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  • Yea, some are definitely made by amateurs, but there are many that don’t need crazy hardware, too.

    The reason the big budget games look good is because full time artists and full time optimization of assets is a whole-ass job many indie teams won’t have the budget for. Creating art is one thing. Making it render efficiently is a whole other ball game.

    Game engines are getting better at helping small teams, though. Unreal Engine has quite a large suite of tools just for cleaning up and generating lower detail models and baking in vertex/parallax mapping, adding culling planes to maps so it doesn’t render the whole thing at once, etc. It is a HUGE task to take good looking assets and also make them render quickly. Especially if they avoid something with tons of provided tools like UE. Then they have to do all that optimization in other ways or just skip it.




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    I try to do both study and practice. So many things either don’t exactly work as advertised, or have really obscure catches that are really difficult to tease appart yourself. So the only way to get a clear picture is to both study and practice. Then, you get to know all of form, intent, and function and not just what you can working.


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    Yea, I agree it ‘should’ be integrated in a more general way. Though my point is from the dev’s perspective: Why go through the extra effort to ‘properly’ do it if it is an unproven tool many people don’t want?

    Not saying it should stay there, just saying it makes sense it showed up somewhere less sensical than the ideal implementation.


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    “need”? Of course not. Though I do see it being capable of much more sophisticated autocomplete. Like a tab-complete that is aware of what you’ve already typed in the command and gives you only compatible remaining flags, or could tab-complete information available in the environment, like recognize it’s running in Kubernetes and let you tab through running hosts or commands that’d make sense from ‘here’, etc, etc.

    Sure, it’s all things a very nice and complicated algorithm could do, but … that’s all “AI” thus far. There have been zero actual artificial intelligences created.



  • Depends. Are they nice before they’re honest? Or are they nice while also being honest?

    They aren’t mutually exclusive labels, so you might just be a positive person that doesn’t pick up on nefarious clues so well and thusly aren’t going to recognize the kind of casual dishonesty being referenced here.

    I think you may be assuming gaslighting is something only done by the wicked. Some “nice” people, who I think they’re referencing, will be “nice” in incredibly cruel ways. Those are the people to avoid. People who will call you “friend” and be friendly, but then not even mention or invite you to their wedding, or ghost YOU over drama in their life … all forms of people running friendships dishonestly while still putting a “nice” front on is what I think of when I hear bad nice guy. There are A LOT of them depending on what social circles you roam; people jockying for social status using kind words without kind action.

    Yes, people universally like “nice” people, but not all “nice” people are good people.



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    Not sure what you mean. It’s already a completely superfluous and additional feature. It “should” execute completely separate of everything regardless of what integrations it has.

    Though if it doesn’t yet exist as a separate thing to hook in to (and it doesn’t), it’s got to execute somewhere. Makes sense it’d show up as a canned extension or addition to something before it’d show up as a perfectly logically integrated tool.


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    Nah, a container isn’t running nearly as much as an entire OS. Not by a long shot. The Kernel isn’t there at all and the entire device stack is gone. Most don’t even have an init system running like systemd. They’re closer to a chroot in a single terminal than running an entire OS.

    The OS flavor in a container is mostly about what flavor of supporting tools are available inside the container. Almost everything else is a thin wrapper making calls in to your host OS or container services.