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by berkut 4y ago
He has multiple cameras, some of them mini ones for attaching to models and putting them underwater: https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2022/09/12/my-c... He's also in Finland, so the cost of g
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by berkut 4y ago
Picky, but: > 140 colors just isn't enough—it's even less than the 8-bit color palette available on the original NES console Is incorrect, as the NES didn't support 8-bit color... From Wikipedia: "the console can disp
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by berkut 4y ago
curl is shipped (by Apple) as a command line tool and libs to link against on stock MacOS (unless Xcode installs it these days, but I don't think so?).
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by berkut 4y ago
Without knowing specifics, it's difficult to say... could be different compilers (clang on MacOS, maybe gcc on Linux?), linkers, file system caches could be warm on one, etc. There could be different code being generated (#ifdefs, etc)
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by berkut 4y ago
Because the 'efficiency' cores are actually optimised for silicon area efficiency (and not just low power usage, like is generally the case with things like ARM big.LITTLE setups), and AVX-512 native takes up a lot of silicon spac
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by berkut 4y ago
Ah, I must have clicked away to the main pricing page then thinking it was the same one...
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by berkut 4y ago
What are the practicalities of the '680 GB Minimum Order'? I would have expected you pay by how much you use (hence the price per GB), but the minimal order (the submission form however won't let you submit less than 100GB, s
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by berkut 4y ago
It's small, fast, and doesn't have a GIL lock, so concurrent executions are trivial.
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by berkut 4y ago
Moving to higher bit depths than 8-bit will also help a bit - it's not helped by agressive compression, but even with lossless compression (PNG) 8-bit gradients like skies still suffer from the problem...
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by berkut 4y ago
ICC support works fairly well, and anyway, each DCC (Katana, Nuke, Houdini, RV, etc) has custom (normally via OCIO) colour profile support itself, so even if the OS' support isn't perfect, it doesn't really matter (as long as
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by berkut 4y ago
Most of the high-end VFX/CG industry uses Linux for both workstations and render farm nodes. Some studios like Pixar allow a bit more flexibility to some artists in certain roles (generally those that don't work in the pipeline th
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by berkut 4y ago
That info won't be coming out for a while... I can say though, that Manuka's a CPU renderer only (it used to be a GPU renderer as well, but that functionality was removed years ago).
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by berkut 4y ago
The article is worded pretty badly, and is clearly written by someone who's had some things explained to them, and then have got a bit confused. "Raytracing" is a bit of an overloaded term, but conventionally "Raytracing
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by berkut 4y ago
Is it me reading it wrong, or does the second paragraph of the "Impact" section not match the numbers from the diagram below it? It seems they're offset for the generations?
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by berkut 4y ago
I'd personally argue ROCm is much more of a mess than CUDA: in many situations, CUDA code can be compiled once, and then run on multiple generations of cards (including future ones once drivers exist) and you have the option of shippin
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by berkut 4y ago
What are you talking about? Why is a decade needed? The forum.dev domain name in question was registered a year ago on 2021-12-06...
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by berkut 4y ago
The "more" is surely whether they're premium or not, which is what Op was responding to.
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by berkut 4y ago
I own several non-premium .dev domains with namecheap, and with namecheap they're $16.98 per year to add new years.
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by berkut 4y ago
I have some .dev with namecheap, and it's showing me $16.98 to add a new year for all of the ones I have, and I can go up to 9 years (only 8 for one of them interestingly), so I don't think this is all .dev domains, likely just pr
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by berkut 4y ago
Fairly well, Intel's Embree raytracing kernels have support for Xeon Phi, although going more than 8-wide with incoherent rays (i.e. pathtracing) starts to require more and more sorting to batch things up for decent utilisation...
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by berkut 4y ago
JPEG's technically limited to 64x64k dimensions per the spec (65500 pixels with libjpeg and libturbojpeg), so if you want arbitrary software to be able to open images in that format, you'd be limited to that...
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by berkut 4y ago
OpenEXR (designed for, and used by the VFX industry) supports dimensions up to int32 = 2 billion, but is a float16/float32 pixel format only (It can do int32 for IDs, so technically you could multiplex/combine/bitshift 8-bit
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by berkut 4y ago
Yeah, I haven't used ICC for 7 years now, but at the time it was much better than clang/gcc at keeping SSE/AVX intrinsic types in registers through function calls (i.e. clang/gcc used to spill out onto the stack and re-l
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by berkut 4y ago
Sure, but that (we do it) happens currently with C/C++ and signal handler traps which gather the callstack and collate them: the issue isn't usually that we don't know the crashes aren't happening or having the call stac
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by berkut 4y ago
That's security of the generic infrastructure the code's running under though is it not? It's not security of say CUDA kernel code being executed on a GPU? I'm talking about the actual HPC algorithm code heavily priort
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by berkut 4y ago
At least in VFX, at the high-end Maya's only really used for modelling/UVing/layout now, other apps have taken over the rendering/lighting side of things... But anyway, in my experience a lot of the crashes are often due
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by berkut 4y ago
In the HPC / offline graphics / simulation world, there's lots of things like sparse arrays / grids, where you index into compacted grids and iterators wouldn't be that practical in that scenario (i.e. one single it
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by berkut 4y ago
Sure, but then there's things like HPC / offline graphics / simulation (VFX/CG), where performance is the end-all concern (or memory efficiency sometimes at the expense of CPU time), and security isn't a concern at
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by berkut 4y ago
Seriously!? I'd argue it could be termed "what-aboutism", but I personally fail to see how that matches my definition of "lashing out"...
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by berkut 4y ago
Why's it "unjustified"? Surely "trust" is the key issue here, so clearing up what may or may not have been written and what happened with correspondence and views would be key I would have thought.

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