> The operation is finished when the progress float reaches 1.0 and isDone is called. If you set allowSceneActivation to false, progress is halted at 0.9 until it is set to true.

So, I needed to have my UI do other stuff until both this and something else was ready. Obvious thing to do would be to check this for "AsyncOperation.progress >= 0.9" and also check the other thing. Right?

Except AsyncOperation.progress is a float, 0.9 is a double and 0.9f < 0.9. Progress is not halted at 0.9. It never reaches 0.9. It's halted at 0.9f! Just a few million ulps short!

If you want to get inspired by what can be done with palletized framebuffers check out http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (click Show Options) and the GDC presentation by the artist https://youtu.be/aMcJ1Jvtef0

With that you can fire up https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter for that classic Deluxe Paint IIe vibe. Or, https://www.aseprite.org/ for something more modern.

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/projects/lyra2/

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

The People: Hey local government! The roads are so packed with cars they are useless. Fix it!

The Government: We hear you and just finished a huge road expansion project. The roads now have 2x the capacity! Enjoy the new fast roads!

The People: The roads are just as slow as before because they are packed with 2X as many cars now!

So, the paradox is that greatly increasing the capacity of the roads led to the roads being just as slow as before. Maybe even slower. This is because there previously were lots of potential uses of the roads that people did not enact because it would not have been worth the hassle. But, now with 2X the capacity, those uses become viable. So, more people find more uses of the roads up until it gets right back to the limit of everyone patience.

Apply this to coding and you can predict: Coding is much faster and easier now. So, why are all my coders still so busy?

https://www.muse.art/home

Why are they still able to sell what is effectively a 30 year old computer for as much or more today than when it came out? Because they managed to get the family informally standardized as "The calculator every teacher in America understands well enough to manage students who use it. Therefore pretty much everything else that could be as or more advanced is effect banned."

It was an amazing piece of kit when it first came out. No doubt you could make something 100x better and 10x cheaper today if someone really tried. But, they would fail commercially because you can't design-in 30 years of legacy in the US school system.

Like this: https://imgur.com/a/d7stXVN

Start with a list of objects that were visible last frame. Assume they are visible this frame. Go ahead and draw them.

Then, for the list of things that were Not visible last frame, draw bounding box queries to build a conservative list of objects that might actually not be occluded this frame. This is expected to be a short list.

Take that short list and draw the probably-newly-visible objects.

Have queries attached to all of those draws so you end up with a conservative list of all of the actually-visible objects from this frame.

This obviously has problems with camera cuts. But, it works pretty well in general with no preprocessing. Just the assumption that the scene contents aren’t dramatically changing every frame at 60 FPS.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230314190913/https://www.riffu...

https://huggingface.co/riffusion/riffusion-model-v1

But, I'd expect everything in the past 3 years to diffuse the audio waveform directly.

If you have an HDR TV, preferably OLED, and miss the CRT look, check out the RetroTink 4K https://www.retrotink.com/

Presumably, moonwalks would also have some ozone like the space walk did. But, maybe the burning-moon-dust gunpowder smell was a lot stronger than the vacuumed-metal/paint ozone smell.

What they were actually reporting was the smell of the airlocks after they returned from their excursions. The moon has no atmosphere, so it has been accumulating dust from billions of years of asteroid impacts that have never come in contact with oxygen. Many of the chemicals in the dust are oxidative and so when it is exposed to air for the first time it rapidly oxidizes just like gunpowder!

And I think the outer space report was from space walks, and the explanation was that the first time the airlock itself was exposed to hard vacuum, the surfaces of the airlock would have a reaction that left a scent of ozone.

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