lunaticlabs

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by lunaticlabs 4mo ago
It’s a cool building. I got the privilege of being part of a hackathon that was run out of the building after it was no longer in use. I had a startup making a laser tag style game of assassin with cell phones, and I got to stay up all nigh
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by lunaticlabs 8mo ago
What is probably happening, based on my own experience inside companies doing hiring, is that we generally get flooded with CVs anytime we put up a job listing, and most of them are irrelevant. To help manage the flow of applicants, we use
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by lunaticlabs 8mo ago
As a non-German living in Germany, the German insistence on you buying your kitchen in a rental is really really stupid, and serves no purpose. Besides the schemes listed here, where the landlord tries to sell you the previous kitchen at fu
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by lunaticlabs 9mo ago
The big advantage of macs when it comes to GPUs isn't their direct speed, its the unified memory model. If I want to buy a GPU that has 64-128GB of addressable memory, it will cost me an enormous amount and the computer itself will be
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by lunaticlabs 9mo ago
As a video game programmer, I can speak to this. For video games, we generally need geometry. Flat planes, things you can collide against, things we can reason about. Gaussian splats work as a bunch of 2D images stuck on top of each other,
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
I'm also from Helsinki, and I lived in Chicago, and I can tell you that Chicago gets MUCH colder than Helsinki does. Chicago regularly gets to -10-20C each winter, for weeks on end (or at least used to, I no longer live there), with wi
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
The industry has those roles now, and I know people in them. They're not wide spread, but they do exist and I do work in games. This is something that has come as the industry has matured.
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
Holy shit! I ran into this growing up in California. Would have been early 1990s. I have long been bitter that I had taken algebra in 8th grade, and starting high school in 9th grade they made me take algebra again because I was told I coul
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
Also in Germany edibles aren’t legal, so we are stuck with smoking or self baking
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
Not anymore! These are allowed at least in the UK and in Germany (where I reside) now. It was not the case when I first moved here a few years ago, but read about how they're within code now. The problem I have is that they're not
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by lunaticlabs 1y ago
I was fluent in 3 languages before school, as is my little brother. Parents from 2 different countries, and moved to America when I was a young child and my brother was born in the USA. It helps if the parents can communicate to each other
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
Helicopters also glide, it’s called auto rotation. Helicopters can also land in much more confined spaces than airplanes, even with an auto rotation. As we helicopter pilots like to say, if an airplane engine quits, you just know you’re goi
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
I also love my XM5s, but yeah, the touchpad is useless and far too sensitive. I kept accidentally touching it whenever I move my hair out of my face to tuck it behind my ears, or otherwise brush past it. I also turned mine off, and its stay
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
I moved to Germany from the US, and broadly speaking (I have my own issues with German policies and politics) I like the system here better. In Germany, outside of being a “public” figure, you own the rights to your own image. Without expli
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
Multiple times in my game development career have implemented or worked with proprietary byte code in a project. I've done it on PCs, embedded devices, consoles, etc. The first game I worked on used MDL from the old Infocom days.
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
As both a US and EU citizen who lives in the EU, I actually run into issues with this. I book my flight with my US with my US passport, and it's a round trip, so it ends up with the same passport registered. I go through the EU line up
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by lunaticlabs 2y ago
That actually happened in real life too. Look up the North Hollywood bank shootout. I remember being at work watching it happen live on TV (I lived in LA at the time, but was not near the shootout, this was the era of live helicopter footag
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I've been a manager in software development on and off for the last 20 years now, and to echo what many of the more experienced managers here say, interviews at best give you some negative signals, but very rarely anything that I would
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I worked and continue to work in the video game industry, and I started in 1994. In my industry, the norm is not to leave mid project, and so job hopping frequency correlates directly to project length. My first couple jobs were about a yea
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
As far as I know, it’s based roughly on the Hanford plant. It is in Washington, but very close to Portland, Oregon. The Hanford plant looks very similar to the one from the Simpsons.
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
This won't be the fault of Microsoft if the Infocom stuff is lost, that's the fault of Activision. Source? I was there. I worked at Activision soon after Bobby Kotick took over, and worked on both the Zork Anthology, as well as on
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
As a person who has lived most of their life in the USA, but now lives in Germany, I find the German/EU law about likenesses being a perfectly sane alternative to the US law. If you use my likeness for anything commercial that is not s
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I second this, as someone who did this 5 years ago and ended up closing at a higher sale price than the realtors even promised in interviews, with a total of... $500 in fees. This is absolutely the way to do it.
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
This happened to me at the start of my career too. I work in video games, and started right at the end of 2d consoles (one of my first projects was a SNES game). My second job was at Sony, where I worked on the PlayStation before it’s relea
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I actually have a full queen size cardboard bed that looks similar to this, and they're amazing! I bought it as a temporary bed while I waited for my furniture to arrive during a cross-world move, and never gave it up. It's quite
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
As an American who know lives in Europe, where nutrition facts are labeled per 100g, I disagree. It is far easier for me to compare products and their nutritional value when there's a standardized size (and prices also have to be lis
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
Do you live in Berlin? I do, right near Bahnhof Neukölln. I live or have lived in many of the areas you list, and have spent time in all of them. Neither myself, nor my wife, nor my friends have any fear about these areas, even if there ar
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
To frame this, I actually worked at Sony as a software engineer on the Playstation when Wipeout came out, so I have some firsthand insight into developing games around this time. When it comes to older games like this, there were a bunch of
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
It's interesting to read articles like this. I was there when this happened (worked on Return to Zork for the Mac while MW2 got finished, and i76 was starting) and knew Zach and Sean. There's nothing hugely inaccurate that I can t
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by lunaticlabs 3y ago
I have a PPL in the US, and live in Germany. Essentially, the problem here is that there aren’t really any small airports or flight schools here in the same way, because their largely isn’t any recreational flying. There are gliders, and th

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