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by berkut 13y ago
Netscape was a buggy piece of software back then, and when IE 4 and IE5 came out they were a breath of fresh air for the general user. This was mostly back in the 28.8 and 56.6k modem days, and Netscape's caching of content was a joke:
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by berkut 13y ago
It's not just the payload - the entire airframe comes back and lands...
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by berkut 13y ago
fair enough - I guess I might be biased in my interpretation of what "normal" use-cases are...
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by berkut 13y ago
I'm talking about real-world usage - not benchmarks that only stretch the NEON FP units in unrealistic situations.
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by berkut 13y ago
What?! Of course it does in real life - unless you're working on very small amounts of data, cache level latencies (where Intel chips - non-atom at any rate - generally have much lower latencies) and cache pre-fetchers and branch predi
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by berkut 13y ago
Memory / Cache subsystems are generally where ARM chips fall down (in terms of throughput), and Intel has several patents on cache hierarchies that AMD is licensed to use. So it's technically possible that AMD could build ARM chip
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by berkut 13y ago
Most VFX for Film (at least by the big studios like ILM, Weta, SPI, MPC, Framestore) is done on Linux. Even Pixar are mostly Linux-based.
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by berkut 13y ago
It wouldn't be that difficult to re-write the main 3D Game engine using OpenGL. If you had the assets (textures, models) in modern formats, one person could probably do it in a couple of weeks. Using another game engine would be quic
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by berkut 13y ago
Possibly, as Intel's compiler uses dynamic code-path selection based on the processor. But more likely, it would mean slower code execution, as the code path wouldn't be optimised for AMD: i.e. if the processor check thinks it&#x2
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by berkut 13y ago
There are several benchmarks out there showing that the Intel compiler can give a boost for AMD chips over MS VC++ and MingG++ on Windows. They should have originally used supported flags for different features instead of blacklisting the n
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by berkut 13y ago
It has problems because it lacks context. With human int, you can get more understand of what the thinking and intentions are.
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by berkut 13y ago
It's all about workflow. and it's what free/open source software gets wrong almost all the time (and I say that as an advocate of it), due to the fact devs rarely listen to users. The features are often there but they'
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by berkut 13y ago
But the python source code's available to build, and anyway, quite a bit of the python in VFX is run through embedded interpreters in Maya, Nuke, Houdini or Katana which means they can keep using an old version indefinitely.
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by berkut 13y ago
exactly. Maya 2012, Nuke 7 are on 2.6.4/5 Maya 2014, Nuke 8 are on 2.7.3. It's a chicken and egg situation - until VFX houses (often with close to a million lines of Python code integrating stuff) need Python 3 (I don't see w
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by berkut 13y ago
Blender's hardly used in high-end VFX production, due to scalability and interface issues... Houdini's got dual 2/3 support though.
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by berkut 13y ago
Yeah, but that's quite likely (without some sort of façade layer) going to be double the work adding new functionality, and it's definitely going to be twice the testing of the entire Python functionality of the apps.
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by berkut 13y ago
What's also missing here is differentiating between "dependencies" as other python libs or host apps with built-in python interpreters stuck to a particular version. For example, VFX studios are generally stuck on 2.6.4 as th
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by berkut 13y ago
It's confusing, because 4k has been used as a term (not actually that often in practice) in the VFX industry for 5/6 years for the following resolutions: 4096 × 2160 (standard) 4096 x 3112 (super 35) Then for 4k cameras, the follo
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by berkut 13y ago
Proper water sims for large scale VFX production using things like Naiad, Houdini or RealFlow can take more than 12 hours per frame: http://lesterbanks.com/2012/03/10-great-examples-of-naiad-in... It depends on th
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by berkut 13y ago
Most of the VFX industry releases the majority of their techniques as papers, etc. Some of it's kept a secret, but that's happening less and less. There's a lot of competition, but still there's a lot of open stuff like
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by berkut 13y ago
It's for Siggraph, so there's a time limit.
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by berkut 13y ago
I read on pprune earlier this year that the instructor who had the most hours on the 777 was junior in rank to the pilot transitioning, and due to the way Korean society is regarding rank, might not have wanted to overrule a "senior&qu
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by berkut 13y ago
Missing the "Cloud - based" part I think... I agree with the idea of a free/open finance manager - definitely when it connects to the bank through online services. I wrote a GPL'd finance app for OS X a few years ago, an
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by berkut 13y ago
Anyone know what version of gcc it'll ship with? Couldn't find that in the tech overview PDF...
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by berkut 13y ago
Working in the VFX industry, I'm well aware of what a production renderer needs :) I wouldn't say adding features increases complexity exponentially - I guess it depends on the design of the system, but that hasn't been my ex
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by berkut 13y ago
I've written my own over the past 2.5 years, mostly on the Train to and from work... Ignoring geometry and texture paging, curve support and volumetrics (all of which I'm slowly working on), it could be used in production. But t
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by berkut 13y ago
There's no "decent" Weather apps - that's obviously subjective, but WeatherPro for iOS and Android I really liked. I still miss iOS's weather app really, the built-in one on the HTC One (don't know if it's
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by berkut 13y ago
Ignoring the font hinting (the font is barely readable when fully zoomed out - in contrast to on iOS and Android, although with the 4S and HTC One I had retina screens, so maybe it's not a fair comparison), the only thing really annoyi
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by berkut 13y ago
This. I've just bought a Lumia 520 as a play phone / replacement while I send my HTC One back to be repaired (due to it continually rebooting / crashing - I'm otherwise generally very happy with it). I had an iPhone 3GS
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by berkut 13y ago
Yeah, maybe, but Chaos Group seem to be fighting back a bit with Vray 3 (much faster MC GI and BDPT support)... - they still need to sort their GPU side of things out though... It's great that there's so much competition and so ma

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