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mtothevizzah

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A human who makes games and preserves the outdoors.
Fellow at Activision, President at Falmouth Land Trust.
Maine.

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BartWronski , (edited ) to random
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I am excited to finally share our recent paper "Filtering After Shading With Stochastic Texture Filtering" (with @mattpharr @marcosalvi and Marcos Fajardo), published at ACM I3D'24 / PACM CGIT, where we won the best paper award! 1/N

mtothevizzah ,
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@aras @BartWronski @demofox I'm also serious, come hang out in Portland with Wade & I and work for a bit on whatever out of our office. Alternatively, I'm still trying to get out to Poland at some point and take a motorcycle trip with Drobot up to your neck of the woods.

mtothevizzah ,
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@BartWronski @aras @demofox It may be Sept or Oct, will let you know. Michal and I have also talked about doing a bike-packing trip across Scotland, we'll see what happens, and go bug @neil if we do…

mtothevizzah ,
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@iralmeida @BartWronski @aras @demofox @wadeb naturally. Amsterdam is still on my hit list for Europe as well!

molly0xfff , to random
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his joy for springtime is contagious

Atlas, a mostly black pit bull/husky/german shepherd mix with a white blaze on his chest and white toes, sits in the sun on some grass with dandelions. His mouth is open and his tongue is out, and one ear is turned to the side to listen for something. His eyes are bright and he looks like he's smiling. He's wearing a wide blue collar, a turquoise and grey harness, and a blue leash.
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    • mtothevizzah ,
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    @molly0xfff reporting in from Maine.

    video/mp4

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Thank you to the @i3d committee and @BartWronski for a wonderful I3D 2024, was great to attend and help in a small way. And Patrick Cozzi and Cesium for being such good hosts, including letting me take two hours of calls in their offices after the conference finished :).

    mtothevizzah OP ,
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    @aras @BartWronski @i3d I may pitch them to hold it in Maine next year :).

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Please join us for the 2024 edition of the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference, which will take place remotely but live on the mornings of June 3rd and 4th. Registration is open, we look forward to sharing some wonderful talks from EA, Remedy, 4A, Santa Monica Studio, Blizzard, and Godot!

    https://www.enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm

    BartWronski , to random
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    Bro, you just (re)invented the cable TV

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @BartWronski @sillyCoelophysis it’s still far better than preexisting single vendor lockin with cable. We have multiple levels of granularity available and while I always prefer fine grained a la carte it’s not realistic to maximize that for everyone given costs.

    neilhenning , to random
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    It never fails to amaze me how much perf you can get back in C++ when people assume that the compiler will merge multiple accesses into a hashmap into a single lookup.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @neilhenning @lritter "const should fix this”.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @neilhenning @lritter Corollary pet peeve:

    funcA( foo.bar().wow );
    funcB( foo.bar().much );
    funcC( foo.bar().temps );

    FFS, just assign foo.bar() to a temp so I can inspect it in the debugger… also probably less typing ultimately! And maybe someone snuck an expensive op into bar() and at least you're only executing it once now! Grrr!

    demofox , to random
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    Psst smart pointers still have to have their references cleared, else they leak just like regular pointers.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @demofox Death to implicit behavior.

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Vancouver

    aras , to random
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    So, Unity’s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.😢 https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @aras Strong executive chest game with that buttoning choice.

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Random thing I ran into in London was seeing this logo on a door and remembering always eating here when visiting SF for GDC. Turns out it’s a weirdly sprawling high end chain with owners including an Abu Dhabi investment firm, good times.

    mtothevizzah OP ,
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    @c0de517e Yeah, the article about it shutting down mentions their Abu Dhabi firms, etc. It's all very weird.

    TomF , to random
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    Rental car review - 2024 VW Jetta. Really liked this car. Bad rental tires of course, but within those limits the handling was excellent. Engine is the base spec turbo 1.5L, and struggled a bit on steep hills, but it was fast enough to not be a problem. Adaptive Cruise Control is a first for me - slightly annoying in places, but once you get used to it, a handy tool. Android Auto, comfortable ride, huge storage space, average 33mpg over 800 miles. Would absolutely rent again.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @TomF we had a manual 1.8T wagon almost twenty years ago and it was fun to drive, good acceleration, nice gearbox, reliability was a mess though. Drivers window fell into door while driving it at speed in the 405 while raining, among other things. But that was a long time ago.

    waldoj , to random
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    I'm getting a good laugh out of this question on my kid's math homework. There are layers of absurdity here. But are they intentional? 🤷‍♂️

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @Humus @demofox @waldoj look at these guys who don’t need double panes in the winter.

    zeux , to random
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    It's just wild that official Apple tools are basically useless for deep performance analysis of ALU bound shaders but @dougall made a tool that makes it possible.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @zeux @dougall Reminds me of Barczak's work on Pyramid for GCN ISA. Neat!

    aras , to random
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    Was a good morning.

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    mtothevizzah ,
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    @aras I see some muddy paws…

    TomF , to random
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    Ugh. I don't need glasses to see my desktop monitor, or anything further away, but I do need a set of glasses for reading books or my phone.

    But I have discovered that trying to use a laptop, I either have to use it further away than I'd like so I have to use big text, or I have to wear my glasses and hunch over it to get my face closer. Both suck.

    So instead I have bought a second set of weaker glasses, specifically for using the laptop.

    Getting old is a pain in the arse.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @TomF This is part of the middle aged trifecta. The others are complaining about taking are of your parents, and then new and exciting food sensitivities. “These lattes sure are... milky. Maybe II'll get an Americano instead. So yeah, finding an apartment for my parents has been a drag.”

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    The Valve hardware survey is very confused about the storage on my bog standard Macbook Pro:

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Setting up the website for the Render Engine Architecture Conference 2024 (https://www.enginearchitecture.org) is a surprising amount of work even with a simple website and turn-key web hosting. Dealing with email and mailing lists is like the worst thing in the world given all the anti-spam systems you need to setup: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc.

    mtothevizzah OP ,
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    @aras The PIX team has a new feature they call "Local Storage" and it was a bit of an eye twitch for me.

    mtothevizzah , to random
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    Train travel is so relaxing.

    mtothevizzah OP ,
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    @castano @neilhenning I had always assumed Thekla was fully remote!

    solidangle , to random
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    Every once in a while I'll have a panic moment "why's the game running so slow" and forget I ran it in Debug.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @solidangle My mission is to bring back 30Hz debug since we are retail at >= 60. Had a leg up on PS3 generation as most SPU modules had to always be compiled with opts for .text segment space reasons. Got lazy the last ten years.

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @solidangle Nice. My other pet peeve is slow debug 2D text renderers, and the games slowing down significantly with lots of debug views up. Debug code should be performant.

    demofox , to random
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    PSA:
    So the thing about employee stock purchase plans is it's a way for a company to pay you, but have you put some money back into the company as if they didn't (And you get a discount to sweeten the deal)
    RSUs are similar - they are taxed like a cash bonus that you happened to buy company stock with.
    These things can be beneficial, but it's good to know the score!
    If you want the stock, cool. If not, sell both rsus and espp as you get them. Espp=Discounted money. Rsu=cash bonus.
    FYI!

    mtothevizzah ,
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    @demofox My financial advisor framed it as: “Are you buying your company's stock with your cash? No? Then why would you hold it?”

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