khalladay

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by khalladay 11mo ago
> 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&#x2F
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by khalladay 1y ago
you expect digital cameras to provide cellular internet access for free?
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by khalladay 1y ago
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 refle
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by khalladay 1y ago
mastodon.gamedev.place is a thing
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by khalladay 1y ago
There are still a few of us out here fighting the custom engine fight :)
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by khalladay 1y ago
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
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by khalladay 2y ago
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
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by khalladay 2y ago
multiplying estimates by PI has proven to be a scarily accurate rule of thumb over the course of my career.
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by khalladay 2y ago
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 classr
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by khalladay 2y ago
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.
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by khalladay 2y ago
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
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Collaborating in Person May Spark More Innovative Research(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by khalladay 2y ago|0 comments
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by khalladay 2y ago
got a source for that?
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by khalladay 2y ago
Im loving the idea that one of your kids is literally named "koolbear"
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by khalladay 2y ago
Got a source for that?
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by khalladay 3y ago
Yep. And also because we work with a lot of binary data which can't be merged in any sand way. Being able to lock a binary file youre working with is a necessity.
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by khalladay 3y ago
For some weird reason, when im travelling with wifi calling, receiving sms messages is a crap shoot. I basically dont get them if theyre sent by a gov agency, bank, etc. I do still get them from android phones. Its weird, i have no idea why
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by khalladay 3y ago
This is cool but... is anyone really excited about injecting microplastics directly into their bloodstream for it? I dont go out of my way to avoud plastics in daily life but this sounds like a bridge too far for me.
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by khalladay 3y ago
Fwiw, I don't have a degree (just a diploma from a college in toronto) and it has been a non issue. It mattered slightly when I had less than 3 years of work experience, but after that no one has cared. We have very different views of
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by khalladay 3y ago
Canadian techie here :) I moved to the US for work super early in my career, and recently moved back to Canada after nearly a decade (mostly just for a change in scenery). I work in games, so I never made the super high FAANG wages I see ta
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by khalladay 3y ago
What languages are you using day to day? I've been in games for a decade, and spend about 90% of my day writing c++ (the rest writing hlsl), and I can say with certainty that Visual Studio is both not deprecated, and pretty good actual
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by khalladay 3y ago
Takes their shoes off in the "entrance" (or mud room maybe, though I've never known anyone who calls it that) of the house, which is generally a small tiled area immediately inside any doors that lead to the outside. Shoes ar
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by khalladay 3y ago
We might also wind up kinda like the book "Rainbow's End", where the internet just has too much crap to parse, so people subscribe to a "reality sphere" that filters the internet into a single view that is shared by
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by khalladay 3y ago
Does subreddits going dark for 2 days matter? Seems like an insignificant ampunt of disruption to make much of a difference, or am I wrong?
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by khalladay 4y ago
My whole career has been C++ and shader languages, so this really hasn't come up for me. I imagine it being a real word would improve readability greatly.
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by khalladay 4y ago
It's been awhile since I absorbed the weird programming norm that "real programmers use the !x form!" but even after 10+ years of !x , I still find ==false more readable.
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by khalladay 4y ago
At a basic level, this is how modern tools like CheatEngine work today. Find all the memory addresses containing your current health level. Do something to manipulate that value, find all the addresses that reflect the new value, rinse and
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by khalladay 4y ago
Another use case for assembly is reverse engineering, even if you aren't better than the compiler, being able to understand what the compiler spit out is really handy.
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by khalladay 4y ago
It would be an awful thing and it's creepy that you seem to think otherwise.
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by khalladay 4y ago
Where I work got rid of Jira and switched to some other, ostensibly better(?) competing product. I never had strong opinions about Jira before the switch, but now, after nearly 2 years of a Jira free existence... I miss Jira dearly. The gra

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