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A lot of the people bashing "car-centric", whatever that means, fail to consider that traffic would be solved if we got rid of these socialist sidewalks and just added one more lane. Trust bro, just one more lane. It'll be double the speed, trust me.

kinda going off the deep end here but now the car can cast its shadow onto the walls

it's kind of a ridiculously subtle effect, but it ties the mesh-geo, the raycaster-geo, and the skybox together, so uhhh maybe that's something

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Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization

theguardian.com/environment/ar

#LatinAmerica #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

#StopKillingGames.com aims to delegalize game publishers thanos-snapping games you've paid real money for when they feel like it. Exactly what Ubisoft recently did with The Crew.

MattKC has a great short video about it:
youtube.com/watch?v=fwcj_tIm44

Now is the best chance for us to have governments make laws protecting games from systemic destruction!

Australians - HURRY!
2 weeks left for you to ACT!
Read details on StopKillingGames.com

#RightToRepair #RightToReplay #Gaming #Games

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

- Paid family leave
- Equal pay
- Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

The impact of a generation of people receiving next to no education about LGBT+ people existing is difficult to quantify, and difficult to measure. How do you even begin to measure the stigma, and the impact of over a decade of invisibility?

Even in 2014, a Stonewall survey found that 37% of primary school teachers didn't know if they were allowed to teach about LGBT+ issues. And even in 2019, anecdotal reports suggested some librarians thought Section 28 was still in effect.

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In Fast Company, I wrote about how wild it is that Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US.

That's bad for Americans -- and it's risky for the Big Three.

fastcompany.com/91123174/detro

#cars #SUVs #transportation

smarter sampling on the floor...

when it samples the floor tex, it raycasts the texelspace grid to see how many screen-pixels it'll step along the scanline before hitting the next texel, and it can reuse the latest sample until then - fewer samples, sharper result!

it also does some smooth LOD, where it starts using a bigger and bigger "screen-pixel steps per sample" ratio as pixels get farther away

(before/after)

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I can't stress enough how important it is to have a central API for coordinate transformations.

Tile grid coords, pixel coords, internal buffer pixel, screen pixel, viewport, world, zoomed/unzoomed, you never want to just transform these in-line anywhere. Take the time to write functions for going between them all especially if you're making a something like a map editor.

I also use typedefs to help document what function signatures expect and return.

#gamedev

Going even more low level by learning how the electrons move across atoms to produce electricity

"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Today, I was asked about effective air cleaners, because wildfires have already begun to flare in North America.

Extensive global testing has found that a DIY #CorsiRosenthalBox will outperform almost every commercial HEPA unit while costing less to run.

For the US & Canada, the best source of filters to build one is Costco: Filtrete 1900, 2200, or 2500 models with at least one 20-inch dimension.

These units also help mitigate allergens and infectious aerosols like #Covid and Influenza.

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We need to get rid of the idea that ads can pay for literally everything online. It’s a fundamental part of the reason everything is so broken.

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