Felice

What you should do is pre-process the meshes and look for stuff that's supposedly co-whatever and modify one or the other (or both, but preferably not one marked as "base") to make it perfectly co-whatever before you start cutting. And if you do >2 meshes you have to redo before each successive cut.

No, don't. Artists and procedural generation can produce stuff that is almost colinear/coplanar and is INTENDED to be colinear/coplanar [if not for floats], but IF you get the rounding split inconveniently between 2 points, your epsilon test for co-whatever will fail or it'll have to be larger.

You can do variable voxels with an octree approach, but it's still gross.

Likewise. Did it several times. There are so many edge-cases that it's very difficult to make it work well without infinite precision. My earliest attempt could only work—most of the time—after I switched from floats to doubles. I did better later, but ugh. Also often makes a giant tessellation yuk.

In the broken-clock-occasionally-being-right vein, at least this particular lunatic claim of his would lead to less genital mutilation in the world.

So is blockgame just a fun exercise or will it lead to other stuff?

Wow, regardless of his ideological bent, I bet Patterson is just continuously annoyed about that.

I haven't seen a single Godfather movie. I don't understand the fascination people have with the mafia. It's just a bunch of horrible criminal psychopaths.

(Pardon if you already thought of this)

BTW with a usage case like yours in a block game you could possibly get away with 8-bit fixed-point XYZ vert positions, since you don't need positions between cubes. You could represent up to 255 cubes per edge of a cell that way.

Most APIs support 8b vertex indices, at least if you're working with them directly instead of some lowest-common-denominator generic gpu API wrapper. If you optimize a stripper for locality & use the base index offset feature, you can do thousand(s) of verts with 8b indices over multiple primitives.

I think this is the quote-post I like the most.

I'd also say:

"I can reach it!" Dude no you can't, you're gonna fall over or cramp a muscle or break something or all of the above

Family & friends above work. Way, way, above work.

(And go watch Office Space.)

Or a drug squirrel!

I think a lot of people still need good life advice into their 40s or 50s.

Prefer 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳.

*mic

At what point did you confuse my saying what *I* would do and what *I* think for deciding what other people need to do?

Because it's not a question of if, it's only a question of when, you did.

At work, don't:
• be loyal to the company
• sign a non-compete, at least not as given to you
• work late as a pattern
• stay after your startup is bought by a megacorp
• engage in office politics or gossip
• expect HR to get rid of any problem except YOU
• quit without a new job lined up

Find a cardiologist and ask for a stress test. You're probably fine, but this establishes a baseline EKG that can be compared to when you go to the ER because your chest feels funny.

Same for other tests, e.g. CT/MRI/blood.

Scan your DNA for genetic issues you can mitigate (e.g. high cholesterol).

I would actually amend this to just "If you really want Algorithms feeding you content - then you will never be happy".

I don't want anyone else feeding me. I choose what I eat, and I'm a pretty picky eater.

Plus people will hate it because it'll just be one more way that the techbros can spy on unassuming people, including the ones who don't use their products.

This and the AR glasses with cam/mac are both gonna go pear-shaped in the court of public opinion.

Time for more sand on top of my head.

I alternate between wanting the person at Apple TV who made captions turn on for ten seconds when you back up 10 seconds either to die in a fire or to be celebrated for one of the top-10 genius QoL ideas ever.

I swear it's a 50/50 split.

Yeah, I can be a bit moody.

It's the computer-people version of watching an odometer roll over. You just have to. You 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to.

YOU. HAVE. TO.

Stop thinking, start making.

Nice. Puts me in the mind of something like Daggerfall. Is that the inspo?

I'm pretty sure there's a lawsuit there. I'd be very surprised if there aren't 20 ambulance-chasers flocking to file it once the immigration matters are settled.

It's a scary time for anyone who wasn't born in the US, to US-born parents.

Oh geez. Actually gulag is a much better parallel imo. I mean, yes, the people sent there all seem to be latinos, but I could actually see some snow white types getting sent there too if DT could find a way to make up a story about them supporting the gangs just because they irked him somehow.

Okay, I'll lift my head out of the sand and bite: what new horrorshow did I miss?