meshoptimizer 0.23 is out! Featuring vertex codec v1 (increased compression ratio, faster decompression), even faster decompression on Apple Silicon, improvements to meshlet builder with fewer disconnected clusters and more options for clustered raytracing and hierarchical clusterization, new algorithms for hierarchical clusterization, simplification quality improvements and more.

Thanks to Valve for sponsoring most of the work on the core library in this release!

Dear #Gardening fediverse, can anyone please tell me what I need to to with green tomatoes so I can collect the seeds for later planting.

My 3 y.o. came home with a plastic glass full of seedlings, but we didn’t get them planted in time for the tomatoes to mature, and we harvested several kilos of green tomatoes.

I really wish to get seeds from several of the varieties so we can plant them again and get a proper harvest.

Thank you for any suggestions on what we should do.

Oh, sweet! Unity "runtime fee" is no more (well, it never was - it is cancelled now, and did not actually start yet). Good. More of moves in sane direction please. https://unity.com/blog/unity-is-canceling-the-runtime-fee #unity

"Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from the country’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have found.

“#Photovoltaic systems now produce electricity much more cheaply than coal or gas-fired power plants, even in combination with #BatteryStorage systems,” the institute said. "

https://reneweconomy.com.au/electricity-from-large-solar-arrays-with-batteries-now-cheaper-than-from-fossil-plants-in-germany/

"Klimaet har alltid variert av helt naturlige årsaker. Derfor må klimaendringene vi ser nå også være naturlige!"

..er vel logisk sett litt som å dra til åstedet for et drap og si til politiet: "det dør folk av naturlige årsaker hele tida, derfor må også dette dødsfallet være naturlig!".

#norsktut #klima #klimakrise

meshoptimizer v0.21 is out!

This release has many improvements related to meshlets: a new function to optimize meshlets for HW efficiency, extra features for meshopt_simplify* to make Nanite style processing easier to implement and faster, and more! Boosts and ⭐️ appreciated :)

https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer/releases/tag/v0.21

Extremely sweary diatribe but one that I very much agree with; I’m quite surprised someone who is clearly much younger than me can summon such “old man so done with this shit” energy, I approve https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

@brianstorms @sinbad

Not quite sure how anonymous it is, when the first link he has under “about me” is to his active LinkedIn page with full name, employer and previous roles listed…

I wonder how many people in the world know how to write robust computational geometry code without resorting to extremely slow methods. That set of people includes Eric Veach (e.g. the GLU tessellator he wrote at SGI and the almost infinitely impressive https://github.com/google/s2geometry) but there can't be more than a few dozen, right?

While AI has it's usage, just sending your movie into an upscale process and press ok at whatever the result ends up being is a terrible idea. I was afraid people would start doing it and it seems it has already started :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOqWYytypg

The end part of this video is hilarious tho :D

Just heard an interesting radio program about how our many communication channels are making it harder to think and communicate. Probably not that surprising to many of you though…

In light of that I’ve decided to delete Ivory from my phone, and will only check mastodon/fediverse from my work pc a couple of times a day.

Will be interesting to see how it’ll affect me :-)

Just saw a take that Sam & Frodo MUST be gay and that we as a society aren’t letting them be gay because of the society.

May I posit that we as a society also do not allow male friends to unconditionally have one another’s backs because we, as a society, have somehow made it a solely feminine (or not straight masculine) trait to truly love and support someone without expecting a romantic/sexual relationship in return.

Awkward.
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Regular reminder that if a #rust compiler error isn't clear, we consider that a bug. File a ticket! Worst case scenario it gets closed as a duplicate. Second worst it takes us a long time to get to them. But I assure you I've read every single open A-diagnostics ticket at least twice.

Canadian political cartoonist, Michael deAdder has requested that his Washington Post cartoons be widely circulated after his recent dismissal.

7 trillion US$. Yep, that's 7 followed by 12 zeroes. To build chips. Maybe we can use a bit of it to solve world hunger and fight climate change? https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-sam-altman-wants-seven-trillion-openai-compare-costs-2024-2

I'm excited to announce that Spark 1.0 is finally out!

https://ludicon.com/spark/

Spark is the culmination of over a year of dedicated research and development, built upon a solid foundation of years of experience in GPU compression technology.

What sets Spark apart?

Dear game developers, using #Unity3D is there an easy way to paint trees on a terrain and ensure they stay below a certain max height?

The tree-prefabs have varying sizes, and I need to be certain they won’t be higher than a max height, but the size exposed by the paint tool seems to be more of a scale than actual size.

My pine is way bigger than a birch with the same size..

@olafurw @zarchasmpgmr
You might want to try a higher dosage, the Norwegian rda is only 2/3rds of EU. And you can safely go above it!

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/2813