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MissAemilia

@MissAemilia@mastodon.gamedev.place

I just want my software to render pretty things.
Regularly restarting dream projects but always forging ahead.
Ruby, Smalltalk, Rust, C, C++, in order of taste.

I have no idea what I'll be posting here, but I'll try to at least keep it to interesting stuff.

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beeoproblem, to random
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Bye Google search. Nice knowing you

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

MissAemilia,
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@beeoproblem This is the point where I shill Kagi. Yes, it's paid, but it really is quite good. Try the free trial and honestly see for yourself. Best search engine around that I've found. And is actually a search engine.
https://kagi.com/

aeva, to random
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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

MissAemilia,
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@aeva I got a new set of lens filters finally come in today (ND and CPL filters), so I can go out more regularly and shoot in brighter light with higher ISO films on my Nikon FM, so I'll likely be going for a walk with that tomorrow. Super excited for that.

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

MissAemilia,
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@aras Not just EA but EA mobile, and was head of Bioware during (imo) the beginning of their collapse.
But also just... fucking senior advisor to Blackstone.
Good lords this is guy is something else.

aeva, to random
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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.

MissAemilia,
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@aeva In Aus, at least when I was growing up, we used pound and hash interchangeably when refering to #, so back when I first encountered C# in the early-00's, I called it C-Hash for multiple years until at some point I read somewhere that it's sharp.

demofox, to random
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Anyone else think it's funny that rasterization on CRTs literally shoots rays for each pixel?

MissAemilia,
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@demofox So what you're saying is we've been commercially pulling off real-time ray tracing at 60+Hz since the 1920s? 🤔

aeva, to random
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I think I added too much skill to this cake :(

MissAemilia,
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@aeva
Sounds like a skill issue tbh

aeva, (edited ) to random
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what do you think the odds are that the sports bra I ordered from a webpage will actually fit

MissAemilia,
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@aeva @TomF custom fitted and made bra's are, while very expensive, borderline essential for me.

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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By the way: You probably remember that Reddit post about Vultr changing their TOS to steal your data from two weeks ago or so.
I learned today (more or less randomly) that they backpedaled on that and removed the sentence about granting them a free license for all "User Content": https://www.vultr.com/news/a-note-about-vultrs-terms-of-service/

I can't tell if it really was a misunderstanding or if Vultr just found out that their existing customers are more valuable than being able to sell their data, but good to know they changed it.

MissAemilia,
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@Doomed_Daniel If you look into it, the whole thing was a genuine mistake. The reason why the clause was there was never supposed to be intended for VMs (it just accidentally did), it was intended for the likes of the forums, so they can take guides and articles written there and publish them as proper wiki-form guides. Shit like that.
The fact they immediately back-pedalled and fixed the mistake is indicative of that. Genuine mishap.

MissAemilia,
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@Doomed_Daniel Oh I totally don't blame the reaction, it was 100% reasonable, and while Vultr's initial response was... frankly terrible corpo bullshit, they got there pretty quickly.

Really it mostly just amazes me that people didn't notice it for so many years.

ocornut, to random
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I am envious of people who can function with eg: 6 hours of sleep, because for me anything less than 8 hours and my day is a mess.

MissAemilia,
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@ocornut I have the opposite problem. Oversleep for me near consistently will end up with all-day massive migraines and I'll be basically useless. People always love to talk up sleeping-in, but to me the idea is a nightmare, haha

aeva, to random
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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

MissAemilia,
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@aeva What I've learned from my watching ADHD-diagnosed girlfriend is that it's not that ADHD makes you learn worse or anything, just learn differently.

Style of teaching matters massively, and from what I've seen what works with ADHD and the way the school systems insist is the only way to teach things dont tend to have great overlap.

Present my girlfriend a topic in a way she finds interesting, and in ways she conprehends well and she'll recite it back to you 2 years later.

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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I want to play the original Deus Ex.
What's the best way to do so in 2024?
I want a mostly vanilla experience, but proper widescreen support and other fixes for modern systems (and bugfixes for the game if it makes sense) would be nice. And it should work with Wine or Proton if possible..

Somehow there are too many options (Deus Exe, GMDX, "Deus-Ex-1-Community-Update-", Revision, several different renderers, ...)

MissAemilia,
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@Doomed_Daniel alternatively, all the augmentations made him very heavy and he's very sensitive after his knee replacements!

aeva, to random
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how's 2025 going for everyone so far

MissAemilia,
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@aeva Unusually quiet. Still waiting for everyone else to show up ingame.

ActionRetro, to random
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GOOD NEWS! FrogFind is fully working again!

Unfortunately, it's significantly more expensive to run now, so I've put some rate limiting in - mainly aimed at blocking bots and automated requests.

MissAemilia,
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@ActionRetro If you'd like to at all, I could help out with hardening your nginx configuration to nuke asshats like what you dealt with, without affecting everyone else.

gamingonlinux, to random
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Sounds good, but the only Steam Family Sharing update I want to see is:

  • No longer locking the ENTIRE library if a family member is playing a completely different game to what you want to play

That has always pissed me off about it.

MissAemilia,
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@gamingonlinux
When family sharing was first introduced this used to be the case, it would only ever lock out the individual game being played, the problem was people abused the system as just a way of making a super-library with friends. It really was a perfect example of a few people ruining a great thing for everyone else. So unfortunately, it's not getting changed.

0xabad1dea, to random

Unclean data in action: oh, you’ve never met a Nushi? Me either. But this database claims it’s the second most common given name in the world — because it’s Chinese for Miss/Madam

It’s understandable if weird artifacts like this slip in at , but #2? When you subtract the number of “Nushis” from China, there’s only a few hundred people named Nushi in the world. This doesn’t pass the most basic data health check imaginable, but they published it, it ranks highly on google, and doubtless it’s getting cited all over the place.

(hat tip to Soron for helping me diagnose the source of the fake name) https://forebears.io/earth/forenames

MissAemilia,
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@0xabad1dea
With prominence like this, how long until we start seeing it actually pop up as a name?
Prospective parents looking through name lists for their child, come across this and think "that sounds nice"
Which, by the way, means the data becomes even more hellish.

mcc, to random
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I have just found, on Amazon, a USB peripheral which is a gearshift for a manual transmission car

Challenge: What is the funniest way you could utilize this peripheral in software

https://www.amazon.ca/Thrustmaster-Shifter-8-Gear-Compatible-Playstation/dp/B0C2JCX1TD

MissAemilia,
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@mcc So, you're familiar with the concept of desktop mouse acceleration, right?

gamingonlinux, to random
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Today's Discord screw-up with Cloudflare is a reminder not to leave important info behind stuff like Discord, where no one can easily search and find anything.

Be sure to visit the Forum too: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/

MissAemilia,
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@gamingonlinux If you need more reminder, don't forget to avoid it as a file host.

https://the.vile.zone/@vile/111143834587834015

foone, to random
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So the Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis says that new crust is created by cooling of magma at mid-ocean ridges, and since the magma goes through it's curie point as it cools, it ends up recording the current polarity of the geomagnetic field. As the magnetic poles flip over time, this means the sea floor contains a bunch of different magnetic field directions, going back and forth and thus recording the historic days of the magnetic reversals.

So...

MissAemilia,
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@foone Oh no. Foone's gone flat-earther on us!

alienmelon, to gamedev
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i finished the entire opening sequence! all the dialogue is there. omg this came together fast.
still lots to do but it's a glimpse into how it will be when done. i can't wait for this to finally get out there. seems like i've been working on the open world forever.

A small video preview of a camera panning beneath the level where you meet one of the characters, Angel. She talks to you. There is a stylized grungy UI next to her where text writes out what she says. She's surrounded by whatever elements from the surface are clipping through the floor.

MissAemilia,
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@alienmelon This is visually sublime, I love what you're going for here!

aeva, to random
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I wonder if all the game design colleges are gonna stick with teaching their students Unity and nothing else, or if I'm gonna start seeing student resumes with Godot experience soon 🤔 (the studio I belong to is an Unreal shop)

MissAemilia,
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@aeva I think that may be one of the best things to come out of this - Even if Unity reverts 100% to prior status quo, they've burnt bridges so hard that so many people formerly specialising exclusively in Unity are gonna be diversifying a lot more. I just hope that hits education too.

ocornut, to random
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Turns out x86’s ”mov” instruction is turing complete and movfuscator can build a version of DOOM* entirely comprised of mov instructions:
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/blob/master/validation/doom/README.md

(*Slight performance caveat applies)

MissAemilia,
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@ocornut Almost, if not all, ISA's MOVs should be, as long as you have some degree of access to functional units, et al. They are the only instruction needed to build a functional ISA, even, to the point you can do some hilariously efficient things with them like TTAs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_triggered_architecture

aras, to random
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No but seriously, why every paper has to use greek letters with multiple greek letter subscripts for everything

MissAemilia,
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@aras Greekification in papers was always the thing that gives me the most trouble in any CS field, never got taught them during formal education and had to self-learn it, and even now I still have to use reference charts x_x

aeva, to random
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my wife finally did it

she carbonated miso soup

mym: "would you like some of my delicious beverage?"

me: "what is it?"

me: "oh god"

me: "how is it?"

mym: "it's like miso soup, but with a weird texture"

(she giggles maniacally and continues drinking it)

MissAemilia,
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@aeva No one's asking the real question, are you going to have it again?

TechConnectify, to random
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I have a new video.

I don't know how exactly I thought these things worked before I looked it up, but it sure wasn't anything close to how they actually work.

https://youtu.be/Khp3wb0QMpQ

MissAemilia,
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@TechConnectify I appreciate your foresight into the demand for "Hysteresis".

Thankyou. It is an excellent word that I revel in all opportunities that it is relevant. Kinda like "verisimilitude".

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