see some people say they're Group theory enthusiasts but then they can't even name 3 distinct finite simple groups of order 4

@rygorous

A Man

A Plan

A Van

Helsing

i've pitched this before, but FWIW this is still Free Real Estate:

Man with a Van Helsing

If you updated Firefox and wondered what the hell happened to the UI like I did, open about:config and set browser.nova.enabled = false.

BTW the game is "Dressmaker" on Steam and I was mostly just curious because it seems to be blowing up. And yeah it's just a good time

first attempt with gradient fabrics! Not 100% on the color choice for the bodice but overall I'll call this a success

glad to see we're on the same page

see sometimes Fashion™ is about making a statement

Q U A L I T A Y

you can cut anything on the bias if you're not a coward

low quality, simple and uncomfortable you say... *cracks knuckles*

more to the point, although this is all Questionable Bullshit, it's exactly my kind of bullshit and totally my jam, so...

(in practice, upgrading to ASTC 4x4 and just eating the extra size is the sanest option given the other constraints, but that costs more memory which is quite scarce on the devices in question, so... yeah)

"why do you still use ETC2 for RVTs, why not ASTC?"
It's only some of the layers.

We want something with 4x4 pixel blocks and 64-bit blocks (to match BC1) and ETC2 is the closest we get.

ASTC only has 128-bit blocks and the ~same bitrate equivalent is 128-bit blocks with 6x6 pixels, but that would result in mixing 4x4 blocks and 6x6 blocks within RVT tiles, also require RVT tile dimensions to have a multiple of 12 (and not 4) pixels, and in general get incredibly cursed, so 🤷

Context: I was asked to have a look at the ETC encoder compute shader that UE uses for Runtime Virtual Textures, but my testbed for the runtime encoding shaders is PC D3D12. So it's either port the testbed to a mobile device and then also need to shuttle the test data back and forth to a phone etc., or decode ETC on the PC. My testbed also assumes all pixel processing (including the diffing) happens on the GPU and it's easier to write this shader than to completely redo the way that app works.

once more, I find myself writing cursed compute shaders

"In my joke blog post (during my time at Unity) I invented the Semantic Game Builder Interface as a silly cautionary tale."

Unity 12 years later: "At long last, we have created the Semantic Game Builder Interface from classic April 1st blog p-

https://web.archive.org/web/20120501131830/http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/04/01/semantic-game-builder-interface-to-be-integrated-into-unity/

Surgeon Prof. Bonaventura clarifies, "while the Death of the Artist has been referred to as a complication in preliminary reporting, our team prefers to think of it as a happy little accident."

the art appears to be stable. the artist died during the procedure but nobody's gonna miss them anyway so it's fine

Huge medicine news: Spanish teaching hospital reports first successful separation of art and artist in experimental procedure