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by packetslave 3y ago
Why do you care? Unless you work for Google Legal, you're in no position to scold OP about anything
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by packetslave 3y ago
Having (for example) 6 inches of water in your 115kV switch room is a small-scale problem that can cause a large-scale outage.
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by packetslave 3y ago
No it wasn't. https://www.gottabemobile.com/why-siri-is-called-siri/
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by packetslave 3y ago
The pyramid animation at the top reminds me of 11:30 in this video: https://youtu.be/q6MJSfjXUgQ?t=690 ...which is the same 2D/3D illusion, but made with, you know... humans.
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by packetslave 4y ago
we're posting copyrighted PDFs to HN now?
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by packetslave 4y ago
Ever wonder why Google outage notifications always say stuff like "this impacted 0.01752% of users"? Because if they leave that out, the PR department ends up flooded with questions from reporters about "how bad was this out
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by packetslave 4y ago
The K-2S0 droid character in Rogue One (voiced by Alan Tudyk) was, in fact, rendered in real-time using Unreal, then composited into shots afterwards. John Knoll from ILM gave a talk at GDC 2017 about it. The catch, though, is that ILM took
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by packetslave 4y ago
Yup. The state of the art for real-time rendering just isn't there yet for hero work. Even ILM's custom Helios renderer is only used for environments and environment-based lighting, as far as I've read. Assets, fx shots, and
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by packetslave 4y ago
and there's still plenty of Arnold and Clarisse houses out there.
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by packetslave 4y ago
You've definitely seen a TV or Movie that used Unreal. Name a major-studio movie that rendered final camera-ready VFX in Unreal. For TV, you can name The Mandalorian season one, sure, but even then, ILM switched The Volume to their o
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by packetslave 4y ago
re: CentOS7, the VFX Reference Platform ( https://vfxplatform.com/ ) is probably relevant here. Their latest Linux Platform Recommendations report from August last year already covers migrations off of CentOS 7 / RHEL7
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by packetslave 4y ago
um, maybe because it's an article from "JewishPress.com - Bringing you the news from Israel and the Jewish World"?
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by packetslave 4y ago
If you're a director with 10-20 years experience and you're making $300k/year, you're REALLY doing it wrong.
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by packetslave 4y ago
Marketing is a contributor to ruining things, but so is "shitty little edgelords who just want to start trouble, break things, troll people, 'shitpost', or some combination of the above." And that's before you even
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by packetslave 4y ago
how long is "way too long"? URLs (including query parameters) can be up to 4k. Does it have to be JSON? Can you use a binary format like protobuf, BSON, etc.? you're likely to get much better compression.
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by packetslave 4y ago
ISO (Independent System Operator) is a term that's been used in the energy industry for a very long time.
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by packetslave 4y ago
Here's a FB engineering blog post from 2021 that covers ZippyDB pretty well. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/
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by packetslave 4y ago
Building a distributed RocksDB-based system is also a fun project... and practical, too! Large swaths of Facebook services are built on top of ZippyDB, which is basically "distributed RocksDB as a service"
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by packetslave 4y ago
A Tu-95 Bear coming anywhere close to a U.S. ADIZ is very likely to get an introduction to Mr. Sidewinder or Mr. AMRAAM, considering their primary role is to deliver nuclear ordnance.
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by packetslave 4y ago
Developer of Hacki - a Hacker News client: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki This you?
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by packetslave 4y ago
yup. the Nuke -> Avid -> Resolve pipeline probably covers at least 80+% of post-production in film and TV. on the VFX side, Maya -> Mari -> Clarisse is still overwhelmingly common unless it's a studio that has their own cus
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by packetslave 4y ago
The very best engineer I've ever worked with at any company (Anna B.) just got promoted to Distinguished last year. She accomplished one or two industry-leading things before that :-)
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by packetslave 4y ago
It's near the top of the individual contributor (ie. non-manager) job ladder. L5 = senior L6 = staff L7 = senior staff L8 = principal engineer L9 = distinguished engineer L10 = fellow None of these are titles that Google invented, btw.
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by packetslave 4y ago
Ignoring orders in the military is a good way to end up in prison.
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by packetslave 4y ago
oh, sure. Hauptwerk is definitely the way to go if you want the "real organ" experience, since it can also do multiple manuals, pedals, etc. Me, I just want to rattle peoples' teeth with the RAH's virtual 32' reed
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by packetslave 4y ago
There are quite a few high-quality sampled pipe organs out there, most of which run in Native Instruments' Kontakt sampler software. My personal favorites are the RAH ( https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com/ ) and the Rug
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by packetslave 4y ago
Anna's great! Last year she played the Royal Albert Hall organ at a Bonobo electronic music concert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyAF9M3XVw
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by packetslave 4y ago
For Thanos, you can (mostly) just copy the blocks from the existing s3 bucket into Mimir's bucket. There's some cleanup prep around external labels, but nothing too difficult, and the process is well-documented. I just finished mi
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by packetslave 4y ago
Because someone submits them, and others upvote them. It's really not complicated. There's no deep conspiracy to promote Tailscale here. They're not even a YC company.
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by packetslave 4y ago
One thing I miss from fburl (Facebook's go-links) is that pretty much EVERY internal system had built-in support for creating them. A perfect example would be the Scuba and OBS observability UIs. Instead of sharing a gnarly 500-charac

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