khalladay

> Rendering a million photorealistic objects is not much more compute-intensive than rendering a hundred cartoon objects

Surely ray/triangle intersection tests, brdf evaluation, acceleration structure rebuilds (when things move/animate) all would cost more in your photorealistic scenario than the cartoon scenario?

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 had a nice balance between travel log and personal reflections.

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 microphone in his room, and having it turn off the radio for 30 seconds every time he was louder than a threshold amount.

Day one -> he triggered the shut down ~10 times. Day two -> easily 50. Day three -> you can see where this is going

Dude freaking LOVED being able to turn on and off the radio. It almost beat out being able to flap his wings and make the curtains move as one of his favourite hobbies.

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 successful in preventing drug use from taking place in classrooms and on school property. (the same with smoking bans at schools)

This is the same.

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 full time there for awhile and happily ate hundreds of meals there. Now I won'tbeven touch my favourite donuts (#sourcreamglazedgang)

I dont know if its a corporate level thing or a franchise level thing, but man, Tim's sucks now

[edit: i meant to say the quality of tim's food has gone down, not starbucks]

got a source for that?

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