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meheleventyone

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Long time game developer specialising in design, prototyping and gameplay systems.

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Fortnite is getting Unity games

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2 points·by meheleventyone·8 maanden geleden·0 comments

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meheleventyone
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Have you ever considered that the high cost of contribution and low cost of moderation is why Wikipedia is successful?

Inverting it would destroy any open contribution system. See open source projects blanket rejecting AI generated PRs as an example. Basically trying to restore sanity when contribution suddenly has very small cost.
meheleventyone
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
What? Brave New World is Huxley’s famous dystopian novel. Like many dystopian novels it is presented as a utopia to begin with that unravels to expose it’s horrors as the plot unfolds.

He did write a utopian book called Island.
meheleventyone
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Just so were clear here the CSAM acronym stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material. Some Anime gets caught up because there is a lot of dubious visual depictions of that.
meheleventyone
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Yeah I got given one by work and we make fresh sourdough pizza every Friday now. Absolutely great if you have the space for it.
meheleventyone
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
If you like food you should do both! There are plenty of things it's hard to cook at home or impractical to keep all the different things you need. A good example is ironically a really simple food. Pizza needs temperatures most domestic ovens aren't nearly hot enough to provide in order to make a quality result.

Restaurants also provide an opportunity to eat foods you've never experienced before which really helps cooking similar things at home as you have some idea of what the end result should be like. And the beauty is that this often doesn't have to be expensive to be good.

It's like any creative hobby you need to develop both craft and taste.
meheleventyone
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
> On one end £9 of labour cost for a plate of asparagus seems deeply inefficient and unrealistic, particularly when the cost of ingredients that also include (hard) labour is £2.

Presumably the staffing cost is the front of house staff as well as the actual cooking and then the cost of employing someone to wash dishes, clean the restraunt and so on. Then compared to growing asparagus which seems to largely come from countries with substantially lower wages. Restraunts have always been infamously low margin businesses though.
meheleventyone
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I think that's just to have the domain complete their name.
meheleventyone
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Fighting games usually run peer to peer either with deterministic lockstep or rollback both of which are managed on the client. For actual gameplay at most there’d be a relay as a server. But almost certainly a bunch of ancillary services to support matchmaking and so on.
meheleventyone
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I think you're probably castrophizing the impact with statements like "it'd be impossible for a manager to ever become technical again" because that's not the likely outcome as I understand things. But yes people who stop programming for an appreciable amount of time do find it harder to pick back up again.
meheleventyone
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
You're misrepresenting the potential problem. It's more along the lines of using AI stops you exercising the cognitive processes you would doing things yourself and those encompass skills, knowledge and brain function that can atrophy. For an extreme example you can look at cognitive decline in the elderly which can be mitigated by taking part in activities that are cognitively stimulating.
meheleventyone
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
They could make it work like rewarded video ads in mobile games. Block progress until you watch the ad. Then as dutiful engineers people can consume ads to support the business and avoid being laid off.

More seriously for software engineering it’ll just cost a lot.
meheleventyone
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah in a lot of cases it's much better to use integers and a fixed precision as the absolute unit of position. For games it's just that the scale of most games works well with floats in the range they care about.
meheleventyone
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Russia pre-invasion of Ukraine probably said something very similar.
meheleventyone
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
You realize you’re essentially building a false dichotomy? I work in video games where code really is a means to an end but still see that authorship is important even if that code is uuuuugly due to it being the expression of the game itself. From that perspective I’m neither worried about craft or product but my ability to express myself though code as the game behaves. Although if you really must have only two categories I’d be in camp one.

As such AI is a net negative as it would be in writing a novel or making any other kind of art.
meheleventyone
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I don’t think the air campaign against Iran and the campaign in the war game are similar at all.
meheleventyone
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
They are spending a lot of money on Fortnite’s UGC side in the form of paying developers for their games engagement as well.
meheleventyone
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah the main difference seems to be that he open sourced the games after he got very wealthy from them not before. So of course at that point you can easily feel magnanimous about bestowing gifts.

Open sourcing something from the start and essentially giving up any ability to profit from the use of your work when companies are often making huge profits from it seems less easy in comparison.
meheleventyone
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
The collapse in this case being the murder of children at school.
meheleventyone
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
The JetBrains local autocomplete is hilarious but occasionally useful. I find it really hit and miss in terms of when it will decide to autocomplete and whether it will exhastively complete all elements, miss some out or get itself into a loop over several.
meheleventyone
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
I can see your perspective and relate to the strong emotions you’re showing but you’re not actually engaging with what I’m saying.