bjfar

joined 1 year ago
[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

I mean yeah you're not wrong, but physical media doesn't last forever either. Vinyl is pretty good, but pretty much every form of digital storage will slowly waste away without some dedicated upkeep effort. Unless you're really willing to put in some serious effort maintaining a personal digital archive it kind of is just better to treat everything as a lease.

The only thing that really worries me are stuff like family photos and videos, and other important digital documents. Yeah I can print some of them, and I should do that more, but on the other hand they're probably safer from destruction with Google than they are in my house. Both would be best though.

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Or you could try reading what was actually said properly, rather than making up something different that wasn't said by anyone except you.

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Then you missed the whole point.

 

I'm just looking for a good review of modern large-scale terrain rendering techniques. I've been reading about a few individually, various quadtree stuff, GPU clipmaps, continuous methods, but I don't have a good grasp of the state of the art, performance comparisons between methods, what I should invest my time learning better etc. A well-written review article would help a lot. But I can't find much, at least not from the last few years. If there isn't a good academic article maybe someone wrote a great blog post or something? I get a lot of hits searching around but they are mostly zillions of different people implementing this or that algorithm for demo projects, it's harder to find systematically put together information giving an overview of the field and techniques.

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I lived and travelled in Europe for 6 years and never saw a hotel room with anything more than a kettle. Actually no I saw a couple of more hostel type places that had a common kitchen. Still not great for families though.

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I can't cook food in a hotel though. Also they kinda suck with kids.