jamesfmilne

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by jamesfmilne 3y ago
PCs are "good enough" to do the job, the same reason they killed off these beasts back in the first place. The software I work on started life on SGI, but has been on Linux PCs for the last 20 years. For the top end, we use big se
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by jamesfmilne 3y ago
Hi Sam, I worked at Real Time Worlds on that too. Probably before it was called My World, then I think we were calling it Real Driving or something then. Small world! Cheers James
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by jamesfmilne 3y ago
This was my first job, 22 years ago. Ended up as something called My World, which then became eegeo, and now WRLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MyWorld https://www.wrld3d.com Didn't really end
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by jamesfmilne 3y ago
This is foxes going before Congress asking for regulation and licensing for purposes of raiding henhouses.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Interesting background. I've recently been toying with the idea of writing some open-source Mac DriverKit drivers for Mellanox cards, so I'm not forced to pay through the nose for ATTO cards (which are just rebranded Mellanox card
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Yup, I remember the Anarchists Cookbook, telling you how to make mortars, and napalm out of polystyrene & petrol.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
They're not selling it, the app is free.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
I started using type annotations heavily in my Python code recently, and coupled with IDEs like VSCode and PyCharm that leverage the typing, and the underlying tools like pyright/pylance, it's a game changer. I wouldn't try a
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Our company FilmLight used to build such scanners, called Northlight. Similar scanners were ARRI Scan. It used an 8K line array CCD, and pulled a film frame across by locking the frame in a gate and moving the gate with a servo. Indeed, 6 f
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
You can work around that by using relative linker paths (rpaths). See 'install_name_tool -add_rpath' (to add an rpath search path to a library or executable for finding other libraries) and 'install_name_tool -id' (to ch
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
I believe the Komodo IDE was written on top of xulrunner, which used the internals of Mozilla/Firefox.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
If you haven't watched Chernobyl on HBO/Sky/NowTV, you should. It's an excellent mini-series. I've rewatched it 2 or 3 times already. Jared Harris does an excellent job playing Legasov. https://en.wikiped
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Runs fine on Rocky 8.6 as well.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Only supports Metal though, no OpenGL apps (even through their OpenGL implementation is written on top of Metal).
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
I was in the local Co-op supermarket in North London buying some bread & milk the other day. The staff in the shop were talking amongst themselves about how "they were into crypto". I doubt they were comparing their elliptic c
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
The closest you will get is something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-QNA-T310G1S-Single-Thunderbolt... There's a lot of supporting circuitry, and quite a lot of power to dissipate.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Like a smell from a cupboard in your grandmother's house, some of these names conjure up strong memories from your childhood.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
I just wish they wouldn't call the pro products RTX 6000 Ada Lovelace. Just call it the RTX L6000. Maybe the think L is for Losers?
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
When you virtualise macOS it does expose the GPU, but only Metal is supported. However perhaps Mesa will be able to support OpenGL via paravirtualised Metal, for Linux and perhaps macOS and Windows.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
We use a CM3 in our Blackboard Classic control surface: https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/control/range_cn/index...
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Perfectly
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Which doesn't work, unless you have Xcode or the Command Line Tools installed.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Cool machine. Our company used to build 35mm film scanners, called Northlights, for film post-production. Originally they were driven by SGI Octanes. Then x86 Linux machines. Biggest problem these days would be the interface cards. I believ
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
I caught a glimpse of operating systems that had not been and would never be
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
The digital cinema projectors have hardware JPEG 2000 decoders. This IP is licensed from companies like IntoPIX: https://www.intopix.com/JPEG2000 Most post-production software that reads/writes DCPs will be using a GPU
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
FilmLight | https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk | London, UK or EU | Full time | Onsite/Remote | Senior | C/C++/Python/JavaScript FilmLight's builds world-leading colour correction systems for film & televi
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Big Clive just comes across as Scottish to me. - Another Scotsman
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Indeed these systems had NuBus, which was a holdover from the earlier 68k MacII and Quadra machines.
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
m1n1 in this case is a bit like ESXi, and this overall will be a bit like running Windows under VMware. I imagine this will be quite achievable. Windows 11 already runs ok in Parallels. Doing it "properly" native will require Micr
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by jamesfmilne 4y ago
Beyond Compare is a pretty good diff/merge tool that runs natively on macOS. Sure it's UI is slightly non-native too. https://www.scootersoftware.com/

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