slavik81

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by slavik81 5y ago
I know several brilliant people who each spent between eight and eleven years getting their MSc and PhD in computer graphics. In theory, the MSc should take two years and the PhD should take four, but it always takes longer.
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by slavik81 5y ago
I've written my fair share of this sort of code, but it's a very painful way to create geometry. I don't mean to be discouraging. I just did way too much of this myself, and I regret how much time I spent on custom primatives
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by slavik81 5y ago
It seems to be generating a lot of characters with "DreamWorks Face". https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamworksFace
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by slavik81 5y ago
It is rather disappointing. I run my personal blog and email on .xyz because it's great for graphics puns. Hotmail and gmail will accept my messages, but corporate email servers often seem to blackhole me.
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by slavik81 5y ago
> But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it... Who knows wh
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by slavik81 5y ago
There are nearly 50 Canadian crown corporations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC), and the Bank of Canada. There was even a new one created recently. The government cre
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by slavik81 5y ago
Age ratings in Australia are legally mandated, but the rating agency regularly refuses classification to video games. Until 2013, it was illegal to publish a video game unsuitable for 15-year-olds. The introduction of R18 for video games wa
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by slavik81 5y ago
> Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyr
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by slavik81 5y ago
It was admittedly a decade ago at this point, but I used waf before I used CMake. The thing about CMake is that it has an ugly language, but a fairly simple model of the compilation process. The first week I started using CMake, I set up a
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by slavik81 5y ago
My father always said that accidents tend to happen when two people make mistakes. Even when fault technically lies with a single party, it's often the case that both parties had a chance to prevent the mistake from becoming a collisio
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by slavik81 5y ago
You can use BFG [1] or git-filter-branch to remove individual files from the history, though doing so will change the hash of every commit since the files were introduced. Whether it's worth the disruption or not is up to you. [1]: ht
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by slavik81 5y ago
Even dead trees take decades to decay. It varies by climate, but a typical tree in the Boreal Forest might take a century to rot away.
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by slavik81 5y ago
You've very concisely explained the bits that were unclear to me. Thank you.
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by slavik81 5y ago
Could you give an example of an alloca mem2reg would eliminate?
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by slavik81 5y ago
A few years ago, I helped build a (tiny) game based on this subject for a hackathon: http://www.diversibee.org
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by slavik81 5y ago
There's unofficial support in the rocm-4.3.0 math-libs for gfx1030 (6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT). rocBLAS also includes gfx1010, gfx1011 and gfx1012 (5000 series). If you encounter any bugs in the {roc,hip}{BLAS,SPARSE,SOLVER,FF
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by slavik81 5y ago
> [Max Headroom] was called "the first computer-generated TV personality", although the computer-generated appearance was achieved with an actor in prosthetic make-up and harsh lighting, in front of a blue screen https:/&
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by slavik81 5y ago
What makes compiling FFTW on Windows so troublesome? That's currently on my to-do list.
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by slavik81 5y ago
It's the same permission because WiFi networks are basically landmarks. If you see the Eiffel tower, you know you're in Paris. Similarly, if you see network id X, you know you're near location Y. One day, the camera permissio
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by slavik81 5y ago
Joel's article is a bit long in the tooth. As of C++11, std::string is required to use both a length and a null terminator. With the short string optimization, it could even have that exact layout. > Lazy programmers would do this,
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by slavik81 5y ago
I TA'd a couple assembly courses that used m4 as a preprocessor. Slight syntax errors result in some gnarly error messages, and students really struggled with it. Heck, I struggled with it sometimes.
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by slavik81 5y ago
Matt Godbolt gave an example of a significant performance hit caused by unnecessary short-circuiting in his CppCon 2019 talk[1]. EDIT: Deleted tangent. [1]: https://youtu.be/HG6c4Kwbv4I?t=45m
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by slavik81 5y ago
Immediate mode still exists and is usable to this day. The compatibility profile never went away. JWZ implemented old-school OpenGL in a library on top of a more modern API, and I would entirely agree that's a good approach to compatib
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It takes dozens of lines of code to draw a triangle in modern OpenGL. You were presumably using immediate mode, which is ancient and deprecated because it has horrible performance on modern hardware. Given that the whole point of an API for
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It's a terrible design. My cat turned on the stove by walking across the capacitive touch controls.
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Frank Herbert was quoted in "Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers" saying something similar: "A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the th
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by slavik81 5y ago
The giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest-growing plant in the world, living mostly on the Pacific coast, off the shores of California and British Columbia. It had economic value at one point, so kelp farming was a major industry
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by slavik81 5y ago
I've never worked with multi-grid, but I assume the preconditioner is also based on the Cholesky factorization? Incomplete Cholesky was pretty effective as the preconditioner for the pressure solve in my toy fluid sim.
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> We don't worry about people memorizing proprietary source code and "accidentally" using it I'm not sure why it's different, but that's a common concern with music. For example: https://www.reddi
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However, the point of that study is that the oxygen levels are not 95%. The pulse oxymeter is wrong, and that study is about determining how wrong it is. The abstract basically says you can subtract the blood carbon monoxide level from th

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