pixelesque

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by pixelesque 4mo ago
> millions of threads Really?! What OSs can handle that many native threads? Also, this seems quite similar to stochastic progressive drawing of pointclouds for realtime that has been done for > 15 years in the VFX industry with GPU s
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
Hardware's not generally a subscription, monthly cost though. You update it for them every 3/4 years (if they're lucky). It probably makes a bit more sense to compare it to existing software subscriptions like Office, or th
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
> and in 2013, it was measured at 43%. Do you mean 2013 or 2023?
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
I'd like to think it does, but honestly I have no idea as I have no way of comparing to not doing this.
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
I personally find Fastmail's spam handling a lot worse than GMail's: and I get a lot more spam in my GMail address, due to it being a 22 year old address, which I still use for initial sign-ups, before then changing account emai
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
It wasn't "all their source code", it was the source code to Claude Code: not really any of their internal secret sauce, at least directly.
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
Only with things like -ffast-math enabled will compilers do the reciprocal. It can make a fair difference in some cases, but it's often better to selectively use it in code locations you know are acceptable by doing it manually in the
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
As someone with a lot of experience in this area doing image processing and rendering for VFX (including writing image readers and writers for my own software and commercial VFX software), I think you might be forgetting that colourspace
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
If you're a beginner, or just want something which works quickly, sure. However OIIO is far from perfect in all situations (having had to debug and fix issues with its mip-map generation filtering code in the past), so don't alway
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
Very likely, but isn't this post claiming that bijou64 is safer than LEB128 for the situation of adversarial varints?
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by pixelesque 4mo ago
Why are people down-voting this? It's generally correct: If you're self-employed / sole trader and operating outside IR-35, there's no way the HMRC can know how much you were paid as they don't have the info, so the
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Thanks!
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Thanks!
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Thanks for the info.
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Thank you - I'll give that a go!
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Out of interest, what machine and model are you running it on? I tried the qwen3.6-27b Q6_k GUFF in llama.cpp and LM Studio on my M2 MacBook Pro 32GB machine last week, and I barely get a token a second with either. What sort of speed shoul
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
This was with amd64. ICC was at the time the only compiler that would not do that.
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Yep, same here and agree. Compilers have definitely got better though: another issue in the past (maybe still is to a degree? although compilers have got a lot better at this in the past 15 years, but it used to be one of the things only In
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Mainly by having view-dependent (i.e. changes with the camera angle) material reflectance (diffuse colour and specular highlight). i.e. the colour (and possibly other surface properties) vary depending on their direction, which is (or at le
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
> 4. Allowing you to bypass geo-restrictions on certain content. In theory, but as someone who uses Mullvad in the UK on a day-to-day basis on my personal laptops (not my phone) - I'm using it now, I'm afraid there's quite
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
6,755 commits for the PR as well...
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Previous comments from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
> Wasn’t it used for that before anything else? Google invented transformers and had LLMs internally before chatgpt got released. According to friends who worked at Google (no direct knowledge myself, so don't know exactly how true
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Google maps' business/shop/restaurent information is indeed a lot better than Apple maps / Yelp in the UK, however I've found here it relies on business owners to update that info, and so often has "orphaned&qu
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
(As someone who worked closely with pathtracing renderers and de-noisers, I think I can answer this :) ) It's mostly because in the VFX/CG space for ray tracing/path tracing de-noisers, they almost always rely on extra output
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
It's not the Chroma subsampling, it's the agressive de-noising removing the detail (noise is technically 'detail' you don't normally want). 410/411/422 is the least of the problems. If it was just that, it
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
It's possible to save RAW files (mostly) unprocessed with iPhones, either via built-in functionality (Pros) or via apps like Halide. But the aggressiveness of the de-noising in the native JPG/HEIF images otherwise is really unfort
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Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens(macrumors.com)
69 points by pixelesque 5mo ago|60 comments
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
Sometimes (and very often in some scenarios/industries, i.e. HPC for graphics and simulation with indices for things like points, vertices, primvars, voxels, etc) you want pretty good efficiency of the size of the datatype as well for
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by pixelesque 5mo ago
In terms of at Microsoft's end, or in general with the amount of new repos and pushes / commits from other people vibe-coding?

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