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I think what I am saying is more that "easy" is too broad a vector to optimize along because it combines too much - both good and bad. I don't want a job without challenges of any …

On a tangent, I was a bit confused by the everyday examples given in this article. "We're often faced with similar trade-offs. You want a meal that's both cheap and delicious? A jo…

This reminds me of when I worked on surgical training simulations back in 2011-2015. In some exercises most of the scene was made up of soft body objects containing millions of tri…

Another possibility is of course that Hugging Face legitimately were attacked and wrote a completely honest response - but OpenAI instructed their AI to attack their servers and th…

I would rather say that many details of the supposed attack were published by Hugging face before it was publicly announced that OpenAI were involved. Both are big actors in the AI…

This is amazing. Now I'm even more upset he scored so low on Eurovision.

I agree with this. I've identified as a graphics programmer for a long time because it's a passion of mine and the fact that it's my profession seems almost like a happy accident.

Unlike the rules for Quidditch I had to reread parts of this to understand it.

This, coupled with fear of making mistakes in public, was the thinking which for years kept me from writing about my work. Until a comment here on HN encouraged me to just do it. I…

When I saw the title I immediately thought of Xbox Adaptive Controller. It's such a cool initiative. Microsoft has a lot of really cool accessibility tools and services. For exampl…

On the teams where I've worked which had a proper code review policy not understanding has been explicitly stated as a reason to pause and ask for clarification. You cannot give a …

That doesn't seem to address my comment. I was specifically asking why esalman wrote > In the last couple of weeks there's been some good news coming through for Xbox Since I wasn'…

What news are you referring to? The only news about Xbox I've caught is that it's declining in profit because they removed Xbox exclusives.

> The Apple II was dying as a platform by the time the game came out [...] it was rereleased on PC in the US and sales picked up. You wouldn’t get that second chance today. On a mu…

This is a cool project and I really like the author's technical and aesthetic choices of how to limit themselves. But what really stood out to me is this line. > a linear frame buf…

This is why, after spending my whole youth learning programming to become a game developer I had a crisis of faith and spent a few years working on something else (surgical trainin…

When I worked for EA (2015-2019) it was better than some horror stories I've heard, but still way too much overtime and many weekends spent at the office. The worst part that it wa…

Exactly. And it shows. It knows all the sayings, the expressions, etc. But shows very little actual practical understanding of them. Especially how to apply the knowledge it simula…

I have a lot of friends from other countries so I've ended up doing a lot of tourist stuff together with them when they've been visiting. It has been great, gave me another layer o…

I have had the same result when trying similar things for graphics on modern consoles. I hear so much great stuff about AI coding but in my niche it just seems to fall flat. Even j…

Checking the link again half a day later and now I get the original text I first saw. Very strange.

It's working now and I have to say I love this. The whole project is whimsical and gives me a strong SCP vibe but (sometimes) without the creepypasta aspect. I was very pleased to …

I tried it myself but I only get page generation failures https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425

This resonates so strongly with me. Everything he wrote about how he wrote in his youth and the analysis of motivations to write is so spot on. It's also really interesting to know…

I met my wife through Dungeon Siege back in 2003. We were both teenagers and had a long distance relationship throughout our student years - meeting for a few weeks every holiday -…