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> Rendering a million photorealistic objects is not much more compute-intensive than rendering a hundred cartoon objects Surely ray/triangle intersection tests, brdf evaluation, ac…

you expect digital cameras to provide cellular internet access for free?

I really enjoyed reading this. It's not often you stumble upon long form somewhat stream of conscious writing thats this personal without it also feeling overly navel gazey. This h…

mastodon.gamedev.place is a thing

There are still a few of us out here fighting the custom engine fight :)

Though I found they like having control over whether the music is playing more... to my chagrin. I tried to keep my parrot from being too noisy through the day by setting up a micr…

I was this way too, until I bought it again on my phone. Now its my commute game and I have clocked in a huge number of hours. But in small, 1-2 run sessions

multiplying estimates by PI has proven to be a scarily accurate rule of thumb over the course of my career.

This is about banning phones during class or school hours. Even though the war on drugs may have failed the general populace, the prohibition of drugs at schools has been largely s…

Sadly not in Vancouver :( All my memories of it bring good were from when I lived in Ontario though, it could be a regional thing too.

I'm not sure its 100% "blue collar connections." That may be part of it, but the quality of food/drinks at starbucks has gone down dramatically in the past 5-10 years. I worked ful…

got a source for that?

Im loving the idea that one of your kids is literally named "koolbear"

Got a source for that?

Yep. And also because we work with a lot of binary data which can't be merged in any sand way. Being able to lock a binary file youre working with is a necessity.

For some weird reason, when im travelling with wifi calling, receiving sms messages is a crap shoot. I basically dont get them if theyre sent by a gov agency, bank, etc. I do still…

This is cool but... is anyone really excited about injecting microplastics directly into their bloodstream for it? I dont go out of my way to avoud plastics in daily life but this …

Fwiw, I don't have a degree (just a diploma from a college in toronto) and it has been a non issue. It mattered slightly when I had less than 3 years of work experience, but after …

Canadian techie here :) I moved to the US for work super early in my career, and recently moved back to Canada after nearly a decade (mostly just for a change in scenery). I work i…

What languages are you using day to day? I've been in games for a decade, and spend about 90% of my day writing c++ (the rest writing hlsl), and I can say with certainty that Visua…

Takes their shoes off in the "entrance" (or mud room maybe, though I've never known anyone who calls it that) of the house, which is generally a small tiled area immediately inside…