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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
If the biggest negative you have with macOS is unreliable sleep, you’re not going to enjoy linux. source: i use linux
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
I was forced to abandon macOS because Apple abandoned Nvidia and I need CUDA. Now running Ubuntu 18.04. It’s fine. The UX is varying degrees of shitty as always but I can do what I need without too much hassle (mostly vscode/vim and th
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
Go's CPU floor is lower compared to the naive Rust port (roughly 20% vs 23% from eyeballing). Their optimized Rust version is shown in the next series of graphs as being ~12%.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
looking at the amount of time she’s tagged as sleep all I can think is that she has no idea how easy she’s got it.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
Not really: it doesn’t account for specular reflections. It’s more like if you took the objects out of the water and then used a polarising filter to remove the highlights.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
I think the answer, as always, is to measure on your own workloads. I’ve seen real-world production code get significant speed ups by switching to spinlocks from mutexes. Very interesting post though. I’ve never considered the idle latency
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
I think the key difference here is that in your code you’re saying you “know” that it’s safe to write to these certain sections of the array from different threads. That’s an invariant that‘s held in your memory (or in a comment maybe). The
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
Or maybe there are just a lot of people who like using rust because it fits their use cases very well and are excited about the release of a big new feature that’s been in development for a long time?
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
“I know this code I’ve just written is safe” is the opening verse for the thousands of security vulnerabilities we see every year.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
Unless you're playing it on a 75MHz Pentium, I think those people are right.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
Yeah but you could buy a 24MP camera and a whole kit of high quality glass for the same price as this body.
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by pixel_fcker 7y ago
The difference is the let key word makes it obvious you’re rebinding the name. Shadowing is one of those things that intuitively raises a red flag first time you see it but actually is extremely helpful. It dramatically reduces noise e.g. i
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
scrolling doesn't appear to work at all for me on Chrome 71, macOS
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
I'm always curious about this as well. On Ubuntu 16 at least installation is just selecting an option in the software manager. After that it just works.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
My late 2013 with the same GPU is still going strong but it's going to need replacing at some point. I'll have to move off Apple at that point as Nvidia (CUDA) is a must for me.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
1 play on radio 1 could easily be 1 million listeners for which they get 100 quid you say, whereas this band say they got $5000 for a million listens on Spotify.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
29 hours wallclock is long for a render but not uncommon.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
There’s not really a vendor here since macOS is free. Linux isn’t exactly free from the need to choose well-supported hardware either, particularly of you need to run a more stable distro
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
They will absolutely invest money in new IP just as soon as shitty superhero crap and Star Wars stop making billions of dollars.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
Dwivedi is brute force. It’s just a sampling strategy.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
there was a paper recently caching sparse radiance results and using ML to predict important paths from that. I believe the latest version of Octane might do something like that if you read between the lines of their marketing guff.
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by pixel_fcker 8y ago
That’s using fully digital versions of those actors though. We’re a long way from being able to use AI for those kind of performances yet.
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a MBP and I cannot get the trackpad to work properly (right-click in the corner). I have to hand-edit confit files, the settings involved are undocumented, and it doesn’t work and I don’t know why. Even regular
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
I’m not quite sure of what you’re asking exactly here? What do you mean by constant brdfs?
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
It actually means a lot more than that in offline VFX. It was the games industry that decided it meant “use the Disney shader”.
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
Physically based rendering is _not_ the Disney shader and renaming your diffuse maps to albedo because it sounds more sciencey. It’s about the wholesale switch to a fully path-traced framework with a consistent mathematical foundation as op
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
I believe strongly in an equal distribution of opportunity between the sexes. How would you propose fixing the gap that the paper describes? Simply paying women drivers 7% more? Would that be fair?
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
I'm implying that it doesn't need to be corrected.
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
Should interventions be made to reduce the gap?
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by pixel_fcker 9y ago
You can tell that from a tiny compressed gif?

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