SleeplessCityLights
@SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
- Comment on Usually a horrible interaction for all involved 1 day ago:
One Friday I had to go into to the office for an early meeting. Walked in the, saw my boss, my boss’ boss, HR, and an owner. I just said Fuck out loud and was immediately reassured that it is not what it looks like. They were laying people off, some of which were my friends. IT will always know before hand, we have to deactivate people’s access in a way they don’t notice until they get their meetings/calls. It does not feel good.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 1 day ago:
While you think sysadmins are your enemy, you are you own enemy and we are just trying to save you from yourself.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 1 day ago:
I have found they are the most likely to have lower computer literacy than they need to be for their job. It’s not optional, no SysAdmin should have to babysit someone.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 days ago:
This is the best answer, closest to the truth.
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 3 days ago:
In 2019, I had a bunch of people try sell me on the game when they did the original node auctions. It was doomed from back then. I never thought the game would release.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 1 week ago:
Just to compliment the creator, I have molded SV and the code is beautiful. Rarely do you go into a cold base and have little to complain about.
- Comment on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs 1 week ago:
They are landed gentry. They don’t give a shit about you and have servants most likely.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 2 weeks ago:
One of two things, which ever happens first. The tread wears and a part goes all the way to the sole or the tread wears and I fall down on the hill by work when it is raining or snowing.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 3 weeks ago:
Let me rewrite that: Man who makes trillions manufacturing Ai hardware, says “people expressing how shitty Ai is and how it makes life harder” is going to cause me to lose money.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
People are always looking to make a easy dollar but pretty much everything except having a job is too good to be true.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 5 weeks ago:
I noticed that Gemini 3, GPT-5.1+, and Claude 4.5 all hallucinate at a level that is equal to sifting through crap on Stack Ovetflow to find a solution that fits.
- Comment on Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 5 weeks ago:
A dish made to please all palates is a bland dish.
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 5 weeks ago:
I do forsee the US not being able pay debt in 10+ years and nobody will lend them anymore money.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 5 weeks ago:
There are still loot boxes in Belgium, they just work differently. You get to see what is inside before you start the transaction, allowing a person to only open the ones with contents they want.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 weeks ago:
I had to explain to three separate family members what it means for an Ai to hallucinate. The look of terror on their faces after is proof that people have no idea how “smart” a LLM chatbot is. They have been probably using one at work for a year thinking they are accurate.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Stable diffusion and midjourney were supposedly trained fairly. That is the only reason art teams would even use Ai for rapid prototyping.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
The goal is to weaken the West by destabilizing our nations’ and organizations they belong to. They payed so much money for it that they bought into peerage.
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 1 month ago:
Has any ever done an Ai focused Udemy course yet? I feel like the level of bullshit vs substance will be intolerable. I do one or two a year, they are part of my professional development requirements at work.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 1 month ago:
Don’t you just need to setup a run of HDMI devices and have 80 companies invest together as a group for manufacturing, then have each company put their own sticker on it.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
Did it spread like crazy? I had an old job where my boss was like that. Well until the whole company caught covid at the same time. Instead of being down 1 or 3 people, we had to shut down for a week. We lost so much money and some customers.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
That is the one game I won’t save scum. It kills the spirit of DnD if everything can’t go to hell.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
While UE5 is a one size fits all for game dev, it does not mean all games have to try to have the highest quality graphics possible. CO took that route. You can do whatever you want and optimize as much as you can. You are correct, studios are just going ham on the capabilities and not caring about the hardware requirements. Having a min requirements of a 12th Gen intel, 32GB RAM and 3060 is fucked up. And you need 64GB of RAM for good performance. My biggest gripe on the UE4 vs 5 opinion is that you can still make a low-fi game that runs at 200fps. It’s a design choice not an engine choice.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
I hate to be the one to say it but an ambitious game made by a small team is a shit game to use as an example. They did not have the budget to optimize and the game is full of small technical flaws. Who ever told you that UE4 is better than UE5 is wrong, even without Lumen or Nanite. Also most games in UE4 only used 2k textures and in UE5 8k textures are used. The assets are heavier in general.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
You are the first person I have ever heard say UE5 sucks. Why?
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 2 months ago:
After being in an ICU for a busy night and being in the same room while another person didn’t make it, I am DNR on like everything. You shouldn’t need to do that to my body for me to be alive.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 2 months ago:
Treatment resistant chronic depression.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 2 months ago:
Afterwards the patients walk around like zombies for many hours and it is incredibly unfun to witness.
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 2 months ago:
Remember that most hacking is not done by breaking encryption and running code. It’s %100 social engineering. The weakest point is always a person.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
Someone said that coop is not in the game as advertised on Steam and they were going to add it at a later day. Is that true?
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
What are the user reviews like? Reviews by the media for games made by these mega studios are paid for, so I disregard those.