I really want to clean up this code, but I'm finding it quite difficult. It's like a knot that's been shaken around until it's reached its canonical cardinality. Nothing can be removed without breaking functionality, but what remains is only just in the realm of comprehension.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Arguably the same is true elsewhere though, right? You know what a calorie is, you know what a joule is. But unless you're a physicist/brewer/nutritionist you probably can't go between them in your head.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Not in the slightest. Totally disparate parts of the brain. The km/miles conversion is pretty common, but that's about it. If you asked me to guess how many pints a litre is, I'd probably be off by a factor of at least 0.3x. Very strange.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Am British: most of these are correct, but should come with an additional "are you under the age of 35?" question. I have no idea what I weigh in imperial units!

From last night: directional lanterns.

The most difficult part about this one was the closed-form ray/cone intersection maths for the diffuse effect - no SDF raymarching here! Cones specifically are a pain because they have so many intersection combos.

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@MastodonEngineering Thanks all!

@MastodonEngineering Is there an easy way to determine which version my instance is currently running?

@thibaultmol My brain just did the little Map Men jingle

I am reminded of XKCD#2501). I don't want to launch into a stream of babble that only makes sense to 5 people, nor do I want to bore people with things that are common knowledge.

@fasterthanlime I'm not sub-tooting, to be clear! I'm referring to an amorphous, blobby average that I think counts as a phenomenon. Very much enjoying watching your work on Facet.

Melons are more of a challenge, y'know?

@futurebird Necessarily! It's not a 'trick' as much as it is a necessary consequence of the laws of entropy. Building your own version of the library is surprisingly uncomplicated!

https://github.com/zesterer/babble/blob/master/src/main.py

@bitprophet I have on occasion tried editors with it. I definitely appreciate it, but I was surprised a bit by how I personally failed to get much out of it. I mostly just found myself annoyed at how often it complained about code that was incomplete. I think if I had more control over when the […]

If you're a professional software developer, so much of your life is dedicated to writing code that effectively just vanishes into a void, never to be seen again. Maybe it gets rewritten in a few months, maybe the project gets cancelled, maybe nobody uses the feature, maybe you leave your […]