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Comment #49222036
The funding climate for indie games is the worst it's been in a long time and it's been bad for over a year. Lots of publishers have stopped signing deals or are only funding small…
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Comment #49202318
Lots of people did complain or actively take steps to punish them for lawbreaking, yeah?
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Comment #49186491
The imbalance is profound. I once tried to find a lawyer who could handle getting accommodations for a visually impaired person I knew. In practice, we probably just needed them to…
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Comment #49098359
If you're concerned about this, as a defense-in-depth measure you should also avoid using AI inside of browser tabs containing sensitive information. i.e. typing a prompt into Gemi…
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Comment #49098329
If you hand me two sheets of paper, one of them containing instructions and another containing data, I'll have a pretty easy time keeping them separate, and I think most humans wou…
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Comment #49098295
I don't think this is true? I remember successfully using OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration in windowed mode on 9x devices. Are you thinking of the add-on 3D accelerator cards that …
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Comment #49001057
They also pirated the books
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Comment #48972187
> It (3d asset creation) practially hasn't changed much since ~1995. I don't think this is strictly true, not only are there new approaches to modeling like mudbox and such, but th…
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Comment #48901512
My personal experience was that I saw AI adopters opening and merging more PRs but I also spent more of my day reviewing PRs than I did in the past, in order to keep up with the fl…
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Comment #48878265
Read up on herd immunity. The problem isn't specifically 'foreigners' but the general question of whether enough people are vaccinated to prevent the disease from roaring back when…
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Comment #48776710
As a person with memory issues, this is a recipe for me writing a password down where somebody else can probably find it.
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Comment #48770352
The people currently in power want every single byte of data they can get on people who reside in this country so they can divide them up by arbitrary criteria and do with those gr…
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Comment #48770278
A problem you'd probably run into here is that it would be rather difficult to prove that no real CSAM was involved in the process of making the somehow-okay fake CSAM. Image gener…
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Comment #48770228
I would hope we can agree that aggressive policing of anime and cartoons is a bad thing without denying the real existence of CSAM - the actual thing - or denying the bad things th…
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Comment #48737130
It may make you uncomfortable to learn this but fascists - actual ones - are currently active in politics! My hair isn't dyed, for what it's worth. We could argue over the definiti…
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Comment #48735807
What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)
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Comment #48723885
It's impossible for a victim to enforce this penalty, even if they hire a lawyer, in my experience.
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Comment #48687853
In general the art community - not just limited to pornographers - seems to have stuck by X despite all the AI stuff. When I see people posting art it's almost always an X link, ev…
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Comment #48664821
Try clicking 'switch to website mode' on the left side
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Comment #48615051
Post you're replying to: "motorized vehicles" You: "cyclists" I don't get it. Can you explain why humans on bicycles are relevant to a discussion of motorized robots? Are you talki…
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Comment #48614156
SDF techniques are widely used in real games, even if a shadertoy put together in an hour or two doesn't run well on low spec hardware.
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Comment #48581874
IIRC modern Apple devices integrate the memory into the whole SoC instead of making it separate on the board and replaceable. It's definitely not swappable like a DIMM or CAMM modu…
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Comment #48520677
AI can probably solve "how do we get good shaper implementations into software", provided a good enough spec and test suite are available, but it won't solve "how do we convince st…