midnightclubbed

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by midnightclubbed 3mo ago
This 100x. People like to complain about the time it takes to ship AAA games and how huge the budgets have gotten... and then complain that the UE5 games all look the same. You either use some amount of systems 'out of the box' or
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by midnightclubbed 3mo ago
For sure, if you restrict what can (and can't) be done in shaders you can optimize buffer layouts and rendering passes, not allow things that explode shader permutations/switching or explode shader instruction count and kill occup
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by midnightclubbed 3mo ago
id tech is probably the last engine that used a signature game to showcase the engine to licensees. The business model of idTech, Unreal Engine, and Crytech used to be 'make amazing looking game that sells the engine to licensees&#x27
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by midnightclubbed 4mo ago
Even in high cost of living coastal Southern California these numbers are insane unless you have a $10mil house with 10,000sqft
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by midnightclubbed 4mo ago
This comment seems insane to me. Like at $50 an hour thats 30 hours a month, or 8 hoursish a week. How dirty or huge is the house? And $50 an hour is way over what most hourly degree edgucated workers earn so definitely not exploitation.
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by midnightclubbed 6mo ago
Which organizations had those shared goals and actions? In the charity/non-profit space a lot of organizations are led and operated by retirees and others for whom money is a solved problem. And they are rife with infighting, politics
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by midnightclubbed 6mo ago
Lowering interest rates to juice the economy is done when unemployment rises … which hasn’t happened yet in the wider economy. Juiced economy and free cash is what led to massive inflation. Powell is trying to save hay until winter - when
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by midnightclubbed 6mo ago
Scenario 2 now has country C1 with 100 tech workers, and they got their pick of the 50 best workers from (lower paying) country 2. Country 1 is now a better place to start a new company or expand your existing company because all the best w
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by midnightclubbed 6mo ago
Until maybe 2 years ago absolutely. Huge demand for tech workers and not enough smart US workers to fill the roles… lots of low quality candidates from crappy colleges but anyone with skills or smarts (and not unreasonable salary expectati
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by midnightclubbed 9mo ago
The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited streaming, unlimited downloads (rentals) to Zune devices an
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by midnightclubbed 9mo ago
What does the end user do with the AI chat? It sounds like they can just use it to do searches of client information… which the existing site would already do.
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
> modern left wing goals like unlimited mass immigration. Ahh and there we are. It's the immigrant's fault. Once all those illegals are out the of the country we'll be great again - the world will once more bend to Queen
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
> The US is a very right wing country. It's politicians are better able to avoid populist price controls. Maybe with Mamdani that's now changing. Rather than placing price controls on private companies the US slashes taxes to t
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
What was weird was when the restaurant was closed and looked deserted but you could still order online and hope the locker with your order lit up with your food (it did). I found it disconcerting that I couldn’t tell who was making my food,
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
I think your parent made a perfectly good point. Going into the store is a whole lot less pleasant than staying in my car and waiting a couple extra minutes in an environment I enjoy. If I’m in a hurry then yes maybe I can shave a few minu
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
Some people stop every day on the way in to work rather than make coffee at home in the morning. They’re often ordering some caffeine concoction rather than drip coffee. I have known people with $100+ per month Starbucks habits.
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
Yeah it’s this, Starbucks isn’t a coffee place; it’s a caffeinated drink place. Their brewed coffee (outside of their higher end tasting room stores) is deliberately undrinkable to push you to their espresso drinks or their sugary concocti
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
It’s not entirely trivial (if you care about texture quality) you’re choosing 2 endpoints in 3d space that can be linearly interpolated to values that best fit 16 points in 3d space. I may have been a little off with saying seconds per text
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
If you’re compressing at load-time it can be a lot. You can do a quick and dirty compress to BC1-3 (assuming you are on PC) in a few tens of milliseconds but quality will be suboptimal, higher quality will likely take a few seconds per tex
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
For a few years it seemed like Tesla and SpaceX were those companies - reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, boosting clean transportation and solar, pushing forward space exploration. But the promises turned into stock boosting lies; th
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
Maybe there will be a benefit from the additional power generation and infrastructure that will still be available if the data centers don’t need it. Can’t believe I have to state the obvious and say that is only a potential gain if the pow
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
The RCP was actually two hardware blocks, the RDP which as you say did the fixed function (but very flexible) pixel processing and the RSP which handled command processing and vertex transformation (and audio!). The standard api was pretty
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
EA not making sports games for Dreamcast wasn’t a bad decision for EA. It cost Sega a huge amount of money to produce and license their own sports games exclusively for Dreamcast, not having EA sports was a huge blow. And while NBA 2k dest
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by midnightclubbed 1y ago
I know you are making a flippant and pointless comment, but I’m compelled to respond. Of all the laptops I’ve owned my 2020 MacBook Air is still my personal daily driver, my 2010 Mac mini still works fine for running my 3d printer, my 2014
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
Tempting fate here but I don’t see any reason why my cheapo spring loaded toaster won’t give me another 10 years of life. There’s nothing to go wrong if used correctly. Back when I was a kid in the 80s toasters would break because we shove
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
Did the needle go far left? I didn’t see it go much past the American center (which is very right compared to most of the western world). We got some DEI that has for the most part been proven to be lip service, so much for equal under la
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
The compilers tend to lag a few years behind the language spec too, especially if you have to support platforms where the toolchains lag latest gcc/clang (Apple / Android / game consoles). Respectfully, you might want to add
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
I have used auto liberally for 8+ years; maybe I'm accustomed to reading code containing it but I really can't think of it being a problem. I feel like auto increases readability, the only thing I dislike is that they didnt make
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
You don't 'have' to keep up with the language and I don't know that many people try to keep up with every single new feature - but it is worse to be one of those programmers for whom C++ stopped at C++03 and fight any fe
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
If the product stops working if you don’t pay the maintenance fee then it’s a subscription model with an initial down-payment. Car maintenance doesn’t fall into the annual fee model, as much as manufacturers and dealers would like, you don’

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