- There was an old AMD/Ati demo where they did per-pixel sorting, basicaly a per pixel linked list of fragments.
In general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-independent_transparency
- Indie game devs aren't really facing any real backslash.
A smart loud minority is screaming a lot but actual paying customers don't care as long as the game is not trash.
- If you still in 2025 don't understand that hate speech and anti-disinformation is a trick used by people who want to forcefully censor others who don't agree with them then I don't know what to tell you.
- Given the choice between a drug saving the life of my (future) child or sacrificing animals I know what I'd choose.
- >> Ultimately, anecdotes are an unreliable way to determine potential benefits and harms with respect to health claims.
Really? So if some medical treatment is what potentially caused me harm, but big pharma doesn't want to do a study on it or didn't do it yet, and the doctors claim with utmost certaininty that the harm came from somewhere else always then I'm 100% wrong?
What happens when hundreds of people start reporting the same thing? Is that still anecdotal evidence because each individual N=1 is treated as independent, since they are not part of the medical establishment but Joe Average?
Is the fact that glyphosate is causing issues to humans anecdotal? It was for a long time, because those smart man of science kept dismissing it.
Now we know that glyphosate is potentially harmful to human gut bacteria since it acts as an antibiotic due to distrupting the Shikimate pathway in human gut bacteria. The long standing theory, by the "experts with studies" was that glyphosate cannot harm humans since humans don't have the Shikimate pathway. Alas, our gut bacteria do.
Despite all the ancedotal reports by people in the USA, who could not eat wheat-products in the USA due to having some strong reaction against them, but magicaly, when going to Europe, they were able to eat them.
How many decades of anecdotes and how many ruined lifes were needed to finaly convince the "smart men in science" that perhaps everything we know about glyhosate safety was actually wrong, despite having studies claiming it was safe?
Thanks god that more and more people see people like the author of this article as idiots, parts of the intelligista community. Midwit meme is the appropriate reponse to people like him.
It's only when the amount of anecdotes become overwhelming large that the "experts" are finally kicked in the face and forced to ackowledge their mistakes.
Not that it makes them any humbler. When the next time the same situation happens the story will repeat itself.
- At some point you need to draw a hard line in sand when it comes to people trying to actively supress freedom of expression.
Otherwise they just keep trying and trying. A bully won't stop until he gets punched in the face, and this is what the USA did to the EU bully bureaucrats pushing their will everywhere.
Shame that so few of us Europeans do the same.
- You're projecting. He is not marked for life: it's YOU who thinks he is.
Not him. He doesn't care what some clown online thinks of him.
- It's basicaly this, combined with the fact that most gamers think that AI means "slop".
But AI has completely legit non-slop use in games: texture gen, 3D model gen, Suno for audio, programming,...
- Does it need to be homogenous? In the end, only a few people are needed to create companies and drive the vision.
- Needs 24GB gpu to run.
- AirBnB should be banned, and I say that as a very pro-capitalist guy.
In an economy where there is a housing shortage local population needs affordable and long-term (6-months+) rental contracts or they don't have stability.
Capitalism is great in general, but some things, such as healthcare, housing, electricity,... needs to have a stronger regulatory framework then eg TVs since the collapse of basic human necessities creates chaos and eventually becomes the foothold of extreme socialist/communist political parties which then finish the job of destroying the economy.
- I know it is. I've seen it with my own two eyes in school.
- Why can't all of these things be problematic? Why the binary thinking?
- EU was supposed to be an economic union, but it morphed into a politicaly cancerous union.
Now it's evocing emergency acts to bypass union member states when it sees fit.
On using Russian frozen assets:
>> The vote put forward by von der Leyen reframed the issue of frozen Russian assets as an economic emergency rather than a sanctions policy. This allowed the Commission to invoke Article 122 of the EU treaties, an emergency clause that permits decisions to be adopted by a qualified majority vote instead of unanimity, effectively bypassing veto threats from countries opposed to the move.
- Would he got a website if he was white and Christian?
- We will probably have robots by then, so a declining population won't be a problem.
But import problematic immigrants that are a tax + criminal burden and you make everything worse.
- >> Early programming languages followed similar logic: FORTRAN (Formula Translation), COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), SQL (Structured Query Language), I believe Lisp stands for list processing. The pattern was clear: names conveyed purpose or origin.
"names conveyed purpose or origin.": no they don't. If I use the authors example of the two people talking: as if saying "BASIC" instead of "Cobra" explained the meaning anything better to a person who never used BASIC.
I've been programming for 15 years+ and never used basic due to my age and I never know, until today, that BASIC stands for "Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".
Why? Because I don't need to know and it doesn't make the usage of BASIC anything different.
- Comparing bike riding and innate talent for math has to be one of the stupidest analogies I have heard in the last few months.
How many people can ride a bike? Everyone, all humans, except those with certain physical disabilities can do it.
How many people can code software competently or do science? Not many.
The fact that you cannot acknowledge your own childhood experience in school, that is, that you had smart and stupid schoolmates, is very telling that your comment is ideology based.
It's called bad governing. To connect nuclear "not clean" with such bad governing is bit much.