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GPU programming has to be one of the highest paying jobs in the game industry, and it can transition quite easily into other industries as well. Mostly because it’s not an entry-level position. On top of being a solid C++ developer, you need to understand the entire hardware stack and be able to optimize shaders at the instruction level while juggling things like occupancy, memory coalescing, and other low level performance concerns.
The same graphics pipeline is used: rasterization.
I really hope Google discontinues this project soon (that’s kind of their specialty). I find it frustrating when chatbots/LLMs adopt real names as their brand identities.
This still doesn't work for me. I have to actively think about the problem, find a solution, and write the code myself. Outsourcing these efforts makes my learning ineffective.
I will keep using LLMs for 1 week greenfield hobby projects that I don't plan to revisit. But no matter how good LLMs get, I will never use them in my dailyjob, otherwise, I risk losing touch with the codebase.
in some languages like French natives basically refuse to speak to you
I've never seen this happen, but I do notice a lot of tourists asking for services or starting conversations without saying 'hello' or 'bonjour,' which is considered disrespectful in France
The speed run of the French engineer is to be admitted to a good engineering school, to be recruited on diploma in a large state body, to spend 3-5 years there with a low salary but great responsibility, to be recruited by a Swiss or American company, profit.
Your comment is on point, though I’d slightly adjust the part about French engineers career goal. From my experience, many French engineering peers were not even aware that companies in France (Big Tech or Fortune 500) could offer six-figure salaries. They also often have never heard of leetcode/system design/behavioral interviews. They assume their career trajectory depends almost entirely on the ranking/prestige of their engineering school (which is true for french companies), but in practice, most U.S. recruiters/companies don’t even know what a French engineering school is. A bachelor/master degree and a good grind on leetcode is enough for them.
For most students I studied with, the dream is to secure a 45K~50k salary right after graduation, and target 80k as an end-of-career goal, by following this path:
-Attend a top engineering school.
-Join a CAC40 company as a software engineer.
-Transition into management after 10–15 years.
This seems to be the case for most European countries, particularly here in France. We’re experiencing stagnation, or perhaps even a decline. Launching a product in Europe is significantly more challenging due to the market’s high fragmentation. I don’t have much hope for the future of tech companies in Europe.
Location: Paris, France
Remote: Open to either remote or onsite
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Opengl, Vulkan, WebGPU, C++, Rust, GLSL/WGSL, CUDA
Portfolio/Résumé/CV: https://www.martinjules.com/
Email: See resume
I'm a graphics developer, looking for a 6-month internship (in my final year of a master's degree in CS) in the field of GPU/graphics programming. I previously created my own cross-platform 3D engine (GL/C++) and used it to create the game Exploration Craft, which has more than 55 million downloads across Android/iOS. And more recently, used it for the incoming game Spaceflight Factory on Steam (a factorio like game).
Weekly graphics programming articles https://www.jendrikillner.com/#posts
I'm interested to join, but I'm not doing it fulltime (I went back to uni to get a master degree). As a side project I'm developing a factory game (conveyor belts/factories/insertors..) with some Spaceflight Simulation game mechanics [1]
I'm planning on releasing the full game this December, but the game is already not doing so well (only 4K wishlists. 12K is recommended for a successful launch)
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219580/Spaceflight_Facto...
I was working on a game part-time for 1 year. The game is mix of Factorio + Stardeus (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358970/Cyber_Factories/). After releasing an early demo on Steam, the game seemed to be of little interest to anybody (only 1300 wishlists after one year). I had two publishers reaching to me, but their funding offers were too low for me to consider working full time on the game and ship a finished product (I would need 18 month fulltime to finish the game).
So due to a lack of interest from the audience, I just cancelled the project.
He can comeback in 2032, he will be 54yo.
Is halting Nord Stream 1 on the list of incoming sanctions ?
As much as I dislike the whole crypto space, I can see how crypto stable coins (which comes with it's own risk...) could help Russian people secure their savings against government seizing and also fight against the devaluation of their currency.
I don't know if it's true. A quick look on reddit and it seems like some russian creators are affected : https://www.reddit.com/r/onlyfansadvice/comments/t2dubg/only...
Macron is fighting a difficult reelection race
Difficult ? This is one of the less difficult election in a long time, Macron already won this election before it even began. All the top candidates (JLM, MLP, Z) were preaching Putin a few month agos and blaming NATO/EU here an there (It's not a secret there campaigns are financed by russian banks). And they are now trying to keep a low profile about the situation in Ukraine. A few weeks ago Macron was already far ahead, but in a few days It won't be even close.
Are they being charged for stealing? I thought the concept of crypto is to be you own bank, So as long as you have the private key, you are now technically the owner. What if two people generate the same private key. Who is the owner ?
Another malicious developer most likely used his source code and republished/spammed the Google play store with the said reskin. The original developer, is now associated with the malicious developer and has his account terminated. It's not the first time an open source project gets removed from the Google store for "prior violations of the developer program policies".
OVH ?
And of course, these ads are being served up to the people consuming the ADHD self-diagnosis TikToks.
Here are one of those ads :
https://www.reddit.com/r/fakedisordercringe/comments/rsbkah/...
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What, they're not mentioning "Metaverse" and "NFT", and they don't have a blockchain?
They did talk about NFT twice, in the kickstarter comment section. This project is now officially a scam.
Here is mine : https://i.imgur.com/5Ul3x0e.png
And, EVEN INCLUDING that, nuclear is about 3x more expensive than solar and wind.
Where can I find a source confirming that ?
I guess you are talking about CyberAlienz [0]
He advertised his NFT experiment on a forum [1] (a French equivalent of 4chan) and it went viral there. Some people bought it as a joke (knowing it was worthless). Nothing prove he didn't buy the tokens himself to hype it.
[0] https://opensea.io/collection/cyberalienz [1] https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/0-3011927-0-1-0-1-0-finance...
GCP ? No thanks, I've had enough trouble with google to know they don't care about having a real support.
Breakbot
How many people on the open market are going to buy your coin for $1 on an exchange?
Even if 1 client per year buy it (let's say my token purpose is to give to access to private content on my website), then my marketcap is still 10^32 $, because marketcap is just the number of supply x the last traded price of my coin.
And yes, we both agree, marketcap has 0 value. It was just to make a point that using the marketcap as argument makes no sense.
Market cap means nothing. I can create 10^32 coins out of thin air, sell one coin at 1$ to one customer. And the next thing I have is a coin with higher marketcap than bitcoin.
Also more than 50% of bitcoin's power consumption already comes from renewable sources.
You are tweaking numbers here. The only source I've found, It says 39% and it's from a shady crypto website that make a living promoting cryptocurrencies [0]. And if you look deeper in the source [1] they quoted it says "A total of 280 entities from over 50 countries across various regions responded to the surveys.". So this study is based on surveys they sent to companies... Without anyway to verify their answer. This study has 0 value.
Renewable energy is way more expensive and not reliable.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-76-crypto-miners-use-r...
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati...