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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I must have been lucky. I saw Dark City opening week and there was no explainer. I bought the DVD as soon as it came out, no explainer there either. I bought the Bluray later, no explainer there. On the other hand I did see Blade Runner whe
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
That's arguably not wgpu's responsibility. It's usually the OS's. Windows will reset the GPU if it doesn't return. Chrome tries to catch it before the OS IIRC. In any case, other than resetting the GPU there is no w
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I think wgpu is amazing. But, if I want to take the previous commenter seriously I'd think about PS5, Switch/Switch2, etc as places where someone will have to write a wgpu implementation (non open source since those SDKs don'
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I suspect the user will not blame Apple, they'll blame the app. So Apple gets its 30% with no repercussions. A different problem, I'm sad about all the subscription for apps that shouldn't have one. I get Netflix having a sub
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
it depends on the product. After Effects you can pay monthly and cancel anytime. Photoshop only has yearly subscriptions paid either monthly or all at once. Some people who buy don't see the "annual subscription" detail and t
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
you suspect wrong. I've written Photoshop readers since 1993. They all still work. Photoshop has never broken their format
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
"the notoriously opaque Photoshop format" what? it's well been documented for ever. 2nd hit on google https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml...
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Electron is popular because it gets the job done quickly. I can start a new Electron app in 10-20 minutes and build it across Linux/Mac/Windows in moments. There's almost no setup needed except node which is easy to install l
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Here you are arguing people don't need any power because all they do is "basic spreadsheet, web browsing, photo managing, email, word processing, or other similar purposes" in which case they can get 3-4 windows laptops for $
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
It is NOT cheaper in SF. 2 miles costs at least $20 and can be as high as $40. I don't think I've been anywhere in the world where prices are that high for taxis and there are plenty of places in the world where taxis are plentifu
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
A lease is also a plus for the renter that the rent will not change for the duration of the lease. Some places rent month to month but they may up the rent every month if the market suggests they can. Of course that could be solved by regul
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I ran into this yesterday. It wasn't entirely clear it was a scam, well to me, at first. The first clue was "sorry, no in house viewing, we had son and 2 friends die from COVID, please understand". Yes, that's a big red
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
same as Mac vs Windows today. Cheapest Mac Laptop $999. Cheapest Windows laptop $199, $299? https://www.amazon.com/Laptops-Under-500-Computers-Tablets/s... posted from a mac
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Virtual viewing is not a full solution for me. The plus is it helps me weed out places I'm sure I'm not interested in but I still need to see the real place before I rent. The virtual version of the place might not represent the a
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
The distraction of notifications, or "sign up for our email news letter" distractions I'm certainly against. But, the fact of having my time wasted (getting a notification I don't care about) has highlighted other things
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I have the opinion that the needs of web based games is fairly different than native games and that it's unlikely any game engine targeting native games is going to do a good job with for web games. Native games, downloading 50meg to 5
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I have found the Unity docs to be atrocious. Missing info. Not well cross referenced. Important details buried as notes under other topics. Examples in docs out of date. Are you saying if I pay $200 I get access to better docs?
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
It seems like a mis-match to me to try to use React for 3D. Like if all you have is a hammer than everything is a nail. 3D is not a tree, only the scene graph is, geometry and materials are not leaf nodes. Think about HTML and Images. Image
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
parents passing on their experience isn't the only part. They also pass on their wealth, their connections, etc. The rich family can send their kids to the top schools. The rich family generally has connections. If your parents are hou
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Seriously? The "and they have a plan" which turns out they have no plan and it's just Androids that find religion?
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I think you're right. I also think there's often an attitude of "break things and move fast". Take a look at three.js, they break stuff every 3-4 releases which makes all the tutorials on the net out of date. They explic
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
IIRC their claim is they are trying to avoid bad hires more than skip good hires. I haven't seen any data though that their interviewing methods achieve those results. If I was to guess why they do it that way it's just because of
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I agree with you fundamentals are important. My point was, leetcode and leetcode style interview questions don't test that. As an example I don't think there's a single "leetcode" question related to database indice
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
That's not how things are supposed to work AFAIK. I go buy a book, DVD, CD, video, etc for $10. I can then resell it for $8 or if it becomes rare for $20. The original creator only gets the first $10 https://en.wikipedia.org
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I'm fairly confident the great filter is ahead of us. It won't be long (20-50yrs) until any hacker minded 14yr old can create a virulent virus in their bedroom and release it to the world when their girlfriend/boyfriend dumps
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Some religions: From the Book of Moses 1:33, a Mormon scripture > And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies. Instead I've been asked "puzzle" questions that generally have nothing to do with the millions of lines o
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Yes, that is equivalent, except that you had to be aware of the staging area and its implications. CIs on large teams can't run fast enough to check every individual commit. They have to run them in bulk. So the CI will often not catch
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Why is that git's responsibility? I've always solved that by making an install script for my team. It installs the our "version control system" (which might be git). It also installs it in such a way that it gets auto-up
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by gfxgirl 5y ago
Isn't typing the credentials of my bank, email, etc into a cloud browser run by someone else just as untrustworthy as using a hotel lobby browser? I might use a hotel lobby browser to look up directions or browse local attractions but

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