hertzrat

> absolutely no one remembers who the fuck Edmund Wilson was

Can’t we strive to be more civilized on this site?

I’m a game developer. Lots of work in that area but it’s hard work with lots of competition. Lots of time spent optimizing performance so you can run on weaker hardware. Insane user experience focus compared to web as well

Theory: The cloud took over the same way most trendy tech took over: resume driven development. Everyone on all the teams pushed for it because of how much value it adds to their resume and gradually more and more companies bought in, which accelerated the process because company d started feeling worried that they were behind the times since companies a-c already switched

The cloud is great for startups and tiny companies though

It used to be missing occlusion culling, which is a big deal. I think it either has it now or else it’s in v4 though?

It was sparse on tutorial content from the community too, but that seems changed a lot too since then

I wonder what their heavily nested scene graphs do to performance but haven’t tested it

Godot seems nice so far. How is the c# support? The docs? Is it hard to do x if you look online for how to do so? Performance? Occlusion culling?

Last time I looked into it, it was too far behind still, but it looks like Godot 4 will be a really cool release

Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team?

The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get ironed out soon. Only megacorps, and countries that ignore patent law, will be able to afford to license the patents to do any significant ai work at all

This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there

Notice is says “for ads,” and not in general. The terms sneakily allow them to still profile you or use your content in other ways, like training ai systems or reporting you to the government

That’s due to swelling batteries, which is apparently common in the xps line

How Orwellian. It’s like newspeak: make it impossible to express certain thoughts

If it’s no, but has a dozen asterisks, to the end user, that’s still a “no, this component does not work properly.” The footnotes can be 5 pages long but the chart is still straightforward

One day I’ll probably end up with a Linux phone, but I mean, not if I’m worried I’ll get surprised when it arrives

My mom wasn’t hacked, but she lost her password and can’t get a human to talk to for the life of her