u/OrdinarySuccessful43

Long story short, I am organizing a party in hollywood. Problem is, the people who rent the house we are doing it at are asking for a $5k security deposit as I was told of police get called to the house for stuff such as noise complains the city charges the house owner who then charges the renters. Now we arent going to be loud but i am told they have a crazy neighbor who hates when people even walk by their house talking past 9PM and might call it in. Is there anything I can do ahead of time to talk to the station to avoid that? We are hiring security for the event and have an option to pay hourly off-duty cops. Perhaps I can talk to the cop so that if there is a complain the station calls the off-duty cop at the part instead of sending a patrol to reduce chance of the $5k charge?

For some context, my background is a 22 year old gameplay programmer in the Roblox engine. I have been doing it for about 4 years full-time as designer and programmer. I enjoy game development and it goes without saying plan to do it until I die. I have done all there is to do in luau and on Roblox from writing custom networking logic to react-lua apps for my games. I am looking for what to sink my teeth into next skill wise. I made a few Java apps back in high school as that was my first language and dabbled in web dev in which HTML/CSS/Javascript was a mental pain level I thought I could never reach.

All that being said, with the age of AI upon us I am trying to decide what I should focus in. I saw a short bye prime that I agree with in which he mentions due to AI being a statistical model, it is really good at well documented tasks such as algorithms and CRUD and people who specialize in those are going to be replaced. My question that I wish he answered is what fields WON'T be replaced as I cant imagine there is a programming pattern or role that isn't highly documented in the year 2026. I really want to stay involved in the games industry and am writing my own C++ engine write now to get a better understanding of lower level systems but don't want to stick my head in the sand and get left behind.

What would you recommend is a career role I should focus on? Preferably game dev tech stack related OR just regular tech stacks

Hey yall,

For some context, I am 22 a gameplay programmer as my day job. I have been doing it for around 4 years now. A few factors are making me want to learn lower level systems including AI raising the bar required to have a programming job, layoffs in the games industry rarely hit systems engineers because of the hard to fill positions, and if I do get laid off systems programming is by far the most transferrable skill. So, to the point of the post, I know generally how computers work on a theoretical level with there being registers that the CPU reads, basic pointers, etc. but if I was asked what a program was do on an assembly level I would be hard pressed to do so. What are good resources that can help me think like a computer and better myself as a systems engineer.

Wish I did this earlier as I am turning 23 in a few months but better late then never.

Hey yall,

For some context, I am 22 a gameplay programmer as my day job. I have been doing it for around 4 years now. A few factors are making me want to learn lower level systems including AI raising the bar required to have a programming job, layoffs in the games industry rarely hit systems engineers because of the hard to fill positions, and if I do get laid off systems programming is by far the most transferrable skill. So, to the point of the post, I know generally how computers work on a theoretical level with there being registers that the CPU reads, basic pointers, etc. but if I was asked what a program was do on an assembly level I would be hard pressed to do so. What are good resources that can help me think like a computer and better myself as a systems engineer.

Wish I did this earlier as I am turning 23 in a few months but better late then never.

I recently fell on my arm playing basketball and the doctor said I had a minor elbow fracture. The thing is, after about 4 days now, Some range of movement is back and I am able to do a decent amount of daily activities without pain just stiffness. I have an ortho date set but probably wont be able to get in for a couple weeks as im going on a vacation in around a week and will be gone for the most of july. I bought a splint just in case, but is it bad idea to go without it? I dont feel any pain unless I do strenuous activities

I am someone who isnt fully bought in to using ECS for all aspects of game development. I like the systems part with loops for every aspect of the gameplay to help with organizational fog and the performance benefits of not having a bunch of tick function leaf's all over the place. But for ease of reasoning about, I ideally like to keep tying actors to data, the S without the E and C. I know I miss out on multi-threading and cache locality and all that jazz but if my game only has at most 50-80 actors needing to be acted upon at a time I find that its a bit unneeded. I know unreal has its mass entity system and am wondering if there is a way to have smaller bits of my game such as particle systems be tied to that mass entity setup using ECS if needed in its own little sandbox while keeping the majority of the gameplay as an actor system setup.

I am torn with which path to take. I have been making indie games as a full-time career for about 8 years and want to break into triple A. I have done all the programming and design and really enjoy both. if I had to choose 1 I most likely wouldn't be able too. For the people that are triple A vets, what position is more stable? that will most likely be the one I pursue.

I am self taught engineer and am able to it full-time, however, I am applying for a role and leetcode is required. I tried grinding leetcode and for the first 4-5 problems I have been doing, I required looking at the solution or heavy hints along the way. is this usual? or am I just missing a problem solving mindset. I spent a good hour on the GCD of a string but still cant quite get a solution let alone a performant one. do i try easier ones and then come back to it?

I recently have been having issues with my AIO and I am unsure why. I bought it like 3 years ago and had no issues so far and yet for some reason after replacing my PSU. My core temps are at 90-95 when at idle under no load. Is there a way to test if my AIO is properly working? It felt lukewarm to the touch. I just cleared dust about a week ago as well.

My core tempature is hovering around 70-80 but ever few seconds jumps to 90-100 despite not being under heavy load. Is this normal?

I started working out ~5 months and a buddy of mine who has been doing it for 2 years has ben trying to get me on creatine for a long time and keeps saying how its this miracle change that makes you feel more energized, stronger, and all that stuff and is completely natural with no downsides except occasional intentional issues. This all seems to good to be true.