. See Q-tips.
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by maccard 4mo ago
> The 10k tutorials on git might indicate issues with its design, or it might indicate its massive popularity. Hard to say. It's "hard to say" if you want to ignore the fact that it requires 10k tutorials. Meanwhile, there
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by maccard 4mo ago
Yeah that seems like an awful solution. This is exactly why we use perforce and just shove _everything_ in it.
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by maccard 4mo ago
As I said in my last reply - none of that surprises me. Our provider worked out of the box, fwiw.
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by maccard 4mo ago
And if your resulting game is 100GB, the source repo was 4TB.
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by maccard 4mo ago
> Lore needs you to tell it that you're moving or renaming. It's not the end of the world, but it's a real pain if other tools are operating on the file. You will need to go back and manually annotate those operations if y
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by maccard 4mo ago
I completely agree with every single point you've said here. Running a P4 server is an exercise in self torture, but it's the only option with UE5. > I wish I could use a better code review tool than Swarm. With one caveat. I t

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