LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 3y ago
To play devil's advocate for my own point, Michael Abrash was swiped from Valve by Facebook. The dude is a hardcore hacker. Even the rendering code in Age of Empires II owes him credit for performance optimizations!
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
First of all ray tracing was invented well before real-time rendering. Second of all, all these difficult things are difficult things that game ENGINE developers are responsible for tackling nowadays. In the 90s and early 2000s, most of the
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I worked in biology before going into tech. Dear lord its so much easier to scale your labor in tech. I have manually genetically engineered multiple types of organisms. It's insanely tedious. To the extent that if I ever went back, I
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
And yet they crank out new and innovative "products" every 4 years. So much so that they were essentially doing 90% of what Meta is trying to do now with 100x less people and budget. I think the real answer lies in the fact that a
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Stop him, he's getting more knowledge!
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Rumor has it Victoria Alonso was fired over the pressure and mismanagement of the VFX on these (to be fair) many, many MCU projects.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
This is a CAD program? Strangely enough this is mentioned absolutely no where on the official website. Hmm now I am considering buying a license...
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
What's more surprising to me is seeing a story about Ebay that shows the date 2024 rather than 2004
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
How are people still paying for this when blender exists?
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Well now I can release my VR game on steam. I used elevenlabs.io for text to speech and stable diffusion for unit portraits.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Opposite? It's basically exactly what the OP was alluding to in 2013
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
In that case the article is a bit misleading. Underpaid staff researchers are indeed very often the ones making the world a better place.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Well they could and should employee more people, but is it really better for society if all those added people are administrative assistants versus say... physics researchers?
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I'm not a user or fan of powershell, but let me tell you something funny... The creator of Powershell did it as a side project at Microsoft and got DEMOTED for doing it. That's about all you need to know about the culture of Micro
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It's gawddamn beautiful
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Its comments like this that keep me on hackernews everyday
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Once someone slips and breaks their neck using this thing its game over. I've sat in a jury for a frivolous lawsuit and there are tons of sharks out there.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Lets step back a second. If the rationale behind adopting microservices for everything is PURE orgitecture rather than software architecture, then that's not really a rationale at all. Instead of having one instance, you now have dozen
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Ok, do Pi 5 now
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
The author assumes that evolution should somehow optimize data bandwidth but this is a super faulty understanding of how evolution works. A trait like intelligence is only valuable to the extent it increases an organisms fitness or number o
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
My bad. Yes they weren't in the first batch. But hot damn being in that first batch was pretty big. Being the right place at the right time is incredibly important. Also, to be the specific kind of person to do YC so early on should pr
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Lets go back to the beginning of YC. You can find a photo of the very first class. In that very first class, you'll see the AirBnb guys, the Twitch guys, the Reddit founders, and Sam frickin Altman. When you have 18 years of connection
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Hey just because something is really efficient doesn't mean it can't be even more efficient. The innovation space should be more centered on turning agwaste into value added products though
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I remember reading Moby Dick back in high school, and being totally taken aback by how much of it was about whaling and how very little of it had anything to do with captain ahab
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Quest 2, a PC, Unity game engine using XR interaction toolkit, and that's it. I did receive a 3 month grant to use elevenlabs.io which has been a game changer for adding voices to the single player campaign
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Good news for me since I started development on a Quest 1 game 4 months before the Quest 2 came out, and am damn near finally going to release it right after the damn Quest 3 comes out!
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Can a transformer represent y = x^2? Read my paper and find out.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I've been making a VR game Rogue Stargun ( https://roguestargun.com ) for 3 years on the side. I don't work in VR or gamedev, but I do enjoy making models in blender. I was able to model roughly half the assets in the ga
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
HN gets rid of political stuff explicitly. I honestly think this is a good thing as virtually every other online forum devolves into emotionally driven politically charged clickbait content.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
memray is awesome. Used it to demonstrate massive memory savings wins for presentations My favorite feature is the jupyter integration. Just decorate a cell with %%memray_flamegraph I'd really like a version of this to spit out a csv o

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