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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 experie…

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 ex…

> 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 p…

> 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 measur…

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 t…

> 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 VST…

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 …

> 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…

> 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 comm…

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 …

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…

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 c…

> 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 …

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…

Art has existed for much longer than copyright.

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 r…

> 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 a…

Not sure most dev work is single threaded. Test suites can be multithreaded/multiprocess and so can compiling, just for two examples.

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.

I'm in a similar boat, the other thing the gaming laptop lets you do is demo your gamedev work at meetups and similar.

> 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…

> 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 g…

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 broadca…

> 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…

NVIDIA seem to have done pretty well out of it.