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msinilo, to random
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Oh no, it seems like VS 2022 no longer opens FBX files (VS2019 did)... Never thought I'd be sad about that, but it was handy

pervognsen, to random
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There's a retired couple living in my mom's apartment complex who seems to spend 12 hours every day sunbathing outside during the summer months. They did this when we were visiting last year and they're continuing the streak apparently. After you've lived in a warm climate for a while, the whole idea of sunbathing starts to seem obscene, but this is something else.

msinilo,
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@pervognsen @BartWronski @neilhenning one thing I noticed, it was definitely easier not to care when I still was not sure if we're gonna stay here (Canada) or not. Now that I care more it's also easier to get irritated by little things (was more 'touristy' before). Having said all that, I did love Thailand as a tourist (but maybe going there during the hottest time of the year (Songkran) was not the smartest idea)

msinilo, to random
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LOL, no... https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-ceo-says-theres-a-real-hunger-among-developers-to-use-ai-to-speed-up-development/

msinilo, to random
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https://dennisbabkin.com/blog/?t=critical_section_vs_kernel_objects_in_windows is a good writeup but AFAICT the (x*10)/47 math no longer applies

msinilo, to random
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Seems like with heavy contention (N threads fighting for access) Windows scheduler tends to give dibs to the last 'winner' (ie. if you had a lock and just unlocked it, big chance you'll get it away, it rarely changes after just one time). Is this documented somewhere? Am I dreaming?

rovarma, to random
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Today I non-ironically used a linked list for a data structure. AMA.

msinilo,
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@rovarma @pervognsen at least linked lists got so much bad press, most folks expect them to be slow and use carefully. Last few years I have seen way more perf damage done by ppl iterating over giant std::maps and not realizing it++ can be a pointer-chasing loop

msinilo, to random
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There is a world dumbest bird in my backyard. It repeatedly hits my window when flying, not hard enough to hurt itself, but enough to make some noise.

msinilo,
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@TomF didnt think of that, but sounds plausible

aras, to random
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Source files in current project: various_tests.c, stuff.c. Hey it is my project, I make the rules! (or lack of the rules)

msinilo,
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@aras First game I worked on to the very end was linking to TestIso.bin (a GBA isometric engine)

demofox, to random
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Hot idea: force employers to publish statistics about the workplace in ways that show data but don't deanonymize employees.
Things like:

  • average salary per job title
  • avg number of years of exp per job title
  • avg rating of managers by the people under them
  • a word cloud of stated reasons for leaving during exit interviews
  • many more things could be teased out.
msinilo,
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@demofox Glassdoor had some of that

solidangle, to random
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The database feature I really want in my game dev pipeline is queries, not transactions.

"Fetch me all actors in the game that use this combination of properties and are affected by lights with this type of shadow filter"

"Tell me which post process volumes enable depth of field in the game"

msinilo,
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@mjp @demofox @solidangle I had a foggy memory of someone using sqlite for that, but can't find it anymore

sol_hsa, to random
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Stumbled upon an "experienced game programmer's" resume. Three pages of super detailed listings of work tasks, 9 years of experience. Zero mention of any released games.

msinilo,
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@Doomed_Daniel @sol_hsa One of the best programmers I worked with had ~7 yrs of exp, 3 cancelled projects,, 0 released (at that point, he had more luck later)

msinilo, to random
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A tale in 2 slack quotes (15 minutes apart...)

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msinilo, to random
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C++20 idioms for parameter packs - https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/param-pack.html

aras, to blender
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So! For two months by now, I've been part-time tinkering with #blender video sequence editor. Now that Blender 4.1 is feature-complete, here's wot I managed to sneak in: https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/02/06/I-accidentally-Blender-VSE/

Let's see what other ruckus I can cause within the sequencer for the next release.

msinilo,
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@aras great work! knowing nothing about Blender codebase, do they have their own job system for stuff like threading::parallel_for ?

msinilo, to random
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Dear ImGui is awesome but in terms of LOC/usefulness https://github.com/mattconte/tlsf might be the best open source project ever released

Taffer, to tech
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Tech companies really do not respect the time of applicants. 3-4+ hours writing a written interview, and now a 90+ minute "technical assessment" online.

This is before they'll tell me anything about the team, the specific position, or the salary range.

Bailing on tech and having an alpaca farm is sounding more and more appealing. But farms in my area at over $2 million these days. 🤷

msinilo,
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@Taffer luckily more and more states/provinces require posting salary ranges these days

neilhenning, to random
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72 hours with the heat pump now. House is so WARM. We haven’t even insulated the ceilings in the new extensions but it’s already keeping us warm. Outdoor temp between -1C and 7C, CoP already at 3x. Pretty happy with that. It’s only going to get better when we get the remaining insulation in place too.

msinilo,
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@neilhenning @rfernandez yep, my cottage is originally from ~1890 so as you can imagine, no great insulation and with a heat pump it actually stays warm during Ontario winters (it is tiny though, maybe ~900sq feet)

aras, to random
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Oy! I left Unity two years ago, so here's copy-pasta of my goodbye email with old man reminiscing. https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/01/02/Two-years-ago-left-Unity/

msinilo,
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@aras @shana out of curiosity, do you know if Joachim is still at Unity? Never met him in person, but we exchanged some emails back in the day and I was always pleasantly surprised how zero-BS and ready to talk low level code details he was (that was when Unity was already quite big, probably 2011-12)

andrewwillmott, (edited ) to random
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Ahahahahahahaha!

Edit: https://godbolt.org/z/aEcPTfKEe if you want to poke around

msinilo,
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@sol_hsa @andrewwillmott it does... and yet the idea I would have to add a 10k+ lines of code to get proper string formatting makes me shudder (but we do not print much.. I did cave and integrated https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float at some point, though, really helped with parsing)

msinilo, to random
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Watched The Boy and the Heron - well, it is Miyazaki, cant go wrong. As far as Ghibli movies go I would say it is tier3 (tier1: Spirited Away, t2: Totoro, Mononoke & Kiki, t3: Howl, t4: Ponyo, Ariette)

msinilo,
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@aras hah that is why I gave my ranking, so folks who disagree can adjust accordingly

aras, to random
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"temp feature" <...> "14 years ago". Yup, checks out -- the best way to ensure anything stays alive forever, is to mark it as "temporary feature/hack" :)

(found in video sequencer related code)

msinilo,
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@aras // E3 2004 hack, remove after

msinilo, to random
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I never fully understood how huge the mobile market is until looking at our job applications. We get 40-50x more applications for mobile positions than "traditional" ones 😲

joeldevahl, to random
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https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/
Way harder than I expected :D 13 of 24

msinilo,
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@Humus @joeldevahl 19, but some of these are sneaky (Elronon could easily be a Tolkien character, so could Eskalith)

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