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dustyData

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  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • Not really. Youtuber Acerola has a great series on shader programming and dealing with negative numbers is a non-factor. The advantage of working with computers is that it abstracts that complexity away. You program with high level concepts, a dev rarely deals with direct calculations, unless they are actually writing the fundamental apis for it, like DX or Vulkan. Much less copy-paste formulas. It gets complicated fast, but the abstraction keeps it simple for the developer, like, the math is perhaps the easiest part of programming computer graphics.

  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • Tradition, 3d videogames started doing it like that because of how computers worked 40 years ago, then devs got used to think about 3d space that way and it stuck. Essentially videogames think about visual depth. And yes, the physics engines for videogames usually account for that and use their own transformations of formulas because they are rarely simulating anything more complex than rigid body physics. Advanced simulations aren't any harder for devs, all the transformations are abstracted away with libraries.

    In the end they are just reference frames and up is whatever you want it to be. As Wikipedia puts it eloquently: “Unlike most mathematical concepts, the meaning of a right-handed coordinate system cannot be expressed in terms of any mathematical axioms. Rather, the definition depends on chiral phenomena in the physical world, for example the culturally transmitted meaning of right and left hands, a majority human population with dominant right hand, or certain phenomena involving the weak force.”

  • Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety

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  • Daddy vova did it.

  • Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety

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  • The entire airspace in the Caribbean in front of and above Caracas has been saturated with ratio interference radiation for days now. The few planes still flying are having trouble with comms, GPS and radio referenced navigation. There are other ways to enforce this crap without shooting rockets. It's a shit show.

  • Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting

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  • By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then?

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  • On very good productions, a Hollywood style movie takes produces roughly 1 to 5 minutes a day of content during filming. Not continuous, of course, on average, and not everything that is shot gets released. Think about it, 90 days if shooting to make a two hour film, if preproduction was well made and nothing goes wrong with logistics during production. Then you have post production which is even slower.

    Now think that 3D content was at least twice as hard, expensive and complex to film. With even longer and more difficult post production. For content that made half the audience nauseous, and it cost them twice as much.

    Digital productions shortened that gap, but it is still way too annoying to actually become more mainstream. Several developments in camera technology promised easier logistics and cheaper production, and more accessible consumer grade products for consumption. But ultimately these gains never materialized and the numbers simply didn't make sense.

  • Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting

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  • As someone who was born and raised in an undeveloped country, and also has been to Europe, the US, Africa, Asia and all over Latin America. US ain't all that.

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    They aren't sending their best. Calves the size of record holding watermelons.

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  • Not necessarily. I hate smoking near people, I don't like to smoke with others, I don't like to impose my smoke into non-smokers. I smoke to be alone with my thoughts and as part of my emotional regulation habits. I don't need to be shamed for smoking, I already hate myself for having the habit. If it was as easy as feeling shame, I would've already quit years ago.

  • Discounts

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  • That's just how subscription models work.

    Lure, hook, boil.

    Lure new customers, hook them with convenience and dependency, boil them with slowly increasing prices so they don't notice they are being skinned alive for all they are worth while the service quality decreases. It has been like this since time immemorial and it is the only reason that first month, first time user promotions exists.

  • Classism

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  • But it is not because of the mummy thing. Human mouths are just really filthy in general.

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • The Pitt stands out as a show that gets it right. It is over the top plot convenient dramatic as well. But they did nail the medical profession down, and it is all thanks to medical consultants.

    I cannot and will never watch episode 4 again. It triggers real life memories of losing my father. It was down to a tee an almost identical reenactment of dealing with a patient with pneumonia and sepsis.

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • Hollywood fire noise is always cartoonish and corny. But if you've ever been close to fire, it is noisy. Campfires are noisy, though not loud enough to halt speech comprehension. Large bonfires are loud. And there's a reason firefighters learn to communicate with signs and touch. Smoke blinds and house fires are deafening.

  • Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting

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  • Third world means "brown people country" to him, that's how it makes sense for them. Almost every question about why this administration does or says anything can be answered with "racism" or "pedofilia".

  • Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)

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  • It is good, specially on mid size text. But it is not good enough. When text is long or too short, it gets lost and makes tons of context mistakes. It also tends to be unnatural for the target language preferring original language phrasing.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • Navidrome for service. Dsub2000 on android and feishin on desktop.

    There, all your needs covered.

    As a plus, dsub also does podcasts and audio books.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

  • Linux becoming as ubiquitous as Windows or Mac would not be a utopian endpoint.

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  • In this hypothetical scenario. Companies are allowed to charge money for Linux. But they're not allowed to implement some of the most unpopular enshittification measures. This is what crazed eyed activist are always going on about ranting of open source licenses. They are sticky. Meaning that code can't have their license altered, and any software that uses said code must itself also comply with whichever license is in play.

    We have real world case studies about these kind of issues. Canonical enshittified Ubuntu. As a response, communities have shunned the distro, it's use on desktop jumped off a cliff, and it was forked into a myriad of other distros that correct the crap that Canonical is trying to do. Mint, for example, is the most recommended distro. Based on Ubuntu and probably far more popular than it on the desktop. There's nothing Canonical can legally do about it.

    Another one is red hat. Source of the biannual "oh god what is red hat trying to get away with now?" event. But thy are also behind Fedora, the third most popular core distributions. So, there's some protections in place in the FOSS world that stem out of the philosophical principles that guide legal protections. This empowers developers in ways that proprietary software cannot.

    Linux could get enshittified, but it would be a far steeper battle, with communities pushing back every step of the way.

  • Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

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  • In his honor, I still lick walls in videogames to this day.

  • What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

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  • This is why I play Ravenfield. Sure, it's bots. But an hour session usually scratches the itch for a few months. Plus I don't have to deal with awful lobbies and trash talk.