Wait till you hear about God!

God is just an extra step. If you assume god existed forever and nobody created her, then why not just accept that the universe existed forever and cut out the middle-deity.

>created her

Did you mean 'them' ?

idk, what does god need with a pronoun anyway?

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.

Here's a blog post[1] from last year regarding an open-source implementation of virtual geometry. The linked code is maybe a couple thousand lines. It's not something you'd write in an afternoon, but it's also not the towering monument of complexity that Epic Games pretends it is.

[1]: https://jms55.github.io/posts/2024-06-09-virtual-geometry-be...

Edit: I don't mean to sound disparaging - it's some genuinely cool algorithms. It's just that Epic is incentivized to hype it up, and so you get a huge paper and multiple talks that are designed to make it seem even more impressive.

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

> 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.

This is only true of trademarks, not copyrights (which was the discussion here).

Trademarks can become 'generic' if you don't defend them. But JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter, whether she sues fanfic authors or not, and can selectively enforce her copyright as she likes.

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.

>No Jira

If I was trying to attract intelligent applicants looking for work outside of software engineering, that would be in the headline.

Genuinely curious: How else would you coordinate a large software project? We have 7 teams of 5 working on the same platform and Jira is fine for what we're doing, but I've been at this almost two decades and I haven't used any of the alternatives.

Besides like trello asana redmine or the millions of less-complicated competitors? You literally have developers work on their own modules directly from the spec or work directly with the product owner. You track their work by looking at their commits. You check their progress by looking at how the preview build / staging looks. No overhead of having developers flesh out an entire issue/story (plus sub-issues) and then move it column-to-column across the entire Kanban board. Tracking sub-issues is like counting half-pennies instead of rounding up.

Tried that here in EU - no chance so far: Even things I could do easily like office administration/management or whatever projectmanagement - no luck.

What about also excluding "Scrum Masters" and then "Fibonacci Numbers" and two week "sprints"?

Just dropping by to say how much I passionately hate documentation that uses fib() as an example.

As someone who is currently delivering Amazon packages with their own vehicle (Amazon Flex), what’s the process like to become a mail carrier? The miles are starting to take a toll on my car, so delivering for USPS is tempting for me…

It’s a 1 hour application online.

Fingerprints, background checks, references, and drug testing.

It’s the CIA. But good benefits.

I would definitely try this if the vehicles in Phoenix ran cleaner. The old ones have such bad smelling exhaust and you are always breathing it because of the semi-open cab.

electric vehicles are on the way! no clue when Phoenix will get them though

My wife and I have a running joke about her giving up accounting and working for USPS instead. Some days I think she’s serious.

Are they even hiring?

Periodically we get a postcard in our junk mail that says they are. So I guess the answer is yes, at least sometimes.

It's funny how everyone wants to get into deliveries as they get older, my dad who's been an engineer for decades talks about it a lot. Something about walking around and doing things really appeals to people as they reach the end of their engineering career

You mean how people want to start walking around and doing things after sitting on their ass in front of a computer for 40 years?

Yea, I'm there with your dad...

> And no Jira

Not officially, but once you remove the skills required for the tasks, it's not all that different.

Yeah but isn't the pay shit? like making 1/3th is not a win in my books.

I have hella money.

I continue a tech career making 200k+ a year and you try to sell me making 100k or less probably for the next 20 years as a win? Nah I love money to much and hella money is like 10m+ where I would chose something that in the next decades would make me so much less. Also no trajectory in career path. I'm happy it works for you but I wouldn't like that. On the other hand I have my big corpo wageslave job and my little own company and almost no free time sadly. I hope to have made enough money and can retire early at some point until then I grind.

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.

You'll have to give some context. What did hella mean? How many months of your current spend rate do you have in the bank?