I thought in the shower again.
I thought about misinformation and cancellation waves on social media, and I think the fundamental problem is that social media platforms are optimized to maximize engagement—to increase the amount of likes, views, comments—this min/max function. If we had an algorithm that could measure the truthfulness of the content and promote that content, that may fix the issue with misinformation.
Also, I thought about humanity’s goals, like how Elon Musk is focused on survival. I think this is important because it indirectly supports the bigger goal of maximizing happiness. Dead people cannot be happy.
Additionally, I want to point out that minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness are slightly different goals. To minimize suffering, you could destroy humanity, as dead people cannot suffer. So, minimizing suffering does not include survival, but maximizing happiness does.
I woke up today at 11, considering I went to bed at 4:30 in the morning. I faced a dilemma: how much coffee should I drink? Usually, I have two double shots of espresso, but having coffee at noon might make it hard for me to sleep tonight. So, I decided to have only one double shot.
I was generating music with AI on Udio until 4:30 in the morning. Now all these songs are simultaneously earworming in my brain
I was taking a shower when one thought came to me: I think I am overfixated on marketing a non-existent game. It would be better to focus on making a good game and figure out the marketing later.
If I have a good game, it will also be easier to promote.
With the current approach of being present on social networks, I am losing a lot of time that I could spend working on the game instead of writing posts, engaging on Twitter, and making YouTube videos. Sometimes I enjoy it, but sometimes I force myself to do it.
I am leaning towards shifting my focus a bit more towards making games rather than on makeshift “marketing,” aka being present on social media.
If you’re a new game studio and considering making a launcher for your game, please don’t.
Saturday and it is ☔ raining. Again.
Ok, I finally figured out how to be able to run almost all my Steam games on my laptop.
I have a quite unusual setup; I have two video cards on my laptop, one is Intel and the other is NVIDIA RTX 2070. I also have a third external video card, an NVIDIA RTX 3090, and almost everything runs on my external video card.
So the command line string to run Steam is this:
MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT_FORCE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=0 MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=10de:2204 DRI_PRIME=2 DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_LOG_LEVEL=none DXVK_NVAPIHACK=0 VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="3090" DXVK_HUD=fps,gpuload,compiler /usr/games/steam %U
MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT_FORCE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=0 MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=10de:2204 to force Vulkan apps to use my RTX 3090. So Windows Vulkan-based games would be able to run: Detroit: Become Human and Sky: Children of the Light are using Vulkan
Setting DRI_PRIME=2 will make native Linux-based games run on an RTX 3090.
The line
DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_NVAPIHACK=0 VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="3090"
is needed for Windows DirectX 12 based games.
I saw DOB: 12/30/1983, and my brain; this account is underage only 11 years old. LOL
UI developer, don’t forget to test your app with only 2 buttons on a mouse. Khm… Discord, I can’t scroll on the list of servers on the left side.
I finished my taxes yesterday; I used TurboTax. Everywhere it said “100% accuracy guaranteed,” or “100% security,” or “Privacy guaranteed” and in a similar ballpark, the alarms in my brain were triggering: “Scam! Scam! Scam!” What do you think about TurboTax?
Text editors should do what is expected to do. If I type @ or :, it should not do anything unexpected. If I type for, it should not do any crazy thing. Notepad is pretty good at this. Yesterday, I tried to type an HTTP link in Slack, not sure how but I accidentally “fished” my colleagues. The link if you read was correct, but if you clicked on it, it directed you to a completely different place.
Yesterday, as I was driving home from work, I found myself in a peculiar state. I’m behind the wheel of an electric car that drives itself, feeling both content and discontent simultaneously. There’s a sunset painting the sky, mountains looming in the distance, and the car stops at a traffic light in utter silence. I find myself questioning reality: Is this real? Or did I lose my sanity in Moscow, Russia, a decade ago, and everything I’m experiencing is just a figment of my imagination?
🌸 Tue, Apr 9, 2024 🌸
If you read BDSM backward, it would become MSDB, Microsoft Database?!
🌸 Tue, Apr 9, 2024 🌸
Somehow I missed the email about the job interview from thatgamecompany 😱 I asked them to send me new dates.
🌸 Mon, Apr 8, 2024 🌸
If you want to grow, embrace a sense of imposter syndrome; if you feel comfortable at the place and feel like you belong there, you will learn very little. If you feel out of place, this is a sign that you may learn from those around you.
🌸 Mon, Apr 8, 2024 🌸
Nanite for skeletal meshes is coming to Unreal Engine (probably version 5.5). I am excited and patiently waiting.
🌸 Fri, Apr 5, 2024 🌸
I am in California, and we had rain here instead of an earthquake. An earthquake was in New Jersey.
🌸 Fri, Apr 5, 2024 🌸
Apple laid off 600+ people after canceling the Apple Car project. I’m not sure if it’s late April Fool’s Day joke or true.
🌸 Fri, Apr 5, 2024 🌸
I have a Master’s degree in Engineering and Physics, but it is offensive language, so to comply I have a trunk degree in Engineering and Physics.
🌸 Thu, Apr 4, 2024 🌸
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🌸 Thu, Apr 4, 2024 🌸
If you can afford to be lazy, then be lazy. It genuinely bothers me when someone says, ‘Don’t be lazy.’ I prefer to approach tasks intelligently; busy work that offers no benefits is simply foolish. In C++, using auto to declare variables is a form of productive laziness, as is using = and & to capture lambdas.
There are times when putting in extra effort can decrease the workload in the future. However, it’s often the case that people request additional tasks that provide no future advantage and label the refusal to comply as “laziness.”
If being lazy is an option, embrace it.
🌸 Thu, Apr 4, 2024 🌸
4/04 Happy day not found day!
🌸 Wed, Apr 3, 2024 🌸
I am using the trial version of FSD (full self-driving). It is crazy to think my kids most likely will not need to learn to drive a car.
🌸 Mon, Apr 1, 2024 🌸
I need to do taxes. Interesting thought: I give Elon Musk money for the solar panels and two Teslas; also, though my taxes, he recently blew up three big rockets using my tax money.
I am Elon Musk’s sugar daddy!
🌸 Mon, Apr 1, 2024 🌸
I wonder, when I ask ChatGPT to be more human and less robotic. It does the complete opposite just because it’s trained on an enormous amount of sci-fi literature where humans struggle to make machines to be human.
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