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by gmueckl 1y ago
How so? I understand the tension between freedom to tinker and consumer protection. It's OK to assign different values to either of them. And there are definitely ways to reconcile the two positions. Some of that will have to come thro
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by gmueckl 1y ago
That's the true source. Should the link be updated to this article?
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Internal SW dev can work with a lot less overhead and setting up direct communication between users and developers is reasonably simple. There is usually a 1:1 relationship between user roles and developers. Published software ideally has m
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Showing the code won't do anything for non-technical people. They'll nod along politely and file it under "they did the job they were hired for". Plus, it feels a little too passive-agressive to me.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Even the Expanse has fantastical elements like the protomolecule and the Epstein drive. The difference is that it is closer to classic science fiction authors like Asimov, Clarke or Niven in that this body of work tries hard to keep some gr
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Star Wars was never science fiction. It has always been treated as fantasy with space ships by its creators. The nature of its setting is really much closer to Harry Potter than e.g. the Expanse.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Blender is actually a business in spirit (even if not legally) and has very active and aggressive marketing. That is why they are dominating the OSS DCC tool space and get millions in corporate sponsorship.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I don't know how the verb "to train" became the technical shorthand for running gradient descent on a large neural network. But that's orthogonal to the fact that these stories are very, very likely part of the training
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Isn't the ultimate irony in this that all these stories and rants about out-of-control AIs are now training LLMs to exhibit these exact behaviors that were almost universally deemed bad?
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by gmueckl 1y ago
This seems fairly well optimized. There's probably room to squeeze out some more perf, but not dramatic improvements. Maybe preventing overdraw of shaded pixels by doing a depth prepass would help. Without digging into the detailed br
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Can you name an example? I have a large library of games and can't name one that does.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Long story short: you want to compose shaders at runtime and need a compilation pipeline for that. So what you really need is a C interface to the slang transpiler that is callable from rust. Rewriting the whole slang pipeline in rust is a
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Why? Unless you need to embed the slang transpiler (unlikely), the language it is written in literally doesn't matter.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Imagine the outcry if every game came with a background process that just sits there in the background. Also - and this may sound a little bonkers - some renderers are so complex and flexible that the actual set of required shaders is only
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by gmueckl 1y ago
These systems are highly proprietary and Inam reasonably certain that stating anything about them publicly would break some NDAs.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I would not call ~20% of the US population an outlier. It's a very different situation from urban areas, but just as valid And even cities in the US are vast sprawls compared to organically grown very old cities in other parts of the w
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I am also not deeply into this stuff. But there is more going on in a car than what you list. One probably surprising thing is that an LCD dashboard is usually driven by multiple rendering stacks. One is for the complex graphics and eye can
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Games today feature dynamic music with loops and transitions and individual stems that can be remixed at runtime. One prominent example (to me, at least) is "Take Control" playing over the Ashtray Maze in Control. This sounds like
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by gmueckl 1y ago
A music player that is able to change the music dynamically is neat in itself, but to me the true story behind systems like these is the tools and processes used to create the content for them. Making a technical system approachable to a cr
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Can't speak for cars specifically, but other software built to comparable standards requires a super rigorous process including detailed specs, risk analysis and mitigation, detailed design, comprehensive automated and manual testing a
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I think it's fair to say that the software in a modern car contains lot more functionality than an average smartphone. Drivers just aren't aware of how much is happening in their car each second.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Ford has the Ford Motors Credit Company, for example. I got a car loan from them at one point.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I remember one of my CS professors talking about "Kellerspeicher" when teaching stacks in algorithms class. He was quite oldschool, so I wasn't surprised that he would use German words, but using a cellar as a metaphor for a
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I don't know whether Valgrind ever gained support for any of the GTA target platforms. It wasn't available on Windows for a very, very long time.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The pointer to the uninitialized variable is passed to scanf, which writes a value there unless it encounters an error. The compiler cannot understand this contract from the scanf declaration alone.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I'd like to know where this price jump really comes from. Google doesn't help me. My first guess is that laser safety becomes an active control process at this point - laser scanner mirror needs to keep moving to not be able to de
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Is Tesla getting into legal mess if they need to add sensors to make self driving work when they already sold that feature to car owners? Would that imply that they need to retrofit already sold cars with upgraded sensor packages?
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by gmueckl 2y ago
GPUs evolved from graphics workstations (Pixar Image Computer, various SGI products...) rather than game consoles. Especially SGI pioneered a lot of the HW accelerated rendering pipeline that trickled into consumer graphics chips.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
This leaves out an important step. When 3D graphics acceleration entered the broader consumer/desktop computing market, it was also a successor to the kind of 2D graphics acceleration that consoles had and previous generations of deskt
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by gmueckl 2y ago
That WW2 theory seems like a bit of an odd take, although not a completely outlandish one. I also noticed that in the late 19th century, railways received a lot of government support and that is what enabled a dense network of passenger tra

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