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It’s also massive and one of those perpetual beta situations that won’t ever be finished. And it has that stupid shader language. Missed chance, the API isn’t bad.

I won’t defend the state soup, but there are upsides: the GL api has no structs which makes it easier to port the API to different languages and environments.

The state model isn’t nearly as much of an issue for the fixed function architectures it was originally developed for, you can see how adherence to the extension mechanism and the resulting design by committee left its marks. Microsoft didn’t have those constraints.

And sacking all the leadership that’s willing to push back.

But it’s probably all a testosterone issue…

Iirc it was a stupid C-suite decision to use Frostbyte across EA studios. It never made much technical sense and DICE lacked the bandwidth and capital to support so many teams and usecases.

He should visit a university, CS is majority women students nowadays.

GPT also thinks Frankenstein and Moby Dick are 100% AI last time I checked.

If I were to write a book on programming in JS, it would be a black cover with the JS Holy Trinity equality diagram in red, to emphasize its Satanic nature.

Meanwhile my country has tons of vacant housing and prices keep going up.

A common misunderstanding, this. Economists in theory don’t focus on starting with the right set of assumptions, like any gentleman they instead focus on starting with the right set of conclusions. They then, in theory, argue passive-aggressively over why their model is The Right One using increasingly obtuse game theoretic models, usually with a drawing of two lines intersecting. The rest of the world? We simply shrug and ignore them.

Much like the the people ignored the idiot savants tucked away in medieval monasteries. At some point they become useful, like when the king needs to know what the nature of God is, who It approves and why it’s him and not the other guy.

Now that we've traded our warrior nobility for economic nobility, the neurodivergent and mildly touched ones are tucked away in academia instead. Pleasantly seperated from their subject of study. To figure out the nature of "The Market", and why it is, in theory, as Rational and Self Organizing as a medieval Thomist Universe.

And we are like the medieval peasantry who cannot understand an iota of what they're scribbling in their intimidating books. But we can see they're still fighting over It, just like they fought over resolving the philosophic contradictions of the faith.

It makes one wonder: what shape and mission will They have next? Will it be in explaining the actions of some sentient supercomputer, which both feeds and spanks us? Or which irradiated plants will take us beyond the Seventh Sphere, in theory? More at eight.

It’s ActiveX all over again.

I found writing techniques employed by fiction writers to be surpisingly relevant for nonfiction.

The US under trillionare leadership, certainly.

Is it propaganda though? Japan is more aligned with ‘the west’ not only in geopolitics but in the system of governance that was imposed upon it by via USA occuptation. Whereas China has a very different political system that is generally poorly understood and distrusted. Regardless, I don’t know where you’re from, but I see plenty of idolizing of China and how it manages to solve big problems at speeds unseen outside of mobilization in other parts of the globe. China-studies are a big thing at the moment. The positive view of Japan probably flows from its postwar boom years and popculture exports. China is at the moment being viewed with suspicion over its military buildup near Taiwan and creeping authoritarianism under Xi. This could all change again in the future depending on the actions China will take.

I start asking (annoying) legal and technical questions if they start with that first name basis crap, usually enough to make them back off.

The author is a fascinating figure. Changed his last name from Carnagey to Carnagie for PR benefits and was a lifelong people pleaser. Keep that last thing in mind while you read.