anlumo @ anlumo @feddit.de

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This sounds very familiar to when Steve Ballmer wasn’t worried about the iPhone at all.

Well yes, but for that they need to develop a competitor to Nanite, and Weta won’t get them any closer to that.

StageCraft is the only thing where there is even a small overlap between game tech and the film industry, and that one is using Unreal Engine. Other than that, the special effects used in movies render at minutes per frame, not frames per second as in games. There's no technology suitable for Unity in that.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/unity-acquires-weta-digital-1235107544/

Weta was an especially weird and expensive acquisition, since they're not even in the same field.

I think prototypes are fine to answer specific questions. However, I think it’s often the case that management doesn’t understand what a prototype is and thinks that this is just the alpha release of the real product.

Rule of thumb: if you don’t throw away all of the code after having answered that question you were writing it for, it’s not a prototype.

Nvidia has been selling ARM CPUs with built-in homegrown graphics for about a decade by now, so this is hardly a surprise.

For prototyping, if you don’t already know Rust, it’s probably not worth it.

When you really know Rust it’s IMO easier to write a web server in Rust than node, but there is a long road to getting to that level.

ADC is incredibly inconvientient, because it doesn't support hotplugging. It also requires the computer to contain a power supply for the screen.

The first thing he did at Twitter (as it was called back then) was to fire most developers. There’s no way he can introduce significant new features.

I personally care about the full product, because that's what I'm selling. I have no idea why your generateUniqueDeviceKey would be valuable on its own.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/compilation

Under the Copyright Act, a compilation is a "work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term compilation includes collective works" 17 U.S.C. 101. This gives the compilation a separate copyright from any of the individual pieces within it. An author who creates a compilation owns the copyright of the compilation but not of the component parts.

Yes, that's the key. I haven't written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.

Cods you and your company don’t own, of course, as automatically generated content isn’t copyrightable

If you combine enough of that code in a creative way, the work will be copyrightable. Unlike the GPL, public domain isn't viral.

We look for people who are passionate about it, whose interest in the subject is deeper than skin deep.

Doesn't it hurt those people a lot more when their project nearly inevitably gets shut down?

I'm still bitter about the project I worked on that got killed at my company three years ago.

Apple tends to over-build their chips. For example, they’re running iOS on their displays, just because that’s what their engineers are used to. This means that the display needs a full blown desktop-class computer in there just for showing an image on the screen. It’s the same story for their wireless routers.

That works fine in environments where power and heat don’t really matter, but that’s completely not the case for a modem.

Yeah, it sounds like it's sponsored by Elon Musk.

Matrix has a concept of “spaces” for grouping people and rooms into a unit.

If California were to join the EU, it’d be the fifth largest state in the union, right after Spain.

You should try ZFS (not on the SD, though). It’s pretty solid and used in NAS very often.