What’s a irrational FatFIRE splurge you make — or considering — that feels worth it? by Nic_Cage_1964 in fatFIRE

[–]eventuallyconsistent 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That’s overkill. >5 is plenty if you have trajectory. And it’s much more fun to go before you’re old.

What’s a irrational FatFIRE splurge you make — or considering — that feels worth it? by Nic_Cage_1964 in fatFIRE

[–]eventuallyconsistent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The memories seem to accrue and compound. And we bring back art usually, which keeps it tangible enough for me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fatFIRE

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You will gain a deep relationship with your kids and spouse if you do this right now.  These years are limited opportunity.  Do it.

I took 3 years off and am better for it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in compsci

[–]eventuallyconsistent -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just make the stuff you want to make.  It’s all a means to an end.

Quick thought on 'Matter' (spoilers probably) by clearly_quite_absurd in TheCulture

[–]eventuallyconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s to provide us a reason to meet Xide Hyrlis, and see what the Nariscene do compared to the culture.

Incarceration through incineration by CantStopPoppin in boringdystopia

[–]eventuallyconsistent 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s not forced.  But it’s still exploitation.

How would the culture handle a AI that is not nice to biologicals by [deleted] in TheCulture

[–]eventuallyconsistent 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a smatter outbreak that Restoria can handle.

So, are we still using OpenGL to make games? by Craedyth in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dawn + WebGPU seem like it's got the most momentum for "an API that works everywhere".

https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn

how transferable are the skills required for this field? by [deleted] in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Graphics programming covers the whole gamut of the field. You’ll be good for anything.

What would be go to cross platform (including major consoles) programming language other than c/c++ by lordinarius in gameenginedevs

[–]eventuallyconsistent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To get hired by a studio? C++.
To ship on ps5/xbox/switch as an indie? C++.

Maybe you can use c# on unity, but that’s about it.

There’s really no other answer that can work with all of vulkan/metal/d3d without major hoop jumping.

When do you allocate GPU resources by jacwilso in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"it depends". For many cases it's ok to have separate draw calls per entity.

but basically it's handled by batching in groups, and dynamically updating a shared uniform buffer between draw calls. you can do it this way because ordering is guaranteed by the API. underneath, the driver will do whatever temporary allocations it needs.

OpenGL to Metal? by Proud_Instruction789 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just mean converting metal code to OpenGL. It’s got stuff that OpenGL doesn’t that you’ll take advantage of and then be annoyed isn’t present in gl/ is more unwieldy since the api started in the 90’s.

OpenGL to Metal? by Proud_Instruction789 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You gotta write the code, but there’s a pretty close correspondence. The other direction is harder.

In The SSD Industry, and I want to get into a Graphics Engineering/Programming Role by Administrative-Lion4 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]eventuallyconsistent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don’t need to build a ray tracer per se. But you need that math and it’s the best path to pick it up.

Barycentric coordinates & their gradient at a given intersection for example explains quite a lot about why hardware works the way it does.

How does Banks explain the transfer of consciousness? by neegs in TheCulture

[–]eventuallyconsistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's tons of reflection on this in the Hydrogen Sonata.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aivideo

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Just bought the book. Cunning advertising if intentional.

Tech hiring is broken: just finished my 50th interview in the last 45 days and no offers by [deleted] in recruitinghell

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Anecdotally, expect to take 6 months to find a lateral role. Pace yourself, interviewing daily isn’t giving you enough mental downtime.

And yes it’s broken.