Jess Birch @shivoa@mastodon.gamedev.place

I wasn't planning to get used to the fingerprint scanner on my phone but a temporary injury has made clear how naturally I rest my finger on the back to wake/unlock (& get temporarily confused when it can't read through a bandage).
A quick reminder on when interfaces feel so natural as to become automatic.

Am I missing something or are all the leaks for X570 chipsets getting the bandwidth wrong for PCIe 4 when using an M.2 form factor?
PCIe 3 x4 was already 32Gbps (& heavily advertised "Ultra M.2") so we should be looking at advertised support for a new gen of 64Gbps SSDs or even doubling the number of M.2 connectors directly off the CPU to support a new mainstream gen of PCIe 4 x2 (ie link bandwidth same as current high end) SSDs.

I wonder if the Epic Store sale flat discount means sales of cheaper titles have been softer than expected. That $10 is a potential huge saving ($8.80 of which Epic pays out of pocket) on games that people might be avoiding on the hopes it becomes one of the future giveaway games.

A code of conduct can be a great thing but please don't think of it as some legalese you copy/paste & then you're sorted.
Think about what you want & need; how you expect enforcement to work; what values to promote. Also, have someone who knows the DSM-5 give it a look. You may have accidentally written bans that basically say neurotypicals only, sometimes even using the same language as used in DSM criteria for things like autism (which is clearly exclusionary).

I must admit, I am pretty ignorant of the North American demoscene. Possibly because it never quite emerged as a major independent identity outside of crack groups or LAN parties? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty

Early 2017: PhD completed, now to spin back up a few projects.
2018: Right, definitely time to complete some of these projects rather than constantly getting distracted by new things.
2019: Going to actually finish a project any month now. *Sound of new project ideas intensifies*

*Nodding along in a "this should be part of every CS project estimation 101 course" way*
At the scale of project tasks, log-normal is probably a reasonable distribution.
We are likely estimating the median time for tasks, not the mean.
You can't sum medians so that mistake is actually two different underestimations of total time.
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html

I guess I shouldn't be shocked by people talking about classic shader injected SSGI (dialed up to 150% so you can't miss it) as part of "that new ray tracing" (or a novelty rather than basically the standard for injected AO right back to nVidia driver-injected AO for HL2 etc literally a decade ago https://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_186.18_whql_br_old.html).
https://youtu.be/NkGvESObKxE

GameDev on Rust is still pretty up in the air (unless you're rolling your own, just using it as a safer C that talks to C libs) but this is a pretty good outline of the major options for rendering right now (and which are active): https://wiki.alopex.li/AGuideToRustGraphicsLibraries2019

I hope someone at Sony is reading this Valve Index tech pitch. How to sell current PSVR headsets to PS5 users in 2020?
120Hz: check.
"RGB provide 50% more subpixels than [PenTile] OLED, resulting in greater sharpness for the same rendering cost."
New console GPU, new resulting clarity; same comfortable form factor & amazing price. (And offer a camera upgrade with more expensive vision/fusion algo.)
https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/index/headset

Oh wow, I found another good one. When you've got your multilingual release automatically iterating over each supported language, including the name of the expansion.

If you bounced off intro to formal verification or (self-taught coder) never really dug into it, maybe this short post can help towards a lightbulb moment. https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1667

Weird dreams of digging into caves a la Astroneer only with the visual style of Horizon Zero Dawn tech dungeons.
Woke up wondering how many teams are working on next-gen Red Faction stuff.