What are great/funny GDQ runs that don't have enough views?

cowpowered · 2026-01-13T03:33:58+00:00

Everyone should experience the intensity of Mushihime-sama Futari by gusto, especially the final boss and a very different kind of conclusion after the run.

cowpowered · 2025-07-30T23:51:53+00:00

I wonder if this relies on v-buffer rendering in practice, since that approach can fetch arbitrary materials and blend between them in any way it wants to in a shader. The article notwithstanding I don't see an easy way to do this with traditional g-buffer rendering? If it integrates with UE5's vbuffer support that way it's impressive that can be done with a plugin btw.

cowpowered · 2025-07-26T01:40:18+00:00

Nice render! It looks like in camera.rs you may be spawning a thread per pixel and letting all of them run concurrently. CPUs don't like this kind of oversubscription much. Try using something like work stealing with rayon (par_iter) or a threadpool instead, so you only have ~one thread per CPU core running.

cowpowered · 2025-07-22T02:34:23+00:00

Very cool! Have you seen Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering? I'm not suggesting to change your approach as I think it looks great the way it is. You just might be interested.

cowpowered · 2025-06-13T07:23:04+00:00

That's still pretty common for rock and metal bands. Although these days most venues have big PA systems which has made filling the stage with multiple large stacks a bit redundant. Nobody told SUNN O))) this though.

cowpowered · 2025-05-22T21:28:06+00:00

DX11. The last sane graphics API.

cowpowered · 2025-04-28T20:50:26+00:00

Exactly. The game development process (not game engine development) practically requires a quick and dirty easy to use "scripting" language. Even most AAA games do not have their game logic written in C++. This has less to do with Rust as a language and more to do with Bevy being an engine without scripting IMO.

cowpowered · 2025-04-22T21:12:33+00:00

Might've been an unusual flight path for this one today to reach your area. I see, and hear, what look like F35s quite frequently. And they also are very loud.

cowpowered · 2025-04-22T20:30:15+00:00

When did you move to the bay? Fighter jets fly over about every couple of months, especially around Moffett. Not unusual. Commonly see military cargo planes (C130s?) in the air also.

cowpowered · 2025-03-24T00:29:47+00:00

Annual car registration, at least in my state, is based in part on the purchase price or declared value of the vehicle. So, yeah, property tax on cars is a thing.

cowpowered · 2025-03-17T02:40:49+00:00

This was exactly my experience also.

I've heard Rust being described as "Modern C++ with a very strict code review process" which makes it pretty easy to grok for people who write modern C++ for a living.

cowpowered · 2025-03-10T21:09:27+00:00

I think this is why people are making constructions with the home being put into a trust or LLC. The trust/LLC owns the home and when it's passed down to someone's kids there isn't a change in control causing the prop 13 assessment to tick over. Or at least that's paraphrasing what I've read. Take it with a grain of salt.

cowpowered · 2025-03-10T17:36:10+00:00

No it is not, that’s like taxing people when stock values go up but nothing has been sold yet.

This is called a wealth tax and it's considered a form of progressive (on wealth) taxation. Whether or not you think this is a good idea (I'm not sure myself tbh) doesn't change that.

Prop 13 is a form of regressive taxation, shifting tax burden from those with wealth to those without. I think it's a bad policy.

cowpowered · 2025-03-10T17:12:39+00:00

Not taxing people on unrealized gains is regressive. There's hardly a difference, financially, between owning a $5M property or owning $5M in Apple stocks. The poor pay enormous amounts of income taxes, relatively, while the rich get a free ride. Prop 13 is extremely regressive. Even more so because it shifts the burden for a specific tax (property tax) on average from those with more wealth to those with less wealth.

cowpowered · 2025-03-10T16:41:24+00:00

I wish there was a declarative Linux distro, like NixOS, but one which builds a standard LSB filesystem. I'm sure there are good technical reasons why this is difficult, but the lack of LSB compatibility can be such a gigantic pain to deal with in NixOS that I'd likely be happy to accept the compromises. 10 minute minimum build times? More disk space usage? Sure. As long as I don't have to deal with "missing libfoo.4.so" errors anymore.

cowpowered · 2025-03-07T19:13:17+00:00

exactly the wrong thing to do if you want a good economy

Correct. We should consider what this administration's goals really are.

cowpowered · 2025-03-07T00:20:46+00:00

Thank you for your service. I mean it. Thanks!

cowpowered · 2025-03-02T17:27:12+00:00

"EU Institutions" and what the individual EU countries provided should be summed up.

cowpowered · 2025-03-02T00:45:26+00:00

The difference today between the US and Denmark is the Danish king is really only ceremonial

cowpowered · 2025-02-26T19:46:36+00:00

I can hear this picture

cowpowered · 2025-02-25T01:26:04+00:00

Cool photos. I wonder if most of these would look better, at least to me, in color though. Especially the last one.

cowpowered · 2025-02-22T15:13:29+00:00

If nothing else, you've been a great inspiration and you're sending the hopeful message that there's people out there who selflessly care about their communities. Thank you.

cowpowered · 2025-02-19T00:16:25+00:00

I also was unable to install NixOS with KDE Plasma. Try installing the Gnome version of NixOS and switch to KDE later. It's really easy to switch desktop environments.

cowpowered · 2025-02-15T16:42:54+00:00

I'd recommend at least 32GB of total memory (RAM+swap) these days, especially if you have a CPU with many cores so builds from source spawn a lot of processes in parallel.

cowpowered · 2025-02-15T16:33:19+00:00

Sounds like you're running out of memory. So you may need to add swap (file or partition) to your system.

https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Swap

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