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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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omershapira, to random
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I’m new to doing research full time. Is an ACM membership or IEEE membership useful at all?
Like I have enough hobbies

mtothevizzah,
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@BartWronski @omershapira the way I think of it is you’re basically donating to keep SIGGRAPH running, which is a good but not perfect thing. I say that as someone who runs his own mini conference outside of ACM.

mtothevizzah,
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@c0de517e @BartWronski @omershapira Do you vote in the elections each year?

mtothevizzah,
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@c0de517e @BartWronski @omershapira FWIW I read their statements every year when I vote, look at their publications, etc., and vote for the person who seems most likely to turn it into what I care about, but that's about it. I am curious if anyone else had done anything along these lines and seen any results.

mirror2mask, to random
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I’m thrilled to share some exciting news – I’m stepping into the role of Chief Technology Officer at Activision! It’s truly an honor to join this trailblazing team. Having been a long time fan of the Activision teams and the innovations for the Call of Duty franchise - I’m excited to be a part of a team that continues to push the boundaries in the gaming industry. I can’t wait to connect with all the incredible people at Activision in the coming weeks and for all the exciting adventures ahead!

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @mirror2mask same group, Natasha is my successor! I’m returning to more granular engineering problems.

forrestthewoods, to random
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New Blog Post: Using Zig to Commit Toolchains to VCS

A follow-up to my previous post. May contain some 🌶️ that offends 🐧 fans. I regret nothing. 😬

I mean, I might also just be wrong. But I can live with that. 😅

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/using-zig-to-commit-toolchains-to-vcs/

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @forrestthewoods @jorgenpt or assumptions changed. We all optimize around constraints.

BartWronski, to random
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Trying to ban gas stoves is such a weird hill to die on. Miniscule impact on the environment (can be a net negative in regions with very dirty electricity sources), very tiny safety wins, but makes a lot of people upset. And to some might not be super bad on its own, but becomes straw that breaks the camel's back on "government overreach trying to control everything in our lives".

(And for some specialized applications like stir fry or wok just objectively worse)

mtothevizzah,
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@BartWronski @castano There's a perfectly reasonable way to discuss it but the alarmist "you don't know what's good for you" tone is super dumb. But it's also played up by the other side for dunking. Just ignore this sort of mass media silliness.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Every time I add an alt text to an image I consider the likelihood it will be used by someone visually impaired vs folded into a training set for an ML tool.

mtothevizzah,
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@bitinn Yeah, it's a whynotboth.gif situation and of course you Do The Right Thing, but still interesting to think about how we create data wake.

aras, to random
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You ever get the feeling that your own shadow is badly filtered?

mtothevizzah,
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@aras Incorrect pitch in surface descriptor.

Humus, (edited ) to random
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Friendly reminder to never read from write-combined memory (e.g. upload buffers) because that absolutely kills performance.

Note that you can run into this even if your C++ code is just a bunch of straight writes, if the compiler generates the wrong code. I ran into this with the D3D12_RAYTRACING_INSTANCE_DESC struct, because it contains bitfields, and the compiler generated XOR & AND to memory destination. So that's a read-modify-write operation. Probably relatively harmless on regular memory.

mtothevizzah,
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@Humus ah memories of write gather pipes and command buffer filling.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Morning egg selection.

mtothevizzah,
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These are araucuna crossbred hens for those curious.

mtothevizzah,
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@neilhenning bonus rooster as well.

demofox, to random
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@mtothevizzah hey, random question, do you know how many "principal" or higher engineers there are at AB by chance?

mtothevizzah,
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@demofox approximately 7% of engineering although that’s a historical high representing title inflation during the pandemic hiring boom. I expect it to drop a few percent over the next few years. This is only for AP. Email me at work if you want to discuss further.

mtothevizzah, to random
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Word of the day: inclement. Not used in many scenarios outside of weather related delays.

Snow in Falmouth
Snow in Falmouth

forrestthewoods, to random
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One of the surprising things about my dependencies blog post is how many comments shit on gamedevs as being super inefficient and out of date with the times.

Game devs have historically loved to shit on web dev. I feel like the inverse didn’t used to be true. But now it is?

The middle of post contained the phrase “my background is C++ gamedev” and that got quoted in a LOT of places. All very negatively.

Very curious!

mtothevizzah,
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@aras worked out for leftpad.

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)

mtothevizzah,
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@aras we mark ours within preprocessor guards and I made a T-shirt for staff recently that shows them all still enabled. We’ll see if we turn some off as a result but it’s also a useful reminder that we stay focused on product.

forrestthewoods, to random
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Here is my best attempt to articulate why I believe all dependencies, including compiler toolchains, belong in version control.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/dependencies-belong-in-version-control/

mtothevizzah,
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@aras @forrestthewoods I have been asking VS/Xbox for the ability to do clean vendorized installs of the debuggers for a while. It's one of the really messy bits with no good solution.

mtothevizzah, to random
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More property monitoring today. Some interesting stuff out there in the woods.

mtothevizzah,
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A unusally wet summer has meant the moss is going strong.

aras, to random
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Apparently three years ago:

mtothevizzah,
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@aras my wife has the same experience with our cats, which is much easier!

mtothevizzah,
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@aras it’s a family thing as well, daughter volunteers at a shelter.

demofox, to random
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I worked on Diablo 4 but left before it was done. I kinda want it but don't wanna spend 60$. Wahhh.

mtothevizzah,
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@demofox It's not perfect, but it's still quite good. Just hit lvl 96 on my S2 seasonal druid.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Let this be a lesson to not appoint lightweights to your board, they can easily be manipulated.

mtothevizzah,
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@numist @Migueldeicaza I'm going to say this is trending towards Miguel's view! https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

mtothevizzah,
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@numist @Migueldeicaza it’s pretty amazing, isn’t there an attorney involved with this somewhere?!

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