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demofox

@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place

Graphics and game dev research. previously nvidia, blizzard, monolith, others. graphics, audio synth, exotic computation. No gods, no masters. http://blog.demofox.org.

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fraying, (edited ) to random
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“Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call ‘American Virtues’ who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.”
— Charles M. Schulz

https://boingboing.net/2024/06/07/charles-schulzs-1970-letter-to-a-schoolchild-describes-the-fake-patriotism-of-todays-maga-movement.html

ifixcoinops, to random
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As many of you know (because I won't shut up about it) I've gotten back into enjoying bikes after a brief two-decade hiatus

During that time, youtube was invented, and bike mechanics are on it, and oof mate I watched a video the other day

Dude was complaining about bikes being a durable good and there being so many bikes around and the manufacturers have to come up with new things or they won't sell any bikes anymore and that'll be bad for the industry and this was just such an illuminating look into the other end of how people approach these machines

Like, bikes are free. They cost nothing. There are so many of them. People put them out on the kerb on bin night. People chuck them in skips. The river's full of them. Once you've scrubbed the rust off and spent a few quid on new tubes etc a bike that you found waiting for the bin van still goes as fast as a brand new bike from today because they're powered by sandwiches that you were gonna eat anyway. Zooming around on trash night laughing your arse off on a bike that still has the "FREE BIKE" sign flapping in the wind feels like sticking your middle finger up at capitalism

lisyarus, to random
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What a better way to spend a Friday evening than to watch my new devlog 🤩

A recap of how my village building game 🏠 project was doing in the past month:

https://youtu.be/LUZSpIadGQk

eniko, to random
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Has anyone posted about the Kitsune Tails demo on reddit yet? Cause someone probably should. Not me though because that would be self promotion and cause for shadowbanning

mcc, to random
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I did not think Asahi would be able to do this but they did it https://fosstodon.org/@vulkan/112564739202879160

mcc,
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I'm so tired of building a setup around a particular product or hardware line, and then suddenly they're building "AI" into the product and I'm having to move my stuff over to something new… and then my new platform flames out too after four years. I'm now trying to rebase my computing around things that can't be taken away from me.

What with MS de facto controlling the UEFI standard I fear eventually this will be impossible unless I literally move to homegrown CPUs running on a FPGA at 100 MHz

garius, to technology
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My latest tech history column is now up on Every!

In 1981, Don Estridge broke every rule IBM had to create the IBM PC. He invented an entire industry and gifted it to the company he loved.

IBM never forgave him for it. This is his story. #technology #history https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc

eniko, (edited ) to gamedev
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Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket

You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @JoshJers which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience

And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU

eniko,
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Here's a screenshot of the CRT shader for those interested

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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jmcrookston, to random
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

"Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals."

bitsunited, to random German
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Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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vvuk, to random

👀

vvuk,

@demofox ah no! The front end is the firefox profiler UI, being driven by "samply", a native profiler.. which in this case is being fed data by some ARM hacking I'm doing.

(Check out samply if you haven't heard of it though!)

remixtures, to usa Portuguese
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#USA #Palestine #Gaza #Nakba #InternationalLaw #Censorship: "Now, eight months into Israel’s onslaught against Gaza, Eghbariah’s work has once again been stifled — this time by the Columbia Law Review’s board of directors, a group of law school professors and prominent alumni that oversee the students running the review.

Eghbariah’s paper for the Columbia Law Review, or CLR, was published on its website in the early hours of Monday morning. The journal’s board of directors responded by pulling the entire website offline. The homepage on Monday morning read “Website under maintenance.”

According to Eghbariah, he worked with editors at the Columbia Law Review for over five months on the 100-plus-page text.

“The attempts to silence legal scholarship on the Nakba by subjecting it to an unusual and discriminatory process are not only reflective of a pervasive and alarming Palestine exception to academic freedom,” Eghbariah told The Intercept, “but are also a testament to a deplorable culture of Nakba denialism.”" https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

jendrikillner, to random
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 342 - June 2nd, 2024 https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-342/

ylegall, to random
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three body system

video/mp4

MrLovenstein, to random
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Secret Panel HERE 🌲 https://tapas.io/episode/3193474

lisyarus, to random
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Say I'm manually profiling my code, e.g. recording how much time a function takes. Right now I'm storing all samples to build statistics (e.g. percentiles) on exit, but that means O(n) memory usage for samples. Are there (necessarily approximate) O(1) memory alternatives?

benjins, to random
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Rotating a color gradient image by 1 degree repeatedly, to produce an interesting pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UuQCDgiqVg

VeryBadLlama, to random
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my elderly Egyptian Uber driver happily informed me that he “supports the gays now” because he lives with a lesbian couple and “the husband lesbian is a better husband than I was”, happy pride everyone

c0de517e, to random
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See ya'll tomorrow. This was awesome. The discussions live on Discord are incredible! #REAC2024

jon_valdes, to random
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Ok, today is the day! In a few hours I'll be giving a talk at REAC on our testing infrastructure at Frostbite 😊

https://enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm

kottke, to random
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The Hydrant Directory is a collection of colorful fire hydrants where “each hydrant has been processed into color palettes for free use by artists and designers”. I love stuff like this. https://kottke.org/24/06/the-colorful-fire-hydrant-directory

eniko, to random
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so @TomF talked me into making it so blending colors on the console is true blending rather than resolving back to one of the 64 palette colors (so that the output is always 64 color)

i made a utility that takes an image and converts it into a tile layer with only 16 base colors with the framebuffer overlaid using all 64 colors with alpha blending and i can't help but wonder if this isn't too powerful

Processed version of the FF7 image with light ordered dither. It's slightly crunchier, but retains all of the detail and looks almost as good
Base color layer for the processed image. It has very few colors and is fully opaque and very noisy
Blend color layer for processed image. It has a lot more colors but is still very noisy both in terms of colors and opacity

j_bertolotti, to random
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: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project"
I will try to (likely very slowly) go through the classic textbook "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin and make one or more animation/visualization per chapter.
This will (hopefully) help people digest the topic and/or be useful to lecturers who are teaching about it. As with all my animations, feel free to use them.
The idea is that the animations are a companion to the book, so I will give only very brief explanations here.

j_bertolotti,
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: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project" Chapter 5: The reciprocal lattice
The "reciprocal" of a Bravais lattice is the set of k-vectors that yield a plane wave with the same periodicity of the Bravais lattice (i.e. effectively the Fourier transform of the lattice).

On the left a Bravais lattice (initially cubic) shown as grey spheres, and on the right its reciprocal lattice. The bRavais lattice is gradually deformed, showing how the reciprocal lattice changes with it.

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