Negitivefrags

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by Negitivefrags 4d ago
You might have delivered 10x more code, but did you deliver 10x more value? Or put another way, are you making 10x more money? It's easy to spend excess productivity effectively wasting time. Most companies did it before AI, and will c
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by Negitivefrags 8d ago
I suspect that the conditions the textile workers lived in when western countries were creating textiles is not so different in absolute terms from the condition that they live in now. It's just that the western world moved on. Almost
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by Negitivefrags 26d ago
I'm really bothered by the mindset of the people against this. People act like induced demand is evil. In reality, if more people were able to go wherever they wanted to go, that's actually a good thing regardless of if the existi
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by Negitivefrags 1mo ago
If you look at the actual source linked in the article it contridicts you. "Other" in that document means custom game engines.
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by Negitivefrags 1mo ago
This is not what the “exception that proves the rule” means. If a sign says “No parking on saturdays”, that is an exception that can be used to infer the rule “parking here is okay the rest of the time”.
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by Negitivefrags 2mo ago
This has been the case for software since the very beginning. And people have been complaining about it since the beginning. See the Free Software Foundation.
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by Negitivefrags 3mo ago
I am not a fan of this take. It's possible to not make an engine, or use a 3rd party engine. You just make a game. Use SDL or something. It's honestly easier and more fun. Definately don't use Rust. It doesn't take two y
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by Negitivefrags 3mo ago
When the author said “bringing work home” they didn’t mean literally working at home. They meant that they spend a huge amount of time feeling stressed about work situations at home.
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by Negitivefrags 3mo ago
I get the sentiment, but it's possible to go too far with the "It's always the process's fault" direction. It's trendy in buisness culture right now to erase the individual. Zero accountability can also mean ze
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by Negitivefrags 4mo ago
> The way this position conforms to the interests of the capital class, and conflicts with those of the labor class, is a red flag. If being in the office conforms to the interest of the capital class, it implies that WFH is inherently l
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by Negitivefrags 4mo ago
People haven’t responded to your very first point, and I want to really stress it because I don’t think most people really get it. Margins. Game development doesn’t pay more because game development companies can’t afford to pay more. Sure,
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by Negitivefrags 5mo ago
> But most employers don't go around reducing previously-hired people's salaries for a variety of reasons. The main reason being that it's illegal in NZ. The employee would have to agree.
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by Negitivefrags 5mo ago
> I guess the question is, since we know these things can happen, however unlikely, what mitigations should be in place that are commensurate with the harms that might result? This isn't a defence of using LLMs like this, but this s
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by Negitivefrags 5mo ago
Yes, there are a large number of ways to fall into traps that cause you to do a different series of operations when you didn't realise that you did. But that's still ultimately what all your examples are. (Except the NaN thing!) I
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by Negitivefrags 5mo ago
This is the kind of misinformation that makes people more wary of floats than they should be. The same series of operations with the same input will always produce exactly the same floating point results. Every time. No exceptions. Hardware
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by Negitivefrags 5mo ago
Cars are not popular becuase people pushed them. Cars are popular because the utility is undeniable. This is true for any kind of transformative technology. Marketing and lobbying can only get you so far. If something has enough utility, it
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by Negitivefrags 6mo ago
That is a way better syntax. I wonder why C++ didn't adopt it.
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by Negitivefrags 6mo ago
We use floating point operations with deterministic lockstep with a server compiled on GCC in Linux a windows client compiled with MSVC in windows, and an iOS client running on ARM which I believe is compiled with clang. Works fine. This is
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by Negitivefrags 6mo ago
I’m curious how you would respond to the arguments in this video. https://youtu.be/9KJTWmRrneo?si=I9mvSPfDnhkckb9n
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by Negitivefrags 6mo ago
Can we get an Amen quicksort now?
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
I've written a lot of code using that method, and never had any portability issues. You use types with number of bits in them. Hell, I've slung C structs across the network between 3 CPU architectures. And I didn't even use h
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
Why is it such a terrible idea? No need to add complexity, dependancies and reduced performance by using these libraries.
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
Well our game runs faster in DX12 under Proton than Vulkan under Proton. Of course since Proton uses Vulkan to implement DX12, it means that our Vulkan implementation is simply worse than the one that Valve created to emulate DX12. I'm
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
Support for DX12 under Proton in linux is incredibly good. Some games actually run faster under DX12 in Proton than the native versions do.
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
The reason you use DX12 in a new project is so that you can get good linux support. I'm making a joke, but it's also true.
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by Negitivefrags 7mo ago
> If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe. Depends on how you feel about Roko's basilisk.
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by Negitivefrags 8mo ago
As a manager, this is 100% the answer. The people who do this are incredibly valuable. At every performance review I tell all the people who don't do this that they need to do it more. None of them ever do. For all I can tell, it'
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by Negitivefrags 8mo ago
It's quite interesting to me the way that different "programming cultures" exist around debuggers. If you grew up doing windows C++ development, looking at things in a debugger is your first step. You only resort to printing
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by Negitivefrags 9mo ago
Of course it’s the minimum standard, and it’s obvious if you view AI as a tool that a human uses. But some people view it as a seperate entity that writes code for you. And if you view AI like that, then “The AI did it” becomes an excuse th
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by Negitivefrags 9mo ago
At my company I just tell people “You have to stand behind your work” And in practice that means that I won’t take “The AI did it” as an excuse. You have to stand behind the work you did even if you used AI to help. I neither tell people to

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