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zeh

@zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place

Programmer of visual things living in Brooklyn, NY.

Brazilian, father, interpolation enthusiast, professional amateur, runner.

Doing AR glasses stuff at Meta Reality Labs. Hitting your eyeballs soon(ish).

Posts probably related to #programming, personal #gamedev side projects, #rust, #xr, #running.

All views my own, but feel free to have them too!

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zeh, to random
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This WonderMark hits hard in the creative feels https://wondermark.com/c/1548/

zeh, to random
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Personal rule : if your YouTube thumbnail unironically has an image of your face looking surprised at something, or mouth agape in any way, I automatically assume you're an ass, and the content of the video is hot, low-effort garbage.

timClicks, to Autism
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I don't usually do personality quizzes, but this one got me

https://dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/

zeh,
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@timClicks oh boy never seen this questionnaire before. New label just dropped I suppose

zeh, to random
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Minecraft is such a mind virus for kids.

I played it once with my 4yo for a grand total of about 1h, about a month ago. It's still something he talks about constantly.

Digging a ditch for water on the beach? It's just like what we did in Minecraft. Our house is not big enough? We can build a bigger one in Minecraft.

Today he saw a kid with a Minecraft sweatshirt (the green mosaic pattern) and he knew it was Minecraft. No idea how.

It really explains its popularity past the "it's a fun game".

eniko, to random
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of course rust isn't the perfect language for game development. that would be qbasic

zeh,
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@Xarizzar @eniko eXCUSE me what you refer to as "qbasic" is actually QuickBasic 4.5 or actually as I've come to call it, QB45

djlink, (edited ) to random
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Only one can exist!

zeh,
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@pmarin @djlink was going to say this. Missing the best Windows

zeh, to random
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My feed is now 98% about xz with discussions from all sorts of angles. I don't even purposefully follow infosec people.

I wouldn't have it any other way. 👏

djlink, to random
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20 years ago today, Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio, a free set of tools for game development, worked on Windows, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone. This tool helped thousands of devs getting started, including well know companies today. today would be very different without it.

zeh, (edited )
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@djlink It was so good. I unfortunately "missed the boat" on it, apart from some small personal experiments, but the little I did I loved. I still remember creating a simple shmup prototype and getting 3000 fps (ignoring rendering sync). Revelatory.

It also matched my mental model so well: an IDE to manage embedded assets, and nothing more. No editing, no previewing, just managing files and straight up coding.

I miss that in "engines" nowadays. Everyone focuses on previewing/visual editing.

zeh, to random
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The closest I've come to a mid-life crisis is realizing a lot of the people I admired growing up (artists and such) are complete asses.

Like realizing Iced Earth was led by a conspiracy theory wacko (i.e. got arrested in January 6th's insurrection attempt at the US Capitol).

It's a shame. The band had some amazing tracks.

This just popped up up in my random stream and made me nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eQ6smosgi0

villares, to wordpress
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#FediHelp #WordPress #encoding
A friend told me something changed in his dreamhost co-hosted WordPress blog in 2021 and his previous posts now had encoding problems (we use lots of accented characters in Portuguese), but his current posts, after 2021 work OK.
Has anyone seen this? I'll have more information next Saturday, but I decided to ask in case it was a common, known issue...

Broken page: http://www.zegeraldo.lugaralgum.com/?m=202001
OK page: http://www.zegeraldo.lugaralgum.com/?m=202203

zeh,
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@villares I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's not uncommon. At some point WordPress got updated in a way that changed the way text was written to the database.

I ran into this issue before during an update 6 months or so ago, and there was a config change (in wp-config) I did to go back to the old way. Not sure if it would help here.

codinghorror, to random

This graphic novel asks the hard question: is a cult necessarily a bad thing? SPOILER: MOST OF THE TIME YES. But not always. That's the human condition. Strong recommend: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1945509635

zeh,
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@kfanyo @codinghorror it's always been that? I remember buying "graphic novels" 30+ years ago

slicedlime, to random
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So someone somewhere thought this was the feature that YouTube really needed?

zeh,
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@slicedlime this is for the same deranged kind of people who organize their bookshelves by cover color

zeh, to random
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Leaf blowers are the quintessential American tool.

  • Noisy AF, whole street hears it
  • Size range from "quite big" to "so gigantic you need straps on your shoulders"
  • Uses a ton of energy (or even gas!)
  • Creates a fuckton of pollutants around you
  • Doesn't really do jack shit other than push the problem around

Do people assume brooms make you look weak or poor or something? IDK, makes no sense to me.

(I might have said this before. It's a thought I keep going back to every time I see one).

zeh,
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@aeva it probably is too... it's always some dude. Should add "phallic" to the list

WTL, to random
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Low effort day; slept in, 6km walk with @TAV, with brunch in there, talked to my sister, made soup …

zeh,
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@WTL @TAV Nothing wrong with that IMO. The low effort days are what make the other days interesting. Rest for the mind and the body.

zeh, to random
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If I ever design engineering interview questions the #1 will be "how do you rename a file to a different case (but no additional letters) in git/mercurial". Apparently you have to be a Staff+ engineer to do this right.

zeh, to running
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Finally did a half-marathon as part of my commute run to work today!

Really fun, and I did better than expected (at around 1h 45m 30s).

Not about to make this a habit (doesn't exactly work with my schedule), but since I can never make a > 1h run fit in the weekend anymore, this was a good last resort to test. Might do it on occasion to get a long run in.

RickiTarr, to random
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Yeah...I don't think so.

zeh,
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@RickiTarr let me tell you about the comic books by Disney (and alternatives in the same segment) that tell you about the "history" of the US. Everybody's good and happy and well meaning. It's infuriating.

djlink, to random
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I wonder how much assembly there is in modern AAA engines like Unity, Unreal and id Tech etc. or if that’s mostly avoided

zeh,
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@djlink I assume it has to be avoided since it's not portable across platforms and mostly useless nowadays - using modern solutions like compute, simd, GPU stuff is probably better.

I also remember a story about how Wolfenstein 3D was ported to some random platform and I think the first thing Carmack did was remove all the assembly it used.

zeh, to random
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Seeing a new wave of "web3" news on tech circles, as if 2024 is expected to be the year of "web3".

All articles completely devoid of anything meaningful; just crypto mumbo jumbo and colorful wishes sold as predictions.

Who's paying for all this sponsored crap?

zeh,
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@amxmln The articles are so full of fluff with no meaning that it 100% looks like they were written by AI!

I mean, look at this. "Smart contracts powered by blockchain enable self-executing agreements, and when combined with AI, they can autonomously adapt to changing conditions." is a GENIUS sentence that means jack shit.

That's the sort of stuff I read in the few articles that managed to make into my RSS feed.

zeh, to running
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New shoes day!

Officially averaging 4 pairs of running shoes per year now

A pair of Nike branded new running shoes. The one on the next is gray with orange details, and the one on the right is white with green details.

WTL, to running
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I was looking something up in my 2023 spreadsheet and thought I'd share some interesting bits; the average temperature of my runs last year was 3°C, and wore pants 51 days of the year (for running). Did I mention I'm a giant nerd that tracks everything? 🤣

zeh,
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@WTL Oh damn now I wish I was tracking everything like that! My new pants have ranges of compression, thickness, insulation, etc, and I'm still finding out which ones work better under which conditions.

bit101, to random
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I bought an HP printer last year. Now they have this "instant ink" thing, where you have special ink cartridges that phone home so they know how many pages you print and when you're low. You pay a monthly fee and they send you more ink when you start to run low.

It sounds awful to me, but they gave me 6 months free with like 700 pages a month included in that. Why the heck not?

When that ran out I went on the 10-page per month plan for $1 a month. Since I don't print much, that seemed ok.

1/x

zeh,
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@bit101 @rich I'm probably repeating the tired obvious, so apologies, but:

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

I figured this out myself, so I cannot agree with the article more.

I've had a Brother for like 12 years. I use it to print random stuff like return labels or small PDF manuals and it's 100% fine. I've switched toners once. I actually bought two toners once and the second toner has already moved houses with me twice, still waiting to be used.

zeh,
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@rich @bit101 Ah, Ok. They have color models too, but it's not the one I use, so I can't comment.

Still, what I find hilarious about this how topic is how Brother now has the best printers by simply staying put and not doing anything, while everybody else "innovates" into the abyss.

This tracks to me: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877

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