And also spent by utterly incompetent management whose prime qualification is fluency in corpospeak and AAA tier ass-kissing…

… as opposed to, you know, any kind of actual project management skills.

They’re all self important, self righteous idiots, in leadership roles in AAA.

… The goddamned AAAA pirate game that Ubisoft took 10 years to rework 3 or 4 times, and then shit out as basically a demo of a mobile style gacha game, that requires a fairly high end PC to run.

How is that not just like, money laundering / tax evasion / tax fraud, with extra steps?

Hey, I am entirely not trying to be an ass, but in situations like what just happened there, here is what I usually do:

Christoper Walken Lee (EDIT: Derp)

Something like that is what I try to do when I make a silly error, but want to showcase that I made the error, and then also accepted and made the correction.

That way, if somebody in the future, who reads only the edited version of the comment/post/thread sees it, they can understand that perhaps other comment chains based off of the initial error are not non sequiturs.

It also shows that you are humble and admit a mistake, and make a correction, which imo, are good things to showcase… as opposed to doing a ‘stealth edit’, which leaves no obvious signs of what the original comment was, in the comment itself.

Yeah, Walken can tell you about how to smuggle a watch, though.

… the ‘temporarily embarassed millionaire’ has ‘aspirational’ capital, in a fanciful, idealized future.

AKA, ‘The American Dream’

Its a kind of faith-based magical thinking, delusion.

Which, as George Carlin let us all know, I think over a decade ago now…

… ‘you have to be asleep, to believe.’

… smell-o-vision.

… You… don’t think they already locked in at least an initial tranch of component supply, retooled their factory and warehousing spaces, and have been churning some number of these things out… for some weeks or months already?

You normally don’t uh, instantly assemble tens or hundreds of thousands of computers, the week before product launch… you work out an entire time line of prep for sourcing, assembly and storage, you do that quarters before hand, and then start doing assembly, and then release when you think you have enough to sate initial demand.

And you’ll even do parts of that before the design spec itself is totally finalzed in all ways, often times.

Also…the Steam Machine uses LPDDR5 RAM, as the Steam Deck does.

Its already, literally physically soldered onto the mainboard.

… I must be very old school, out of touch, or just doing my own thing…

Because I would do corduroy pants and a tweed vest with elbow patches, over a hoodie.

But then basically either totally cheap flats for shoes, or basically 1’s boots, but in whatever shade of brown leather works best with the jacket.

… I also now actually have a proper tobacco pipe, haven’t smoked in years, but that seems like it would work with that old kinda getup too.

… Am… I the last living hipster?

I definitely hated all the other hipsters for entirely missing the point, in one way or another, thus, arguably, I am qualified as a hipster.

Well, nearly all biological lifeforms would … more or less wither and die, rather quickly.

Give water infinite surface tension?

Yeah, whole lotta internal processes stop working … life as we know it is… kinda mostly built around water acting like water.

That’s a much better inclination.

Cow Milk? Yes/No?

That’d be my first thought, in your line of thinking.

… but you can tie that back to… bloodlines, lineage, peoplegroups, haplogroups, whatever word you want to use.

Most east asians just literally do not have the genetic lineage to support regular consumption of dairy products, the way most europeans do.

Because… we (hi, I’m white) come from a long line of cow milk drinkers, east asians do not.

Its funny reading a bunch of article headlines like “why are so many east asians lactose intolerant?”

No. Fucking, no.

We’re the weird ones.

We are the ones who essentially decided to become mutants, due to our dietary choices.

What other animal regularly drinks the milk of another species of animal?

Here’s another weird one:

Redheads.

(At least broadly ‘white european’ redheads)

They … experience pain differently.

While they have an overall higher pain tolerance, they are also more sensitive to certain kinds of pain, and they need a somewhat higher dosage of something like novacaine to experience the same levels of pain reduction as a non redhead.

So basically, if you have a redheaded east asian child, don’t give them a high dairy diet.

You’ll hurt them, literally.

(this is mostly a joke, i dont really know if … that would be the case. it seems to follow, as … the two things i described, they seem to operate independently on different genes/gene clusters, but genetics is all about finding out how things you would not expect to be connected, actually are)

potato, potato.

Geneticists do, basically.

Haplogroups.

Yep.

You can avoid having to do something like a total refactor that takes half the year, if you do the rough equivalent of a sanity check / clean up pass, when any new system or feature set is added, and make that habitual.

Its… kinda like how if you just do a bit of regular shopping, regular meal prep, regularly do the dishes, whatever, everything just flows easier in general.

The longer you run lean, move fast and break things… yeah it can improve output in the short term, but medium to long term, you’ll run yourself ragged, and things will break and fall apart.

Its likely a mix of Garry and maybe 2 to 4 other coders, who Garry assigns to develop various subsystems off of his broken core systems.

Thats exactly how he did it during Garry’s Mod.

If you were to talk like this in any job I’ve ever worked at, you’d be fired in about a week, maybe faster.

Same with writing emails with this language.

And you’re missing my point that if you made your own functions… and they don’t work right, … you should fix those functions, rework them.

Not doing that is how you get technical debt, spaghetti code, which is bad for you, bad for what you’re trying to do, bad for anyone else trying to help you do it.

Commenting on a bunch of slapdash fixes is like covering holes you punched in your wall with framed graffitti about how frustrated you are.

If you saw that in a date’s home, you’d hopefully recognizr that as a red flag and nope the hell out.

If everybody else is too busy to actually fix the code, you have inept project management.

You as well have clearly never worked in an actual professional software dev environment, if you think this is reasonable or defensible.

Garry’s Mod. Rust (the game, not the programming language).

A bit late to the party on this one, but Facepunch just opensourced a bunch of their code, I nominate that.

Yep.

Not too long ago I was explaining to people how Garry is both an asshole and bad at coding… now we get to see the unprofessional struggle session.

Like, if you are frustrated that calling methods from your own code base doesn’t work… maybe fix your code’s utility functions?

Instead of doing one off hackjobs for everything?

Any serious, experienced coder has tendencies toward this or even versions of their code with some of this kind of stuff in it.

… but you fucking clean it up and rewrite the rage with actually helpful documentation, if you actually give a damn about other people who might use it.

As the TF2 Sniper put it:

Professionals have standards.

… and thus they also have no time left to date.

I was gonna comment on why Jupyter isn’t on here, and then I realized that any one who uses ‘raw’ R and/or Jupyter… they have 0 free time, they are generally overworked as fuck, thus they correctly are not even on a dating social graph.

Search your heart, or your datasets, you know it to be true.

Yep.

PostgreSQL is where its at, everybody else just hasn’t figured that out yet.

Hey I’m not saying too much money, I’m saying significantly more than what most people spend.

The first is a value/ethical/moral judgement, the second is just numbers, just objective reality.

8 gigs VRAM, 16 system RAM, 15 years ago?

Most GPUs 15 years ago had one or two gigs of VRAM.

As far as I can tell, no consumer grade, 8 gb VRAM gpus even existed in 2010.

(tho, i guess SLI and Crossfire were things people did back then… maybe you had a dual or even quad gpu system?)

The first 8 gig VRAM GPU was, I think, the Radeon 290X VAPOR-X, this thing:

https://videocardz.com/49757/sapphire-launch-radeon-r9-290x-vapor-x-8gb-ram

Launch MSRP of $650.

In 2014 dollars.

That’s roughly $880 in todays dollars.

Thats more expensive than me, right now, getting a 9070 (non xt), those are down to under $600, or not too far off of that, at this very moment.

Meanwhile, most AMD, budget conscious people are probably still gonna find that too pricey, and go for a 9060 XT, 16 gb version, as they’re closer to $350.

Either your specs are wrong, your recollectiom is wrong, or you’re spending a good deal more money on your pc builds than the average person.

A person who is able to save up and buy some.e pretty solid hardware, only occasionally?

That’s a sign of relative wealth, having the ability to save up and plan. Most people don’t have that, at least 25% of the US right now has more debt than wealth, ie negative equity, ie, theyre essentially debt slaves.

Most people are constantly needing to buy new, shitty shoes, that wear out, because they never have the budget margins to have any real savings, but they gotta keep walkin.

Like, I also am a person who will save up a good chunk of change, get a new solid machine that’ll last a while.

But I realize that that is far from common.