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by raincole 3mo ago
My rule of thumb: just use the most mainstream options unless I have a very, very strong reason to do otherwise. The mainstream options will screw you, but the niche options will screw you in totally unexpected ways.
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by raincole 3mo ago
They can easily afford 1000 human made pelican svg files if they want. I think you underestimate how much resources SotA AI companies have. (I'm not saying that they did that. I'm just saying they can.)
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by raincole 3mo ago
> When interacting with LLMs it feels a lot more like I'm just receiving knowledge passively It's... almost an oxymoron, and very different from my experience.
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by raincole 3mo ago
? In this very particular case, yeah, the original commenter was holding it wrong, as they inspected the wrong thing. People sometimes hold things wrong and it's okay.
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by raincole 3mo ago
So what's the best real time alternative to SSAO?
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by raincole 3mo ago
Except cloud services won over local-first apps. > Put all of these trends together, and I think that in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) doing I'm not even sure in 10-15 years whether we're still go
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by raincole 3mo ago
I suppose that's the main reason as Houdini's real customers are those who can afford huge render farms. Even before Karma, Houdini's renderer (Mantra) wasn't known for its speed. That's quite a bummer for me, an in
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by raincole 3mo ago
It's a weird way to frame the event. Yeah, Andrew (Zig)'s responses were astonishingly immature, but it doesn't matter. Even if Andrew literally ate baby seals for breakfast and kicked puppies as a hobby, it wouldn't mak
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by raincole 3mo ago
> It (3d asset creation) practially hasn't changed much since ~1995. I disagree. In the past ~20 years, more and more 3D assets have been created as very high-poly models and high-res textures first (via sculpting, photogrammetry an
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by raincole 3mo ago
As someone who spent quite some time (>1000hr) in Houdini, I really wonder what's the secret behind Blender's rendering engines and why SideFX failed to catch up. Cycles are so much faster than Karma on my machine. Eevee can ge
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by raincole 3mo ago
This is the correct approach (I dare to say the only correct approach) when porting to another language. You can examining the architecture later.
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by raincole 3mo ago
I literally use vim. But if I can customize something system-wise instead of app-wise I'd always do that.
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by raincole 3mo ago
Only slightly related, but what increased my code typing speed the most is this (AutoHotKey 2): ; CapsLock + J/K -> ( ) CapsLock & j::SendText "(" CapsLock & k::SendText ")" ; CapsLock + U/I -> [
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by raincole 3mo ago
I was about 50% sure this whole piece is parody when I read through the LLM part, and after I read the whole thing now I'm 99% sure.
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by raincole 3mo ago
> the weights of the model—which you have to sell many million times over before you turn a profit—easily fits on contemporary pocket-sized storage devices. Which model is this author talking about? Which pocket-sized devices? Where can
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by raincole 3mo ago
It's such a weird train of thoughts lol. You're using the fact that - Claude isn't doing that as evidence to support the assumption that - it's a marketing trick Which is obviously non sequitur, as if it were a marketing
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by raincole 3mo ago
It genuinely scares me that some people's first reaction to this news is banning LLM.
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by raincole 3mo ago
When I realized that I'd spent more time on explaining that my question wasn't the same as another existing one than asking the question itself, I stopped using SO all together.
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by raincole 3mo ago
To compete against America. If your country has something like DeepSeek you really can't afford to let it fall as it's your best leverage if the US government decides to ban companies in your country from accessing American LLMs.
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by raincole 3mo ago
> So what's your unique contribution to this world - is it the prompt you once wrote Why not? You're implying writing good prompts doesn't require effort or thought, which is false to me. > Are you going to apply that k
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by raincole 3mo ago
There was an almost exact example of this: City Skyline 2. It's (was) a poorly optimized game and they said Unity's DOTS didn't match their expectation, making Unity look bad, while some issues (like they didn't use LoD
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by raincole 3mo ago
> I talked to those who interviewed for a job at Oven. I talked to people who worked there. Those people talked to each other. Everybody talked to everybody. The grapevine was large and healthy and full of juicy grapes, and all those gra
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by raincole 3mo ago
> Past college you're not going to learn physics by trying to self-study an entire university course And why not? Because humans' brains stop working after they graduate from colleges? Most college students don't work tha
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by raincole 3mo ago
It reads as "I don't use Claude Code."
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by raincole 3mo ago
Yeah, exactly. It's weird that Zig even responded to that. Imagining that your studio switched from Unity to Unreal and Unity proceeded to release a hit piece attacking your codebase quality and workplace environment.
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by raincole 3mo ago
So not just free work, but you expect Anthropic to pay to maintain a Zig version...?
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by raincole 3mo ago
Opportunity cost isn't just a real cost. It's THE real cost.
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by raincole 3mo ago
Or, you know, you can use Postgres. It's right there for you.
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by raincole 3mo ago
Reminder: the "expected" result is replaced all programmers and white collar employees. Even they don't necessarily state it explicitly, that's what is in their minds. Anything less than that is slower than expected.
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by raincole 3mo ago
It's unironically a good practice when you port from an unsafe language (C/Zig) to Rust. Porting isn't refactoring. One should keep the logic mapping one-to-one as much as possible. The high number of unsafe blocks is a good

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