You first ask if you really need to.
Well generally the workers who make these games actually care about the game and want to make a good experience for the players. The execs however, only care about how much money they can make off of the product. Having…
> "The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy" is objectively wrong–it has been messy for months I'm pretty sure "just" is being used here to mean "simply" rather than "recently".
Yeah, it is a valid comparison, and assuming the quality is close to par with a macbook, I think it would be worth the extra cost. I'm someone who doesn't want to go through a new laptop every other year. I've got an M1…
> why then switch to a mode that pays artists nothing at all? Do Bandcamp. Buy merch. Do something to support the artists. I don't like this perspective because it puts the onus on the individual consumer. Many people…
Exactly. It is crazy that they described MacOS finder as doing this correctly when finder has no concept of up, it only has a back.
Yeah, the games industry is in a pretty big crisis right now, and I think change needs to happen both ways: Consumers need to understand that keeping games at the same price for decades despite rising costs and…
Know the workplace rules! Steam: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Aww you're so sweet. Apple: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Hello? Human resources?
I don't know if the Starbucks example is quite the same as the band example. If anything, their focus on iced desserts shows that they know exactly what their audience wants and is paying for. When I think about the…
In addition to this, LLMs are also simply too slow right now to deliver the results ATC would need. Ridiculous to see people acting like LLMs are a silver bullet for every problem without putting any thought into what…
While modernizing ATC in the US may be overdue, the real issue here is that ATC in the US has been understaffed, underpaid, and overworked for a while now. My father works ATC and his schedule has him working overtime,…
There are plenty of stories of ATC helping to guide pilots back to the ground after an engine failure or after a student pilot had their instructor pass out on them or something like that. Even if most of the work is…
But that's why they said it was tenuous. Google's Pixels have been one of the most open Smartphone hardware lines so far, but Google could change that at any time.
I think we should not even generalize it down to a rule of three, because then you're outsourcing your critical thinking to a rule rather than doing the thinking yourself. Instead, I tend to ask: if I change this code…
I tried looking through some of the spec samples, and it was not clear what the "language" was or that there was any syntax. It just looks like a terse spec.
This is a good point, though maybe means that "understanding the underlying problem" requires a degree of humanity. I think it's fair to say that Blizzard at a certain point went corporate and "lost the plot", so they…
They are just gotos, but does that mean that they are bad (along with their friend try/catch, who is also a goto?), or does that mean that gotos can be useful when used with restraint? Gotos get a bad rep because they…
I think 512GB is a fair minimum for a computer these days, but I agree with your "Where does it stop?" sentiment when it comes to RAM. If browsing the web takes 12GB of RAM, at what point do we stop chasing after more…
I wouldn't call my personal project "heavy load", but I have a cross-platform C++ project that I am developing on both a Windows gaming PC and a 2020 M1 macbook air. I use clang to compile on both machines. The M1 mac…
I've been feeling the pain of google being awful for a while now. Do you have a different search engine you would recommend?
The rule of good fast cheap still applies the same as always, but business leaders consistently choose to ignore this reality and insist upon fast and cheap without acknowledging that it will come at the cost of good.…
I respectfully disagree. If you compare the western designs in the article to the Japanese ones, the western designs have these giant banners and images that insist on themselves. Those are the ones that are shouting.…
I would think it would have to work the same in both since otherwise C code using that behavior would not compile in C++, right? I am not a C++ expert, but I'm surprised to hear that it is considered UB to access the…
You cannot remove the toil without removing the creative work. Just like how, in writing a story, a writer must also toil over each sentence, and should this be an emdash or a comma? and should I break the paragraph…
The problem pointed out in the article seems a little silly. We're adding an entire language feature because someone wanted an optional bool class? Why not just create a uint8_t with three values: OPTIONAL_BOOL_FASLE,…
You first ask if you really need to.
Well generally the workers who make these games actually care about the game and want to make a good experience for the players. The execs however, only care about how much money they can make off of the product. Having…
> "The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy" is objectively wrong–it has been messy for months I'm pretty sure "just" is being used here to mean "simply" rather than "recently".
Yeah, it is a valid comparison, and assuming the quality is close to par with a macbook, I think it would be worth the extra cost. I'm someone who doesn't want to go through a new laptop every other year. I've got an M1…
> why then switch to a mode that pays artists nothing at all? Do Bandcamp. Buy merch. Do something to support the artists. I don't like this perspective because it puts the onus on the individual consumer. Many people…
Exactly. It is crazy that they described MacOS finder as doing this correctly when finder has no concept of up, it only has a back.
Yeah, the games industry is in a pretty big crisis right now, and I think change needs to happen both ways: Consumers need to understand that keeping games at the same price for decades despite rising costs and…
Know the workplace rules! Steam: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Aww you're so sweet. Apple: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Hello? Human resources?
I don't know if the Starbucks example is quite the same as the band example. If anything, their focus on iced desserts shows that they know exactly what their audience wants and is paying for. When I think about the…
In addition to this, LLMs are also simply too slow right now to deliver the results ATC would need. Ridiculous to see people acting like LLMs are a silver bullet for every problem without putting any thought into what…
While modernizing ATC in the US may be overdue, the real issue here is that ATC in the US has been understaffed, underpaid, and overworked for a while now. My father works ATC and his schedule has him working overtime,…
There are plenty of stories of ATC helping to guide pilots back to the ground after an engine failure or after a student pilot had their instructor pass out on them or something like that. Even if most of the work is…
But that's why they said it was tenuous. Google's Pixels have been one of the most open Smartphone hardware lines so far, but Google could change that at any time.
I think we should not even generalize it down to a rule of three, because then you're outsourcing your critical thinking to a rule rather than doing the thinking yourself. Instead, I tend to ask: if I change this code…
I tried looking through some of the spec samples, and it was not clear what the "language" was or that there was any syntax. It just looks like a terse spec.
This is a good point, though maybe means that "understanding the underlying problem" requires a degree of humanity. I think it's fair to say that Blizzard at a certain point went corporate and "lost the plot", so they…
They are just gotos, but does that mean that they are bad (along with their friend try/catch, who is also a goto?), or does that mean that gotos can be useful when used with restraint? Gotos get a bad rep because they…
I think 512GB is a fair minimum for a computer these days, but I agree with your "Where does it stop?" sentiment when it comes to RAM. If browsing the web takes 12GB of RAM, at what point do we stop chasing after more…
I wouldn't call my personal project "heavy load", but I have a cross-platform C++ project that I am developing on both a Windows gaming PC and a 2020 M1 macbook air. I use clang to compile on both machines. The M1 mac…
I've been feeling the pain of google being awful for a while now. Do you have a different search engine you would recommend?
The rule of good fast cheap still applies the same as always, but business leaders consistently choose to ignore this reality and insist upon fast and cheap without acknowledging that it will come at the cost of good.…
I respectfully disagree. If you compare the western designs in the article to the Japanese ones, the western designs have these giant banners and images that insist on themselves. Those are the ones that are shouting.…
I would think it would have to work the same in both since otherwise C code using that behavior would not compile in C++, right? I am not a C++ expert, but I'm surprised to hear that it is considered UB to access the…
You cannot remove the toil without removing the creative work. Just like how, in writing a story, a writer must also toil over each sentence, and should this be an emdash or a comma? and should I break the paragraph…
The problem pointed out in the article seems a little silly. We're adding an entire language feature because someone wanted an optional bool class? Why not just create a uint8_t with three values: OPTIONAL_BOOL_FASLE,…