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aeva

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I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.

I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Amateur spoonie. 🏳️‍⚧️

Curses are just blessings with caveats.

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aeva, (edited ) to random
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I'm helping a friend diagnose some strange behavior with her new gaming rig, and I can't help but wonder how many low hit rate post launch mystery crashes are just defective memory or overclocked hardware. She's got gigabyte GPU that's overclocked out of the box, random stuff is crashing when its at load, and it seems to also be interfering with bluetooth lol.

edit for the curious: de-overclocking her GPU fixed the problem

aeva,
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@rfernandez It is a new PC, but I think she's running an AMD processor. At any rate, undoing the overclocking on her GPU seems to have fixed the problem.

TomF, to random
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Well it's too hot for my celtic brain, I'm knackered from having fun in cars all day, and I've just failed to see the aurora from either of my houses, and now I'm whingeing about it on the internet. I'm having a real day. Time for bed.

aeva,
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@TomF if it's any consolation, it didn't turn up for me either

aeva, to random
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now, I don't mean to brag, but look what's in the sky right now where I'm at

aeva,
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@AyotoCorp :D

aeva, to random
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Sometimes I can't help but feel like all of the bad things going on are my fault. I haven't even the foggiest idea how I'd even begin to fix most of it, but hopefully it's at least a small comfort to someone out there that I feel really bad about it all.

aeva, to random
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I bet evaporating feels nice. You get to just be a soft fluffy cloud and float around for a little bit, or perhaps a nice fog that blankets the city. I'm a bag of flavored water why can't I do that

aeva,
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@mvu oh, no, I have a hypermobility disorder. my skeleton is no obstacle

nyquildotorg, to random
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I hated the Apple ad because it's gross the same way the rest of you did, but I also hated it because the intent was for Apple to give money to eyeball merchants in exchange for forcing eyeballs to see it, in order to manipulate the owners of said eyeballs into giving money to Apple as a result.

aeva,
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@nyquildotorg I only saw it because you and several other people were really pissed about it but talking around what was actually in it the other day, and curiosity got the better of me >_>

I didn't actually know which ad to look for, so I ended up watching several on their youtube.

aeva,
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@nyquildotorg so, uh, good job, I guess

aeva,
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@nyquildotorg if it is any consolation, I have no desire to buy any of the products they were advertising, and still feel repulsed by them.

sinbad, to random
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Mood

aeva,
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@sinbad ah, making bug priority labels on jira I see ;)

zicklepop, to random
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i don't know who needs to hear this but san francisco is not and has never been a warzone of crime or covered in human poop and needles.

aeva,
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@zicklepop San Francisco's poop coverage is maybe a touch above average for cities I've visited, but only so. Strangely, Amsterdam is another city where it's nearly impossible to find a bathroom, but instead of poop it's just covered in piss instead, which is worse really. So much public urination in that city ._.

Anyways, the worst thing about San Francisco is easily the asshole tech workers and startup culture stuff, otherwise it's a lovely city.

aeva,
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@zicklepop I'm under the impression that there's been an asshole flight in recent years, and a lot of them have since relocated to Seattle and Austin, so for all I know maybe San Francisco's mellowed out a little.

pyromuffin, to random
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aeva,
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@pyromuffin whats a butler jihad

aeva,
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@pyromuffin ooooooo. it's ok everything dies eventually

TomF, to random
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Holy crap tomorrow's aurora looks insane! If you're anywhere even close to Canada, try to get somewhere without too much light pollution.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental

aeva,
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@TomF I'm just a smidge out of range, but I doubt I would be able to see it with all this light pollution in Chicago anyway.

aeva,
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@TomF I got to see it once as a kid though and it was magical. I was camping with family, and it was just me and a cousin staying up late letting the camp fire burn down, and my cousin spotted it up above us. It was gone not long after.

JoshJers, to random
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I'm an adult

aeva,
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@JoshJers this is a good hat

mcc, to random
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I'm going to go see a movie about ants

aeva,
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@mcc @TomF why spoil a perfectly good scotch with a movie that needs scotch?

(disclaimer: I have no idea if scotch is "good", that's one of the ones I never tried before I decided it would be better if I simply didn't alcohol)

aeva,
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@EndlessMason @mcc @TomF my wife explained to me a little while ago that scotch is to peat as whiskey is to chairs. I figure peat is like basically bad coal, which is basically bad charcoal, so I assume scotch tastes more or less like how art supplies smell? Am I close?

aeva,
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@EndlessMason @mcc @TomF she wisely offered that many alcohols taste more or less like how art supplies smell, so I assume this is sound reasoning

aeva, to NixOS
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I don't actually have time today to work on any side projects, but I thought I'd run through the basic setup steps for MonoGame aaaand

./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame
bash: ./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame: cannot execute: required file not found

... which required file ._. ???

I think this sort of thing means it tried to dynamically link something and failed. I run into this whenever I try to run loose builds of Linux games on , but idk what to do about it.

aeva,
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ok new monogame-on-nixos mystery - I thought I got it working, but it turns out once a subclass of Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game is constructed the process exits with no error printed to the console ._.

aeva,
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@mcc which discord?

bobbylox, to random
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Here I am on Mastodon again. It does seem to have improved since I was last here. Still using Bluesky and TikTok a lot more, though.

aeva,
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@bobbylox if it's so much better, why are you here then?

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