AboutTheWhisles

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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
They keep inventing new drinks that seem suspiciously like old drinks, but with a few trendy ingredients thrown in. Instead of refining the new drinks until they are just right, they take them off the menu and invent more new drinks.
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These are essentially people reinventing node based compositing software. These have been used in the visual effects industry for 25 years, so they have caught on.
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http://claylabs.com/clay/ Clay is a language that is no longer being developed, but it was a well designed substitute for C. It was built with templates in mind from the ground up and has modules, move semantics and n
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
I've written and shipped plenty of software with modern C++. Ownership and move semantics mean that after writing a few helper and utility functions, things go pretty smoothly. The most concise and direct software I've written h
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This is a generalization that is meaningless without the context of what the bottleneck actually is. Bandwidth works, processing blocks 1,000 times bigger works, what exactly do you think would be the problem? 1GB every 10 minutes is 1.6M
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
Don't try to make yourself in to a victim, no one was being rude.
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The Bitcoin Unlimited team has tested 1 GB blocks and presented their research and findings at conferences already. That being said, the least sustainable solution is to keep blocks at 1 MB for btc. The core group have ousted and alienated
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My biggest problems with things like this are that everyone is subjected to it, but not everyone has access to it. In seems almost dystopian that our surveillance applies to the people paying for it, but not the people deciding on it. I can
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You do realize that the current monetary system has only really been in place for about 45 years right? The world ran on gold for hundreds of years and somehow people still managed to find the motivation to work without someone printing off
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> as an economist, I consider a deflationary, fixed-supply currency noxious I would think that as an economist, you would know better than try to dictate what people in a large system should do and focus more on the incentives that drive
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
> Man, I don't know why you're in hyperbolic attack mode, There isn't anything like that in my posts, just corrections along with pointing out irrelevancies, no need to be defensive. > It is completely relevant, if you
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> At least at VFX level (Pixar's slightly different, as they use a lot of procedural textures), Texture I/O time can be a significant amount of render time. I was referring to visual effects. > I don't know what you mea
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> You mention ray tracing, are you assuming ray tracing? Why? Toy Story wasn't ray traced. I actually said that in my first post. > I said you could roll your own, didn't I? If you don't roll your own, you most definite
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> 2. > IOTA network relies on the “coordinator” And it's planned to be removed in the future. If someone told you they were going to create their own currency by releasing a completely decentralized 100% electronic brand new form
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> The one place where today's GPUs aren't as good as Toy Story is filtering & anti-aliasing This only makes sense if you are locked in to some texture filtering algorithm already, which isn't true. CPU renderers aren
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
I think the original Toy Story could be done in real time with modern graphics cards. The Quora answer below was talking about CPUs in 2011, and it seems that plenty of added time (relatively speaking) was due to network and disk infrastruc
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
Or maybe just people who want a tiny phone, like kids or women with a small purse.
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That's not what emscripten does. It compiles C to javascript and the program is distributed as javascript, not C.
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
> I guess you missed all those sites using Flash, Silverlight, Applets, WebStart, ClickOnce and many other plugins. I did actually, because most aren't around any more. Even so, I was talking about sites that purely use the html can
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Right, but all that could happen now. Webasm doesn't change anything in that regard.
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> Anyone can run their C trough minifiers I don't know of any programs that are distributed as C to be run directly like javascript. > Machine code donesn't move needle of obfuscation much at all There are two very fundament
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
TCC (Tiny C Compiler) is very underrated in my opinion. It is so fast that almost anything compiles instantly, and it is so simple, that it is a great way to start with C.
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You are saying the same thing as he is. Javascript's impact on load time hasn't been a deterrent to people using mountains of bloat in their page. Thus, webasm being a few times faster to download and parse won't change a wh
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
What does webasm enable that would cause such a massive difference in how people create web pages? Everything it does could be done now with javascript or asm.js, all webasm does is enable the same things to run faster. I can't think o
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You can still block domains that serve ads. Also rendering the whole page in a canvas implies forgoing the entire DOM, which leaves behind basics like links, forms, embedded videos, etc. It would also mean getting raw input and drawing+lay
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
I don't understand this fear of webasm. Anyone can run their javascript through minifiers, or compile C++ to asm.js right now. Webasm doesn't move the needle of obfuscation much at all. The binary format can be turned into the te
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by AboutTheWhisles 9y ago
Why would someone use C# in the first place? It seems to me that any advantage from the environment has gets lost by trying to make it work on a GPU.