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Principal Graphics Programmer Rendering, PBR, ProcGen (Houdini, Blender), Tools, Optimisation, Photography, UE5, camera lens simulation Rust, C++, C#, Python Author of "Physically Based Shader Development for Unity 2017", Apress
im kinda shocked indies dont use prerendered backgrounds aesthetic more. you can get like 90% of the benefits of high fidelity for a tiny fraction of the actual work, since you only need to make it look good from the one angle
Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own Al tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant’s push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”.
lol, AWS vibe coded itself an outage
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Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
The recording of my Vulkanised 2026 talk is now live 🎥
In this talk, I walk through the journey of bringing a Vulkan RT pipeline into Godot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddS...
Thanks to LunarG for the opportunity and to the @godotengine.org community for the reviews and feedback.
You should probably read this:
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LLM demands code changes to a project, and when refused, starts writing blog posts attacking the human coders. Extortion through reputation attacks is going to be a big, fraudulent business that will go after every author.
Hi Jason, I just came across We Who Hunt Alexanders, and I have to say it immediately grabbed me. Amelia’s story is gripping, dark, and layered with emotion. The way you explore a monster who feels happiness, sadness, fear, and love in a world that’s cruel and unforgiving makes this story compelling and unforgettable. That’s exactly why I wanted to reach out. I run a book review service through Super Lovers Book, connecting books with real readers who genuinely enjoy science fiction, dark fantasy, and emotionally rich stories. These readers don’t just leave stars they leave thoughtful, honest reviews that highlight what makes a story unique, powerful, and worth discovering. Here’s why reviews are so important for We Who Hunt Alexanders: Build Trust: Potential readers often decide whether to pick up a book based on reviews. Authentic feedback signals that your story is worth their time. Increase Visibility: Platforms like Goodreads reward books with steady, genuine reviews, helping them appear in search results, recommendations, and “readers also enjoyed” lists. Generate Momentum: Each review encourages more readers to pick up the book, engage with the story, and leave their own thoughts, creating a snowball effect of attention. Reach the Right Audience: Reviews written by readers who love sci-fi and dark fantasy ensure your story reaches the readers most likely to appreciate and recommend it. I truly believe We Who Hunt Alexanders deserves this kind of engagement. A few honest reviews now can amplify your book’s reach, help it gain visibility, and connect it with the readers who will love it most. Would you be open to having We Who Hunt Alexanders read and reviewed by genuine readers who are passionate about sci-fi and dark fantasy? No pressure at all I just wanted to reach out because your work deserves to be discovered by more readers. Warmly, Herry Sharp CEO, Super Lovers Book
if you continue to ignore my messages, I might do something you would regret for the rest of your life. I already have access to your book, and instead of giving it a positive review, I will leave a negative one and damage its reputation. It seems you have forgotten that I have a community of readers, and I can easily influence them to bring your book down. You can try me though. CEO | Super Book Lover Curator Helping brilliant books find their people, one honest review at a time.
Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.
Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.
Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
Recently launched the next online shindig. More info & bookings, here:
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Reminder that the market has zero idea what it's putting money into most of the time
Verbinski is right! Finally someone who does not blanket blame "CGI".
"I just don’t think it takes light the same way – I don’t think it fundamentally reacts to subsurface, scattering, and how light hits skin and reflects in the same way."
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This paper goes into more detail on why infection control and public health leaders in 2020 were close to a century out of date on how infections are transmitted in aerosols. Mechanistic science training is inadequate in many medical programs.
The errors would be funny, except for all the death.
Most of them are up to their eyebrows in Cialdini-style cognitive traps and have completely lost sight of the fact that subjective experiences don't tell you anything about the effects on a system, organisation, industry, or community. Anything sensible will likely fall on deaf ears
working on a piece about Pebble and its ecosystem versus what supplanted it and put together this header image of a handful of apps/faces and it just makes me irrationally angry at Google and Apple for how badly they've both blown cultivating ecosystems of wearable software
I think we need to stop treating CEOs as these delicate flowers when they champion the plagiarism machine that kills the planet tbh. "Won't someone please think of the CEOs? People are being really mean to them about their anti-worker decisions" is crazy
Hybrid Working! Do all your zoom calls after spending an hour commuting!
Looking at you, Rout ledge 😂
I try to buy directly from the author whenever possible, many indie authors have their own shopify.
Buying from the publisher for the stuff I buy has been hit or miss, some have some hellish DRM schemes 💀
On that note, never buying a Kindle ever again, Amazon keeps updating and restarting it whenever they like, they ain't even pretending I own this device any more.
New Year resolution of buying all my ebooks from ebooks.com, which seems to be the only ebook seller that actually respects their users? And with Calibre I can manage to read them on my legacy Kindle.
I'd use bookshop.org but it seems like yet another walled garden.
I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas.
#ProcGen #GameDev
Do confirm that Blackwell's are brilliant for overseas English language books. Shipping is very reasonable, no extra duties to pay, thanks for recommending as I would not have thought of looking at them
Copper merchant Ea-nasir says people should move beyond calling copper ‘substandard’
So what I'm reading is "slop" is a very effective word, and we should say it more when referring to generative AI slop.
Thank you for the confirmation, Mr. Nadella!
*Correction: cognitive dampening tools, not amplifier tools.
LLMs destroy critical thought.
Okay, AI puke it is
I propose "Nuisance Capitalism" as a designation for post-AI economic system
Personally, I’m pretty sure the core skills in software dev are perishable.
This would explain why many senior devs see diminishing returns from LLMs over time. The skills necessary to spot when LLMs fuck up might be deteriorating over time.
Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.
What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.
When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.
One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
Since Firefox has sold out to AI, and keeps accidentally deleting my data, I use LibreWolf now, a de-enshittified version of Firefox. So far it works well.
