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A new world is here let me show you [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nathants 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathants 3y ago
the aws apis are quite fast. no idea why tools wrapping them tend to end up very slow, even ones developed at aws.
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Debugging distributed systems by walking around inside of them [video](tiktok.com)
2 points by nathants 3y ago|0 comments
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by nathants 3y ago
i just rejoined both, posting gamedev videos to zero followers. tiktok shows my videos to ~500 people instantly, then stops. instagram shows it to ~10 then stops. presumably both are measuring view to like ratio or something. tiktok is 2%,
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by nathants 3y ago
individuals and small teams are going to build the next generation of games, not these mutual funds.
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What I'm building, and why I'm building it(youtube.com)
1 points by nathants 3y ago|1 comments
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by nathants 3y ago
The next generation of online gaming. Public beta 2024.
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by nathants 3y ago
just wait until i ship my game as a bootable linux image. reboot to play is the future. who cares about the os, just boot into the app. windows is somewhat usable with hellzerg/optimizer if you flip all the toggles and also disable upd
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by nathants 3y ago
this is why everything is fine. all that energy wasted learning and playing faangesque promotion monopoly. that energy could have been spent passionately learning and building cool stuff. stuff that doesn’t just look good on the packaging,
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by nathants 3y ago
shift your working hours to 12-8, be open to changing jobs if it’s an issue.
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by nathants 3y ago
there is very little reason to use services like big query. they are all insanely over priced. always use plain ec2 spot and s3. lots of smaller instances. fewer larger instances. single massive instance. whatever. fancy sql thingy, awk and
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by nathants 3y ago
i tried a two mouse setup for a game i’m building, but went back to one. left hand on half a keyboard is just a really good interface, and i already have one mouse. i could see it working for a flight sim though. dual joysticks.
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by nathants 3y ago
this is why foss game engines are exploding right now.
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by nathants 3y ago
the idea of map reduce remains a good one. there are a number of interesting innovations in streaming systems that followed, mostly around reducing latency, reducing batch size, and failure strategies. even hadoop could be hard to debug whe
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by nathants 3y ago
kick.com is trying to run a clone of twitch on aws for a while now. too soon to tell.
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by nathants 3y ago
any ic engineering role in a big org has just a few ways to leverage change: oratory, effort, expertise, and resignation. use the appropriate tools to solve the problem at hand. it depends.
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by nathants 3y ago
yes. use gpt4 daily for general support with linux, aws, cpp, go, bash, and python. it would be nice if it was more capable, but it’s already worth its weight.
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by nathants 3y ago
using twitter via bird.makeup. consuming that and more via mastodon.gamedev.place. follow interesting people, wherever they might publish.
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by nathants 3y ago
cloud is good. it is a new option. most interesting new options come inescapably with new potentials for abuse. personally, my most interesting work is bootstrapping nights and weekends. the optionality of cloud opens entire new fields here
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by nathants 3y ago
don’t forget spot pricing!
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by nathants 3y ago
do less: talking, worrying. do more: building, exercising.
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by nathants 3y ago
the best way to do this is with: https://cryptomator.org
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by nathants 3y ago
tiny-snitch, mighty-snitch: monitor and prevent internet connections libaws: make aws easy aws-exec: make services easy aws-gocljs: make webdev easy s4, bsv: make big data easy arch-setup, alpine-setup: make laptop bootstrap easy backup: ma
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by nathants 3y ago
start hacking in your spare time. builders gotta be building. start interviewing casually, prefer small companies and early stage companies. when you find interesting people, join them! welcome back, and good luck. life is too short and eng
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by nathants 3y ago
cloud is so good now it’s hard to justify not doing something bespoke. ec2 spot is insanely cheaper than turnkey cicd, and better in almost every way. i’m delighted to pay 30% over infra cost for convenience, but not 500%. and it better act
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by nathants 3y ago
if you don’t need a web ui: https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws
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by nathants 3y ago
just make driving chill. let that be enough.
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by nathants 3y ago
i’m pleased with 7950x, it was just a surprise. when benchmarking the game engine, massive latency variance due to background jobs using all cores. when i compile, all 16 cores are used. when playing, core0 is main thread, core1 is physx, c
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by nathants 3y ago
obviously the solution is to never seek promotion. come in at the package you want. be content.
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by nathants 3y ago
serverless compute and storage are a great thing. the chronic silverbullitus that plagues industry since the dawn of time doesn’t change that. nonsensically bad systems will be built. lambda is very reliable, more so than ec2. for serious s

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