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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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jk, to random
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i gave up caffeine completely two months ago. it was pretty easy after i got past a couple of days of constant low-level flu-like headache. over the subsequent 71 days i've noticed the following results:

  • slightly less energy
  • slightly less ability to concentrate
  • slightly less desire to do things

the only reason i've stuck with it this long is that it seemed like an achievement that i didn't want to ruin, but to be honest, i should probably just start drinking coffee again at some point

aeva,
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@jk caffeine makes you smarter

aeva, to random
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i want all the ai stuff to go away

aeva, to random
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I can't be bothered to look up the facts about the windows 11 ai thing, but I'm genuinely baffled as to who wants this, as well as why they need special ai hardware to make a keylogger that also watches you look at porn or whatever else it is that people use computers for

aeva,
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@JoshJers I'm sure politicians will be giddy about the possibilities

aeva,
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@lritter someone somewhere in microsoft thought this was a good idea, and a whole lot of people saying "yes" made that happen. so shirley the number is at least one?

aeva, (edited )
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aeva, to random
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do not look into laser eyes with remaining good eyes

aeva, to random
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My phone just got really really hot just now after trying and failing to take a picture. I rebooted it and threw it in the freezer for 5 minutes, and now it's blessedly not a zillion degrees. Alarming.

aeva,
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if my phone explodes and burns my house down with me in it tonight know that it was android's fault, I guess

aeva,
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that or Lorelei And The Laser Eyes has some amazing drm

aeva,
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@duckonaut god I hope not

demofox, to random
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So linkedin as a social media platform... I feel like if I speak my true thoughts as a promethean anarchist, that is going to be detrimental.
And I cannot stand seeing all the people I know to be useless getting prestigious positions.
Mastodon friends, I live for the toots.

aeva,
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@demofox I signed up for linked in once about 14 years ago because a girl I met at a party gave me her linked in handle when I tried to ask her out. I didn't know what linked in was, and deleted my account some time after that.

aeva,
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@demofox I think the thing that motivated me to delete my defunct linked in account was getting a never ending deluge of spam to join sent to my work email despite already having an account

PossiblyAxolotl, to random
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I love how casual microsoft is about announcing that they plan to take screenshots every 10 seconds on your computer to give their AI photographic memory

Whenever I build a proper PC I'm using Linux primarily and only having windows for when I actually need it (unactivated)

aeva,
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@PossiblyAxolotl wait what!?

cashwasabi, to gamedev
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It really feels that the GameDev community is either closed source or people using one of the big 4 engines out there. I know there's some other projects but where is all the good stuff? There's a lot of people talking about game dev progress but not so much about engine development. Shouldn't we also understand the basics?

aeva,
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@cashwasabi my daytime work is on proprietary stuff, but I do custom open source engine development for fun in my spare time (although progress has been slow this year for health reasons). I think DIY engine projects are fairly common, but DIY engine projects that lead to successfully shipped games are less common to see discussed out in the open just for the sheer amount of work involved.

aeva,
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@cashwasabi it's a process 😎

eniko, to random
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Society: its just a 10am appointment and it only takes an hour to get there why are you complaining about it, sounds like you're just lazy

My job: yeah so we're gonna need you to be awake at 4am for about 3 hours to do this voice recording session

aeva,
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@JoshJers @eniko it's really just amazing to me how much people who simply do not have chronic insomnia just cannot empathize with people who do and how self righteous they get about the fiction they made up in their head :/

mcc, to random
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There's this thing in Rust where there is an ideology that features are additive, and therefore there is no need to have the ability for Cargo to create a dependency which is conditional on a negation. And then when you encounter a situation where you need Cargo to create a dependency which is conditional on a negation, you can't, and if you ask why not the answer will be because features are additive and therefore there is no need for such an ability

aeva,
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@mcc amazing

tess, to random
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I want to be more active in different discussions on here but don't want to dump irrelevant stuff onto everyone or make additional accounts. I wish we could have different personas or sub-profiles, so I could read a single TL but post to different feeds that could be subscribed separately.

aeva,
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@tess I used to have my presence on mastodon split between a "just my bullshit" on mastodon dot social and "just my gamedev stuff" on this account, and I found that people usually just followed one and not the other, and that often times not the one I'd expect them to be interested. I had a note in both profiles saying where to find the other, but I don't think many people read that.

aeva,
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@tess this was because at the time mastodon.gamedev.place had a confusing guidance stating that the server was only for game development discussion, and I had misinterpreted that as a rule.

I ended up merging my accounts, because I found the split just led to me cross posting a lot of stuff and it was annoying to keep track of.

aeva,
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@tess I still maintain my intentionally very low follower count secret account though, but I post on there very rarely (a few times a year) and I check it very rarely (a few times a year).

aeva,
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@tess if there were some way (such as subprofiles, and not hash tags) to categorize my posts so people could filter more easily, I'd use it for sure though.

collaborationgames, to gamedev
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Interesting fact, getting new followers here on Mastodon is harder then in all of the other social medias combined😅

aeva,
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@collaborationgames fwiw I found it to be fairly easy to catch up and run past my old twitter account in a much shorter timescale?

aeva, to random
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I've been experimenting with using a fast approximate voronoi diagram rendering technique as a point cloud renderer. This is a voronoi diagram with a million cells :3

aeva,
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@aud eee thanks :D

aeva,
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@sirjofri sure thing! I'm happy to babble further about it if you have any more questions

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