spiralcoaster

That's great, but it doesn't make you or any of us engineers.

Just because I drive my car with immense focus, make precision shifts, and hit the apex of all of my turns when getting onto and off of the freeway doesn't make me a race car driver.

Engineers don't just feel good vibes about science and mix it into their work. It is the core of their work.

Simply having a methodology absolutely is not sufficient for being an engineer.

And great, you have an arbitrary system of ethics, like everyone does I imagine. But no one holds you to these ethics.

So what do you do with the information that your house is about to flood? Do you have a special flood prevention technique that you can only put into action when you know the rain is coming?

Seems like if you were going outside often, you wouldn't need an e-ink display to tell you the weather because you'd be outside... experiencing it

Your comment reminds me of those infomercials where they try really hard to make something as simple as cooking spaghetti look like an unimaginable nightmare that no one could possibly accomplish

The video's narrator is the son of the engineer who invented the suspension.

It is even listed in the video description. What's this idea that this is a spoiler or integral to the video?

Thank you for doing this. It allowed me to skip reading the article altogether immediately knowing it is AI generated slop. Usually I'm a little ways into it before my LLM detector starts going off, but these "This isn't X. It's Y." phrases are such a dead giveaway.

It is very heavily filled with LLM-isms. The writing is bland AI output.

So for your opinion to carry any weight, please enlighten us as to the games you have shipped that qualify you to comment on their take on programming practices.

This is a hilarious take.

Car company makes innovative new car engine for their vehicle. A user wants to get a replacement key made for the vehicle, but company doesn't have the process in place to make replacement keys:

Are you fascinated by this hypothetical companies level of discipline? Or would you consider it negligent and inept?

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

Right, because the idea of Linux has always been about sticking to big corporate distros whenever possible

Why were you expecting this article to specifically mention ray marching? It looks like a comprehensive beginner article on what shaders are, not an exhaustive list of what you can do with them.

If you are using fragment shaders to draw squares you're doing something wrong.

Shaders would be more for something like _shading_ the square.

Sounds like the perfect filter then. I'd rather have people showing up to my party that are interested in having a good time moreso than how "cool" they appear.

That makes two of us. I've never heard of (or thank god, been to) a party where a host is forcing people to move around, especially in an unnatural way. Nothing feels like a forced party more than, well, forcing.

What people do you know that do this? I absolutely read in a linear fashion unless I'm deliberately skimming something to get the gist of it. Who can read the text "all at once"?!

It's so easy! I hope all the leading robotics researchers come to find this comment and finally deliver us the dexterous humanoid robots we've all been waiting for

Perfect. So if I'm understanding you correctly, I can throw together a game with arbitrary/irritating rules that many people won't like, and I'll just call it an autism simulator.

Feel free to go back to a world in which human beings stopped developing technology at the sharpened stick. It's pretty easy to buy a large, remote plot of land in many states in the US, so you can live in your technology-free paradise.

Just to clarify, this statement will always be true: "N members of our species aren't ready for technology Y". And N will always be greater than or equal to 1.

Don't ever get into the field of computer vision or computer graphics then.

"Everything in real life" made me laugh out loud.

Sounds like you're looking for something like an asset store, or open source models.

Since you used the term "shitty gatekeeping": to me, your comment reads like the most generic kind of optimism you see everywhere on the internet about everything ever. Shitty optimism.

No one told you weren't allowed to be excited, but you took it that way anyway.

The amount of self-aggrandizing and lack of self awareness tells me this author is doing to do all of this again. This post could be summed up with "I should have had backups. Lesson learned", but instead they deflect to whining about how their local desktop is a mess and they NEED to store everything remotely to stay organized.

They're going to dazzle you with all of their hardened bunker this, and multiple escape route that, not realizing all of their complex machinery is metaphorically running off of a machine with no battery backup. One power outage and POOF!

You find it interesting that people that play the exact same role on both teams can be rivals?

By your logic golfers could never be rivals, because they're never interacting or defending against one another -- they're just playing against the course.

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You are really this shocked that some competitions ban certain methods of achieving the goal? Are you shocked that traditional wood chopping competitions ban chainsaws?

Alternative title: A long winded technical deep dive into how I make my personal font preference appear to be an objective decision.

I had this exact same experience. It felt like it opened the door to panic attacks, and I had a few of them in the years that followed.

> The amount of cognitive overhead in this deceptively simple log is several levels deep: you have to first stop to type logger.info (or is it logging.info? I use both loguru and logger depending on the codebase and end up always getting the two confused.) Then, the parentheses, the f-string itself, and then the variables in brackets. Now, was it your_variable or your_variable_with_edits from five lines up? And what’s the syntax for accessing a subset of df.head again?

What you're describing is called: programming. This can't be serious. What about the cognitive overhead of writing a for loop? You have to remember what's in the array you're iterating over, how that array interacts with maybe other parts of the code base, and oh man, what about those pesky indices! Does it start at 0 or 1? I can't take it! AI save me!

Reading the OP, it appears they were pretty much blurting out a semi-nonsensical stream of consciousness. That's my best guess as to why they didn't bother to define JBR, because in reality, they weren't writing for any other audience other than themselves.