Can you link what you're talking about? Because I'm not aware of any animation system that's purely mathematically derived AND that can generate aesthetically pleasing animations for arbitrary body shapes.

There are certain techniques like Inverse Kinematics that might vaguely fit your description, but that's a tiny piece of the puzzle - it might get you 5-10% of the way, but given arbitrary body shapes it's gonna look horrible in most cases, and it doesn't give you actual animations since you'd still need to purposefully move the creature's extremities.

Could you expand on some of these challenges? We haven't had these issues in any companies I've worked at, but those were mostly on the smaller side.

What a shrek-ear-nosed beauty

He should scale 2 NG+ for every one the Tarnished does!

As a passionate Golang hater, I can gladly explain!

• It's not just the repeated if err != nil, even though that's already bad enough. But the really fucked up part is the := bullshit. It makes moving code around unnecessarily annoying, and it's telling that few other languages share Golang's approach.
• The lowercase/uppercase rules for private/public stuff is theoretically not a horrible idea, but it makes the code look much more inconsistent. I find _ much easier to read, and this leaves upper/lower to signal other details. But I see that this is mostly personal preference.
• Fairly basic operations take much, much more code than they should (e.g. deserializing JSON while handling extra args, or basic functional operations - though that should change sooner rather than later with the new generic methods, right?)
• The decision to initialize every non-pointer primitive with the "bottom value" (or whatever it's called again) makes sense in isolation, but it's really unfortunate that they don't support additive types, because this means a bunch of common tasks need to use pointers, and unfortunately the type system is worthless when it comes to preventing segfaults caused by bugs with pointers.
• I find that most Go libraries have basically no documentation, if you're lucky you get an example that might vaguely be related to whatever you want to know. I've had much better experiences in other languages.

All in all IMO most Go code is 5x longer than necessary to actually express itself in a readable manner, all because the language still doesn't have proper error handling or generic support (until recently at least). At the same time it's fairly inflexible, the type system is still shallow and basic, and it's still way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

The only good thing Go has going is the single file deployments, but I'll gladly spend one hour of every remaining day of my life setting up containers, if it means I never have to touch anything Go again.

IMO ist das ganze viel einfacher: sie sieht es als ihre Aufgabe, die fossile Industrie am Leben zu halten bzw. zu stärken, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste. Der Schaden, den sie aktuell verursacht, wird die erneuerbare Industrie für Jahre bis Jahrzehnte schwächen. Das ist genau das Ziel.

Wenn man das als Überforderung bezeichnet, gibt man ihr aber doch nur Rückendeckung. Ständige wiederholte Inkompetenz ist eine Strategie.

Komisch, die Ameise auf meiner Schulter diktiert mir immer die Worte, wenn ich mal ins Stocken komme. Schön zu wissen, dass es auch in der Ameisenwelt Glaubensvielfalt gibt!

Unfortunately that's rarely true in the short term, and in the long term it's still not a sure outcome.

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world is right in saying that capitalism keeps rewarding companies that dick over their customers (e.g. through exclusivity, vendor lock-ins etc). This reward can be big enough to essentially oust competitors that focus on convenience and affordability, or the competitors' investors can push them to adopt the same practices to also make more money short term.

We won't improve this by just ignoring it and hoping that companies will eventually recognize the advantages of ethical decision making. But we can force them to do so by regulating these unethical behaviors.

Do you have any idea how many people Trump killed by refusing to wear a mask in front of cameras? His vanity kept him from doing the most simple, basic thing possible.

Trump deserves not a single positive word uttered about his handling of COVID, all he deserves is to smolder in hell for all eternity.