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by valine 8y ago
I don’t think that’s realtime path tracing. It looks to me like they’re doing ray traced reflections and shadows and combining that with light probe global illumination. It’s cool, but not revolutionary.
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by valine 8y ago
The thing about path tracing that isn’t mentioned often is that it can take anywhere from 1/60th of second to 16 hours to render a single frame. The images that people associate with path tracers are usually of the 16 hour variety. Jus
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by valine 8y ago
That’s kind of like how you can reduce noise in low light images by taking a series of photos and averaging them together.
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by valine 8y ago
Apple said during WWDC that the change was made to support a wider variety of display technologies and scaling modes. It’s an odd choice considering they still sell the non-retina MacBook Air.
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by valine 8y ago
Its an orthographic rendering, that's why there are no perspective shifts.
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by valine 8y ago
I disagree. Look at the airplane, it's clearly made in 3D software.
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by valine 8y ago
I have no idea what tools Apple used to create this, but it would fairly easy to recreate it in something like Blender (blender.org).
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by valine 9y ago
Currently the best way to decline updates is to install the Apple TV beta profile to your iPhone or iPad. It prevents the updates from being downloaded in the background and stops the "enter passcode to update" notifications. htt
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Blender 2.8 Highlights(code.blender.org)
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by valine 9y ago
It would be nice to have readily available GPUs at a reasonable price again.
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by valine 9y ago
>> Could the investment cuts actually be efficient? Perhaps stock price concerns are motivating, because they induce the CEO to make tough decisions, such as cutting wasteful investment. If so, we would expect the CEO to improve effi
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by valine 9y ago
They seem to be using real photos from their new low light camera which is commendable. Its unfortunate that their low light photos still look like crap.
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by valine 9y ago
That was part of Apple’s GUI lawsuit in 1994 against Microfoft. Apple lost all parts of the suit except for the exclusive rights to the trash icon. Microsoft was forced to replace it with the recycle bin.
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by valine 9y ago
The price of a new GTX 1080 Ti on Newegg is $700 above Nvidia’s list price. I didn’t realize things were so bad.
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by valine 9y ago
Dell is guilty of this sort of thing. Trying to price compare between “business” and “home” computers is a nightmare.
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by valine 9y ago
The “cut the baby in half” was Solomon. If you’re looking for stories in the Bible where David is the bad guy, check out 2 Samuel 11. It’s all about how David murders a dude so he can commit adultery with the dudes wife.
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by valine 9y ago
Kind of like CTR displays but in 3D.
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by valine 9y ago
The ARKit update looks good. Tracking vertical surfaces was a major missing feature.
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by valine 9y ago
It looks like they already have an option for that.
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by valine 9y ago
Maybe its a backup sensor? The sensors on newer cars make radar detectors go nuts. It’s hard to say without knowing anything about the neighbors security system.
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by valine 9y ago
I’m personally excited for the crossover potential. The marvel comics were full of crossovers, writing standalone movies kinda does the source material a disservice imho. In terms of quality, Disney seems to be doing the best job when it co
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by valine 9y ago
Apple’s bug bounty program is for iOS only. There isn’t a bounty program for macOS.
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by valine 9y ago
Yes, but the parent comment was arguing that Animojis are a marketing gimmick, suggesting they could be enabled on other phones without the depth sensing hardware. I was sharing my experience as a counterpoint.
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by valine 9y ago
I just tried using Animojis with the TrueDepth camera covered. After a second the frame rate drops significantly (to roughly 10 fps) and the character's eyes glitch out. I'm convinced Animojis are doing something with the TrueDep
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by valine 9y ago
There are some experimental 3D printers that deviate from the “build from the bottom up approach.” Here is a pretty cool 5 axis 3D printer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Fl8L4yk8M
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by valine 9y ago
It probably depends on what material you’re printing with. Keeping ABS from warping in a cold environment would be difficult or even impossible. At the very least it would put new limitations on what shapes are possible to print and constra
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by valine 9y ago
That’s a problem with most 3D printers I think. I usually get around it by printing multiple copies of the object at the same time. By the time the printer gets around to the first copy it’s cool enough not to cause issues. Obviously it’s a
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by valine 9y ago
I think you’re overestimating how much the general public cares about Uber. The scandals haven’t negatively affected Uber financials, I doubt they will have an impact on the trial.
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by valine 9y ago
It works remotely if remote login is enable. edit: Screen sharing is is vulnerable not ssh. Either way its bad.
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by valine 9y ago
This is deeply troubling. How does this even happen?

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