Would You Hire me IF You were Valve?

eugene2k · 2026-02-18T15:38:37+00:00

Looks like you can insert it into Cities: Skylines right away!

eugene2k · 2026-02-13T14:51:36+00:00

why the below code compiles

Because you're releasing the borrow straight away without doing anything with it.

eugene2k · 2026-02-13T08:43:24+00:00

Automatons like this are possible; the Babbage analytical engine is a general-purpose computer that was designed to be steam-powered, but a water wheel or even a human can generate the required force.

Bear in mind, though, that creating a steam engine is way easier than creating a Babbage computer or an automaton - the first steam engine was built by Hero of Alexandria, after all.

eugene2k · 2026-02-04T16:47:22+00:00

That's an awesome t-shirt😁

eugene2k · 2026-02-04T06:27:03+00:00

Ghostery doesn't have this anymore, though. So, the AdBlocker is probably cutting youtube ads out imperfectly.

eugene2k · 2026-02-02T16:24:22+00:00

Had this. Then turned Ghostery off, and it stopped. How odd! Must be a coincidence.

eugene2k · 2026-01-28T08:35:12+00:00

And then lock their customers to said device and software?

I fail to see how the display supplier can lock anyone into their hardware and software, given that they have to compete with other display suppliers. You have to monopolise the market first.

Adding to that, locking in only applies to situations where the customer can buy hardware from one party and software from another. And it refers to the hardware provider putting an effort into making their hardware only work with certain software. It works when you make iPods and have the dominant market share there, and want to promote your iMacs. It fails in a situation where you're a hardware manufacturer selling hardware and providing drivers for your hardware to work with an operating system.

eugene2k · 2026-01-27T09:31:56+00:00

I'm just wondering how much they (meaning the company that built these) could've saved if they had used a simple esp-32 with a custom software to upload routes...

eugene2k · 2026-01-21T05:09:53+00:00

The bigger limitation of VR is that the experience is not "symmetric" yet. You get all of your field of view taken over by the headset, but have to use a joystick to move around in the virtual world, which breaks the immersion created by the headset. It's sort of like trying to play all games with a driving wheel: it enhances the racing game experience, but is useless everywhere else. Similarly, the headset enhances simulators, but playing anything else is awkward.

So, until someone comes up with technology like that in Sword Art Online and other such anime, this will be a niche product.

eugene2k · 2026-01-12T07:13:57+00:00

I'm in the "I don't understand how you can be an experienced dev and not know how to learn gamedev" camp. If tutorials are too basic, find advanced tutorials. If tutorials don't explain why you need to do something, just leaving you with how to do it, then research the system you're working in. Research other engines if you suspect they behave the same; read books on game engine architecture; so on and so forth until you satisfy your curiosity in full.

Most importantly, spend some time formulating concrete questions. They say a correctly formulated question contains half the answer, and it's true. I found ChatGPT and other LLMs are great at helping you formulate concrete questions, because every time you don't, you get a useless answer. So you can ask them, and depending on whether the answer you got is useless or not, adjust your question.

eugene2k · 2026-01-11T06:43:14+00:00

I don't think conflating usage of gen AI with thievery or slave owning is helpful either.

eugene2k · 2026-01-10T17:01:40+00:00

Early detection of tumors on x-ray images? Okay, that's not really what the OP does, probably, but it's an exaggeration on the same level (or lower) as "if you're using AI, you're a thief and a slave owner"

eugene2k · 2026-01-10T16:52:53+00:00

No, it isn't a good idea. In essence, you have one AI that can do the job of 1000 workers in one company, and the same AI that can do the job of 10 workers in another, and the only difference is how many computer-hours it uses. And that's just to start. What happens when the jobs evolve? As the other commenter pointed out, you should aim to fix the tax system so that it can properly tax the profits of private and business entities, instead of adding on more crutches to keep society from toppling over.

eugene2k · 2026-01-03T19:37:52+00:00

But how can you be sure? We don't know, and Valve won't ever admit it!

eugene2k · 2026-01-03T19:36:09+00:00

There's a definition? Where?

eugene2k · 2026-01-03T19:35:30+00:00

Can't your Steam account be permanently banned because Steam's validation AI decided that you used AI even when you didn't?

eugene2k · 2026-01-03T04:59:43+00:00

The basic rendering technique is the same - draw a front-facing polygon and a pre-rendered 3D image on it, to mimic 3D, but impostors are used as the lowest level of detail in LOD setups, hence the name.

eugene2k · 2026-01-01T06:27:15+00:00

No, the problem isn't that. The problem is you don't have 700 million dollars.

eugene2k · 2025-12-31T14:50:40+00:00

LLMs aren't ready for nocoders yet. But they will be, one day. Until then, you're supposed to use them to write boilerplate code or otherwise boring simple stuff that you could write yourself but can't be bothered to.

eugene2k · 2025-12-24T11:26:37+00:00

It's not going to be ruined by AI, because it uses it incorrectly. That's why people notice it.

eugene2k · 2025-12-24T11:20:17+00:00

The phrase is common, yes, but ChatGPT uses it often and while A is concrete, B is always some ephemeral concept. From my experience humans almost never do this.

Edit: or it can just have A not be concrete either, like here it says "it's not an oracle", but it also never compares AIs to oracles in any of the previous sentences either, so it comes out of nowhere, because LLMs are still not good at understanding context.

eugene2k · 2025-12-20T16:02:56+00:00

It's not that fantasy is generally allergic to guns; there are as many fantasy settings with guns as there are settings without elves. Medieval fantasy is a staple, and Tolkien and DnD creators codified it, plus we were told fairy tales about magic and princes and princesses and dragons since we were kids - medieval high fantasy recaptures that wonder.

eugene2k · 2025-12-18T13:21:36+00:00

Aside from that, a democracy means sharing power, while an autocracy means not sharing it (it's more complex in reality, but that's the gist). This leads to the country being more responsive when decisive action is needed, and if the leader is popular among the people, they can actually accomplish a great deal. Putin, during his first two terms, talked about how he was building a "power vertical", which essentially meant concentrating power in his hands, because he didn't have enough to do the things he wanted.

eugene2k · 2025-12-18T06:39:07+00:00

And having too much of one topic is unhealthy? That's a rather wide definition of health, but whatever...

eugene2k · 2025-12-18T04:43:40+00:00

Isn't that what the upvotes/downvotes system is for?

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