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by a_e_k 4y ago
Oh yes, I'm not knocking the release of MoonRay as a whole. I was at HPG '17 when the paper that erichocean mentioned was present. I'm definitely excited to get a peek at it. I also wonder now how much work it was to disent
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by a_e_k 4y ago
My experience from when I was in the industry was the opposite. Studios would generally maintain a solid baseline renderfarm and then send overflow to the major cloud providers. They also weren't really set up for the kind of strict i
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I suspect that every production renderer must eventually have something like a heat map. Back when I worked at Pixar on the RenderMan team, I was the one who implemented the cpuTime and sampleCount AOVs (i.e., passes) [0] in RenderMan RIS a
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I just checked. For Google US the last step is phrased as "Send feedback".
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I was amused to see a performance of All's Well that Ends Well and discover that the "cutting onions" joke goes at least as far back as Shakespeare. At the very end during the big resolution scene, Lafeu declares "Mine e
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by a_e_k 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by a_e_k 4y ago
To help the batter track the ball, MLB stadiums also have a darker, solid-color region called the "batter's eye" behind the pitcher and center field [0]. It's also why pitchers can't wear white sleeves or use white
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I once had a need for permutation hashing as part of a 2D sampling algorithm. My approach was to compose the hash using only reversible steps (to ensure that it's a permutation), and then use cycle walking to reduce the domain size fr
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Definitely one of my favorites, too. There's an elegiac quality to it that I haven't quite seen in any other novel. I have a number of quotations jotted down from it, but since this a tech site I'll restrict myself to sharin
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by a_e_k 4y ago
This reminds me a bit of the old "biorhythm" concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorhythm_(pseudoscience)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
> 4. Give up, and go to old.reddit.com, which is ugly and not designed for mobile, but at least works okay. I use i.reddit.com for this. (Thank goodness it still works.)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I stand corrected. Firefox hid those when I viewed the source.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I think that's the browser doing the hyphenation. I see the same thing in Firefox, but varying the page scale makes that hyphenation come and go, and setting `hyphens: none` on the CSS via the inspector disables it.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
1. It's a combination that hits the sweet spot for the "alternate hard and soft layers" architecture. 2. Python is quick to write for scripts, one-offs, and things that don't need to the performance of C++. 3. The ecosys
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Torchlight did this.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Yes, both RedHat and Fedora used a free association-like naming scheme. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Ubuntu releases are always alliterative Adjectival Animals (assigned alphabetically).
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by a_e_k 4y ago
As a visual thinker and graphics practioner, I'll second this one. This is the linear algebra text that I keep on the bookcase near my desk.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Great. Now I've got Steve Goodman's "Lincoln Park Pirates" stuck in my head again. The streetlamps are on in Chicago tonight And lovers are gazing at stars The stores are all closing And Daley is dosin
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I came here to say this. I have no idea who first said it, but one of my favorite sayings is: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." I strongly believe that this
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by a_e_k 4y ago
That's exactly how I did it. I grew up reading C&H, owned all the books, etc., and some of them really just stuck with me like that one. A simple Google search exactly like above was sufficient in this case, but there's also
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Calvin and Hobbes called this thirty years ago. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/04/08
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Shovel Knight used the 54-color NES palette, with 4 additional "cheater" colors: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/breaking-the-nes-for-sh...
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Personally, my favorite card game is contract bridge. Imperfect information, randomness with room for skill, strongly asymmetric play and scoring, etc., but it also requires cooperation via rather narrow communication channels that your opp
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by a_e_k 4y ago
> But he'll also do it if I stay up. If someone is out of bed past curfew he'll do it. One of my cats also does this. It's a very distinct vocalization that I only ever hear when I've stayed up too late and seems to
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by a_e_k 4y ago
See also "GPU Random Numbers via the Tiny Encryption Algorithm" by Zafar, Olano, and Curtis. HPG '10: Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics Paper: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~olano/pa
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by a_e_k 4y ago
> Same! First of all I LOVED the “eternal night” in some locations. Playing it as a tween, it evoked this feeling of one of those rare special nights where I got to stay up way past my bedtime on a warm summer night at an amusement par
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Right. And the reason that zeroes out the least significant bit is because subtracting one just borrows up to it. E.g., for n = 464: n = 464d 111010000b n-1 = 463d 111001111b n&(n-1) = 448d 111000000b
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Or Mg, which is even smaller.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I skimmed through the series last night and enjoyed it. It's a nice basic overview so far and will be handy to point to for anyone who wants to learn the basics of this stuff. I look forward to seeing the rest of it.

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