Dominik

It looks like a grey cloud of sorts since we have to use night vision to see it. People can sometimes see bits of colour but only when it's exceptionally bright. On photos it looks like colour because they take seconds to absorb the light.

I saw a video (I think it's a How Money Works one) on this. These consultancies rely on graduates to do the work writing these reports, which then need to be checked by seniors. Them LLMs to write means less juniors are needed. Though fact checking seems rather poor so who knows.

Dot com bubble would have improved the internet for normal people, but dark fibre and that over investment has helped mainly big companies like Google.
So depends how the excess power generation and data centre capacity gets distributed. Hopefully it won't all go to crypto miners.

Optimising Data Building In Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

We have just released a new ACCU 2025 Conference Video!

Optimising Data Building In Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

#coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

As long as the USA can actually do something good with what is left over.
Except for a few good routes, public train travel in the USA is poor and pales in comparison to many other places, same goes for Internet access where it is an effective monopoly with no competition.

One thing using LLMs/GenAI does is externalise the costs of the content to everyone else except the person generating the content.
Long elaborate text -> takes longer to read.
Generated code -> takes longer to review.
More generated content -> takes longer to filter.

Musk reality distortion field.

Well we already have AI scoring the open Internet and making it uninhabitable for normal people.

Blackwall here we come.

Paying more to get less is only normal people.

So chalk one up to an article with no thought put into writing or fact checking it. Either that is AI slop or lowest possible paid writer.

How to Enable or Disable Smart App Control in Windows 11 Want to know how to enable or disable Smart App Control in Windows 11? Here's how this built-in security feature helps keep your system safe.

At first I thought no, it should be possible to turn it back on again. So I searched and came up with www.guidingtech.com/enable-or-di...
Funnily enough if you look at the last screenshot where they have highlighted the On option, it is greyed out and the text says you need to reinstall.

The hopefully-once-in-a-lifetime event also spurred the massive (over)investment in video games as a whole, as a result of which we are now seeing cuts to studios and investment being made, as people are going outside again.

Indeed. That's why I think it's insane to have a single type of assert and use it for all checks in the codebase.
The default assert should be for checking code & logic, and should always terminate.
Different assertion/checking constructs should be used for data & user input checks.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how clicking continue on an assert dialog (so the program runs after an assertion failed) is connected with how expensive assertions were. At this stage you're showing a dialog and waiting for user input (at least once, skip-always gets added quickly).

A lot of people in the Game Development industry prefer to have skippable assertions in the code, so that when one gets hit the user can skip it and continue working.
This still seems insane to me and is indicative of missing error handling as most often this is due to bad, old, or incorrect data.

Any project which uses non-terminating assertions means that the project is lacking good error handling mechanisms.

YouTube video by ACCU Conference Mistakes With Data Made During Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

I noticed that the first of my talks from ACCU2025 has been released to YouTube. It's a short one about mistakes I've seen made with data in game development.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5P...

He will keep saying the game is going to be released "next year" for the next decade or how ever long investors keep believing the words coming out of his mouth.

Are you using web based outlook, outlook classic, or new outlook?
As far as I know the new outlook routes your email through Microsoft servers and doesn't actually operate like a local email client, so it could also be down.

As I always say, Color for type names, colour for variable names, and yes I am a monster.

Christians have believed that the rapture was coming any day now since Christianity was invented.

Sounds like a sales conference for engine, crypto, and llm vendors.

I mean it's a dream from Star Trek to talk to the computer and have it do exactly what you intended it to do.
A mind reader that does what you intend rather than a Djinn that interprets your words in a way it desires.

From the outside it looks like the USA is already a fascist state, just people inside haven't realised it yet. I wish everyone inside the very best of luck in bringing the country back to an actual democracy.

Did announcing the release date of Cyberpunk 2077 early help anyone when it ended up getting changed 3 times before being released?

They will never use nukes unless they 100% know that they will work. If they try to and they fail then their entire nuclear threat is gone. Better to have them as a spectre of a threat than find out they are duds.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

So there's going to be a new version of Visual Studio coming out and if there's no way to completely disable the AI features I'm going to be forced to switch to Sublime Text + some debugger.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

I'm disappointed I won't be there this year, looking forward to the videos later.

At least this phone has an even sticky outy bit and not something deranged on one side.

Though these days I think they do it deliberately to sell cases.

That's been pretty much the entire .14 release. Only Copilot and unreal engine changes.
No idea when we will actually get C++23 features.