douglasg14b
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- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 3 days ago:
Language translation tools have been AI-based for nearly 15 to 20 years now. What are you on about?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
TIL!
Awkwardly, I find that the largest memory pressure tends to come from a particular web page that continually gobbles up more memory the longer it is open.
There’s always one of these somewhere, and I’m bad at closing tabs. I usually notice pretty quickly when I come back to my computer. As soon as we start hitting page filing, since everything is stuttering and slow, but if it goes overnight, it can literally be 15 to 20 minutes before the system is responsive again after I kill the offending process.
Whereas on my work device, which is Windows, I usually might not even notice until I’ve maxed out my page file, which can be 64 or 128 GB depending on the device. And even then, I only notice because file operations start getting slow because the SSD is being thrashed. Killing the offending process results in responsiveness usually within a few seconds and a full clear out of the page file in a couple minutes.
The explanations that I’ve gotten from another commenter make a lot of sense. That Windows has just always had to deal with high memory pressures, so has been forced to mature in that sense. It is rather odd that Linux is behind on this, though, given its overwhelming representation in headless environments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thank you for thoughtfully engaging. I appreciate your knowledge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It also depends on what you mean by worse than Linux. A lot of the criteria that you’re evaluating definitely have Linux as better than Windows, but Windows is better than Linux in other ways that I notice on a day-to-day basis when I’m switching between the two.
Performance under memory pressure is the biggest one, I think. I don’t know why, but Windows handles extreme memory pressure and heavy page filing incredibly gracefully, whereas any Linux device I’ve used, and Macs, seems to stutter, slow down, and really struggle under memory pressure, even when there is superior hardware involved. I usually have to wait several minutes before my daily Linux driver recovers from heavy page filing, whereas it’s usually just a couple of seconds with my Windows box.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
On sale**
$5 otherwise
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I suppose step one would be to first understand the name and spelling of the business you are trying to make…
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 3 months ago:
Like I said plenty of products call this tab completion, and it’s context aware completion, or predictive completion. I use the wrong term but I would have thought after my explanation you would have understood what I meant by this point. You’re continued explanation of what to have a completion is shows otherwise.
I know what to have completion is. I’ve been programming for the last 15 years.
Also I said Visual Studio, not VS Code… Cripes.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 3 months ago:
Apparently meaning from usage cannot be inferred here? Or you’re just being intentionally obtuse?
- predictive completion
- context based completion
A not insignificant number of products literally just call it tab completion these days, because tab completion in many products & IDEa is by default predictive completion, which is ML based. And these days, LLM based.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 3 months ago:
I used the wrong term, but I guess y’all were unable to infer meaning from usage?
Auto tab or w/e it’s called (Some products literally call it tab completion). Visual Studio was doing it around 2018 IIRC, it was ML based, always has been. Modern versions of it are almost entirely LLM based.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 3 months ago:
Literally every game that’s made today is using AI as part of the development process.
Damn near every Dev has tab completion on in their IDE. Which is AI based.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 months ago:
Sooooo
More pandering to the lowest common denominator
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 5 months ago:
Do… Do you not know what price manipulation is?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 5 months ago:
That doesn’t conclude anything.
Are these the same games that are part of this lawsuit? If they are not, then what does Epic giving away different games conclude that this is a false premise for the lawsuit?
Critically think about that statement, it’s not logical.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 5 months ago:
This isn’t racism coming back to bite you in the ass. This is just plain old fascism which does not require a racism foothold to get started.
Fascism can generate its own racism foothold through its own means.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 5 months ago:
Cosplaying
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 months ago:
You can’t fix stupid, it will only drag you down with it.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 6 months ago:
Controversial opinion’
This is kind of a valid take or use I suppose.
And it’s something I struggle with as well.
I know how to program and I can make games with really shitty assets that no one would want to play because it looks like crap. I’ve tried many times and I don’t seem to have the skill set for making good assets. I’ve tried dozens of times to find and pay people on sites like fiverr, with extremely disappointing results.
And as a hobby I can’t just afford to pay thousands of dollars to have someone make passable art either.
So what do???
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 6 months ago:
I mean, maybe I want to go after a passion project and not waste away on someone else’s dream of what having money looks like?
$5mill ain’t gonna start & fund an engineering focused company if that’s my retirement savings.
- Comment on Man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls [Short] 6 months ago:
That robot has less latency than casting VR to my TV.
Crazy
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 7 months ago:
My wife went out Christmas shopping while I took my toddler to go play in the snow.
Separating responsibilities is functional, I don’t understand the negatives here.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 7 months ago:
A knife generally tears, it separates the material in front, causing it to tear ahead of the blade.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 7 months ago:
I mean that applies to literally everything
Everything that you make an investment in has some measure of liquidity.
- Comment on Popcorn Ceiling Removal 7 months ago:
This is what feathering your edges is for…
It just takes more time.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 7 months ago:
Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder, or drawing Noncon isn’t rape.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 7 months ago:
It seems a stretch to call (at least as far as I understand it), a naked (fictional) character riding a horse CSAM?
Or am I missing something here???
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 7 months ago:
I should have used softer language which I have changed it to be.
Everyone’s experience with neurodiversity is different. If you have a system and that system works for you then that’s awesome. Developing systems that work for your needs can be a significant hurdle.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 7 months ago:
Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it’s just another useless dump of probably useless information. This is difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.
Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 7 months ago:
Protip: Installing more ram makes for more convenience on keeping tabs alive forever
There’s a reason I plopped in another 32GB stick
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 8 months ago:
Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.
The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.
But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.
Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 9 months ago:
Your analogy is broken in just about every way imaginable as treating the symptoms is often done in conjunction with treating the disease.
Why? Often treating the symptoms is a life-saving measure in the short-term while treating the disease is a long-term solution. In cases where symptoms are not life-threatening it is still treated for comfort and ability to function.
**Both have to happen simultaneously. **
If all you do is sit back and try and fight the big problem and you don’t tackle the little problems eating away at the fabric under you. Eventually there won’t be any more fabric to stand on to fight the big problem.