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by swerner 5mo ago
If you think that’s dedication: I met Dominic (DA) who they interviewed in this article almost 20 years ago in the Spanish desert, where taught us Euroburners the art of MOOP cleanup. He’s been at it for a long time now.
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by swerner 4y ago
I’ve had a similar FAANG experience. They approached me, I made “no relocation” a non-negotiable condition from the start. We started talking, I did the marathon interview until late in the night (CET vs PT), put my formal application in th
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by swerner 5y ago
I would love to see a BeOS/Haiku userland on top, of the Linux Kernel. That would bring wide hardware support, including HW accelerated 3D (something BeOS was always lacking). It is not going to happen though, the attempts that were di
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by swerner 5y ago
Linux 20 years ago wasn’t what it is today. Low latency audio for example, that was something that BeOS in the late 90s could do out of the box, a similar experience on Linux required special kernel patches and some compromises or it simply
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by swerner 5y ago
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
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by swerner 7y ago
In my experience, OepnCL in Catalina is about as good or bad as it was in Mojave.
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by swerner 7y ago
Part of it is pure luck - being at the right place at the right time. An on site internship gave me a foot in the door for my first remote job. After that, I had experience in a certain niche and a couple of open source contributions under
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by swerner 7y ago
German here as well - the lack of employer flexibility is why in the last 15 years, I have been working exclusively for companies overseas, remotely. I found it much easier to negotiate remote work with an employer based in San Francisco th
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by swerner 7y ago
HIView was up to date and documented, and there were WWDC sessions teaching developers why they should move to HIView and how to do it. Likewise, Apple provided documentation about how to port your Carbon application to 64 bit Carbon. Maxon
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by swerner 7y ago
You have to add all kinds of reference qualifiers (__strong, __weak, ...).
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by swerner 7y ago
Apple may initially have intended Carbon as temporary, but has changed their stance when they started adding new APIs that never existed in MacOS 9 - HIView/HIWindow was intended to unify Carbon and Cocoa, there was even a 64 buy versi
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by swerner 7y ago
QTKit was deprecated, and support for objective-C garbage collection, once praised as the future, was removed altogether.
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by swerner 7y ago
Absolutely. Not just tabs vs spaces, but also camel case vs underscore, line length, etc.
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by swerner 7y ago
Besides, we’re already using render farms where each machine has 20+ cores and 256GB RAM. A future render farm might as well be built from machines with specs similar to the new Mac PRo.
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by swerner 7y ago
Remember the joke of “never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 full of hard drives”? That’s the render farm. Throw a ton of work at it, and it’ll get done faster than a big single machine could. What would have taken a week now takes a da
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by swerner 7y ago
I worked as one of several in-house Blender developers on "Next Gen". In some cases, were able to get fixed builds into our artists' hands in within 24h of a bug report. I have not had such a quick turnaround with any commerc
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by swerner 7y ago
Our repository is public. You can look at every single commit we did: https://github.com/tangent-animation/blender278/commits/mast... "Normal days" changed during the course of the project. In the b
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by swerner 8y ago
And those are still the harmless examples. Look at it from the female perspective: Got a violent ex-husband? A stalker? Are you a teenager who’s walking home alone after school? You have done nothing wrong, but you have a lot to hide.
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by swerner 8y ago
Interesting. The difference in homelessness between EU and US may just be perception and not reality?
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by swerner 8y ago
Can’t speak for other countries, but in Germany there is a social security safety net that will pay rent up to a certain apartment size and just barely cover living expenses. It doesn’t eliminate homelessness entirely, a lack of affordable
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by swerner 8y ago
This will soon be cited by quacks as “evidence“ for their overpriced uselesss therapies. Bioresonance, Homeopathy, Reiki, ...? „Brain cells communicate wirelessly, and my method integrates with that communication!“
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by swerner 8y ago
Can you please cite the German law for that? To my knowledge, there is nothing in German that is illegal to view, only publishing and in few cases (child pornography) ownership is restricted.
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by swerner 8y ago
I'm working on it: https://twitter.com/stefan_3d/status/1090607219975045120 It should work on any CPU with SSE4.2 support, which includes all modern AMD CPUs.
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by swerner 8y ago
Not going to list all fo them, but the one that will have the most immediate impact on not just my life is: "Unconditional Parenting" by Alfie Kohn.
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by swerner 8y ago
Someone smarter than me discussing this paper: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdnW8ldDoZU
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by swerner 8y ago
They used Halo only in the very beginning, they switched to more traditional tools: https://www.smithmicro.com/company/news-room/press-releases/...
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by swerner 8y ago
I'm using one for a couple of years now and would buy it again in a heartbeat. The best office chair I've ever sat in.
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by swerner 8y ago
I agree. This was a nice technical exercise/demo, but did not offer any notable usability improvements over other window managers.
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by swerner 8y ago
I don't think performance is the achilles heel of OpenCL. There are other problems that I have when working with: The implementations ended up becoming a "write once, debug everywhere" ecosystem. Making the compiler a part of
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by swerner 8y ago
The benchmarks where the 1080 doesn't even compete - FP16/Tensor Cores.

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