Several years ago there was a craft beer joint in my area that had a gimmicky "stock market" system for their pricing - the more a certain beer was purchased, the higher its price became, and the less popular brews…
While it will inevitable be larger in the future, Godot's current executable size is so small something like this could actually work. At the very least I would want something like Unity Hub which can manage both…
I think it's definitely more useful, especially long term, in a more controlled system where the government agency that is handling the actual CSAM is simply submitting hashes of the content the company (Microsoft,…
Yes, I did some more research on this as well. Apparently perceptual hashing is also susceptible to some pretty simple attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06628.pdf
>To use Take It Down, anyone—minors, parents, concerned parties, or adults concerned about their own underage images being posted online—can anonymously access the platform on NCMEC’s site. Take It Down will then…
If I understand correctly, Samaritans have the same ethnic roots as Jews. The differences were more religious and ideological than racial. So with that in mind, saying the term "good Samaritan" is specifically racist…
I didn't know there was an industry for that, I guess I should have figured. I might look into that for my own purposes. Although for what it's worth when I said "large format paintings" in my mind I was thinking very…
I think we're kidding ourselves to think that some nebulous concept of "the artist's journey" somehow informs the end result in a way that is self-evident in human-produced digital art. Just as with electric signals in…
>But to answer your question if we would have been stuck with 1992 technology the internet would have evolved differently, and mainframes would play a much bigger role, to the point that your desktop computer would be…
This is pretty spot-on. At the risk of sounding like a hipster, or gatekeeper, I think the biggest tipping point was around the time that smartphones became commonplace in the mid-late 00s. The internet and web was…
This dichotomy of player opinions seems to be present any time I see a discussion about Stadia or cloud gaming. I haven't tried it myself so I don't have a truly informed opinion, but just based on technical factors I'm…
While I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I think the antithesis to your argument is that where synthesizers "failed", modern sampling technology has crept in, especially in scoring. It's less common in the…
All advertising is a bait-and-switch. How is this any different?
Also if it was, it was most likely due to her breaking NDA. She's welcome to complain about it social media but overall this just doesn't seem newsworthy.
The direct technical explanation for the fidelity gap here, as has been stated elsewhere in the comments here, is that Meta's metaverse VR tech runs off of a smartphone chip. Performance is thus very limited. Further…
I'm not sure where Bloomberg is getting that number and I would debate even its ballpark accuracy - especially when Valve is a privately held company and notoriously tight-lipped about things like gross revenue and…
>If America was so racist, the single most successful ethnic minority wouldn't be Nigerians. Do you have a source for this? Not for debate, I'm genuinely wondering where the information comes from. From time to time…
I feel like a "technology first, game second" approach is a trap. Perhaps I'm wrong and there are examples of it working out but in general it seems building a game to justify hardware is a losing proposition. In…
Also Amazon[0], who found out that hiring a bunch of veteran developers, putting them in the same room together and showering them with money does not equal a successful game. Are there any examples of an established…
>Epic spent ludicrous amounts (I assume) of money on exclusivity deals and giving players freebies. But their store itself sucks. It's baffling to me that they took this angle. Hardware exclusivity I think in general is…
The key difference is that Unity was a commercial venture from the start and Godot is a FOSS project. That's not to say FOSS development doesn't have its own challenges and potential issues, but I don't think it's fair…
Throwing in my support for Krita. I suppose it just depends on what you need in an image editor but in my opinion GIMP has been dead in the water for well over a decade at this point. Krita on the other hand has a…
There's a few landmark lawsuits I'm patiently waiting for now that these tools have become widely available and can be used by anyone for purposes that are not not necessarily academic: a) Artist/copyright holder suing…
I still don't understand what the value of specifying a license for generated images is - at least in terms of enforceability. How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a…
It's actually surprising to see the amount of negativity surrounding Godot on HN. The top comment in the thread about Godot's 3.5 release was someone talking about how Godot's feature set is "below average" compared to…
Several years ago there was a craft beer joint in my area that had a gimmicky "stock market" system for their pricing - the more a certain beer was purchased, the higher its price became, and the less popular brews…
While it will inevitable be larger in the future, Godot's current executable size is so small something like this could actually work. At the very least I would want something like Unity Hub which can manage both…
I think it's definitely more useful, especially long term, in a more controlled system where the government agency that is handling the actual CSAM is simply submitting hashes of the content the company (Microsoft,…
Yes, I did some more research on this as well. Apparently perceptual hashing is also susceptible to some pretty simple attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06628.pdf
>To use Take It Down, anyone—minors, parents, concerned parties, or adults concerned about their own underage images being posted online—can anonymously access the platform on NCMEC’s site. Take It Down will then…
If I understand correctly, Samaritans have the same ethnic roots as Jews. The differences were more religious and ideological than racial. So with that in mind, saying the term "good Samaritan" is specifically racist…
I didn't know there was an industry for that, I guess I should have figured. I might look into that for my own purposes. Although for what it's worth when I said "large format paintings" in my mind I was thinking very…
I think we're kidding ourselves to think that some nebulous concept of "the artist's journey" somehow informs the end result in a way that is self-evident in human-produced digital art. Just as with electric signals in…
>But to answer your question if we would have been stuck with 1992 technology the internet would have evolved differently, and mainframes would play a much bigger role, to the point that your desktop computer would be…
This is pretty spot-on. At the risk of sounding like a hipster, or gatekeeper, I think the biggest tipping point was around the time that smartphones became commonplace in the mid-late 00s. The internet and web was…
This dichotomy of player opinions seems to be present any time I see a discussion about Stadia or cloud gaming. I haven't tried it myself so I don't have a truly informed opinion, but just based on technical factors I'm…
While I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I think the antithesis to your argument is that where synthesizers "failed", modern sampling technology has crept in, especially in scoring. It's less common in the…
All advertising is a bait-and-switch. How is this any different?
Also if it was, it was most likely due to her breaking NDA. She's welcome to complain about it social media but overall this just doesn't seem newsworthy.
The direct technical explanation for the fidelity gap here, as has been stated elsewhere in the comments here, is that Meta's metaverse VR tech runs off of a smartphone chip. Performance is thus very limited. Further…
I'm not sure where Bloomberg is getting that number and I would debate even its ballpark accuracy - especially when Valve is a privately held company and notoriously tight-lipped about things like gross revenue and…
>If America was so racist, the single most successful ethnic minority wouldn't be Nigerians. Do you have a source for this? Not for debate, I'm genuinely wondering where the information comes from. From time to time…
I feel like a "technology first, game second" approach is a trap. Perhaps I'm wrong and there are examples of it working out but in general it seems building a game to justify hardware is a losing proposition. In…
Also Amazon[0], who found out that hiring a bunch of veteran developers, putting them in the same room together and showering them with money does not equal a successful game. Are there any examples of an established…
>Epic spent ludicrous amounts (I assume) of money on exclusivity deals and giving players freebies. But their store itself sucks. It's baffling to me that they took this angle. Hardware exclusivity I think in general is…
The key difference is that Unity was a commercial venture from the start and Godot is a FOSS project. That's not to say FOSS development doesn't have its own challenges and potential issues, but I don't think it's fair…
Throwing in my support for Krita. I suppose it just depends on what you need in an image editor but in my opinion GIMP has been dead in the water for well over a decade at this point. Krita on the other hand has a…
There's a few landmark lawsuits I'm patiently waiting for now that these tools have become widely available and can be used by anyone for purposes that are not not necessarily academic: a) Artist/copyright holder suing…
I still don't understand what the value of specifying a license for generated images is - at least in terms of enforceability. How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a…
It's actually surprising to see the amount of negativity surrounding Godot on HN. The top comment in the thread about Godot's 3.5 release was someone talking about how Godot's feature set is "below average" compared to…