you get free electricity or your PC parts are made of magic? running inference workloads frequently is going to have a significant impact. This is on top of using your PC for other things like gaming and work.

More the merrier! Start it anyway!

most people are going to destroy their home servers running these workloads

is it illegal to write abstraction APIs on top of CUDA? I have heard this argument for half of this decade and i think something that abstracts the CUDA stuff into a thin HAL that can also call other GPU Progamming interfaces would avoid vendor lock-in.

although, I guess the main challenge is the ever-changing surface of the CUDA api?

Edit: Ok so if the argument is we should be able to use NVIDIA GPUs without CUDA that any amount of abstraction is a moot point.

So, the evil is pretending that it’s done out of the goodness of their heart. We all know the end game.

yeah my position is to be very clear that we are not against making money but about unsatiable greed shown from the likes of ubisoft or microslop.

I am speaking about those who project their profits

you must be that greedy little pig that thinks piracy reduces “potential” sales and hence “potential” profit. If you crave for what is not rightfully yours you are a sinner.

And that’s fine because the assumption behind “Indie” is they did all the hardwork themselves without getting paid regularly. Consider 500k is not a lot if you count how many months of work was put into the games without pay.

as someone who is perpetually an intermediate beginner in all things in the computer science world (even though I have a CS degree):

(And, as a long time vim user who has moderate knowledge on what vim can do for me, and has grown up with ctags, cscope, fzf)

Does anybody else feel like we need to tame the complexity that is neovim configuration? Distros exist but they just package the complexity into sane defaults. Argh! every way of handling this seems boils down to trade-off and preferences if i go down the rabbit hole far enough.

but I feel like there should be a better way to organize this complexity. The other day I gave up trying to understand lua and just asked an LLM to set me up the LSP, tree-sitter, telescope, which-key, and few more plugins.

The most important thing I remember and share was I wanted to make these powerful plugins able to take advantage of each others’ expressive behaviors.

One example is LSP operation that has multiple results like “All references to this symbol” can be displayed and moved to with a telescope window, while binding it to ctags like key-binds.

I keep trying to learn lua and lua tables and it just doesn’t stick after sometime. Maybe my brain isn’t as elastic anymore now that i am above 30 or something.

so effectively what we want is a society that brutalises and marginalises a certain community to ensure there is a stream of desperate people to take “those” jobs?

Actually I also pronounce it as en-ginks. The parent comment was not obvious to me

that’s how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it

Instructions unclear… Am vampire now.

it is quite terrifying that people think translating from formal constraints in math to informal english is either accurate or deterministic.

And they ask the LLM to not look at requirements but who is guaranteeing it won’t just hallucinate them out of thin air later when messy prompts inevitably trigger a butterfly effect?

join a game company as a junior. Hate every bit of it and then realize you’re better off doing something else.

Or skip all of that and pick something you are somewhat familiar with today.

If you’re still reading that means you want to continue on this treacherous path. Fine, fastest way to start i guess is playtesting but with companies asking customers to do that for them… the role is kind of lacking at the moment.

best you can do in your free time is start with trying out every aspect of game design upto a beginner level: learn basic coding in a specific language like python. learn to make simple text based adventures and fill-in-the-blank puzzles.

Pop OS is a safe recommendation from me.

you don’t need 60 fps to read text? All you need is to stream the text directly?

thanks… I guess santa can put me on the naughty list early this christmas cause I got the presents already!

thanks for the deets I have some thing to do for christmas