This individual is basically asking about how the devs... at DICE handled lightmaps in Battlefield 4 (baked global illumination) when it came to dynamic events like buildings collapsing, which is an excellent question! In the video I provided here, you can see lightmaps on the building, particularly the balconies. Essentially, when it’s time for the building to collapse, a dynamic animated version of the building is immediately instantiated in the exact location of the old one. You can actually see this happening too. Before the building collapses, you can see a weird flicker effect. That flicker is the lightmaps disappearing entirely, because a different version of the same building that lightmaps won’t function on replaces the static light mapped building. Really cool stuff!show more

I'm building a directory of cool people building stuff... in public. 🧡 Reply with "public" so I can add you to the site!show more

Can someone please explain why there is an Ukraine... flag flying on top of the MOD/Scotland Yard building in Whitehall whilst our Union Jacks flies below it??? Despicable, this is the UK, no reason for a Ukrainian flag to be on the top of a government building!show more

If you were sharing this video from the US... Capitol building on January 6 and claiming that police “escorted tourists into the building,” then you are either being dishonest, or you didn’t see what was actually happening outside the building. 1) It is almost certain that these police officers are trying to get these people out of the building not into the building. When there’s thousands of people trying to get into one location and they’ve already busted into the building, you have to escort these people through the building to get them out. 2) There were 2500 people illegally in the Capitol. There was a small fraction the number of police. What did you expect these officers to do? Try to arrest them all or try to control the situation and make sure things didn’t get out of control? Picking and choosing 30 second clips out of 44000 hours of video, including video of people busting windows, breaking glass, unlocking doors, and attacking police is disingenuous and ignorant.show more

Issue 4 of Interfaces just released! This issue is... about building an animated sign-in dialog. It covers everything that goes into building it, from the animations to the small but important details. It's one of the most in-depth issues yet, full of code snippets and demos.show more

Spoiler alert ‼️ starting today, you can start building... for glasses! 👓 Tune in to The Android Show | XR edition to learn about the new tools, libraries, and how to start building → The best part is, if you’re building for Android, then you’re already building for Android XR.show more

after 4 years of working at Texts/Beeper, past week... was my last. i am building something really cool. something i can only build at a place like Automattic. many sleepless nights. you can see it in the attention to detail the product already has.show more

One of my favorite facts about the First Bank... of the United States is that the Bald Eagle on the facade, which is actually made of mahogany and painted to look like stone, is said to be the first use of an Eagle as American symbolism on a building in the United Statesshow more

Ed Cooley on the win: "I won a lot... of games in this building. I've been blessed to win a lot of games in this building. The fact that I can see my family - it's just a good feeling for them. I've won enough, I wanna win for everybody else...and I've already won the game of life." NBC 10 WJARshow more

At approximately 5:00 heavy fire in a large multi... family building on Meridian st East Boston that traveled to the adjacent building . Heavy fire throughout the building , this is now a 6 alarm.show more

Coding software is a joke compared to building hardware.... Because when a software fails, it can be fixed quickly. In hardware, one mistake can set you back for months or end you. In hardware, every decision is cash flow. Every tiny error can cost tens of 1000s of dollars. You don’t get second chances. You get lessons, paid for in time and money. But when you finally get it right… You don’t just ship a product. You build a legacy. Something people touch, use, and trust for years. That’s the beauty and the pain of building in the real world.show more

The rot in Sunnyside runs too deep This is... Waterhof Apartments in Sunnyside the look and feel of the building itself is just awful. The Problem Building ByLaw is intended for this purpose - it gives the City power to go after property owners who own these dilapidated buildings. City of Tshwaneshow more

Is your sky a solid shade of white? Was... it a solid shade of white yesterday & the day before? Is the sky nearly always a solid shade of white where you are? Ever wonder why it’s now like this a every single day - when it never used to be? It’s because above the homogeneous cloud shelf - this is happening constantly. On the rare days you can see the sky & Sun - you can even see it happening.show more

Taste is invisible until you try to write it... down. This is probably my biggest lesson with AI building as of late. At Sundial, I get to work with really friggin' amazing analysts who know the art, and I see how much of our collective time now is now spent turning that art into playbooks or skills for an LLM. Encoding things like: "How would a great analyst actually look at this metric move?" or "What is ACTUALLY the interesting signal in this story versus noise?" or "How can we know if a product change actually moved the needle?" It's really humbling work! You write an instruction set. The LLM misses. You add more context. It still misses. You add even more. Now it's confused. You strip it back. Now it's too vague. You try a different framing. Better, but inconsistent. Works on Monday, fails on Tuesday. You go again. I've come to realize the gap between 70% quality and 95% quality is not 3 or 4 big things. It's more like 100s of small things. Which is exactly why you can't write an article about it, or copy it, or shortcut it! This gap *is* taste, quantified. The accumulated weight of a thousand small judgments you don't notice you're making, until you sit down to externalize them and realize you can't. Being good at something is not the same as being able to articulate why you're good at it. I now see two bottlenecks to making something better than today's generic AI: 1. Can you *see* what better looks like in the first place? 2. Even if you can see, can you *articulate* what that is in a way that the LLM can understand and systemize? #2 is now a new craft, the art of distilling the art. The people who can do it well are the ones building standout products.show more

At approximately 4:00 companies had smoke showing on arrival... in the basement of a large 2 1/2 story occupied building. The fire has traveled throughout the building in the walls , this is now a 3 alarm fire.show more