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by berkut 8y ago
Unfortunately, yes (and I'm a very strong Linux proponent these days), in terms of what it can display and work out in terms of locals and watches automatically. It's the one thing I miss from Windows (and I haven't used it r
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by berkut 8y ago
Not talking about Rust here, so not really an answer, but in the film VFX industry (rendering in my case) pretty much all the high performance code is C++ or CUDA, and before we moved to c++11, I'd worked out that for STL iterators, at
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by berkut 8y ago
In terms of flying, maybe (and then, given the price of budget airline flights, I don't completely agree with this, although flights are obviously only a part of the cost of a holiday). A counter-point might be that the airport and sur
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by berkut 8y ago
I'd agree with this assessment 100% - ML can achieve some very impressive results - in my domain (computer graphics for movie VFX) with regards to image generation / identification / modification, e.g. denoising for the lat
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by berkut 8y ago
In theory it could be following waypoints (no command frequency) and using ultrasonic "sonar" to avoid things like trees at low level. That's pretty difficult to track, especially if you're on the ground in an area with
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by berkut 8y ago
You need to find where it is first and be able to track it.
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by berkut 8y ago
If it's being controlled with a controller, yes, although at 2.4 Ghz, they frequency-hop, and jamming the entire spectrum close to loads of aircraft (even if grounded) and a terminal with wifi etc is likely to cause some collateral dis
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by berkut 8y ago
The terminology's always been a bit vague: technically "Ray casting" is a more accurate way to describe one ray being sent out and intersected with something (i.e. from camera/eye into the scene). The "tracing"
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by berkut 8y ago
A bit outdated, and not entirely accurate, at least for film VFX... This bit: > but until path tracing times are measured in minutes per frame, as opposed to the hours or days they are now, ray tracing (or rasterization, especially micro
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by berkut 8y ago
I've been in a different industry for 8 years now, but previously I was in the travel / airline industry working on backend booking systems: it was surprising at the time to me how much stuff was still done using things like VT320
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by berkut 8y ago
I've just switched from gmail to fastmail, and I'm not very impressed with Fastmail's iOS app (it's pretty slow to start / open / retrieve emails) or the lack of offline support it has. TBH, other than the anno
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by berkut 8y ago
> Also yes, AMD's memory subsystem has much lower latency Out of interest, what do you mean by this? Are you talking Zen1 or Zen2, because in my experience playing with Zen1 EPYC the memory latency was worse than Xeon Broadwells, an
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by berkut 8y ago
Exactly the same with me: I tried switching to Firefox 63 last week on a 2015 MBP running MacOS 10.11, and compared to Chrome it seems to use a lot more CPU and thus makes my machine run noticeably hotter. I guess this might be due to the
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by berkut 8y ago
> Official Secrets act only applies to people who signed it. No it doesn't. It's a law, not a contract. They only get you to sign to it in order to remind you of the fact you're bound by it.
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by berkut 8y ago
Wasn't HoTMetaL (Pro) the first actually released (in 1994)? Pagemill was in beta until 1995...
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by berkut 8y ago
I think cleaned by sand-blasting... Several cities in the UK (Bath, Coventry in particular) I remember as a child in the 80s suddenly had a lot of buildings that were no longer black.
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by berkut 8y ago
Possibly, but I bet they'll hold out on OpenGL for ages, and I wouldn't be surprised if push comes to shove that macOS gets dropped for VFX in the future - as a developer who used to work at The Foundry years ago, it causes so muc
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by berkut 8y ago
Application software doesn't necessarily want to be using low-level stuff like Vulkan just yet: the reason being is that these low-level APIs with more direct access/control to the hardware don't (currently) provide load-
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by berkut 8y ago
It's actually not that much more computationally intensive, even doing texture RGB -> spectral wavelength conversion for each BSDF / light evaluation. But you do get a fair bit more spectral noise in the image, but this can
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by berkut 8y ago
To model fluorescence accurately, it's necessary to handle the non-visible spectrum in some way.
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by berkut 8y ago
Thousands of passengers' flights / holidays have been affected: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&... And that's just one airline - how is that not disruption?
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by berkut 8y ago
I agree - one thing that's pretty annoying about Gitlab (self-host at work) IMO is that over the past year, things just keep moving around in the UI or work differently as we upgrade versions. Personally, I'd prefer to use Github
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by berkut 8y ago
Interesting that Google are using the non-US (British, Aus, NZ) spelling as well...
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by berkut 8y ago
Out of interest, how's this any different than other build systems like SCons, Waf? Even working out stuff like string substitutions in Make can be confusing at times, in terms of the syntax required IMO.
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by berkut 8y ago
In my experience, ExternalProject_Add() isn't a lot of boilerplate. You specify the source, target dir, and other stuff can be optional.
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by berkut 8y ago
True, but it's biased, which still causes trouble with some edge cases, depending on how/where you bias towards - biasing towards point-of-entry isn't always better than not biasing depending on where the lights are, and it&#
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by berkut 8y ago
That's not completely true - at least in the VFX industry we've been doing brute-force SSS (with multiple scattering) for more than two years now in some cases. Yeah, it can be slow depending on the MFP, but it's usable... Ch
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by berkut 8y ago
Not necessarily - rasterisation can suffer from "overdraw", which raytracing doesn't (although it has its own issues with acceleration structure requirements, especially where moving objects in the scene is concerned, so it&#
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by berkut 9y ago
I'm probably being really stupid, but how does using encrypted DNS prevent your ISP seeing what websites you go to? (I haven't done network stuff for many years, and am a bit out of touch with the current stuff). Can't ISPs s
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by berkut 9y ago
This has happened to me with quite a few websites (netflix, nytimes, dropbox, and many smaller more localised websites for small businesses / services): people somehow seem to have registered and/or added payment details with an e

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