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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • To settle on an answer, we need a sufficiently precise definition for both “door” and “wheel”.

    I’m going to argue from the definition that a door as a manmade object intended to allow the passage of a person from inside an enclosed region to outside of an enclosed region, or vice versa.

    Similarly, I’m going with a wheel being a manmade object intended to support the weight of an object attached to, or resting upon it, and designed to smoothly rotate to allow the attached object to move.

    Because I have allowed for very small wheels, while requiring doors to be pretty large, I suspect wheels are more numerous. Ball bearings are probably the most common wheel, and there are at least 2,000 of them in my house, plausibly enough to outnumber the doors on my house, my car, and every house and car in my neighborhood.




  • Wait, so studios will have to avoid using AI tools, but then other people that do use those tools will be eating their lunch? Either there are a significant number of people that will base purchasing decisions on whether a game used AI in production, or there are not. This is a trivial question to answer by polling customers, or looking at what happens with competing products in your market segment, or any other variety of basic market research. Companies have to work with questions like this constantly.

    Epic is exclusively mad because they think there are many people that will avoid (or pay less for, or delay purchase, or expect higher quality, or more worthwhile content, or… Anything like that) games that are produced with AI, and every game made with UE6 will have to bear that scarlet letter, and suffer lower sales. If they really believed you can make much bigger and better games with the new tools, then they would do it, and people will get over their skepticism to play fun games.


  • The tattoo on the one on the left really looks like a tattoo of her own face. I’m not big on tattoos of faces in general, so that’s a little strange for me. It could be her mom or sister or something, I guess.

    The one on the right has the same tattoo. I certainly wouldn’t get a tattoo of someone whose job I took, whether they were fired because of racist fans, or they had poor job performance, or… Anything, really.






  • I think you are misreading this rule. This allows an exemption to the time and a half pay minimum for overtime for highly paid people in a computer related field whose job duties are sufficiently executive or administrative in nature. If they are very highly paid (~$150,000 per year) the exemption is easier to qualify for.

    The referenced section of the FLSA exclusively reduces the wage protections of people exempted under its rules.






  • I’ve had to explain this to more executives than I wish to remember. Computer code is a recipe, not a cake. When you see a recipe that’s super long, and requires two kitchens worth of bakeware and tools, you probably think it’s a bad recipe. Short, elegant, easy to follow recipes with a little note in the margin from your grandmother about what to do when the dough is too sticky are the best recipes.

    Unfortunately, one learned the exact wrong lesson from this, and started measuring lower lines of code produced as better… Which worked for a while, but lead to a lot of weirdness around new features for no particular reason.