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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • InfiniteLoop@lemm.eetoGaming@beehaw.org•The Death of Unity - OpinionEnglish
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    1 year ago

    are unity and unreal so different that your 10 years of experience in one isn’t helpful for the other? i’m not a game developer but I had assumed it was similar to web frameworks - definitely high switching costs for porting an existing project, but as a developer looking for a job there are still many portable skills.

    i’d guess it also depends on what parts of the engine you are working in?

  • InfiniteLoop@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail?
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    1 year ago

    When I read the post I was initially focused on google search but man….if gmail were to die, the pile-on effects would be seriously catastrophic and it would take a very long time for things to stabilize again. It’s not just personal emails that are handled by gmail - their corporate offerings are used by a ton of companies, and there are plenty of school districts as well that rely on it for their email (and thus associated logins). If you’ve ever worked near education, you know what a cluster that would be as all the IT departments scrambled to figure out who would be responsible for a migration.

    I don’t really see it happening, but it’s very scary to think about what would happen if gmail were to fall.

  • InfiniteLoop@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentationEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best solution I’ve come up with, but it’s going to result in a lot of duplicate posts (and the comments will still be fragmented). I’m following several technology communities and a lot of the posts are posted to each of these communities individually. This has always been my concern with federation (along with server health/durability)

    It’s not the worst result, but I don’t know how well it will be received by more mainstream users. You also then have to solve discoverability of these “groups/metas”, and THAT has to be hosted on a federated instance so you could still end up with users confused on whether they should follow beehaws tech group or someone else’s….and round and round we go lol

    (Just to be clear - I’m not against federation, it’s just such a starkly different model than the normal web that we really have to adjust our mindset and find truly novel solutions or adjust our expectations)