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It's kind of stunning that a game of this magnitude is able to go out the door without model LOD.

I suppose the fact that it runs at all is stunning -- surely you could not get away with this a decade or two ago -- but perhaps it speaks to the incredible capabilities of modern hardware. This feels a bit similar to the Electron criticism, where convenience ultimately trumps performance, and users ultimately don't care. I wonder how this will play out in the long run.

Bizarre and at least for me, equally sad. I long for the days of a tuned, polished game engine squeezing every inch of performance out of your PC.
You're not a computer whose sole purpose is to regurgitate code verbatim at massive scale when requested, unlike an LLM designed for exactly that purpose.
Do cigarettes have such a big mind-altering effect?
"Moving the goalpost", "disengage at this point"? I was simply interested to find out if there are decent apps for that. Oo

First post meant "nobody came up with something fulfilling that goal in such a clean and simple way, at least not that I know off". Phrased a bit short cause I was on mobile, sorry.
Not everyone on the internet is trying to win an argument. Was just curious to learn about apps I might not be familiar with.
Look at the authors list - Sanjay invented protobuf
Yeah, I have nothing against borrowing words. I was just refuting the (unspoken) assumption that everything got localized since the beginning of time.
Yes. The mechanisms are very different of course, but both the F# and C# components involved generate types with properties, methods, etc. that can populate IntelliSense.
My guess: if people current computer can't upgrade to win11, they are either going to stay with win10, no matter what Microsoft says, or just stop using a classic computer and stay on their mobile.

Sure there will be exceptions, some may migrate to mac or linux, but for the most part, most people just don't need a computer.
JSONC also supports trailing commas. It is, in effect, "JSON with no downsides".

TOML/Yaml always drive me batty with all their obscure special syntax. Whereas it's almost impossible to look at a formatted blob of JSON and not have a very solid understanding of what it represents.

The one thing I might add is multiline strings with `'s, but even that is probably more trouble than it's worth, as you immediately start going down the path of "well let's also have syntax to strip the indentation from those strings, maybe we should add new syntax to support raw strings, ..."
Alternatives (1) Carbon steel (2) Stainless Steel (3) Cast Iron

I think all three work on induction stoves as well.
I'm not even sure if he saw himself as redistributing money vs. creating value from scratch, from the productivity increases that cryptocurrency would usher in when it became mainstream - and if he was the one to not "re-distribute," but simply distribute, some portion of those newfound gains, why, he would be the best possible steward because of his EA ideals!

But, of course, what he didn't do was get the consent of his depositors to have their deposits rerouted and gambled with in the way that he did. Even if he had been right, if he had been able to ride the wave and cryptocurrency became everything he thought it could be - his actions were legally found to be fraudulent.

In terms of a broader pattern with regards to consent and power dynamics, there's another inescapable data point of the EA movement's problems with internally handling sexual harassment allegations - I won't link to the time.com article on the EA movement, as it horrifyingly orientalizes and conflates polyamory with harassment, but assuming that the article's quotes from primary sources are accurate, it suggests a culture of protection for those who would abuse their power.

I think that the EA community needs to grapple with the notion that just because one believes a certain pathway to be optimal, it does not absolve them of the need to gather explicit consent, given freely, with information discrepancies and power dynamics taken into account, from those who would be impacted. Optimization under constraints can still be optimization, and people's freedom to choose the extent to which they participate is the most important constraint of all.
What makes You claim that game like this can't be made in Unity?

Cause honestly this sound like the typical "Unity bad, UE with their flashy trailers good".
But maybe You actually do have a valid reasoning, please share it then
DOTS was actually a perfect fit for complex simulations (and the article hinted that it probably had a positive effect on CPU usage)

All the issues are around rendering and HDRP - which by the sound of things is still not properly integrated with DOTS.
This is a gish gallop of a response.

Net hasn't been neutral for a lot less than 12 years.

California's law prevented the worst harms of un neutral net.

This regulation has not anticompetitive costs. In fact, it forces a level playing field so monopolies can't prevent competition.

The problem does exist. Look no further than your cellphone plan.
Hackernews has no DM feature
Once properly seasoned (not in the r/castiron sense, but cooked on for a while on top of a solid base coast of seasoning) I just don't really get any sticking at all on my lodge pans. Oil or butter. There's recommendations for pan temp, etc, but I'd say just cook on it some more and it stops mattering.

When I first get a new pan it's very picky with technique, but cooking some bacon and steak on it for a few weeks, and nothing sticks anymore.
True code readability doesn't exist. But you'll feel when it is
DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself
I typed something very similar in parallel with you. Guess the engineering typically required is no more? At least not here.
Ehm. No.

Innocent until proven guilty, not guilt until proven innocent.

Being de-platformed from financial infrastructure is tantamount to being economically jailed and instantly forced into life altering poverty. This isn’t some silly app you’re getting banned from…

Banks shouldn’t be allowed to ban anyone. They should need a court order to lock up/ban someone from access/mobility of their own property.

That said, this is likely a narrow lens statement. The problem is more complex around governments/judicial systems incentivizing banks to behave like governments. In reality, our regulatory agencies need to do their jobs: regulate/enforce and be held accountable when they don’t (instead of passing that enforcement on to banks through threat of liability).
What is that comparing? Beware of sampling mismatch. Due to Unreal's use in AA and AAA and the size of those teams, I wouldn't be surprised to see the statistics reversed when you limit the talent pool to the set of people you need.
> This is scary good. Well done. If your product have any frontend and you have the power to decide ensure at least one of your hires can write CSS at this level.

I'm having trouble determening as written if this is a joke or not.

If anyone looked at this and thought something along the lines of "wow, think of the possibilities", I would would ask only that they don't put more thought into it. Other thoughts could bring pain ... to the browser that has to run it, the user staring at the page as the fans spin up, and the developer who has the pleasure to work with it next.

This was clearly one of those interesting-yet-useless things that was worth a read.
Yeah I loved that about Thailand, I’d eat small things all day from street vendors. Good stuff.
The blocking / throttling is the most important part because of the lack of competition. A server can burn through available ISPs if they don't like your site for whatever reasons. If a client's ISP doesn't like your site they can block it and prevent them from connecting. There are many clients who may only have 1 or 2 options for an ISP and switching over a single blocked site is not a big enough reason to switch. In cases like this I just use Tor and hope the exit node has an ISP that doesn't block the site.

Allowing ISPs to all have their own standards on who they block can be frustrating for both end users and site operators.
Seems like organic rice grown in California is actually lower than the average levels in many other countries?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Arsenic-levels-mg-kg-in-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187853521...).
Questions that potentially lead to liability are the questions others won't answer.
I've sometimes wondered how they get the non-stick Teflon to stick to the metal pan base?
Don't forget the part where they use web tech and waste draw calls like crazy on the UI. These things should literally be banned.

edit: not web tech should be banned, but releasing a game with horrible optimisation like this, either by the store selling the game or by the law
Reasons differ. C++ is a really hard place to be. It's gotten better, but if you can't tolerate exceptions, need code that is as-obviously-memory-safe-as-possible, can parse incrementally (think SAX style), off-the-shelf options like jsoncpp may not fit the bill.

Handling large documents is indeed another big one. It sort-of fits in the same category as being able to parse incrementally. That said, Go has a JSON scanner you can sort of use for incremental parsing, but in practice I've found it to be a lot slower, so for large documents it's a problem.

I've done a couple in hobby projects too. One time I did a partial one in Win32-style C89 because I wanted one that didn't depend on libc.
Use NextDNS, makes DNS life better
True, but in modulo 2, + and - are the same. I chose the + to keep the formula simple.
buy some dark out curtains, they work great and are relatively cheap. My bedroom can be dark as night in the middle of a sunny Texas day.
When you're viewing everyone with a different opinion than you as a grifter, corporate rat, or some other malicious entity, you've disabled the ability or desire for people to try to engage with you. You won't be convinced, and you're already being uncivil and fallacious.

AI outputs should be regulated, of course. Obviously impersonation and copyright law already applies to AI systems. But a discussion on training inputs is entirely novel to man and our laws, and it's a very nuanced and important topic. And as AI advances, it becomes increasingly difficult because of the diminishing distinction between "organic" learning and "artificial" learning. As well as when stopping AI from — as an example — learning from research papers means we miss out on life-saving medication. Where do property rights conflict with human rights?

They're important conversations to have, but you've destroyed the opportunity to have them from the starting gun.
I don't think was a huge concern for Colossal Order (the developer of Cities: Skylines) as the team is very tiny and they're not trying to grow like crazy. Seems they're happy being a smaller studio, so having 100,000 Unity devs available on the market VS 10,000 Unreal Engine devs makes less of a different (numbers made up, don't quote me on those)
Much like Cyberpunk on it's release, this will hopefully be de-listed from the various digital storefronts & all customers issued a refund in full.
The syntax still seems much more pleasant for DOM manipulation than vanillaJS. It had a nice pseudo-functional interface and a ton of elegant helpers. Whenever I do DOM manipulation in vanilla I wonder to myself if the API couldn't be a bit more user-friendly and readable.
> LED bulbs are naturally way better. People install them in their house because they last longer and a simple calculation tells you that they are a better value

In theory, yes. In practice, they just seem to be more expensive.

It is amazing how the luminous intensity of an LED bulb can decrease over time.
That must of course be BB(n) - BB(n - 1) >= BB(n - 1). Also I have to retract the correction from a few comments ago, the currently best lower bound for BB(6, 2) is indeed 10 ⇈ 15, I looked at an outdated source when writing the correction.
Amusingly, there was space to go around until the aggro jerk decided to block both directions, honk and yell, trapping the car that I was waiting to depart. Rather than wait another 30 seconds, they turned the situation into a 10 minute confrontation.
Sure, but you may not be as diligent turning off the lights.
under what system of law?! -- there are at least four major economies in the world, and they all have different rules about these intermingled issues.
if chatgpt wrote that then I for one welcome my angry, passionate, articulate robot overlords.

Yes we hide a lot of ... oppression/violence/unfair business practises ... under the supply chain. But hell i think the electronic ledger and RFID will be amount the most transformative technologies our children will see.
"Still" toxic? Like you expected birds to evolve out of it or something?
It may not need to be as rigorous as a vaccine or medicine, but that doesn't mean there should be no process.

All that is needed for humans to survive and thrive robustly is already available. There is no excuse for new chemical to be introduced for the benefit of profit. It should be on the seller to prove the chemical is relatively safe rather than the public to prove it is not safe.

It would be great if non-stick pans were never invented.
You can sand them as a DIY project. I haven’t done this myself but am now considering it after reading how easy it is.
Fair enough, but Unreal's Renderer isn't the best fit for this sort of game either.

And their data based ecss is still behind DOTS for simulation last I checked
I just see these in my server logs when someone generates a link:

INFO: [cloudflare ip]:47174 - "POST /generate_link HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
We make faster hardware and software will bloat to consume it.[1][2][3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
> He's just been found guilty of fraud on multiple counts, so clearly the whole "Effective altruism" was just a image he was trying to present, while acting completely against it in private.

I don't think that's right. In his head, it wasn't fraud. He was moving money around to backstop losses, sure, and OK, technically it wasn't his. But it was all going to be OK in the end and no one would know. No one was going to lose any money, so no fraud. QED.

In the real world, criminals don't think they're criminals. Everyone's got a good reason for doing what they do.
TLDR:

Word standardizes text through:

- Document templates

- English as lingua franca

- Auto correct and completion

Whether or not you agree (I personally do not find it convincing) it up to you, but there’s a summary because the article is very long-winded.
> But in neither camp are we seeing the degree of self-reflection that the immolation of their champion should call for.

If you watch a herd of gazelles get one of their own munched by a lion, they get the hell out of there.

It seems as if these ones are saying "Well, she's got her fill with poor old Sam, over there, so we're all right to keep eating this sweet grass."
In which case the word you're looking for is closer to "laundered", not "donated".
Pardon the snark, but the answer should be obvious: budget and deadlines.

Producing well-optimized, “clever” code usually requires magnitudes of more time than the simplest, quickest solution. Hobbyists line yourself, and a few companies like Nintendo, are typically the only ones that can afford to spend time optimizing like you describe.
Yeah, the way I read it Lewis comes down on EA fairly hard. Rather his conclusion boils down to seeing EA and SBF's actions as misguided/naive, not intentionally fraudulent (which I disagree with).
I've made several pseudospheres from glass ... using a glass lathe and an appropriate jig and 2-D pattern. Much fun!
.. we are going to generate a LOT of money and you (gov) might get some if you treat us well!
This guy seemed to manage. Here's a video of an egg cooked on a cast iron skillet without oil. [1]

It doesn't have to be absolutely perfect without oil - a thin coat will yield perfectly comparable results.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33OaD3RikXo
> We have one car per driver and expect to maintain or exceed that ratio for the next three decades as we can’t afford to spend the increased time needed to do all trips via transit. Or even transit plus ride-share.

That's exactly what needs to be fought. A bit of carrot, a bit of stick
Pay peanuts get monkeys. Game dev has been infamous for taking in young, fresh college graduates, promise them "credits" and "fun life" and then run them through the grinder for shit pay. And eventually, even those who survived the grinder and ended up living long enough to become seniors burn out, and that's how you get this kind of clusterfuck in the end.

Game dev seriously needs to follow the VFX industry and unionize. I have zero trust left in fellow gamers to not buy games from unethical producers.
EA seeks to measure and compare altruistic endeavors, however imperfectly. For example, measuring the good created by donating to your kids school, to the 9/11 fund, or to bed nets in Africa. An EA would likely say that the good for society created by donating to your kids' school is less than the good provided by donating the same amount of money to bed nets. They might quantify that in lives saved, such as a $1000 donation to bed nets saving about 1/5th of a life in Africa. But maybe the $1000 donation to the school improves the lives of 100 students by 1% each, or something like that.

It really forces us to have hard conversations about how we use our collective effort to help each other, based on more than just feelings in the moment. Feelings are an important part of the end goal, but feelings about some particular intervention are not a good way to evaluate it. We're also forced to be clear about what good we think an intervention will provide, and to whom.
It's actually very common for companies doing terrible things like fraud, environmental damage, bait and switches, patent abuse etc. to lean hard on promoting social work they're doing.

This is so common that short sellers like Kyle Bass actually look for it as an additional red flag when hunting down fraudulent companies.
Apple hunter Tom Brown finds and saves rare apple varieties
Sam wasn't really a crypto guy. He knew some things about finance and trading, and set up a prop shop offshore.
What do you use now? Why’d you change?
SUVs are not pickup trucks though and have better visibility of the road ahead (due to higher eye level and higher headlights) than cars and minivans.

As for internal storage, I am content with the internal storage in a midsize SUV already. Third row in X7 is pretty cramped, if you are regularly driving 7 adults around you better get something with more seating capacity, few people need that IME.
> Optimisations like this aren't even hard or time consuming (and they are fun) - can anyone clue me in on why you ship your stuff in this state - what happens in a studio like this?

Business and survival is what happened. Read any of Jason Schreier's books on game development. Income is very chunky with games being in development for years. Postponing by a few months might sink your company, especially with interest rates being high.

Calling out that something is "easy" and "fun" is likely insulting to the developers who are frequently working 70-80hour weeks sand ruining their family life in the process.
Sounds like the biggest problem was an insanely beginner mistake - I’m guessing they had inexperienced interns model most of the buildings so the poly counts are absurd. And no one checked the poly counts before putting them in the game? I’m a little confused how they screwed this up after already shipping Cities 1 which didn’t have any major issues like this
> public loses trust in and the business community loses respect for the institution

To the degree Khan has been successful, it’s in the former. She has been performative, which makes the public feel good. But also ineffective, which makes business happy. (Two corporate lawyers at national firms, familiar names in Silicon Valley, have advised me to rush mergers under this FTC. You’ll get sued. But they’ll drop the ball or settle, and then the deal is done.)
We've already got enough substances for humans to survive and thrive. To add more to food should require crossing a high barrier, especially since almost all new substances are driven by profit motive rather than improvement of health and lives.
With the added bucket-load of sugar to ensure the taste meets the standard of those without any taste buds.
Yes, most of this is whining from the "copyright forever" crowd. If you get out something vaguely similar to something old, they complain. What they're really worried about is becoming obsolete, not being copied.

The case against "tribute bands" is much stronger than the case against large language models built with some copyrighted content. Those are a blatant attempt to capitalize on the specific works of specific named people.
Have you tried 1800? The grid there is a pretty "soft" one, meaning it's more like a visual guide than anything enforcing gameplay. It's not that different from zoning and road-building in Skylines, where your beneficial buildings (like hospitals and police stations and schools) also have a limited radius of effectiveness.

Gameplay vid with no commentary, if you wanna see: https://youtu.be/jxm_ZroHj3E?si=qDnn1AK1d2kdVAf-&t=68

The campaign might be linear, but the sandbox mode feels like a mix of Cities and Civilization to me. It kinda scratches that sandbox itch, though the focus on trade (vs city-building) got a bit tiresome for me.

I think CS:2 also copied some of the mechanics from 1800 (like the customizable placement of farms around production buildings), trade buildings for lumber, ore, etc.
I think that's incorrect. He wants clients to consult other clients, not professional colleagues.

I like it in principle, but in practice it's too amenable to gaming (witness every review section and spam-fed product listing in my search results) to actually work at scale.
The protocol doesn't need to be that complex. A footer works. As does a move from the "incoming" to "to process" folder.

But yes, most banking protocols have nothing of the sort.
How about starting a charity going into schools and helping people with tech?
If you don't mind using a moderately high amount of fat (~1.5 tbsp for 4-5 eggs), stainless is perfectly fine for eggs. If you start with med-high heat be sure to drop it down relatively quickly. Or fry on medium to med-low heat the whole way through. For whatever reason beaten eggs seem to stick even less (basically not at all) so omelets and scrambled eggs are my go-to. I've gotten my technique down so I can flip my omelets with the stainless pan, no spatula required.
Valve/Steam should really have some policies around unfinished or unpolished games so that they are forced to be marked as "early access"

It is absolutely ridiculous that these developers can get away with releasing a beta (essentially what it is) and setting the full release price without the end user knowing they're a guinea pig.
Edmonton and Calgary definitely do. Calgary in particular could be in trouble, depending on the Bow glacier, which is receding rapidly.
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I struggle to think of the head of every political regime in the last century who based his government on stealing money from the rich and giving it to the poor, who didn't end up with a palace. Well, apart from the ones that got killed in military coups and such.

And I doubt the idea that they were all liars that never believed in what they preached would withstand scrutiny.

Suppose, your ethics are unworkable or irrational and you are unwilling to question them. If you think about it, by necessity, you must become more amoral as time goes by. At the very least the luxury of a palace probably helps silence one's moral instincts.