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by ykl 9mo ago
I think this project is best described by one of my favorite quotes from Top Gear: “an ingenious solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place”.
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by ykl 9mo ago
Hi! Original post author here. When I first started at Disney Animation, at one point I asked Ed Catmull what the rationale was for staffing two separate rendering teams, and he had an interesting answer. His answer was that it turns out th
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by ykl 9mo ago
Hi! Author of the original post here. Please see: https://disneyanimation.com/publications/ Or, for a continuously updated list of publications specifically about Disney’s Hyperion Renderer: https://blog.yin
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by ykl 10mo ago
I thought that QNX was acquired by / is still developed by BlackBerry?
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by ykl 1y ago
One of the open secrets of AWS is that even though AWS has a lot of regions and availability zones, a lot of AWS services have control planes that are dependent on / hosted out of us-east-1 regardless of which region / AZ you&#x27
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by ykl 1y ago
I am pretty squeamish around blood (even reading about it...), but this piece was so well written and engrossing and impactful that I made it all the way through in one shot. I had no idea that the bovie instrument (and broadly the entire f
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by ykl 1y ago
You can in fact already do this (have Mac windows show up as separate floating windows in VisionOS instead of all being on the single MacOS window) using a third party tool called Ensemble: https://github.com/saagarjha/
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by ykl 1y ago
Ah, thanks! Different link so the dupe detector didn’t catch it.
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by ykl 1y ago
So it’s okay to be a jerk to someone as long as their parents were famous?
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Robin Williams' Daughter Tells Fans to 'Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad'(variety.com)
3 points by ykl 1y ago|5 comments
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by ykl 1y ago
Give it a try if you want; it doesn't work. For TLS traffic they track what the connection looks like over time; a TLS connection for normal web traffic versus a VPN connection tunneling through TLS apparently look different enough tha
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by ykl 1y ago
This doesn't work anymore; the GFW no longer detects VPN connections by port but instead by performing deep packet inspection to characterize the type of traffic going over every connection. Using this technique in combination with som
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by ykl 1y ago
This is a pretty well known thing; the M3/A17 generation GPU was a ground-up redesign that added things like dynamic caching and hardware ray tracing [1] which are highly nontrivial to simply extend an existing architecture to support.
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by ykl 1y ago
I once saw an interview with the SVP who oversees Azure datacenter buildout or something like that and a thing that stuck with me was that he said his job got a lot easier when he realized he was no longer in the computer business, he was n
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by ykl 1y ago
About 15 years ago at this point a bunch of my friends/labmates and I salvaged enough discard PCs from the Levine Hall (Penn CS building) loading dock to assemble an entire small renderfarm, which we squirreled away in a corner of the
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by ykl 1y ago
I had the incredible good fortune to cross paths with iq at Pixar; I was an intern while he was developing the Wondermoss procedural vegetation system for Brave. A bunch of us interns were already fans of his work from the demoscene world a
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by ykl 1y ago
iq also happens to be one of the creators of ShaderToy; he’s an absolute legend.
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by ykl 1y ago
Incredibly that test (cell-free fetal DNA - cfDNA) is now standard in California, to the point where most expecting parents in California now learn the baby’s gender super early. We learned our baby’s gender only 10 weeks into pregnancy bec
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by ykl 1y ago
A few more recent non-UE5 custom in-house engines that have demonstrated very impressive results: * Spiderman (1/2/Miles Morales) and the PS5 Rachet and Clank, by Insomniac on their in-house engine. * Astro’s Playroom and Astrobot
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by ykl 1y ago
I don’t recall enabling it.
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by ykl 1y ago
WebGPU works just fine in Safari on my iPhone. It was enabled by default starting with iOS 18.2.
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by ykl 2y ago
Before Lego World there was an effort between LEGO and Mojang to develop a LEGO version of Minecraft, and apparently that effort even led to the idea of LEGO buying Mojang being floated, but it eventually fell through [1]. I think it's
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by ykl 2y ago
This is cheap compared to GB200, which has a street price of >$70k for just the chip alone if you can even get one. Also GB200 technically has only 192GB per GPU and access to more than that happens over NVLink/RDMA, whereas here it
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by ykl 2y ago
So read this article, which is about exactly this?...
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by ykl 2y ago
One of the many fun/cool things about Tiny Glade is that it quietly has one of the most advanced realtime global illumination lighting engines shipping in any game today, and it’s all completely custom for just this game. One of the de
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by ykl 2y ago
That's a great question. The short answer is: no, you can't, but not necessarily for the reason you might expect. The long answer is: Rosetta 2 is indeed a transpiler generating native arm64 code, but transpiled code running via R
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by ykl 2y ago
The simulator is not actually running real iOS or the iOS build of your app. Instead, when you run an app in the simulator, your app is being compiled to the current Mac’s native instruction set and links/runs against a set of Mac fram
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by ykl 2y ago
The old NAND chip is epoxied in (they reapply the epoxy on the new NAND chip too after installing later in the video).
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by ykl 2y ago
I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardwar
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by ykl 3y ago
Aras just going around and dropping into various open source graphics projects to produce massive speedups and improvements and then going onto some other random graphics project to the same is my favorite trend of the past few years.

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