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Hmm well the depth buffer only has accurate depth for opaque objects (and even that's not really true). Things like hair wouldn't be in there. Its not ground truth depth.

What is blaming a vague concept like "the system" going to do? Nothing. You might as well yell at the sky. Individuals entities with influence are to blame and must be coerced to bring about change.

Does this guy not know these big corps influence politics to get the tax breaks?

This like saying, "If you don't like the king making the rules why are you in a monarchy, hmmmm?"

Its truly naive to think this is impossible or even improbable. You can say there's no proof or that its not the case but certainly much more has been done to juice 5 star ratings.

Is there a runtime comparison of the shaders needed? Seems like you might have to do a lot of texture sampling if you have to walk the ray through the data but maybe there's a trick?

MSDF is pretty much just the target texel in question plus the surrounding samples in a way the GPU can do entirely upfront before the math starts. (M)SDF glyphs also play nicely with mip mapping and I would think this Slug algorithm needs uncompressed data. Maybe that doesn't matter because you just don't scale the data ever?

What about the part where workers take less money?

We hope an average guy who was stuck in an experimental cryopod gets accidentally woken up and through a course of events gets appointed to the presidential cabinet long enough to fix society.

C++ and Unreal Engine but it has full source access. If you're actually trying to deep dive on bugs, it's still confidently wrong a lot of the time.

It's a bit better than 18 months ago but it's hard to say by how much. It just seems like the culture has moved to building up fixtures that let the LLMs brute force the problems. To my eyes that's the opposite of solving things logically. It has the added effect of hiding how the sausage is made, though.

I mean, how can they possibly say they haven't written a line of code if they're actually going through it? I can only assume they're just looking at the results. So then how can they judge it's good at logic?

If it was so good at not making mistakes, why even have tests? It's nonsensical on its face.

> The LLMS are very good at logic, by the way.

It's wild to read this stuff and then also deal with the constant headaches of day to day hallucinations when interacting with Claude et al.

By this logic, those folks should be pointing to their own hosted mirrors of the project, no?

> hundreds of MB to GB of code from god knows where doing god knows what

If you use established libraries then actually the code IS well known to someone (and likely many), even if that's not you. Likely it was built with an actual purpose and with the foresight to not add red herrings to the design.

You can't say any of that for the equivalent amount generated lines. Literally no one knows what it does.

This is fantasy and if it was true the idea would be public when the product was released.

There's no moat in an idea either so I guess it's down to marketing budget.

The appstores are full of knockoffs and even resubmitted decompiles. I certainly wouldn't put it past the scammers.

More specifically to AI... A blog on a nice website is no longer a signal for quality so there's just no point in devs investing in that.

> Or do they just claim it's of negligible value and avoid the tax?

Property is already taxed based on its assessed value in California.

Landlord costs drives supply at a given price point so your initial premise is flawed.

It doesn't need to recreate your game. It can still muddy your marketing and redden the ocean. Especially if someone is in the business of trying to front run an indie game, they don't need to be any where close to a full or good game to attempt to steal any mindshare your project had.

Every dev with ssh keys into prod should know it.

The shared anchor tech exists and its honestly pretty awesome to play a shared XR game but with the cost and install base of these devices, you really can't invest in developing those types of things. Too bad because even a shared XR paint prototype is cool.

The options are some complicated narrative that leads the company to hold back certain capabilities due to some mercurial strategy or this is a typical release and there is no hidden strategy to decipher.

Looking at it a bit further back, we're in an era drowning in bullshit (spam, scams, ads, posers, cons, wannabes, on and on). Our ability to quickly and effortlessly discern signal from noise has evaporated.

You'd have to pay folks to move to the middle of nowhere.

Not sure if this post is an exhaustive list. Is that stuff making it to 3.0 or further out?

Shallow clones and such would break but you could rehash the local history manually and compare the SHA256 hashes commit by commit, no?

Issue is it would be pretty slow so you'd want it to be a one time thing.

Trusting a forced push w/o any other verification means nefarious history changes can be slipped in.

"Hey, the comments are too wordy. Can you clean it up so its only important information?"

As much as you want to say "actually do your job, jackass." Being goal oriented has had the best results for me.

Any notable breakthroughs in the top 100 apps on the app store that could attribute their success to AI?

As opposed to which alternative? Spending credits to send the work to a non-local AI to fumble through it?

Yeah the AI FOMO beating out the desire to monopolize through closed API and lock in has been one of the nice side effects of this hype cycle.

What? Why? More is more but you're arguing a security proxy is a dangerous and naive pattern?