l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

Something is really, thoroughly, horribly broken with this world.

Despite being built in the 1960s without the aid of computers, it remains to this day the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever constructed.
… this was a 21th-century performer delivered in the early 1960s

The aircraft went from idea to service in 20 months.

Excuse me… the fuck?..

Oh ffs the irony…

Il faut imaginer Sisyphe gagnant

I’ve heard that Australian media magnates are wild, but this is quite something.

Behold, a $7700 230W Fibonacci¹ accelerator²

¹: And the other functional³ programs.
²: According to https://haflang.github.io/about.html
³: I.e. using graph reduction evaluation

Fuck you too.

Skipped a beat reading this in a notification

On the importance of having a Maybe, not just nulls.

il faut imaginer sickos heureux

Thanks, worlds largest question-answering engine, trained on 25 years of human queries and feedback.

Subtleties of animation…
Had to slice the effect sprite into fg/bg parts and put them on different layers. And synchronize everything manually 😓

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Iain Banks - Acquisition of Images

#fakebookcover

takes notes

But what if…

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Extracted tile “proxy” data from Tilesetter projects. Makes maps a little less bland.
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Visibility is surprisingly tricky. Lots of implementation options, semantic options and how to combine those

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Switched to map and contour generation from quad tree cells. Those are now correctly represent terrain transitions, not only passable regions.

The thing is more costly to construct, but the map filling is much faster than sampling each tile corner - less duplicate work and big chunks of uniform terrain are naturally aggregated and can be dispatched as one job.

Out of 1M tiles only ~75k are 1-tile transitions that are processed sequentially (presumably while some bigger jobs are chugging in background).

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#stopdunkingonlaziness #haskell