Alex Lee

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I see some confusion about software versioning, here's a guide: alpha - proof of concept, full of bugs, unstable beta - most cases covered, functionally complete, full of bugs, unstable release candidate - deadline's here, full of bugs, unstable 1.0 - full of bugs, unstable

fucking NASA APIs

@KayinNasaki to be fair nothing in training prepares you for an extinction level event so a dance number seems logical

It's fucked up in Macross that in like 30 seconds, 7 billion people on earth are wiped out and then they go into an idol music number

@UnrealAlexander I will not rest until I meet Ick Pleury

Dear writers I just got in contact with a contractor whose name is "Johnny Johnson". Real name. You can literally name your characters Johnny Johnson and that's just life. Sometimes someone is just named Johnny Johnson.

@banditkir 日本語上手ですね！

I’ve been in Japan for less than 12 hours and I’ve already gotten my first “nihongo zyouzu desu nee!”

I see I see

Why is it so hard for 3D programs to agree on what direction is X Y or Z?

@VerizonSupport Service back up, thanks guys

@Aintaer Thanks, Alex. We look to have you up and running soon. ^JTP

Hey @verizonfios your service is down in Brooklyn. I don't need to talk to @VerizonSupport, just letting you know

@verizonfios @VerizonSupport if you want details, there's no DHCP service, but even when I had an IP it wasn't able to ping 1.1.1.1

Probably why the simulation is so expensive despite being done on the GPU. Y'all need to step away from so much Blueprints when it's all custom HLSL anyway

Not only that but there's some real branchy code, gated behind a GPU_SIMULATION check. This is, to be blunt, unideal.

Just discovered that the entirety of Niagara's Fluid Simulation is done in custom HLSL Blueprints nodes. @UnrealEngine y'all are wild

@funkineering is this the case outside of North America as well? I've personally seen only stick shift in Europe, but could easily be sampling bias

@Aintaer There used to be an economic benefit to driving stick shift. That’s no longer the case and it’s more for driving purists these days

I wonder if the paucity of drivers who know how to drive stick shift is uniquely American or North American or what. Is there published data on this?

@zarawesome you're in a twisty maze of declarations, all of them different.

@scottbelsky If the time required is reduced by 10x then this allows them to do 10x more work. There is no intrinsic value to a service, only what value it is to clients. Put it another way, value-based pricing will drastically inflate the profit margin of those who use AI vs those who don't.

@Aintaer so $100k for a minute? the point is, time doesn't work - especially when all of the minutia/process that once rang up the hours is increasingly being done by AI. what will lawyers and others do when time required is reduced by 10x? I see an opportunity for value-based pricing

why time-based compensation models in creative industries (among others) are suboptimal. you're buying one's judgment and experience more than their time.

@mimikyutie13 Wrap yourself in a you-burrito. Also while the earth may be approximated as an infinite series of faces, I regret to inform that if you fell off one face you'd only land on another.

@scottbelsky Which is why their rates are higher. The client is willing to pay a higher price to save their time, not for an abstract like "experience"

@Aintaer most of the world’s best designers would disagree - their insights and solutions might come in minutes even though it took 30 years.