Notices by John Kaniarz (jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad Escape the Dark Sector can give you that experience in an hour. Much less commitment.

The Death in Deep Space book is the best add on. For every way you can die, the book has a full description of exactly how it happened.

@sinbad They have a new server chip that is 3/4 GPU. It’s pretty awesome in that you can get immediate speedups porting code to GPU one function at a time (no memcpy to amortize). But it burns 750W… and you can have 4 sockets per motherboard.

@sinbad I’ve been thinking about restarting my blog and have the same desire. The best I came up with was “more pages and fewer posts” (in Wordpress terminology).

Are you still using Obsidian? Have you tried their site generator?

@sinbad This art pack has some icons in it. https://www.oryxdesignlab.com/products/ultimate-roguelike-tileset

@sinbad I have a Dell at work and I occasionally see a bios update in the list. Not sure which other brands would want to pay to be included in Windows update.

@sinbad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjXOwUnJzA0&pp=ygUZRWF0aW5nIHBvdGlvbiBib3R0bGUgc2tpdA%3D%3D

@sinbad The Eighth House is my favorite of his. It’s not VGM as far as I know, but it takes me back to the early SNES days.

https://cherof.bandcamp.com/album/the-eighth-house

@sinbad I heard you can avoid the official shovelware in a “clean” install by setting your region to English (World). The OOBE installer will fail and then you can correct your region after first login. Haven’t had a chance to try this yet.

@rovarma @sinbad the nicer filters also take out microplastics and pharmaceuticals.

I’ve had mixed luck with off brand filters. Including the ones that claim they meet NSF standards. I was using one for years just fine and then they decided to cut corners.

@TomF @aeva @clacke the biggest problem with BMI is that you divide by height squared. Human bodies don’t scale in two dimensions. (But not in three proportionately either)

So if you’re shorter than average, it will suggest that you’re under weight. And if you’re taller than average then it will say that you’re overweight.

An exponent of 2.3 would fit the data better but that’s just a patch on a broken system.

@dotjayne I like to use use 132 columns as my limit. It’s the other common line printer size. 14” paper in landscape at 10 CPI. (plus margin)