It doesn’t have to be a “brand new AAA game”. It can be a somewhat-recent AAA game on sale. Some of the discounts in the first year are ridiculous.
And I’ve been surprised at how many games in the past few years were more than my 3070 could handle on high settings, let alone “ultra”.
I don’t think the article means dogfooding. I think they mean that you can’t design a system unless you’re intimately involved with coding it.
And of course that’s still wrong. It happens all the time. And things end up working out the majority of the time.
Yes, you’re effectively renting a powerful computer.
Previously, you could just use it without limits, and the math worked out for everyone. It’s something like 3-6 years of service to cover the cost of a decent-to-great computer.
Now, if you’re a hardcore gamer and go over 100 hours a month, that value changes, and the break-even point is sooner. If you play for 40 hours a week, that time is effectively halved.
At the current rates, it continues to seem like a really good value, so long as you aren’t bothered by the slight input lag or the video compression.
But if more people use the service for more time, they’re going to have to charge more money. Either higher base rates, or lower limits. And it’s eventually going to show that it doesn’t really make sense for anyone except as a temporary measure, and then the service will disappear because it didn’t work well enough.
Most of the people I hear being critical of AI Coding are very clear about what it’s good for, and what it isn’t.
If someone is wholly for or against something, their advice generally isn’t very good.+
It sounds like Microsoft is being notified by its Minecraft players that toxic interactions are happening on MinecraftOnline’s server, and they’re taking action to reduce toxicity associated with their IP.
It’s really hard for me to fault them for that. Especially since MinecraftOnline is using the the Minecraft trademark in a way that sounds official in the name. I’m surprised they didn’t put a stop to that as it is.
I don’t see anything that says they don’t understand Git or Github.
They know people will look for them on Github, and they do their official releases there. They host their code on the non-profit Codeberg site for reasons of their own. People can still fork from there. They just can’t click a button on Github to do it. They can, however, click a button on Codeberg to fork.
It sounds to me like they did understand all of this, and decided to let internet popularity work for them (host releases on Github for discoverability and fraud prevention) without giving up how they wanted to manage their code.
I don’t think anyone puts this much work into something to make it “deliberately bad”.
But when I first saw it, I couldn’t believe it was actually a thing. The mix of things you do in this don’t make sense to me. In what world would I think being a “toll booth operator” involve selling dodgy drinks to people?
The grooves?
The pattern on the left is actually just inside the case, under a clear part of the case. That part is black in the Euro version, but the case looks the same otherwise. (We have cases like that, too.)
Edit: Also, that Japanese one? I’m pretty sure it’s the same style, but turned upside down. That’s the base of the case. Searching Google, I found a copy on Ebay that shows the front, and that section of the front of the case is clear for that one, too.
That sounds like pretty much exactly what we did at my last job, and it worked pretty well IMO. The individual commits in a PR didn’t ever matter. I don’t even think we used them for code review, except if it came up for review a second time after rework. In that case, we were able to just look at the new commit to see if the right changes were made.
And we definitely avoided basing off each other’s branches. We had to do it a few times. The only times it went well was when the intent was to merge the child branch into the feature branch. If they were actually separate tickets (and the second relied on the first) it was generally chaotic. But sometimes, it was just necessary.
Having a dream isn’t wrong, but every business is difficult, and this one is already being run under by cheap Chinese prints.
It’s still possible, but all the success I hear now is from people who have designed their own product and are fulfilling specific needs, like adapters for certain tools and such.
Etsy also just banned 3d prints of other people’s design, so it’s even harder to make money with those now.
You can still make money with your own designs on Etsy, and direct to people who need things, but now it’s as much about the design of the items as the printing of them.
I suppose selling at a local market can still work, too, but it’s a huge time sink. (Like any other job, I guess.)
Ah, yeah, I think I remember that. It was pretty obvious it would be brutal for a lot of gamedev companies there, and I wasn’t surprised at all that it didn’t end up going through.
I’m not sure what you mean. The in-game reward path still has a daily “check in” task for points. And the daily “do 4 tasks” thing is in there, though they’ve opened it up a lot, which I really appreciate. (You can now do quests, open chests, or anything that costs energy to complete them, as well as the standard 4 mini-quests.) And the web checkin is still daily, with only 3 days that you can reclaim by visiting certain pages.
I’ve played Genshin almost since the start (took a break for a while) and it’s had daily tasks the whole time. You earn gems and other in-game rewards every day for it. There’s also an additional web-based daily checkin as well.
I only see the first of the comparison images linked here. The line of identical symbols inside squares is pretty convincing.
The second image contains lines of text copied verbatim, and is undeniable.
A lot of people see an upvote as a signal that they endorse the message, or at least want it to spread.
A downvote is the opposite of that.
You’ll never convince people not to “shoot the messenger” on link aggregators because it’s antithetical to their view of the system.
I watched a youtuber that was using this, and the cost to print something was pretty high. Like a 2 inch by 2 inch tile with a little depth was like $2 USD for the ink/resin alone. A larger board that looked like it was about 1 ft by 2 ft, with a single layer of print (no depth), was about $25, IIRC.
It’s beautiful, but so expensive to run, IMO.
Apparently not. I had to click a few pages into their site for this:
“While Eclipse Theia incorporates certain components from Visual Studio Code, such as the Monaco editor, it is independently developed with a modular architecture and is not a fork of VS Code.”
Yeah, moves like this have convinced me that when I get another NAS box, it won’t be from them. It’ll probably built custom instead. After some quick searching, OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS seems like top runners right now. Hopefully it’ll be a while before I have to really consider it, though.
I’ve bought stuff from Temu and without installing the app. I’m sure it recommends installing the app if you tap the ad on a phone, but not on desktop.
As a senior developer, I use the new AIs. They’re absolutely amazing and a huge timesaver if you use them well. As with any powerful tool, it’s possible to over-use and under-use it, and not achieve those gains.
However, I disagree with the comparison to knowing how hardware works. There’s a pretty big difference between these 2 things:
Letting a company else design and maintain the hardware or a library and not understanding the internals yourself.
Letting a someone/something design and implement a core part of your code that you are responsible for maintaining, and not understanding how it works yourself.
I am not responsible for maintaining ReactJS or my Intel CPU. Not understanding it means there might be some performance lost.
I am responsible for the product my company produces. All of our code needs to be understood in-house. You can outsource creation of it, or have an LLM do it, but the company needs to understand it internally.