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Fenris Creations (FKA CCP Games) Opens Carbon Engine to the World

fenris.com
2 points·by lentil_soup·12 дней назад·0 comments

'The Antarctic is the last frontier': the quest to save Shackleton's Endurance

theguardian.com
5 points·by lentil_soup·27 дней назад·0 comments

Microsoft weighing up spinning off Xbox

gamesindustry.biz
4 points·by lentil_soup·28 дней назад·0 comments

Name in Landsat

science.nasa.gov
1 points·by lentil_soup·2 месяца назад·1 comments

After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

theguardian.com
96 points·by lentil_soup·3 месяца назад·43 comments

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

cjleo.com
74 points·by lentil_soup·3 месяца назад·103 comments

It turns out Fortnite isn't the forever game after all

gamesindustry.biz
2 points·by lentil_soup·4 месяца назад·0 comments

Epic Games lays off over 1k employees

gamesindustry.biz
60 points·by lentil_soup·4 месяца назад·3 comments

XY Problem

xyproblem.info
35 points·by lentil_soup·7 месяцев назад·20 comments

Gramma, tortoise who lived through two world wars, dies aged 141

theguardian.com
21 points·by lentil_soup·8 месяцев назад·1 comments

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

theguardian.com
77 points·by lentil_soup·8 месяцев назад·125 comments

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lentil_soup
·21 день назад·discuss
I think people are misunderstanding. This is a car for Mexico, nothing to do with the US.

On the website it says it's a car "designed in Mexico for Mexico" https://www.olinia.auto/
lentil_soup
·25 дней назад·discuss
Because it's not so cleanly cut. Editing a level might touch several files without you realising, you might move a mesh file which causes 100s of references to update across 100s of files.

For example, you want several people collaborating on a level. Say a level designer, an artist, a lighting person, audio. Usually you split this into several files to allow for the collab but you're bound to hit moments where you need to edit across the board. The level designer moves an area which causes the light, audio, meshes to move. If you don't have a way of knowing someone else is working on those files you're going to step on a lot of toes.

Whether this should live separately from source control is a fair question, but it's just a simple place for it as it's tied directly to the files.

Also, the outcome of a mistake is quite high, it could mean a whole day or two (a week?) of wasted work because you didn't realise someone was also editing the same file.
lentil_soup
·25 дней назад·discuss
No, I meant the locking. Being able to branch a lock so you can edit an asset in a feature branch and then discard it (or force a merge)
lentil_soup
·26 дней назад·discuss
to be fair, that's just the desktop client. You can use or build on top of the CLI

they do say they will open source it, but who knows:

"It isn’t open source yet—it currently depends on some proprietary components, including Epic’s internal design system—but we’re committed to open-sourcing it in the future"
lentil_soup
·26 дней назад·discuss
don't think it supports branches

it's also tough when you have 1TB of data, over 1mm files and you might want to lock hundreds files in one go
lentil_soup
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Some festivals work just like that, you upload some ID when buying your ticket which they see when you enter the venue. Feels really nice and stress free.
lentil_soup
·2 месяца назад·discuss
will depend on how it's implemented, you could end up paying via a QR code, contact less NFC, a phone number, the web. I think it could open up a lot of innovation
lentil_soup
·2 месяца назад·discuss
for what is worth, I actually liked the shaded links, they made me smile :)
lentil_soup
·2 месяца назад·discuss
This is a great point! And not only a compiler behind a subscription, it's also a compiler whose financial interests are not aligned to be the best compiler but the one that makes the most money, which is unclear what it means at this moment. Will it have ads? Will it give preference to some technology over another? Will it steal your code? It's an unreliable and opaque compiler!
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> Nothing critical is lost if a video game team stops working. Society doesnt need it and there are lots of alternatives.

A union represents workers in a company, nothing to do with society. If workers strike the company stops making money, that's their leverage
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
potentially, you're right, anecdotally many artists I've known and worked with have always liked and sought those notebooks
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this.

This is not some random tie-in to the LOTR franchise. Moleskine used to be one of the main notebooks for artists for a long time, and as the article mentions some of their notebooks have featured artists in their cover, their manifesto is all about "timeless power of handwriting" and "put pen to paper, and unleash your unique voice", etc. Having a company with that reputation and those connections to the art world just go with some AI slop for this collaboration is a slap to the face to its own users for potentially selling some notebooks to unsuspecting LOTR fans.

It's the enshittification of a brand once loved by artists.
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> The market will definitely make the decision here

I don't understand this, the market is not a divine entity, you can choose to be passive about it and let others decide, but there's nothing wrong with people pushing "the market" towards what they see is right. Big corporations do it already so it's perfectly fine for people to call attention on this, campaign against it, etc ... which is what this article is doing
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
OP literally advocated for having a single culture.

And you missed the part I said about how different human concepts don't exist in all languages, do we just not have those? Language is an integral part of different cultures, not the only one, but a pretty big one. Can't believe I'm having to defend this.
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
What a sad world where we all have the same culture and language. There's many concepts that don't translate from one language to the next, they form a way of looking at the world. What about foods, and stories and music, nah, sounds terrible.

I also want one big world for all but definitely not a single culture or language
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
how do you make claims, here: https://usuariosteleco.digital.gob.es/? Can't find a way of doing it with Cl@ve
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> Cloudflare would rather not block websites without a court order specifying the sites to be blocked.

why would they?

> squabble between two huge corporations

I think this is just LaLiga using it's cultural and economical power, don't think Cloudflare or the courts should be making exceptions just so they can control how people watch football
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
ok, then what do you suggest? we don't get involved and decisions at the government level are made for us? I might be naive, but let's not be restrained by the cynicism of any involment in politics and governance is corruption
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
not necesarilly, any government will make decisions, if there's no one to speak up and inform them why the decision is stupid, like the one from LaLiga, then we end up in this situation
lentil_soup
·3 месяца назад·discuss
to stop people pirating football streams while matches are on. Insanity