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A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy

ldjam.com
39 points·by raincole·3 ay önce·8 comments

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio fired translator to replace them with AI

eurogamer.net
5 points·by raincole·3 ay önce·0 comments

US judge upholds $243M verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

reuters.com
20 points·by raincole·5 ay önce·1 comments

Twitter (now X) added an "Edit Image" feature to edit any image posted with AI

twitter.com
6 points·by raincole·7 ay önce·2 comments

Wire Mother

clarkesworldmagazine.com
3 points·by raincole·9 ay önce·0 comments

Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5B by a private equity

apnews.com
7 points·by raincole·9 ay önce·1 comments

comments

raincole
·evvelsi gün·discuss
So not just free work, but you expect Anthropic to pay to maintain a Zig version...?
raincole
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Opportunity cost isn't just a real cost. It's THE real cost.
raincole
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Or, you know, you can use Postgres. It's right there for you.
raincole
·5 gün önce·discuss
Reminder: the "expected" result is replaced all programmers and white collar employees. Even they don't necessarily state it explicitly, that's what is in their minds.

Anything less than that is slower than expected.
raincole
·6 gün önce·discuss
It's unironically a good practice when you port from an unsafe language (C/Zig) to Rust. Porting isn't refactoring. One should keep the logic mapping one-to-one as much as possible.

The high number of unsafe blocks is a good sign.
raincole
·7 gün önce·discuss
"Sometimes I feel like I'm an athlete who trained all day for years, then before my first professional match, I retired and went off to teach PE."
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
It might be true in some very special cases, but if a programmer can't make games like Crab Champions (the example used in the grandparent comment) performant with Unity/UE, they should be nowhere near to a custom engine.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
Yeah, when people who are not familiar with AI and use Cursor with Sonnet 3.7 they are only 19% slower. In retrospect that research was very bullish for AI.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
> I can spot a unity or unreal game from miles away. They have a smell if you will that is very hard to escape.

Confirmation bias. Are you saying Hollow Knight, Cities: Skylines and Escape from Tarkov have the same kind of "smell"?

It's as ridiculous as saying that you can spot a SaaS written in Rust from miles away.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
I still have a gripe over the fact The Book of Shaders which never gets finished [0].

Perhaps I'll write such a book... after I finish my game (dry laughter).

[0]: https://thebookofshaders.com/
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
> This is why most indy games now are 2D. That's do-able. Often in HTML/JavaScript.

Most indie games are definitely not in HTML/JavaScript unless you count vibe coded ones.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
> The amount of otherwise decent games that run poorly due to Unity or UE is very unfortunate

The amount is approximately zero. If someone write badly optimized code with Unity they have 200% chance to write badly optimized code with their own engine.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
Personally, I define fairness as being able to use a piece of code however the license permitted. "Kindness" might be a better word.
raincole
·9 gün önce·discuss
> But because they were pushed by the government, many people do not trust them. Sure, they were pushed and mandated for good reasons, but the problem is that a lot of people have already lost trust in the government.

In the case of COVID, the effectiveness of vaccines was quite exaggerated at first[0]. That absolutely didn't help government rebuild the trust.

> I do not know how this trust can be rebuilt but definitely not by publishing more reviews.

At this point, quite sure more reviews will only trigger people's confirmation bias and make those who already don't trust vaccines trust them even less.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-governm...
raincole
·10 gün önce·discuss
It's really fast. But fast in a way that reminds me this joke:

> Does this pill make me smater?

> No, but it can make you dumb faster!
raincole
·10 gün önce·discuss
Censorship on image generation models works on another level. The models can generate NSFW, but there are extra computer vision models checking if the images can be shown to the users. It's especially obvious for Grok and ChatGPT.
raincole
·12 gün önce·discuss
It won't make much difference. The US has a lot of problem, but "not spending enough money" isn't one.

The US government spend a lot on healthcare ($5.3 in 2024)[0]. More than most European countries per capita. But many people still feel that the US hardly has healthcare at all. Pouring more money without a full structural overhaul will likely make things worse.

And the $2T you mentioned is investors' money, which means that your plan is actually to increase tax by $2T and pour it into a system proven inefficient.

[0]: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01683
raincole
·12 gün önce·discuss
> governments

Plural implies they count more than the federal government.
raincole
·12 gün önce·discuss
> adjusting those 1960-1980 prices for inflation would make the graph a lot taller.

It won't though. One dollar in 1960 is just about ten dollars today. The graph is already in logarithmic scale so it won't make much difference.
raincole
·12 gün önce·discuss
Where is the weird part?