Just keep swimming.
If someone says to you, “I am Taiwanese” or “I am Singaporean,” and you reply, “Nah, you are Chinese,” remember that they feel the same way as if a Ukrainian says, “I am Ukrainian,” and you reply, “Nah, you are Russian.” Please, be mindful.
Today I went to the SoCal Startup Day and saw a lot of desperate entrepreneurs. I could see it in their faces. They go for the pitch, it’s high energy and upbeat. But then they come downstairs, and their expressions change from smiles to desperation. It’s a horrible sight. I question why you have to sacrifice your family, health, and happiness if you want to have a business. Why is that mindset so prevalent?
I don’t know exactly why I went to the conference. It’s kind of the opposite of what I want—I want to find some life in the work-life balance situation. I’m already working 40 hours a week at my job and then using the rest of the time to work on my own games. Don’t get me wrong, I love making games, but sometimes I want to go for a hike, eat good pho at a restaurant, or sit in a beach chair and watch the waves of the Pacific Ocean. I thought maybe I could find someone who could fund me, so I could quit my studio job and fully focus on working on my games. Take three years, finish the game, put it on sale. Another three years, finish the game, rinse and repeat. And instead of working 85 hours a week, maybe work 60. That would be nice.
But no, if you’re an entrepreneur, you have to sacrifice everything. Shrug.
I don’t know what to do with my life.
Breaking news: Apple finally added a calculator to the iPad!
“Reticle” and “reticule” are two different things.
I had a strange dream. I invited Elon Musk to a Bible study group in my dream, and he agreed and came to the meeting. He was super chill and seemed to be having fun, while I was very self-conscious, thinking I was wasting Musk’s time with the Bible study. Then I started thinking that the setup didn’t make sense; I must be dreaming. Yeah, nothing makes sense, I am dreaming, and in my dream, I remembered going to bed. But I also remembered that before going to bed, things didn’t make sense either. It cannot be that I am dreaming in this dream and in the other “reality.” And then I actually woke up.
Should we start calling Proton PINE (Proton is not an emulator)? Some people call it an emulator, and it triggers me a bit.
🌸 Fri, Jun 7, 2024 🌸
The 2FA into my studio takes so much time; sometimes I get distracted while waiting for the webpage to come up, and ending up on the timed-out page, because I forgot that I was about to log in to the studio system.
🌸 Thu, Jun 6, 2024 🌸
Sometimes my Unreal Engine gets confused about which GPU to use, giving the error “Cannot find a compatible Vulkan device that supports surface presentation”. I am fixing it by adding -graphicsadapter=X. For example, /mnt/Texas/prj/ue5.4/Engine/Binaries/Linux/UnrealEditor ~/prj/TheFinalAct/TheFinalAct.uproject -graphicsadapter=2
🌸 Thu, Jun 6, 2024 🌸
The Actor Lifecycle is a very useful documentation page. Do you put all starting functionality into BeginPlay? And you’re trying to figure out dependencies between an actor’s initialization? What if this actor runs BeginPlay first and another one hasn’t run it yet? Check this page; you can put your starting functionality not only in BeginPlay, PostInitializeComponent is one of the useful ones, or OnConstruct, which is very useful for seeing the result immediately in the editor. #UnrealEngine
🌸 Wed, Jun 5, 2024 🌸
If you cannot select translucent objects in Unreal Engine, just press T; it toggles the ability to select translucent objects.
🌸 Tue, Jun 4, 2024 🌸
I have an interesting thought: ChatGPT, in its current state, may actually help people improve their communication skills. Since ChatGPT can be somewhat limited in understanding, it requires clear and well-written input to comprehend. This mirrors the skills necessary for effective human-to-human communication. TL;DR: If ChatGPT 3.5 can understand you, most likely other people would understand you as well.
🌸 Tue, Jun 4, 2024 🌸
Is the ‘Do-Re-Mi’ song from The Sound of Music 2 semitones flat? 🤮
🌸 Tue, Jun 4, 2024 🌸
Modern Game Engines are forcing the development in the waterfall style, the asset pipeline is so rigid it is forcing developers to build the ‘PROCESS’ around it. My dream is to be able to easily make small tweaks at any stage of the game development.
I don’t like when services ask for my birthday; can they stop doing it?
Today, I learned that I do not ask “why” questions often enough. For decades, I was implementing the OnClick event on mouse button release. Then, I watched a video (link below) where John Carmack asked the “why” question and realized it is better to implement the OnClick event on mouse button press. This is good knowledge. I was doing it wrong for multiple decades and apparently never asked that question. What else am I doing without asking “why”? How can I find these instances in my life?
Did you know you can drag-select in Unreal Engine by holding Ctrl+Alt and dragging the mouse?
Would you trust a guy who created a tech (software) company with “open” in the name, like OpenCV, OpenStack, or OpenBSD, and later said he meant “open” as in available to the public, not open source? Would you trust that guy?
If shampoo Head & Shoulders worked, they would go out of business. Therefore, Head & Shoulders does not work.
Multiple times I considered setting up a keylogger on my laptop for the convenience of having a recording of everything I typed. However, I didn’t trust myself to be diligent enough to clean up the log files that would inevitably contain my passwords and other sensitive information. TL;DR: I’m probably going to opt out of having AI record my screen all the time. The convenience of recalling events is outweighed by the hassle of remembering to remove sensitive information from the recording.
If you need to scale faces in Blender and it’s kind of working but not exactly, try using Shrink/Fatten (Alt+S); you may get better results.
I want Scarlett Johansson to be the voice of AI. Please…
I wonder if in the future, people will crave current artifacts in media similarly to how people now crave the crackling sound of vinyl discs, the noise from old radios, or film grain. Imagine people craving MP3 compression artifacts or AI-generated image artifacts, and we will have special filters that mutate human hands to make them look “authentic.”
Oh, Twitter is X now.
I should practice for the technical interview next week, and I am playing around with AI image generation.
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