Arelius

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by Arelius 7y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by Arelius 7y ago
If you are trying to fight nonsense, please don't promote additional nonsense. Generally, in game development, the term "optimization" refers to the holistic process around getting the game performing at speed, be it compiler
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by Arelius 7y ago
While I see what you mean, Isn't it common even in x86 for other cores to boot before and be involved in start-up of the primary CPU? While that might be a fair view, I think it deserves further qualification as to not just cause extra
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by Arelius 7y ago
> for example, in RPis, the GPU is actually the main processor Can you clarify what you mean by this statement? It doesn't really fit well with my understanding of the RPI design, other than the fact that it's a SoC and the GPU
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by Arelius 7y ago
So, it turns out you can actually loose quite a lot of accuracy at distance and not end up with artifacts so long as your accuracy is guaranteed to overestimate the distance to the surface, it will take a bit more time to converge on the su
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by Arelius 7y ago
While I don't disagree, SDFs in specific have the nice property in that you can converge on the surface much quicker than in standard ray-marching which has a very significant impact on performance, which is why given many scenes, SDF
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by Arelius 7y ago
So, specifically, he is ray-marching a signed-distance field. Which has some interesting properties. One of the major down-sides is it's often more difficult to create the boundary surface, fewer editors and the like. More common metho
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by Arelius 7y ago
You might also be surprised to find out that he was a co-author of shader toy, and he was previously at Pixar where he did much of the procedural work behind The Good Dinosaur.
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by Arelius 7y ago
You might be right, but as a San Franciscan, who had to stop by the office in Palo Alto today, the sun did feel a bit oppressive =)
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by Arelius 7y ago
Meh, I've worked 15 years almost entirely at companies using almost entirely in-house technology. Maybe it's because I don't interview for web-tech roles, but I really have never had any problems getting opportunities, and I
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by Arelius 7y ago
> Nobody pays for a driver, people pay for hardware. You'd think that, but understand that Nvidia's primary advantage is actually in the drivers. In the graphics industry it's known that AMD GPUs often perform better at va
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by Arelius 7y ago
Have you spoken to baldurk about this? Since RenderDoc has GL support and it captures with Detours, in theory with some work it should be able to capture at a level above ANGLE. Not sure if that'd be helpful, but I expect maybe. Altern
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by Arelius 7y ago
Is this true? What are the extents of this? There are many movies that have tons of imagery created by algorithms that are surely covered by copyright. Is it enough for the algorithm itself to express creative expression? How about the inpu
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by Arelius 7y ago
I think for the same reason as the recipe, this one line calling of a Windows API wouldn't be covered by copyright. As I understand it, once the code is entirely functional and is unable to express any creativity you could argue it isn
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by Arelius 7y ago
Ok, legal personhood is something interesting I hadn't considered in my original response, and good to know about. Then, is a work to have been produced by a tool which is found to be violating copyright also then judged to violate the
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by Arelius 7y ago
It's speculation to imply that humans alone are imbued with a magical property as related to copyright.
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by Arelius 7y ago
I bought one, tried to use it as a primary phone for a while, Super cute, everyone laughs when I spoke on it... it's just a little too little phone. My biggest complaint was the battery, It has much too little battery to be used as a p
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by Arelius 7y ago
> Humans are somehow imbued with a magic property that allows them to watch read WH40K books, alien and predator movies, then produce the Starcraft universe, and have it count as original work. I feel like this is speculation. Do you hav
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by Arelius 7y ago
Ohh my god this. My current project has this highly overengineered (with C++ and templates no less) event system that persists. Despite being one of the biggest complaints of our customers. We continue to think that the event system is &quo
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by Arelius 7y ago
Hey, maybe it doesn't contribute much to the conversation. But it's a super rough thing, and dealing with your grief in the ways you are able to is super important. And as long as you're not taking it out on other people, whi
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by Arelius 7y ago
While I agree in part I think the truth is it's more nuanced. Almost uniformly cancer causes stress, saddness and emotional volatility that would not be there otherwise. I have seen it can increase other quality of life factors. Decidi
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by Arelius 7y ago
> Dealing with "systems and drivers" is the exact same problem as exists on Windows. I'll give you that regarding drivers, except the Windows market is significant enough to make the economics work out more favorably.
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by Arelius 7y ago
> I also wonder if this means that Rocket League will not run on Google Stadia and its competitors, as those platforms mostly run on Linux systems. Firstly, what do you mean by competitors? I'm pretty sure none of xCloud, Playstatio
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by Arelius 7y ago
Fair Point. It is orthogonal, but it is often correlated in practice. Quite often permission systems to prevent modification are also used to prevent visibility. I'd also say it's not completely unrelated. Let's consider a hi
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by Arelius 7y ago
My point specifically is that by increasing build and deployment security. You actually are decreasing the amount of people who can potentially review and audit the build. Thus making it more likely that someone in power could introduce a b
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by Arelius 7y ago
As an engineer that has basic permissions to our build and deployment system (unrelated non communication application) I could pretty easily think of multiple steps in the build where I could inject and link in pretty much arbitrary code. F
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by Arelius 7y ago
Yes, so the primary test, "Does this triangle cover this pixel" is the same between rasterization and ray-tracing. So the fundamental difference is the outer loop. Rasterization goes for each triangle, which pixels does this inter
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by Arelius 7y ago
> In my experience, saving a little on runtime doesn't make up for having to crack open the manual even once. UI is a big cut. Maybe, but I used to work in a multi-GB hg repo, and I would have given up any amount of manual cracking
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by Arelius 7y ago
Run a reconcile offline changes on an actually large repo and come back and tell me that again. ;)
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by Arelius 7y ago
I don't buy the fact that "Ferderated Learning" is privacy centric so much as it is liability and/or privacy-marketing centric. I feel that in the long run we will discover that using "ML" as a black box to smu

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