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aeva, 8 months ago to random

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

aeva, 10 months ago to random

I've got this theory recently that the settings of most games can be categorized as either "good place were bad things sometimes happen" or "bad place where bad things happen".

aeva, 25 days ago to random

The Leaving Rust Gamedev article resonates with most of the frustrations I've had working on the internals of Tangerine (C++) since I converted it from being largely single threaded spaghetti to aggressively concurrent spaghetti, and that's making me think maybe I'd have a better time if I picked a different language for the hot paths, because necessary non-compulsory refactoring also kills iteration time.

I just don't know what though, because nothing ever seems to fit the bill of what I need.

aeva, 1 year ago to random

so I'm trying to work out what the exact flags cmake is setting for gcc for a debug build, and the docs just say "the usual ones", and my searches are saturated with stackoverflow posts that are topically adjacent but unfortunately irrelevant to my problem at hand because I'm trying to work out why my debug builds have horrible numeric issues or something but my release builds don't

and so I get the clever idea of looking at what cmake generated, and oh my god that is a lot of cmake

aeva, 10 months ago to random

Something interesting from this weekend: I converted 🍊's interpreter shader (a really basic stack machine for SDF eval) to C++ out of curiosity to see how it performed vs the polymorphic SDF evaluator tree I've been using, and they are about the same.

I don't think it's a significant cost right now, but that's got me thinking it might be worthwhile to look into JIT compiling the SDFs on the CPU, for the benefit of weaker hardware.

aeva, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

#poll please define "horizontal"

aeva, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

a poll for Free Software enthusiasts specifically

please only vote if you have strong positive views regarding copyleft licenses for software and cultural works

Can you name several video games you've played and enjoyed that match this criteria:

1. The game was first published in 2023 or 2024.

2. The entire game (all source code, art, music, etc) is freely available under appropriate open source licenses (permissive or copyleft)

If the answer is "yes", I'd love to hear about them.

aeva, 21 days ago to NixOS

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 #NixOS, but idk what to do about it.

aeva, 3 months ago to random

Does mastodon have a setting somewhere to just remove the little blue "40+" blob on the notifications link? I'm not 40+, I'm still 35 for 3 more days.

aeva, 9 months ago to random

I bet over on Earth 1 (our Earth counterpart over in the alpha timeline) a year is a perfect 360 days long.

aeva, 1 year ago to random

"stop making jokes about Linux never having working audio it's not 2022 anymore"

buddy,

aeva, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

#poll what's the longest you've been awake?

aeva, 4 months ago to random

you ever think about how the existence of temporal illusions kinda imply that the passage of time is not intrinsic to the world but rather a falsehood we have to construct deliberately to make sense of it?

aeva, 1 month ago to random

I forget what, but something reminded me of how in elementary school they put me in a speech therapy class where they essentially just taught me to talk slower. I never really thought much about that, but while I was thinking about it now I was reminded of how over the years I've had so many friends where we would just have long deep non-linear mile-a-minute conversations about stuff we're excited about and, well, most of them also have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point lol

aeva, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

My riscv beaglebone arrived tonight! I'm probably not going to do much with it right away, but I'm browsing the docs for it rn and

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it uses android????????

EDIT: apparently this is just the normal way to flash stuff these days

EDIT2: it is not running android, it is just using the "fastboot" utility from the android sdk to flash the rom. The BeagleV-Ahead comes with "yocto" installed but you can get an image for ubuntu to flash on it instead easily enough

aeva, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

#poll Do you have a lucky USB port on your computer?

aeva, 11 days ago to random

I need to get my mind off the bad. Anything good going on tonight for anyone? Feel free to share things your excited about or happy about or just cool stuff you've come across recently

aeva, 10 months ago to random

Today's adventure in experimental SDF rendering: freeing up enough disk space so that PIX can save a short CPU timing capture. Apparently 70 GB was not enough space for PIX's temporary files. 🙃

aeva, 11 months ago to random

say what you want about C but "void star" is a great name for a type that is as powerful as it is dangerous

aeva, 6 months ago to random

god damn it I'm thinking about programming language design again

Does anyone know of any examples of programming languages of any variety where the language was designed with the specific intention of being easily edited with only a speaker and a microphone? I'm really looking to read about something where visual syntax is a tertiary consideration or missing entirely.

aeva, 9 months ago to random

A design problem I've been ruminating on:

I want to build a character construction system (really, a general purpose SDF animation system) for 🍊 as part of a larger long term project to make a large set of models and animations, and a corresponding style guide so that others may contribute too.

The future problem I'm specifically looking to avoid is "community sourced game asset set disproportionately only has complete male player characters".

aeva, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

#Poll specifically for programmers who work on open source projects:

When you add a new dependency to a project, do you check the license(s) for compatibility with the license(s) of the project you're working on?

aeva, 1 month ago to random

you ever think about how "copy" and "paste" don't have dedicated keys on most keyboards

aeva, 11 months ago to random

I'm so happy DDR exists, idk how I'd ever get back in shape without it.

About 10 years ago give or take I was complaining to a friend about how mind numbing exercise is and how hard a time I have building stable routines, and they recommend a gamification app with a prosaic name like "fitness quest" or something like that, and it was just like, an app for logging your exercise in exchange for "achievements". It was dreadful. It's amazing what motivates neurotypicals.

aeva, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to random

graphics research lifehack: you can cut out a ton of paywall scams and inscrutable academic wankery by excluding "we present" from your searches