@ZevEisenberg one of these requests is processed by a marvelous program carefully written in c++ and hlsl by experts, and the other request is processed by 12,000 lbs of "frameworks" taped together by charlatans and probably costs a principal engineer's salary worth of monthly aws bills to run if it's in the cloud
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 07:31:01 JST aeva -
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 01:38:58 JST aeva 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.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 13:00:49 JST aeva @lanodan @cwebber if you think about it, "dark pattern" is kinda letting folks off the hook. no more mincing words. "scam pattern"
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 11:27:41 JST aeva @cwebber Always worth trying. Replacing the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" was somehow able to gain traction with programmers, so I'm optimistic that broadly retiring any and all "white vs black" (light vs dark, etc) dichotomies is possible in the broader culture.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 11:27:40 JST aeva @cwebber It's easy and the results are always better. Example:
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:15:04 JST aeva I think we're approaching this collective brainstorming all wrong. We're not going to solve the xz problem by throwing pennies at burnt out over worked hobby maintainers or by making them jump through extra bureaucratic hoops in the name of security theater. There's only one reasonable solution here and it's to turn maintaining critical open source projects into REALITY TELEVISION.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 12:20:19 JST aeva Paying maintainers who accept monetary donations is a good start, but the real critical thing people need to do is stop abusing maintainers. Stop abusing random people on the internet in general. Seriously.
I know we've all got capitalism brain worms, but sometimes the only thing that is accomplished by throwing money at a project is creating a customer entitlement dynamic that pointlessly increases the stress placed on volunteers.
Ask maintainers what kind of support they need.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 03:51:43 JST aeva I'm confused over whether I have that right, because I've only seen one person be smug about this so far lol
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 03:49:01 JST aeva Question for the beautiful people out there who main guixsd: did guix's whole reproducible builds thing prevent the xz backdoor? I heard it was only present in binaries from the maintainer, so #guix should be immune right?
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:47:09 JST aeva @sen I'm inclined. I am tempted to write my own
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:47:01 JST aeva @TomF I gained about 20 lbs since I started exercising again earlier in the year. I think this is a very good thing, because now I'm just a smidge heavier than where I want to be instead of grossly under.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:46:59 JST aeva @TomF I liked how I looked a lot better when I was a more boney, but I also like how now I can sit at a desk for 8 hours and only be in a little bit of pain and also have energy for Gains after work. It's a tough life being a bag of meat, with all of these meatly tradeoffs to make.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:46:44 JST aeva I got one of those heart rate monitors that is basically the world's worst strapless bra but with electrodes (it's a polaris H10 i'm being glib). The results logged during today's exercise are a bit 🤔🤔🤔
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:46:43 JST aeva the app asked for my gender and birthday, which I provided because I figured they were probably using it to set up bar graphs etc in addition to selling it to random corporations.
then it asked height, with my current height already set, and then it asked for my weight with nearly my current weight set (off by 3 lbs)
eerie. but I think these were just demographic averages. thus, I conclude this: according to the "Polar Beat" exercise app, I am a perfectly average 36 year old woman 😌
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 08:02:18 JST aeva 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
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 08:02:17 JST aeva A neat thing about those kinds of conversations is that the participants generally remember every minute of it. Everyone else is left in the dirt lol.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 08:02:16 JST aeva anyway, they tried to convince me that adhd was a learning disability, but everyone I've ever known with adhd was a voracious devourer of information. I think the neurotypicals may have been lying about this.
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 08:02:14 JST aeva neurotypicals (are there any on here?) what is it like going through life never being truly excited about anything
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 07:25:07 JST aeva @khm a software renderer wouldn't need a GPU. a good one just uses the CPU's SIMD intrinsics. you can do quite a lot with that
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aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 05:41:48 JST aeva #gamedev #protip The week after trade shows is a great week to not go into the office if you have the option. Attendees can spread sars con crud 2019 and other nasty illnesses even if they're not showing symptoms.