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- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 5 days ago:
You missed nothing if you didn’t. 5 setup a great story, was morphing into a great galaxy spanning adventure finally ready to move on from covenant vs humans. And then they ignored it all for Infinite which felt more like a DLC for an unreleased game.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 5 days ago:
Sure, and if 343 studios hadn’t burnt so much fan trust with their last two releases people might be willing to go along with that. I think fans are just sick of not getting a good new Halo game and what they’re doing now seems to most fans like just a cash grab.
It’s not like unreal engine is anything new either, they already contract out work so lots of talent to pull from for the actual technical parts.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 5 days ago:
They claim it’s because they’re using Unreal Engine for the first time and wanted to test the waters by remaking a game they know well. Honestly it just makes them sound even lazier in my book. That and the rumors of massive amounts of generative AI used for development.
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 1 week ago:
There’s a balance. You want it good before releasing, but you don’t want to spend forever chasing perfection. It’s hard as outsiders to know which they’re doing sadly.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 1 week ago:
Mine went to the spam folder. I don’t always think to check there but maybe try?
- Comment on Mint 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my buddy’s goat
- Comment on Mint 2 weeks ago:
Kudzu has entered the chat
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
Anecdotally but several of my friends build a new PC and then slide their old one to siblings who game but don’t need high end
- Comment on How to really find friends by interests? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on what aspect of programming you want to network over.
If you want too discuss the intricacies of different algorithms and nerd out over O notation timings and such then you’ll want to inhabit very different spaces then if you want to write videogames which is a different space from if you want to make home automation gadgets and small webpages.
Sure they’re all “programming” but you’ll generally find the people doing them in different spots.
Overall though, broad ways:
- Hackaday.com has a decent community and events
- Hackerspaces will sometimes have networking events
- local college classes
- events at local college
- mentor first robotics team (they often need programming mentors too)
- Make stuff and blog about it
I’ll say though, networking with other programmers isn’t how you get good at programming in my experience (currently as a Senior Software Engineer developing programs for language learning). In my experience being curious and trying to make stuff is how you get good. That billionaire quote only really truly applies to money.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 2 weeks ago:
I kind of combine them. Neetch.
- Comment on Oh yeah, I forgot we ruined outside too. 2 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to hit 90°F in Pittsburgh this weekend. Several places are experiencing early major heat. The South West is shattering heat records too.
- Comment on What is the type of singing in this track called? 2 weeks ago:
The search term you’re looking for could be “electro swing”. I’m not sure you’ll find a specific term for singing in a fast bouncy way because that’s just what swing usually ends up being.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 3 weeks ago:
Not really, because you also start depleting the readily available potable water and increasing toxin concentration in remaining sources. See other comments for just how much these things suck up. It’s truly mind staggering amounts of water. There’s very few areas that can handle that amount of water with no issue for extended periods of time. For some reason (read money) the politicians in charge of approving these things are turning a blind eye to those problems.
Low population areas with high amounts of water are usually nature preserves and things we don’t want these data centers anywhere near. If you do chance into finding a low population center with high water that isn’t a needed nature preserve, odds are you won’t have all the infrastructure you need to build the thing and you’ll run into other issues that might have an equally large but different impact. You can’t just plop these anywhere and run a power line and call it good.
That’s why in other sane countries outside the US you see a large number of proposed data centers get blocked during the environmental impact assessment stages.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 3 weeks ago:
The video is Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University, directly explaining his research and communications directly with the doctor on the cruise ship. I’m not sure you can find a more credible source. It’s not edited clips or anything. A news program invited him on, handed him a mic, and then just let him talk. No leading questions or anything even.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 3 weeks ago:
Clouds can move at up to 100 miles an hour if they’re high altitude, average closer to 25 miles an hour for regular cumulus clouds. You pump that vapor into the air and it’s off to the races. If it forms a cumulonimbus cloud those last. What, 5 days? (Can fact check me here, I’m going off my memory of facts from a weather obsessed kid I knew).
5 days x 24 hours in a day x 20 miles per hour = 3000 miles.
So vapor from a datacenter in California might potentially come down in North Carolina or something. For the sake of those Californians, that’s gone.
Sure maybe not all hits high enough in the atmosphere, and some might travel in a circle and fall back around the datacenter, but not all. I guarantee not all.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 3 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not able to run a turbine as is but either way it doesn’t really solve the problem. My understanding is steam turbines don’t actually condense or cool the water all that much. You still have hot water, maybe not fully boiling but still hot enough you’ll have a not insignificant amount of evaporation and environmental damage if you just dump it. There’s condensing and non condensing designs but the condensing design requires massive cooking towers and more water draw from a heat exchanger.
I’m not a systems engineer so calculating potential cost savings of adding the remaining heat to capture power vs just letting it evaporate vs using a closed loop system is outside my wheelhouse.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t touch on all of them, but a lot of them do actually just make it disappear.
A lot of the large data centers use evaporative cooling. The water basically boils off as vapor they just pump into the sky. This is cheaper in many places than the electricity needed for condenser cooling or other methods as it requires less electricity. (Which at the scale of these data centers they literally are unable to get enough electricity). That water vapor can drift off as clouds and come down somewhere, but no guarantee where or when.
Some data centers also introduce more runoff of pollutants from their methane generators and such that can make the water unusable. If they do capture the vapor and reintroduce into the water table it isn’t always cooled down and the heat can cause major problems in the environment by raising temperatures. This can sometimes lead to the only thing surviving around the data centers being toxic algae or something.
There are so many more ways they can be problematic. That’s just scratching the surface
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 5 weeks ago:
The guy known for going to visit things on location is behind a desk too much? We thinking of the same Tom Scott? Red shirt grey hair? Unless you mean his game show stuff
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 5 weeks ago:
Smarter every Day All of Tom Scott’s stuff More humorous but can still be educational about nature is Natural Habitat Shorts Rob Scallon explore a lot of music stuff The Vintage Space covers a lot of space exploration history
I’m sure I missed some. Of course no good channel can post daily. It takes time to do the research and keep the quality up so best to have several channels.
- Comment on should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season 1 month ago:
That lid is there to trap heat during cooking. Protecting it is important too.
- Comment on should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season 1 month ago:
After every use. It’s to keep rain and dust and other detritus off the grill so it’s ready to go when you are. If you only put it on at the end of the season you’re likely to have a rusty grill covered in dirt way quicker
- Comment on In the US or in Europe can I choose the way I want to go out? like maybe like a viking by setting a boat on fire while my body is on it? Or be shot out of a cannon HST style? or whatever? 1 month ago:
I mean, if you wanna fight public opinion, decency laws, environmental laws, and find funding to start it. I’ve got $3.50 to pitch in. Good luck
- Comment on In the US or in Europe can I choose the way I want to go out? like maybe like a viking by setting a boat on fire while my body is on it? Or be shot out of a cannon HST style? or whatever? 1 month ago:
Last I checked it’s like one county in Colorado, you have to get pre-approval, and the list is basically always full so you’re 6 months to a year waiting minimum
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 1 month ago:
Connecting on a diagonal is how I often do my filter caps and every time I have to tell them “yes, that’s intentional”. Really free up routing
- Comment on Just sayin’ 1 month ago:
Possibly. But this isn’t that. This is pure coincidence. Big AAA games just take time to produce that happens to roughly line up with the amount of time someone is president in the US
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 1 month ago:
Except do we actually know how the Xbox/PC thing will work? Are we sure it will be able to run all games and isn’t just their plan to push game streaming?
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 1 month ago:
I mean there is some hint of defense in this meme, and people definitely do jump to Valve’s defense, but I read it differently. I read it as a complaint that all these companies keep making the dumbest sounding ideas and are pissing people off. Like Sony removing the PC tag across all their sites today.
Like yes they’re corporations just trying to make money, but frustrated fans are frustrated and rightly so.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 2 months ago:
I don’t think Bond should end, but it definitely needs a break. It’s gone through so many changes over time trying to reinvent itself from simple action film to gritty realism to love drama. Craig as Bond was kind of a real full arc and a weird time. Now that it’s ended they need to step away, let it percolate, and come back in five or ten years with something fresh.
Patrick Willems had an interesting take on how every Bond film reflected Hollywood at the time. With Hollywood now being nothing but reboots I say it’s a double good time for them to take a break.
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
So about the same as me, solid. Wish him luck on his Bestiary hunt and Lightning dodges.
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
How long has your friend been working on it? I’m on 4 myself. Had a lot of free time over the holidays to blast through the first three, but now I’m hoping to finish one every few months