stonith

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by stonith 5mo ago
Aptira | Fully Remote AUS/NZ | Full-time | Senior SRE We're an Australian consulting company currently building out a multi region baremetal Kubernetes cluster for a client experiencing explosive growth and looking for SREs to he
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by stonith 7mo ago
Aptira | Fully Remote US/CA/UK/EU/AUS/NZ | Full-time | SRE We're an Australian consulting company currently building out a multi region baremetal Kubernetes cluster for a client experiencing explosive growth an
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by stonith 2y ago
> which is what actually matters, why does anyone care about raw power? Raw power determines whether games run smoothly, how fast things compile, how fast a render takes etc. The performance per watt determines battery life but for some
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by stonith 3y ago
> Did it make a meaningful improvement to the environment? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-07/most-plastic-bags-gon... It's not completely clear from this article if the measurement includes the thicke
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by stonith 3y ago
The RTS example is even worse - Starcraft: Brood War and Age of Empires 2 are still unmatched in terms of multiplayer. The Relic games he mentions are fun but they're not exactly timeless classics and Relic have generally struggled to
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by stonith 3y ago
> It's like telling a guitarist that AI will empower them because now the computer will play music for them. I don't need AI for that - we've had drum machines for ages and now VSTs that can emulate pretty much any instrum
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by stonith 3y ago
What did you do about Reaper? I'm in a similar boat and I'm not super excited about moving to another DAW. EDIT I didn't realise there's a linux build for Reaper now! I guess I'll still have to sort out how to run m
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by stonith 3y ago
> in every form of adverse driving conditions known to man I don't need, for example, a self driving car to be able to handle snow particularly well, because it does not snow where I live. I don't need it to be able to drive we
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by stonith 3y ago
> You do make me wonder, though, about who the vocal users are: RHEL is not important enough to license, but important enough to not move to a different distro? The scientific community, who run extremely high core counts and thus get a
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by stonith 3y ago
I don't know anything about CS, but in the Starcraft scene the meta is always evolving because new maps come into rotation that push players to develop new strategies. I guess LoL does something similar by adding new characters.
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by stonith 4y ago
I see Qantas, which is a western airline by most definitions. Though it's worth noting that Qantas have been acquiring smaller companies then slapping their badge on the planes and their uniforms on the pilots. It's only a matter
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by stonith 4y ago
Nothing. Continue as we currently are where artistic style is not protected, but output is. Artists get work making art as they always have, but they're competing against AI that can pump out shit quality work very quickly. If you can&
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by stonith 4y ago
> So let's say, if an artist developed a particular style and someone wants to hire them for a business project like a game they can't feasibly just learn that style and use it so they hire the artist. Later other people catch
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by stonith 4y ago
A large part of the practical application of art is mechanical skill. Some people have an active imagination but have not trained sufficiently to bring forth what they see in their minds eye.
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by stonith 4y ago
Art has existed for much longer than copyright.
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by stonith 4y ago
We have no idea if character arcs and payoffs are well set up in the first two episodes because we haven't seen if anything is paid off or resolved later. It's been a while but I remember the first season of Game of Thrones being
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by stonith 4y ago
> Copyrighted works can be copied without the authors consent if it falls under fair use "Fair Use" is a uniquely US concept and does not exist in copyright law elsewhere, so for any kind of global release this isn't corre
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by stonith 4y ago
Not sure most dev work is single threaded. Test suites can be multithreaded/multiprocess and so can compiling, just for two examples.
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by stonith 4y ago
We used vote kick to get rid of them. The server would clear quickly if the vote failed so it wasn't a huge issue.
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by stonith 4y ago
I'm in a similar boat, the other thing the gaming laptop lets you do is demo your gamedev work at meetups and similar.
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by stonith 4y ago
> Which begs the question why save games couldn’t do this Replays weren't added until 1.08[1] so it may have changed sometime post launch, but I'd have thought because it means you have to run the sim to get to the eg. 30 minut
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by stonith 4y ago
> Whats more incredible is that inside Australia people genuinely think it's a good thing, because the Government is finally "taxing" Google... they actually believe the money is going to the Australian government (schools
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by stonith 4y ago
It's not a fair ask, because Google were also not allowed to simply withdraw from displaying news. The whole thing was a shakedown. Initial drafts didn't include the public broadcaster ABC or SBS and only benefited the commercial
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by stonith 4y ago
> Why wouldn't you want to run JS outside of a browser? Not OP, but as someone working on backend, infra, and some part time game dev, JS isn't in my skillset in any meaningful way so I don't use tools within that ecosyste
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by stonith 4y ago
NVIDIA seem to have done pretty well out of it.
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by stonith 4y ago
Smartphones are also generally a lot larger, so they don't fit in my pocket very well while cycling or running. I need my smartphone to do a whole bunch of things outside playing music, and restricting myself to specific models with ph
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by stonith 4y ago
I have a similar device and use it daily. I don't have to worry about my music being removed because the licensing changed at the streaming provider. I tried various streaming services and all of them removed music from me at some poin
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by stonith 4y ago
> Regardless of how good you are at MTG, and even how good your deck is, you're going to lose a lot of games due to mana flood / mana screw / etc. What makes this different from blind build order choices in Starcraft? The
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by stonith 4y ago
By an absolute bucketload. Valley of the Ancients was a 100GB project that went down to 25GB packaged if I remember correctly.
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by stonith 5y ago
And that's assuming their "GPU" is actually performant in those scenarios. All the examples they post are for GPGPU, but how does something like Unreal perform?

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