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by berkut 5y ago
Are other people only having a single email per year? This year I've had three (two in September, both from donate@wikimedia.org, and one from jimmy@wikipedia.org in October saying 'We've had enough').
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by berkut 5y ago
I share similar sentiments as the article's author: I donated once ~4 years ago, and have been *completely* turned off donating again (despite wanting to, and knowing I should for such a fantastic resource) by such agressive emails, be
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, I'd like to know what the officers could/should have done differently... And why wasn't the Navigator dismissed? If it was an unknown seamount, surely the only way they could have known about it to avoid it would be u
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by berkut 5y ago
While "needed" to produce "nice" (acceptable) looking 4-level images, it's likely breaking the filtering and compression steps of PNG format compression, making the image larger...
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by berkut 5y ago
Anyone know what GPU "codegen" it's using on PC? Tech specs say GPU needs Direct3D 12.0 capable card, but I'm not convinced that's for GPU compute, but maybe it is a compute shader?... I'd assume OpenCL for cro
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by berkut 5y ago
Maybe not, but as someone in the VFX/CG industry where Python 3 is only just being moved to this year (still on 2.7 mostly) because we didn't really need unicode, getting rid of the GIL in 3.0 would have very likely made us jump t
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by berkut 5y ago
I think you're confusing me for the other poster - that was the first time I've responded to you... I haven't moved any goalposts. Arnold has only been GPU accelerated for a few years - not since 2013. Same with Renderman - X
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by berkut 5y ago
Mental ray is no longer heavily used in the industry for feature films: it hasn't been since ~2013 (when Arnold came around). After Effects doesn't really belong on this list? Gazebo is a preview renderer explicitly designed for G
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by berkut 5y ago
1. Instancing doesn't reduce the complexity of rendering a scene in terms of light transport, it only reduces the memory storage and Accel structure complexity. Actually, a forest with occluding foliage geometry is a quite difficult li
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by berkut 5y ago
IMO their iOS app would be great if it had offline support - it doesn't...
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by berkut 5y ago
Out of interest, when you say 'their caching', what do you mean? One of my annoyances with their iOS app is it doesn't support offline mode which is fairly annoying...
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by berkut 5y ago
low power usage mobile stuff which still packs some processing power.
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by berkut 5y ago
However, if you just want a very minimal subset of a JSON response (i.e. a 'status' string field out of say 20 other values in a map), is it not better to just look for one field, as opposed to have to create an entire struct in R
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by berkut 5y ago
Very unlikely they'd use that code directly - would likely be easier to re-implement the features wanted natively in the blender codebase... On top of that, there were always suspicions that some of the Shake codebase didn't come
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by berkut 5y ago
In my experience, DDG is just as bad as Google at producing results that don't match quotes exactly, and almost effectively just adding random results... It's like they both just want to add something to the results, instead of
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by berkut 5y ago
You can vote as a Temporary Resident as well...
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by berkut 5y ago
I've almost exclusively switched over to a Kindle now as well (occasionally get physical books that aren't available electronically), and the one experience/workflow I haven't been able to re-create with the Kindle is ve
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by berkut 5y ago
Looks interesting... I think the titles for the charts might have the lat/long compass directions swapped: it's showing the correct latitude for my location I selected (from preset - Wellington), but it has a 'E' after i
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, I wrote my own open source app to do basic personal finance accounting 12 years ago after getting annoyed at the propriatary OS X solutions (iBank, in particular), and KMyMoney / GNUCash not supporting split transactions at the t
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by berkut 5y ago
There seems to be some evidence that having a longer duration between the first and second doses provides better long-term protection, i.e. gaps of 7+ weeks, compared to the 3+ weeks the US and Israel have generally done. NZ is currently th
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by berkut 5y ago
And some of the ways (ignoring things like Sobol and Halton) of generating those are using random numbers :)
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by berkut 5y ago
Monte Carlo simulations - i.e. pathtracing... Generating well distributed random numbers with low overhead is quire important for that. It's not the bottleneck, but it is very important.
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by berkut 5y ago
Just as true for the 6S (and friends' more modern iPhones) in bright sunlight which should be at ISO 100 in my experience...
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by berkut 5y ago
It has (or at least aggressive denoising) since the 6S I still have. If you look at the images at 1:1, they sometimes look like watercolours with regards to edges.
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by berkut 5y ago
JPEG can use multiple: you can select the chroma-subsampling (with comp_info[0].h_samp_factor), and do 420, 422 or 444...
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, High quality exports (definitely from Lightroom) are normally YCrCb444. You don't always need it, but often you do if you really care about fidelity. I know several imaging apps have the ability to select which subsampling type t
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by berkut 5y ago
It depends what you want and what you're willing to compromise on I think. I ended up building my own, which has the advantages it's designed specifically for my needs (but which obviously means it's less likely to be useful
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by berkut 5y ago
"We have 150,000 APIs to create and maintain" Really? API calls maybe, and a lot of them are barely documented in my experience.
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by berkut 5y ago
As someone who used Netscape, IE and Opera back then, Netscape was unfortunately very buggy (and not just in terms of stability). It's offline cache didn't always work (i..e you could resize the window, and it would re-download th
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by berkut 5y ago
What makes you say he's wealthy?

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