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mtothevizzah

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A human who makes games and preserves the outdoors.
Fellow at Activision, President at Falmouth Land Trust.
Maine.

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mtothevizzah, to random
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As someone who likes to understand how things work, I don't really find ML interesting, but I do like to dabble to understand what's going on. Wife and I were stuck on the last word in Spelling Bee yesterday, so I was curious how it would go...

mtothevizzah,
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As it scrolled by I felt like I was in the Shining or a cliched dystopian sci-fi novel. It was really committed to that answer:

mtothevizzah,
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Attempts to correct didn't prove very fruitful either. I like the use of "definitely".

mtothevizzah,
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I feel like it threw in the last seven-letter word just to fuck with me:

mtothevizzah, to random
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It's a little weird that "QuickTime Player" is still a thing. Who remembers QuickTime as a thing outside of us old people who lived back in the days before h.264 won? I should rename it "Smacker Player" or something.

mtothevizzah,
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Also it's a bit weird that it doesn't support modern features like... advance 30s, reverse 15s, etc. I feel the same way when I'm listening to music in the Apple ecosystem and want to use podcast style +/- time features to relisten to something, when I'm pedantically pointing out how great Nas is to my children.

dougbinks, to random
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A good reason to use colour rather than color in your code is that colour has the same number of letters as both albedo and normal so you can align your code better.

mtothevizzah,
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@dougbinks col, alb, nor enter the chat.

BartWronski, to random
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I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with Matt Pharr, @marcosalvi, and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @BartWronski @demofox I'm also serious, come hang out in Portland with Wade & I and work for a bit on whatever out of our office. Alternatively, I'm still trying to get out to Poland at some point and take a motorcycle trip with Drobot up to your neck of the woods.

mtothevizzah,
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@BartWronski @aras @demofox It may be Sept or Oct, will let you know. Michal and I have also talked about doing a bike-packing trip across Scotland, we'll see what happens, and go bug @neil if we do…

mtothevizzah,
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@iralmeida @BartWronski @aras @demofox @wadeb naturally. Amsterdam is still on my hit list for Europe as well!

molly0xfff, to Dogs
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his joy for springtime is contagious

mtothevizzah,
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@molly0xfff reporting in from Maine.

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mtothevizzah, to random
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Thank you to the @i3d committee and @BartWronski for a wonderful I3D 2024, was great to attend and help in a small way. And Patrick Cozzi and Cesium for being such good hosts, including letting me take two hours of calls in their offices after the conference finished :).

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @BartWronski @i3d I may pitch them to hold it in Maine next year :).

mtothevizzah, to random
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Please join us for the 2024 edition of the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference, which will take place remotely but live on the mornings of June 3rd and 4th. Registration is open, we look forward to sharing some wonderful talks from EA, Remedy, 4A, Santa Monica Studio, Blizzard, and Godot!

https://www.enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm

demofox, to random
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Psst smart pointers still have to have their references cleared, else they leak just like regular pointers.

mtothevizzah,
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@demofox Death to implicit behavior.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Vancouver

aras, to random
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So, Unity’s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.😢 https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

mtothevizzah,
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@aras Strong executive chest game with that buttoning choice.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Random thing I ran into in London was seeing this logo on a door and remembering always eating here when visiting SF for GDC. Turns out it’s a weirdly sprawling high end chain with owners including an Abu Dhabi investment firm, good times.

mtothevizzah,
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@c0de517e Yeah, the article about it shutting down mentions their Abu Dhabi firms, etc. It's all very weird.

olafurw, to random
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Descent 3 source code has been released. And as a time honored tradition, let's look for curse words.

https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

mtothevizzah,
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@icculus @olafurw there was also the dlopen() problem in gcc back then, where global objects in shared libraries registered their destructors with atexit() and then you had invoked dlclose() and their .text segment was unloaded. Good times. Although we should have had a Codesourcery patched toolchain at that point I thought.

mtothevizzah, to random
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What year is this, Virgin Atlantic.

TomF, to random
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Rental car review - 2024 VW Jetta. Really liked this car. Bad rental tires of course, but within those limits the handling was excellent. Engine is the base spec turbo 1.5L, and struggled a bit on steep hills, but it was fast enough to not be a problem. Adaptive Cruise Control is a first for me - slightly annoying in places, but once you get used to it, a handy tool. Android Auto, comfortable ride, huge storage space, average 33mpg over 800 miles. Would absolutely rent again.

mtothevizzah,
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@TomF we had a manual 1.8T wagon almost twenty years ago and it was fun to drive, good acceleration, nice gearbox, reliability was a mess though. Drivers window fell into door while driving it at speed in the 405 while raining, among other things. But that was a long time ago.

waldoj, to random
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I'm getting a good laugh out of this question on my kid's math homework. There are layers of absurdity here. But are they intentional? 🤷‍♂️

mtothevizzah,
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@Humus @demofox @waldoj look at these guys who don’t need double panes in the winter.

BartWronski, to random
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A reminder that "uncensored and unbiased" recently became a dog whistle for the far-right. :(
https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072

mtothevizzah,
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@andrewwillmott @BartWronski some rays are more equal than others.

aras, to random
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Was a good morning.

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mtothevizzah,
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@aras I see some muddy paws…

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