Morgan McGuire - Gone sailing!
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I took advantage of a repair day at anchor to put the name on the dinghy.
The mothership is Meridian, so the tender is called Minute = 1/60 Meridian, or "Mini" for short.
Water heater fixed (I think?) after a day at anchor, and ready to set off again tomorrow morning.
We're racing the RS800 skiff today. This boat tears along on a continuous plane under 37m² of sail. Is a wild ride, when we can control it.
I've been cruising Meridian regularly, but this is my first time back in a performance boat since March. A relapse of my spinal condition during spring training took me out completely then.
Today is light breeze. I'm hoping the meds and PT will enable me can do this a little again in gentle conditions, while waiting for a long term solution.
Last year in San Francisco, where I learned to fear fog...especially fog with cargo ships and ferries coming through it at 40 kts!
But it's beautiful when Karl (the fog has a NAME in SF) is just curling over the hills of Sausalito and keeping them richly green instead of blanketing the Bay. #sailing
#quadplay now hashes the entire virtual GPU command stream, and when it detects a duplicate frame does not render it.
Since many games have 15 fps animations or static screens, this can reduce load significantly. In a strategy game I was profiling it reduces the work per frame from 1.1ms to 0.2ms!
I did this as a mobile power/heat optimization--it doesn't help framerate/performance, since it targets games that aren't pushing perf.
More beautiful BC hiking in provincial island parks this weekend. Native arbutus/madrone trees that shed their orange bark are a distinctive fixture on these shores.
I'm used to having these islands to myself in the winter. Warm weather brings company. Ten other boats are squeezing into this cove. It is great to see everyone politely helping others to anchor safely and securely, lending a hand, gear, or advice.
A significant amount of my cabin storage is devoted to shoes on the boat.
Hiking boots, offshore boots, ankle sailing boots, reef shoes, slippers, slides (for walking a dock to the bathroom in the morning), sailing sneakers, shore sneakers, hip waders, and lightweight summer sailing sneakers.
And I still have nothing "nice" to wear on shore for socializing!
Some cool bits included:
- Fast algorithm for solving English word games (e.g., boggle, scrabble, wordle)
- Even more pixel art fonts, naturally :)
- Decent quality creative commons word list for English
- A list of sensitive (obscene, politically-charged, etc.) words you may want to prohibit in games or chat
- Tiny hack for a quadplay game to self-host directly from a git *source* repo, without exporting it. This is good for external and mobile playtesters
