Post smarmy assholes you find when searching for tech questions

SIGSEGV said:
"Nobody does X, do Y instead"
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Miller said:
"Use this software instead" - Pajeet
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Reminds me of another Q&A where someone asked "where is a site I can upload a clip of a song to identify it?", and the top response was "no one does that in [current year]". I think they suggested using "voice computing" (Siri, Alexa, etc.) instead.

(I think it was on Quora again. Why does that annoying site that needs JavaShit to work in the first place and won't let you view more than one tab of it without joining keep popping up? And like I said in the Quora thread, it seems the answers always suck.)
 
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Ledj said:
The context surrounding that entire situation is deliciously ironic -- Jonathan Blow himself being a storied veteran in condescending, elitist opinions, and also an outspoken opponent of IDEs and various other modern toolchain software. Our good friend Michael L. makes him look like a saint here, and experiences like these might explain why Blow has such a distaste for Linux all these years later.
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YouTube has been recommending me 5-10 min highlights from Blow's Twitch streams recently. They're pretty much all rants about how other programmers are stupid. Maybe if he was a developer on Unreal Engine he could talk like this but he makes simple indie games.


I agree with his initial point that people say stuff like "GTA5 is IO bound" without knowing what it means but if you install GTA5 on a slowish drive and have too little memory and drive around the world too fast it will stutter. You can't just write faster code and instantly load data off the drive like he seems to think. Why else would they invent stuff like GPUDirect Storage?

It's like he's never designed anything beyond simple indie games so he has no idea of what problems other projects run into. His games could probably load everything into memory and not worry about it.

He's right about frameworks and the like but doing shit from scratch every time doesn't scale. If everyone programmed like him there'd be no GTA5, we'd have only GTA1/2s but running at 5000 FPS at least.

He also has a thing for web developers but his only knowledge of web development seems to be JQuery.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Can't find it now because search engines in Current Year are a joke, but on Quora someone asked if there was a way to get around CMYK mode making screen colors "muddy", to print bright RGB colors. The top response was from a graphic designer who pretty much said "You have to accept the limits of CMYK or give up on graphic design. Grow up." - yes, he actually said "grow up".

Again, all the one asking the question was asking was how to print screen colors that get "diluted" by conversion to CMYK.

update: found it



the question was:

"How do you get around the colours available in CMYK mode? Purples and blues don't look right from the transition from RGB."
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That's not wrong though but it applies to print. It's additive vs subtractive color, emission of light vs reflection of light. There are many printing processes but they boil down to CMYK, anything printed will reflect light and not emit it like a light source. Remember when as a kid you mixed all the aquarel colors together and got a dark mess? That's CMYK, subtractive color. Blend red, green and blue LIGHT together and you get the opposite, you get white. A printer uses ink, a monitor uses light and the mixing is the opposites on the color wheel.
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
That's not wrong though but it applies to print.
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It may not be wrong, but the way he answered was. If I were in his shoes I could've just explained the difference and limits of subtractive color compared to additive color, and suggested using spot colors. Or adjusting CMYK to at least kind of match RGB - like C at 100% and M at 75% as a substitute for #0000ff.

(Also RGB should've been RGV. Then colors would be consistent between screen and print (even if there's saturation loss). Not to mention RGV is how vision works, not RGB, like CMY not RYB.)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
It may not be wrong, but the way he answered was.

Also RGB should've been RGV. Then colors would be consistent between screen and print (even if there's saturation loss). Not to mention RGV is how vision works, not RGB, just as it's CMY not RYB.
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IT'S JUST SATURATION!? Oh now you've opened a can of worms buddy.

The top answer seems reasonable to me. Just read it, my post was more a knee-jerk response to color.
If you know the final product will be for print at any point during its lifetime—CMYK— then that’s what you should be working in from the start. If you absolutely have to switch to RGB, do so, do your work there, and immediately switch back checking before and after for color shifts. You’re dealing with opposite approaches to color theory, literally—one is additive(RGB), the other is subtractive(CMYK)…

RGB has a much wider color palette, but it’s not what you’ll see when printed(why should it be, it’s screen color-it’s not print)…
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Just kidding but if you change saturation and you change the colors. Adobe's RGB is bugged anyway, it doesn't work the way it should unless they fixed it. If you're working in print, use CMYK, you can't get around that. For digital, take a look at LAB - you can switch between that and RGB whenever you want.
 
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FriendlyPrimarina said:
Found this mod author on NexusMods. Fuck this guy:
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He is not necessarily wrong, though. Bethesda's engine is so broken and arcane that adding a rug to a player home can lead to crazy physics glitches in an important quest location, or an NPC forgetting a line of dialogue, for some players, sometimes. You will always get some completely out there bug reports. And if it's only one or two then it's likely due to random craziness that you can't do anything about.
 
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My old boss hounded my ass because when trying to modify a user's profile in Infogenysys (retail shit); it kept kicking back an error that I couldn't find on the internet and the three different levels of tech when I called the vendor couldn't figure it out. Was on the phone and exchanging emails for almost a whole day trying to get this profile fixed, and the problem was in one of the fields (was some sort of user group, doesn't define anything, just there to fill in and is NOT NULL). Somehow, whoever filled this shit in a hundred years ago, were able to put an apostrophe in the field to make the user group a plural form; and when I was trying to update their permissions and shit, the system was having a heart-attack over the apostrophe.

Boss was giving me the "You're smart and creative, but why are you so stupid" type talk; not those words, but that kind of thing. Mother-fucker, that shit was in the system before I ever started working here. How the fuck was I supposed to know that was the problem.
 
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The Real SVP said:
He is not necessarily wrong, though. Bethesda's engine is so broken and arcane that adding a rug to a player home can lead to crazy physics glitches in an important quest location, or an NPC forgetting a line of dialogue, for some players, sometimes. You will always get some completely out there bug reports. And if it's only one or two then it's likely due to random craziness that you can't do anything about.
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Right, but a simple "my mod doesn't touch the camera, so it must be something else" would have accomplished the same thing in fewer words.
 
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Totally Awesome said:
This is why I hate Linux. Programs are half baked, and everybody wants you to use the gay ass terminal because they are too retarded to make a GUI.
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Take a look at the audio. It has nothing to do with organic retardation, and everything to do with autism.

I guarantee that Jean Felder sleeps under a weighted blanked.
It is, apparently, too confusing for there to be both a volume slider within the application (even though EVERY SINGLE MUSIC PLAYER EVER MADE implements that) and also the ability to make a bunch more clicks to get to the per-application sound settings from the volume widget in the taskbar (assuming you even have it displayed) and adjust it there.
 
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