dotnet00 (u/dotnet00)

dotnet00 commented on VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined” twitter.com/chyadosensei/... · Posted by u/numpad0

fidotron · 2 months ago

My experience is in the US they are no less talented, there is just a much wider abandonment of doing anything which isn't going to generate money, along with being disparaging towards anyone that does pursue things as an amateur.

i.e. being a "sports fan" is more socially acceptable than being someone that actually plays a sport enthusiastically but not at a high level.

dotnet00 · 2 months ago

I think there is a genuine difference in the respect/appreciation for the arts between the two countries. Americans seem far more proud of their ignorance of the arts and in their lack of respect for artists.

I wonder if it might also be related to Japan's stronger laws against slander/libel and lack of fair use. I've seen many cases of harassed Japanese creators being able to drag their abusers into court in ways that seem very alien here

dotnet00 commented on VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined” twitter.com/chyadosensei/... · Posted by u/numpad0

numpad0 · 2 months ago

It's a bit perplexing, but 1st gen VTubers were all 3D. They evolved through natural selection into current 2D forms, only slowly growing back supplemental 3D forms.

My guess as to why is that full 3D must have been extraneous cognitive load to viewers - xkcd wouldn't have been as popular as it is now if it had been drawn somehow by Rembrandt himself. It owes its success to Randall Munroe's minimalist art style. That kinds of things.

dotnet00 · 2 months ago

It's probably because high quality 3d is just much more expensive to do. You can easily do all sorts of effects in the constrained environment of a 2d model that take a lot more skill to pull off in 3d.

Plus, ultimately, the anime aesthetic is a 2d thing. It's a lot harder to make a 3d model look good in a 2d art style, as a ton of anime over the years have shown.

dotnet00 commented on ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications github.com/soufianekhiat/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

hilti · 2 months ago

I agree with your points about ImGui's intended use case, though I think the landscape is a bit more nuanced. You're right that ImGui excels for dev tools and that its non-standard UX isn't ideal for end-user apps. That said, devs reach for ImGui in end-user apps because lightweight cross-platform alternatives are scarce. Qt is heavy, Electron is heavier, native toolkits mean multiple codebases. I built a techy tool with ImGui (JSONL Viewer Pro) and it works well enough for users who care more about functionality than polish. Not saying it's right for consumer apps, but for technical tools it can be pragmatic.

dotnet00 · 2 months ago

Exactly, I was working on a little client for a self-hosted server app. Imgui is a rare mix of fast, lightweight, trivially cross-platform and stable, so I went with it and had the client easily compiling for Windows, Linux and browser, while being trivial to work with.

I have otherwise mostly given up on making GUI applications because I simply don't have time to pick up a bunch of UI toolkits for all the different platforms, pulling a massive dependency into my project and requiring constant maintenance to keep the program working.

dotnet00 commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

papichulo2023 · 2 months ago

How does an app inspect other app's storage data (like whatsapp). I thought Android security model blocked that. Does it have root access?

dotnet00 · 2 months ago

It probably just asks you to enter the associated WhatsApp number

dotnet00 commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

DeepSeaTortoise · 2 months ago

Require all people who received higher education to work for their country first for 15 to 20 years.

There's no point in being able to buy an outrageously fancy toilet with remittances if there's no sewer to hook it up to.

dotnet00 · 2 months ago

That would be a great way to make the brain drain even worse.

dotnet00 commented on New Glenn Update blueorigin.com/news/new-g... · Posted by u/rbanffy

pinewurst · 3 months ago

Even old space got further in 20 years than Blue Origin.

dotnet00 · 3 months ago

Did I miss a privately funded, reusable heavy lift rocket coming out of old space in the past 20 years?

dotnet00 commented on New Glenn Update blueorigin.com/news/new-g... · Posted by u/rbanffy

dylan604 · 3 months ago

Seems BO is taking the NASA approach of not being so cavalier with testing. You can tell people you expect the thing to fail, but repeatedly seeing them fail is still seen as a negative.

dotnet00 · 3 months ago

New Glenn is manufactured with a different philosophy, so Blue can't be Starship levels of cavalier with testing. It would cost way too much to do with their current approach.

The factory tours for the two show this difference. New Glenn production is a lot more classical aerospace in terms of a high tech cleanroom factory being built from the start, versus a rocket that started out being built in tents that is slowly guiding the factory design as the tolerances are sorted out.

I think Blue's philosophy is pretty similar to the old space giants, except for being willing to invest a ton of money into improvements and new technologies without waiting around for the government to give them a blank check first.

Maybe we'll find that the thing limiting aerospace progress wasn't even that old space was afraid to test, but rather that they were simply unwilling to progress on their own initiative.

dotnet00 commented on Being poor vs. being broke blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-1... · Posted by u/speckx

antonymoose · 3 months ago

The problem is the world isn’t clean, statistics aren’t clean, it’s all mosaic. You can have noble, moral poors and rich. You can have absolute dirt bags both rich and poor.

I grew up in a take of two households, with parents divorced at a young age. Father grows up in a picture perfect well-to-do family and ends up a classic party-hard drug addled dirt bag. He died last year living alone, homeless in a tent off an interstate motel town. Mother grows up in a stereotypical “dad went out for milk” family that descended into (and rose above) poverty.

While my father just kind of floated around and lived life, my mother remembered the poverty she experienced growing up, worked her ass off in university, and worked two jobs (one professional, one as a weekend cahsier) until she retired.

Nothing any of us can write here on a forum from on high will counter lived reality.

All this is to say, I agree about empathy being needed on society, poverty can still be moral failure. Pretending it can’t is just as in constructive as any other moral argument in this topic.

dotnet00 · 3 months ago

Of course it's possible for poverty to be a moral failure, but I think the point is to not be so quick to pass judgement on people you barely know.