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by whizzter 1y ago
I'd say that most lines of business cuts as many or even more corners until they grow large or have other security interests, gamedevs are fairly prideful of their work in comparison to many other industries. In this case however I&#x2
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by whizzter 1y ago
Yep, people who think OOP is all you need will just "abstract away the database".
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by whizzter 1y ago
"DLSS"-slop is mostly because we're at a junction right now, raytracing is starting to make lighting simpler but isn't entirely there performance wise. Many advanced pre-raytracing methods are quite work/tweak inten
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by whizzter 1y ago
That'll never happen, but I think raytracing will make some work easier. A lot of lighting stuff that has been baked,hand-tuned,etc can just be run as a general model, we're not entirely there yet but soon enough.
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by whizzter 1y ago
No it was definitely Blender 2.8, and honestly the buzz around 2.8 was substantial in gamedev circles that hadn't talked much about Blender before (rather complained about the Autodesk monopoly). Just compare the 2 videos below, 2.8, h
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by whizzter 1y ago
Everyone cares about OSS as in "free", the capital spending of AI firms and market capitalization hinges on the concept that they will save enterprises tons of money by off-sourcing employees. You think we have these crazy valuati
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by whizzter 1y ago
I think GP is referring to the 2.9 release (or was it 2.8 or 3.0?) that had a major UI overhaul a few years back, I would say that the real explosion of Blender usage co-incided with that release. Coming from 3ds, 3dsmax and Lightwave mainl
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by whizzter 1y ago
My input to our recent AI strategy workshop was basically: - OpenAI,etc will go bankrupt (unless one manages to capture search from a struggling Google) - We will have a new AI winter with corresponding research slowdown like in the 1980s w
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by whizzter 1y ago
I really hope NVidia doesn't get too comfortable with the AI incomes, would be sad to see all progress in gaming disappear.
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by whizzter 1y ago
I think OpenAI just added some shopping stuff to start enshittificatio^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmonetization of ChatGPT.
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by whizzter 1y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again.. if I was able to know the time it takes for bubbles to pop I would've shorted many of the players long ago.
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by whizzter 1y ago
It's probably also the difference of idiots hoping to cash out/get credit for vulnerabilities by just throwing ChatGPT at the wall compared to this where it seems a somewhat seasoned researcher is trialing more customized tools.
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by whizzter 1y ago
In that case I was able to work around it and still remain in the safe context. I'm not too phased at going for unsafe in general, but prefer to keep it within focused submodules that really need it though and doesn't leak unsafe
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by whizzter 1y ago
Not entirely sure of their reasons but their main stumbling block was that they wanted snapshots in-VM, that seemed a bit like a counter-intuitive considering that part of their reason for a VM to begin with was to ensure security.
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by whizzter 1y ago
It might be a potato culture thing as it was historically common when pasta showed up on shelves in Sweden that the older generation just went with the instructions separately, cooking pre-peeled potatoes loses so much of it's flavor s
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by whizzter 1y ago
Yeah, ran into one of those rules the other week. Was kinda annoying since it was a very theoretical issue compared to the real case I had that was completely safe.
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by whizzter 1y ago
I think the main differentiator is this: C# is GC'd, the system will protect memory in use and while it can allow things like Span<>, Memory<>,etc there are some constraints due to sloppy lifetime reasoning but in general &
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by whizzter 1y ago
Even on the contrary, once you introduce GC usage into languages without direct support you're basically always running a substandard GC because so many advances(enabled by read/write barriers) aren't really available without
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by whizzter 1y ago
Like others have mentioned, in a CMS like project your bottlenecks are more likely in terms of database and/or caching. Span<T> , stackalloc and value-structs will matter more when writing heavy data/number crunching scenari
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by whizzter 1y ago
Not trying to mock here, but did you program assembly in the 80s/90s and/or look at compilers involved with CPU's of comparable complexity to the 68000 series or older? Yes, relative addressing on older machines like that doe
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by whizzter 1y ago
Think of it as, I'm a good driver and like fun so i chose a manual Ferrari as one of two family cars, then I borrow the car to one of my kids (junior dev) that doesn't have experience with high powered manual cars and crashes.
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by whizzter 1y ago
The by far biggest issue for Java is that they still haven't gotten their act together on value-types (project Valhalla), going back in time, the one thing someone should have told the designers was to not to release the erasing generi
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by whizzter 1y ago
Yes, the sad part is that some people experienced early TypeScript that for some reason had the idea of forcing "class" constructs into a language where most people wasn't using or needing them (and still aren't). Someti
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by whizzter 1y ago
Yep, depends on your memory context capacity. For me I often don't feel any pain-points when working before about 1kloc (when doing JS), however if a project is above 500loc it's often a tad painful to resume it months later when
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by whizzter 1y ago
That's because many do small things that don't really need it, sure there are some people doing larger stuff and are happy to be the sole maintainer of a codebase or replace the language types with unit-test type checks. And I thi
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by whizzter 1y ago
If science results on sane topics like vaccines weren't attacked for not being in-line with loony politics then they wouldn't have to be "activists".
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by whizzter 1y ago
If money makes them do things like this, what's stopping them from bundling Bonzi Buddy if Shopify is bought out by PE and starts cutting funding to "useless" stuff? (Yes, it's a hyperbolic example)
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by whizzter 1y ago
Keeping them out might have been due to some oldtimer in the organization that couldn't let go of the "never reveal secrets" gospel, whilst newer members at the top recognize that with todays social medias the cat's trul
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by whizzter 1y ago
sharded setup with a bit fast and loose foreign key management, so very good for performance but not a drop-in replacement if you rely on your foreign keys to be constrained/checked by the database.
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by whizzter 1y ago
I'm more understanding it as a tool so that multiple people collaborating on investigating a hack/data-breach/etc can audit/tag events in the interesting logs (ssh logins, weird executables starting,network probes, etc)

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