mollusc-engine

Still amazes me that the upfront cost of determining which triangles to render or not could ever net a gain in performance.

Wait till you hear about God!

A lot of the work done when making games in Unreal is done in the editor, not in source code.

Also, Unreal source code will be the very last thing LLMs understand. This is the most complex software ever.

There’s an algorithm called Nanite for automatically reducing the triangle count on geometry that’s far from the camera. As in there are not manually made separate level-of-detail models. The algorithm can modify models, reducing quality as they get farther.

This one algorithm is a tiny piece of the engine yet has a 1,000 page white paper.

Also, even when I don’t know how something works algorithmically, usually I at least have some intuition about where to start. I haven’t the slightest idea how to approach this problem.

No way. Take baby steps. Write an operating system first. Write a compiler first.

> Courts don't work by saying, "oh, but everyone is doing it! Not much we can do now."

They kind of do. If you fail to bring legal action to guard your intellectual property, and there’s a pattern of you not guarding it, then in future cases this can be used against you when determining damages etc. Weakens your case.

Downvoting won’t make it untrue lol.

I’m on track to retire at 45. I don’t have to do a job I hate until then.

I walk around all the time anyway, to any destination within the city. I have a car and still do this.

To each their own.

It’s a 1 hour application online.

Fingerprints, background checks, references, and drug testing.

It’s the CIA. But good benefits.

First off, the pay for a tenured mail carrier is plenty for me, and I feel like I have a full life.

I take martial arts classes, yoga classes, have nice apartment, eat what I want, have a decent car, etc.

I really don’t want anything, except ridiculous things no one can afford, like sure I’d be up for buying a Cathedral and converting it to a $20m house.

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Liquid 3 years (savings plus liquid investments). 2 years in IRA. Set to inherit somewhere between 20-40 years worth.

I just have to work to make ends meet, let my investments mature, and eventually inherit.

It feels weird because I love my parents, but it’s something to plan around nonetheless.

I have hella money.

I became a USPS mail carrier instead.

Certainly less pay but I love being outside and walking.

And no Jira, changing the color of that button, or steeping myself in Frank’s eldritch horror code.