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This 100x. People like to complain about the time it takes to ship AAA games and how huge the budgets have gotten... and then complain that the UE5 games all look the same. You eit…

For sure, if you restrict what can (and can't) be done in shaders you can optimize buffer layouts and rendering passes, not allow things that explode shader permutations/switching …

id tech is probably the last engine that used a signature game to showcase the engine to licensees. The business model of idTech, Unreal Engine, and Crytech used to be 'make amazin…

Even in high cost of living coastal Southern California these numbers are insane unless you have a $10mil house with 10,000sqft

This comment seems insane to me. Like at $50 an hour thats 30 hours a month, or 8 hoursish a week. How dirty or huge is the house? And $50 an hour is way over what most hourly degr…

Which organizations had those shared goals and actions? In the charity/non-profit space a lot of organizations are led and operated by retirees and others for whom money is a solve…

Lowering interest rates to juice the economy is done when unemployment rises … which hasn’t happened yet in the wider economy. Juiced economy and free cash is what led to massive i…

Scenario 2 now has country C1 with 100 tech workers, and they got their pick of the 50 best workers from (lower paying) country 2. Country 1 is now a better place to start a new co…

Until maybe 2 years ago absolutely. Huge demand for tech workers and not enough smart US workers to fill the roles… lots of low quality candidates from crappy colleges but anyone w…

The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited …

What does the end user do with the AI chat? It sounds like they can just use it to do searches of client information… which the existing site would already do.

> modern left wing goals like unlimited mass immigration. Ahh and there we are. It's the immigrant's fault. Once all those illegals are out the of the country we'll be great again …

> The US is a very right wing country. It's politicians are better able to avoid populist price controls. Maybe with Mamdani that's now changing. Rather than placing price controls…

What was weird was when the restaurant was closed and looked deserted but you could still order online and hope the locker with your order lit up with your food (it did). I found i…

I think your parent made a perfectly good point. Going into the store is a whole lot less pleasant than staying in my car and waiting a couple extra minutes in an environment I enj…

Some people stop every day on the way in to work rather than make coffee at home in the morning. They’re often ordering some caffeine concoction rather than drip coffee. I have kno…

Yeah it’s this, Starbucks isn’t a coffee place; it’s a caffeinated drink place. Their brewed coffee (outside of their higher end tasting room stores) is deliberately undrinkable to…

It’s not entirely trivial (if you care about texture quality) you’re choosing 2 endpoints in 3d space that can be linearly interpolated to values that best fit 16 points in 3d spac…

If you’re compressing at load-time it can be a lot. You can do a quick and dirty compress to BC1-3 (assuming you are on PC) in a few tens of milliseconds but quality will be subopt…

For a few years it seemed like Tesla and SpaceX were those companies - reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, boosting clean transportation and solar, pushing forward space explo…

Maybe there will be a benefit from the additional power generation and infrastructure that will still be available if the data centers don’t need it. Can’t believe I have to state …

The RCP was actually two hardware blocks, the RDP which as you say did the fixed function (but very flexible) pixel processing and the RSP which handled command processing and vert…

EA not making sports games for Dreamcast wasn’t a bad decision for EA. It cost Sega a huge amount of money to produce and license their own sports games exclusively for Dreamcast, …

I know you are making a flippant and pointless comment, but I’m compelled to respond. Of all the laptops I’ve owned my 2020 MacBook Air is still my personal daily driver, my 2010 M…

Tempting fate here but I don’t see any reason why my cheapo spring loaded toaster won’t give me another 10 years of life. There’s nothing to go wrong if used correctly. Back when I…