There are actually pretty decent converters from Unity to Godot and Unity to Unreal out there. Naturally they wont convert scripts, but for assets, its a pretty well covered area. (And its not like you necessarily need it. Unreal is very much a batteries-included sort of engine. You need to spend a LOT of money on Unity to get the basic functionality that comes out of the box in Unreal.)
Yeah. The last mile thing is really the best way to keep up with tech. We did that in australia with the NBN and other than political sabotage by the former conservative govt trying to downgrade it from fibre to DSL (which ended up costing more than fibre and we just had to rip it out anyway. Why people think conservatives are somehow better financial managers will always be beyond me, it just flies in the face of the evidence) but despite the setbacks, it got us from ADSL to a network that MOSTLY delivers 1GB fibre and in some circumstances 10GB although due to the "We are a giant desert the size of america" factor some places still havent had that upgrade yet.
I think its a good model. It protects competition by preventing last mile monopolies while ensuring that everyone actually gets a connection.
We've been seriously considering it at work. The problem is theres a whole generation of younger tech kids who have no idea what to even do with a rack mountable server and have no experience with it. Me, I've been racking linux boxes since the 90s, and miss the days when the worst outcome you could expect was a late night visit to the office because the idiot boss keeps trying to code on production. But for kids raised on NodeJS and Lambda, its alien technology.
So really what I wanna do is use one of the open source cloud systems to replicate a lambda type system on a pair of firebreathing AMD servers with some sort of interface that lets them use their skills while giving me the ability to get under the hood and do what I do best.
Also, it helps that our factory was literally a datacenter under its old owners so theres a tonne of fibre connectivity already in place. Hell they even left the backup generator/UPS system there. All the hard bits are already in place, we just gotta rack up some iron and get away from those awful $10K+ a month AWS fees.
Yes it has. And people who live there know about that and have experience surviving in that heat.
We've had temperatures here in West Australia pushing the 50c range (I *think* thats a bit over 120f in american moon units) and the people in those regions know about that sort of heat and that going outside=death.
The problem is when you start getting temps in places where people ARENT used to it.
Here we used to laugh our heads off at reports of 30c (86f) UK heat waves and old people dying in that heat. Thats a comfortable spring day here.But they where not used to it. And now they are getting 40c days from time to time in the UK. Folks in countries where blue is not a color you associate with sky are going to suffer a hell of a lot more than folks who think of 40c as "uncomforable but normal"
This really bugs me. My old Macbook 2011 made it nearly a decade partly by me being able to flip on its back, and replace or update parts at will. It was long a machine in decline, as a mangled third party repair had left it so the back case never quite screwed on right again leaving it structurally a little unstable but in the time I had it I upgraded its HDD to a an SSD, upgraded the ram to either 16 or 32gb (Cant remember, might have just been 16), completely replace the wireless daughterboard with one off a *different model* of mac, replaced a screen after my cat knocked it off the table cracking the screen, and even replace the topcase and motherboard after drunkenly spilling a beer on it. The damn thing was a bonafide ship of theasus, I'm not sure there was a single original part in it by the end. Oh and at least one battery replacement.
Nowdays, you cant replace *anything* in a new macbook. And thats a shame, as this M1 macbook I have is a damn solid machine, and I *ought* be able to expect a good 10 years out of it , but if I break something, or come across a mission critical task that requires more than 16mb ram (Ie, AI), I'm up shit creek without a paddle.
Presumably. He is in the absurdity league of billionares. At that sort of wealth, theres no need to actually do anything , you just hire a guy.
Its been years since I had to resign onto my Apple account except when doing a purchase (which is not only sensible, but ought be mandatory for all online services)
And yes, it does make sense to be able to be remotely signed out. If someone steals my laptop, you damn well bet I'm gonna try and boot them off it.
It should be lost on no one however that when Apple backtracked a little on that whole "thin at any cost" to actually put a proper magsafecharger, hdmi port and some usbc plugs, sales skyrocketed again.. People actually want a useful device, not just "woah, thats skinny!". Plus, frankly, aesthetically, a slightly fatter laptop is preferable to a slightly thinner one and a whole nest of dongles.
Unfortunately I dont see a sane path to getting pluggable ram back without backtracking on the main selling point of the 'apple silicon' range, which is to gain performance by putting it all on the same die.
Thats the thing though. With financial communications there IS a compliance requirement. The problem is we dont know if those signal messages involved financial communications.
I worked at a Telco and one of our big sales points was an app designed for people in financial markets that needed to be able to demonstrate communications logs for audits and the like. Its totally a thing.
Non-compete can be agreed upon mutually by both parties at the time of an employee's departure.
Who the hell would sign one of them?
Yeh actually I really dont need an answer. People do, for some MYSTIFYING reason.
Folks, if your entitled to a payout as part of leaving a place, dont sign shit, they cant deny you that payout. ESPECIALLY if your retrenched.
I'm not *too* worried about the cancer thing. By huge margin, the majority of gene errors either do nothing or worst case kill the cell (Cells have some fairly robust mechanisms to detect errors and suicide the cell if it detects them to protect the organism). Thats not to say its impossible, and some mechanisms are more dangerous to tamper with than others (especially around ageing. Ageing is in some respect a function of the body protecting our genes from cancers. google "hayflick limit".) but I suspect a lot of gene modifications theres a fair degree of slack as to whats safe or not.
The ones that drive me around the bend are when I'm looking for technical stuff, and I find a tutorial that looks like its human written, isnt on medium, and and isn't on something thats pre-fucked like MS help forums. I'll get quarter way through when I start noticing that something about the language is a bit
A GP friend found a classic though the other day that had a serious article about some heart condition and mid paragraph towards the end the classic line "As a chatbot from OpenAI it would be unethical to.....". On closer inspection the entire article was apparently nonsense. But even he as a medical doctor, brain bigger than almost anyone else I knew , had been strung along for quite a few paragraphs before it literally said it was chatgpt. If he can be suckered , what hope for us mere mortals.
If the bullshit hashicorp has been pulling lately towards open source projects is anything to go by, I'd say hashicorp have no problem self-enshitifying. With luck IBM will throw them in the barn with Red Hat and we might see an actual improvement in corporate behavior (red hat are no saints, but at least their lawyers are kept on a leash)
Yeah I've noticed that. I recently have taken to asking it to write SQLAlchemy models that match json nests downloaded from APIs and it aces it every time. But I'm not sure a non coder would know to ask for it, or how to do that.
Honestly, I dont think its that much buggier than what I write. I keep my standard up by writing unit tests, but those tests will explode a few times before I get it right because if I write 500 lines of code before I hit compile, chances are I've missed a comma or botched the parameter order SOMEWHERE.
Ok lets get a couple of things straight.
1) Climate deniers aren't "Skeptics". Science Skepticism is about applying the scientific method to scientific claim. Climate denialism is about applying political convictions to scientific claims.
2) The term your looking for isn't "Alarmist", its "Scientist".
Friction is a drag.
