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by gmueckl 5y ago
The problem is the non-linear conversion between sRGB values and actual displayed brightness. Some operations have physical equivalents (e.g. transparent overlays can be defined equivalently to viewing a background through colored glass). I
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by gmueckl 5y ago
How is the LGPLv3 materially different from LGPLv2.1? It's perfectly possible to use Qt under LGPLv3 in a closed source program with dynamic linking without much fuss.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
They can't just stop licensing the core of Qt under GPL or LGPL (I forget which) due to an old agreement between Trolltech and KDE e.V. that states (roughly) that if there are no more OSS releases of Qt for more than a year, the last p
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You're technically correct that the results are only valid for the University of Maryland. The experiments were conducted in a single location, so any potential spatial variation of the observed behavior hasn't been captured in th
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The anchoring mechanism was designed over a decade before the lander arrived at its destination. The prevaling theory was that it would encounter a relatively hard and compact layer under a thin dust cover. Then the Deep Impact mission happ
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Evicting tenants is not easy. Even with an order, you can't simply dump tenants out on the street if they have no other home to go to. And there are ways to claim extenuating circumstances. We've had our share of tenants that tras
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Can't answer the second question. As for the first one: in Germany, you pay rent plus an advance for certain utilities (heating, cold and hot water, trash collection, general maintenance of common areas etc.). The rent without the adva
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Blender nodes are pretty much the same as Unreal Blueprint. The differences are smalll enough to not matter for the purposes of this discussion.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Is the "splice cache" used to cover for discontinuities (e.g. reels spliced together for the entire film, cuts to remove damaged sections...)? I'm just guessing from the name here.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The pen displays include a stand to put them at an angle. In essence this is the same posture issue that you face when writing or drawing on paper. Some professional desks could be angled upwards for that reason. It's practical with pe
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by gmueckl 5y ago
I bought a set of powerline network adapters once, from a reputable manufacturer. While they work flawlessly, they have an extremely annoying side effect that made me pop them out an hour after I first installed them. I ran an ethernet cabl
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Implementing a good complex UI takes a lot of effort. It requires a clear vision, quite thankless attention to details, tedious iteration and something that open source software projects struggle with: willingness to sacrifice cleanliness o
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by gmueckl 5y ago
My experience with QNX is quite limited, but the OS is very general. There is a desktop GUI that is powerful enough to serve as part of self hosted software development environment. Generally, the tradeoffs are made to keep the core microke
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by gmueckl 5y ago
What you're saying is copmpletely wrong. ImGUI is transparently creating structs with internal widget state for every slightly more complex widget on the screen. Look at the state structs in imgui_internal.h to get an idea of what I&#x
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The unfortute truth to these toolkits is that they need to keep a ton of shadow state internally and diff that to the data coming in with each new frame. The most trivial example would be a button. The user redeclares this button each frame
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by gmueckl 5y ago
This means that software development is a failing discipline. All we can do is to come up with ever more ridiculous layers of complexity on top of mindboggling complexity, recursively. All of this is totally self-inflicted. The problem doma
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by gmueckl 5y ago
But operating systems are free to map the same read only memory pages (e.g. program code) into different process address spaces. This is an optimization that running processes are generally completely oblivious of. But it only works when e.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Games had to be smaller projects. The console and home computer hardware at that time put a tight limit on how much code and data you could ship. Filling that up wasn't hard. It was mostly a matter using these resources well. This chan
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by gmueckl 5y ago
I guess the approach you're looking for to make sure that relevant light sources aren't ignored is covered by the ideas in the clustered deferred shading or clustered forward shading algorithms: you divide your view frustum into a
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by gmueckl 5y ago
All of these techniques already exist, sometimes in more than one form. There are multiple published papers on sampling millions of light sources efficiently, mainly in offline rendering. There are other approaches that e.g. cluster far awa
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by gmueckl 5y ago
If you haven't noticed, the whole point of GitHub is to infest git-using environments with so many centralized features that user's get trapped using that service. Seems like issues and actions are doing that job nicely!
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by gmueckl 5y ago
A device driver is program code like any other, so there's no way it can be magic. Whether it's simple or complex depends on a couple of things. Some hardware maps registers into memory and you communicate it by reading from/
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by gmueckl 5y ago
"No well in hell" is a very good answer. Just the HTML DOM and layouting code in KHTML before it was forked into WebKit was an enormously complex piece of code. Then there is the JS implementation (including compiler - JS gets tra
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Compare Flash to Safari then: Flash is a comparatively small VM runtime and vector graphics engine while Safari is a whole browser, which has a much larger attack surface. And Safari, despite its increased complexity, had about the same amo
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You first have to know what to compute before you can compute it. A computer won't tell you that.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The craziness in the iPhone design isn't exactly the number of elements, but their weird aspherical shapes. The traditional approaches for designing optics are have been developed for spherical lenses because they are much simpler to d
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Right, I forgot about those! Still, these moments are designed to mostly be self-contained and have little to no interplay with each other. This keeps a nice lid on the complexity of the narrative. A game's narrative complexity can eas
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Let's be realistic here: there's only so much that you can do on any realistic budget. A more elaborate and variable ending than what the ME series got at the end of ME3 would be a really big undertaking. I believe that the rest o
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Deus Ex only had a few moments with slightly difference based on your actions. The first one is the boss' reaction to your first mission depending on how violent you are in your approach. You get a few lines of praise or a chewing out
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Going after developers with excellent tooling has been part of the MS strategy since at least the 90s. MS knows that they need lots of 3rd party developers to make their own offerings more successful and that's why they're throwin

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