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by andybak 9mo ago
Although a decent chunk of modern tooling is there to handle the limitations of triangles. And modelling is often using higher-level abstractions that are only turned into triangles at the end of the process.
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by andybak 9mo ago
By coincidence this was released a few weeks ago: https://hothardware.com/news/max-payne-rtx-remix-mod
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by andybak 9mo ago
> Much of the science about lighting, physics, and rendering we take for granted today was mostly unknown; I'm not so sure. I grew up playing with offline 3d rendering rather than real-time game stuff - and game dev was merely reusi
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by andybak 9mo ago
That scene in Independence Day is seeming less far-fetched every passing moment.
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by andybak 9mo ago
:-/
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by andybak 10mo ago
Gaussian splats
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by andybak 10mo ago
That needs to be explained at the point the permission is requested
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by andybak 10mo ago
I asked it to do a task that doesn't require spreadsheets but it keeps asking for access to my google drive.
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by andybak 10mo ago
That's funny. My reaction to react emerging was to run away from JS frameworks entirely.
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by andybak 10mo ago
Skills, plugins, apps, connectors, MCPs, agents - anyone else getting a bit lost?
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by andybak 10mo ago
I'm one of the maintainers of Open Brush (open-source continuation of Google's Tilt Brush) and a huge chunk of our community is in Japan as well as other East Asian countries. The language barrier is really frustrating as I'd
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by andybak 10mo ago
How this is different to any other post announcing an incremental improvement in an app or service?
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by andybak 10mo ago
Why would you put that whole python file in the context at all? Doesn't Codex work like Claude Code in this regard and use tools to find the correct parts of a larger file to read into context?
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by andybak 10mo ago
"Design Patterns are a sign of missing language features". https://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeature... https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf https:/
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by andybak 10mo ago
Devil's Advocate time. Would the result of that be better or worse quality public standards? (I don't actually know what I think off the cuff - but it's the obvious follow on question to your statement and I don't think
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by andybak 10mo ago
I work on a big ball of open source spaghetti and AI has become invaluable in helping me navigate my way through it. Even when it's wrong - it gives me valuable clues.
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by andybak 10mo ago
If you accept that "qualia" is a coherent concept" then surely emotions require qualia. And I'm really not buying the idea that current gen AI is capable of subjective experience in anything like the sense people usually
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by andybak 10mo ago
NME = "not my experience" I presume. JFC TLA OD...
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by andybak 10mo ago
This makes no sense. It takes a complex industrial society to keep that tech going. The supply chain to make GPUs would not survive even a modest disruption in the world economy. It's probably the most fragile thing we currently manu
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by andybak 11mo ago
I might have a very different reading of the parable of the cave to you? Can you elaborate? (At the risk of spoiling the joke)
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by andybak 11mo ago
Surely something close to perceptually lossless is sufficient for most use cases?
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by andybak 11mo ago
We never really implemented REST APIs. We had a bunch of REST-ish APIs. Anyway - the REST movement served it's purpose - it killed SOAP and forced everyone back to simpler HTTP APIs without tons of over-engineered XML layers so it did
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by andybak 11mo ago
It's amazing that the "hard problems" are turning out to be "not creating a completely broken user experience". Is that going to need AGI? Or maybe it will always be out of reach of our silicon overlords and require
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by andybak 11mo ago
I just wish there was a nice text based representation. I hate dragging boxes around the screen.
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by andybak 11mo ago
Taste in what?
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by andybak 11mo ago
I'm getting slight "Is this your first day on Planet Earth?" vibes from this. They are pointing out something real and true and valid. And yet - they seem to think that just saying stuff out loud will fix things. I mean - yea
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by andybak 11mo ago
This is an asymmetric conflict. The factions who want this to pass have more resources, time and background influence and can keep pushing this until they get lucky. And once in place repealing it will be tremendously difficult. How does so
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by andybak 11mo ago
They vary with quality of eyesight which usually correlates with age.
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by andybak 11mo ago
Most people in what age group? I'm 53 and the Quest 3 is perfectly good as a monitor replacement.
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by andybak 11mo ago
> But you need excellent docs in the first place for it to work. Are you sure? I just tried it on projects of mine that have almost zero documentation it did a fairly good job.

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