@glyph Did you quote post something?

[kuniti_shino@pounced-on.me]

@glyph i wish vulpine labs was able to raise that much

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph don't give corporate america ideas D:

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva my message to CEOs about this particular piece of advice is "do it. I fucking dare you"

[jay@oldos.me]

@glyph @aeva The amount of problems in our world caused by expenses that are paid by everyone else in the world is staggering -- and all because you can't put out an invoice for them. Climate change being the gold star example but not the only example.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph I'm sure it'll get reverse engineered pretty quickly if it hasn't been already. There's lots of people out there who read disassembled shaders for a living.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva I'm sure there will be attempts but I don't think the kind of team that has the leisure for shader RE'ing are also going to use that capacity to meticulously create a pixel-accurate simulacrum

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph there's some valiant efforts to reverse it other ways https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=liquid+glass I would not under estimate the human spirit's ability to fuss over tiny details.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva I do not know any shader languages and I'm painfully bad at math but I have played around with this stuff enough at this point that I can, like, *smell* SDFs now

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@aeva @glyph Shaders are so cool. They hurt my brain, but they are so cool.

[mks_h@mstdn.social]

@glyph it is aactshuallyy just slightly more than a median yearly salary for a Ukrainian Middle Python or C developer. I assume India ain't any more expensive either. But yeah, only about half a year if you mean a Senior dev. Btw, kinda interesting that Python pays more than C.

[jacob@social.jacobian.org]

@glyph This reminds me of a funny story:

At a previous job, all reimbursement requests needed to be approved by both the manager and finance. But someone fucked up the ruleset, and the “office supplies” category had no required approval, and would thus be auto-approved.

Look, that keg of beer for the office party is a Supply for the Office, right?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph they're a lot of fun

[adrake@sfba.social]

@glyph @aeva I assume Flutter already has folks working on it, like they did for the last iOS UI.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mks_h I chose my terms carefully: I did not say “salary” because I am speaking to the people spending the money here, not those receiving it. “fully loaded annual cost” includes benefits, taxes, equipment overhead etc. it costs employers a lot more to hire someone than that person gets in cash :-)

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jacob this is as hilarious as it is infuriating

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jacob if ICs are allowed to book meetings with a dozen people without prior VP approval then they should be able to buy beer or food or a copy of Kapeli Dash or whatever without running it by anyone

[jacob@social.jacobian.org]

@glyph My intuition is that companies with strict expense rules might end up spending MORE because people will feel like they want to work the system and spend as much as they’re allowed, whereas with a “here’s a company card, be a grown up about it” policy, people will spend more carefully.

Certainly I know that when I’ve been on a per diem I tend to spend way more than when it’s honor system. If you give me $40 per meal, I’m gonna look for a $40 lunch instead of a hot dog.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jacob the internet removes the subtleties of body language and intonation so you’re gonna have to trust me that I am giving my best thousand-yard stare when I simply say “yes” to that

[mks_h@mstdn.social]

@glyph fair enough, even just taxes would make it not enough. Should have thought of that.

[misty@digipres.club]

@glyph I’ve already seen one iOS app doing this already, which means even though I haven’t upgraded yet I have faux liquid glass for one app and one app only.