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by ykl 3y ago
Well, I assume he asked ATC and all of the usual stuff, but as an unaware passenger all I know is we climbed and then things got smoother. The engines sound super impressive when climbing.
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by ykl 3y ago
I just flew on this same route on Eva last week and at one point the tailwind speed was 200mph. We were close to or over supersonic relative to the ground for most of the trip; we left like 20 minutes late and arrived over an hour early. Th
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by ykl 3y ago
This is super cool; I wish I had this level of initiative when I was 16. I'm sure you have a bright career ahead of you!
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by ykl 3y ago
If you are wondering what Sam Zeloof is up to these days: he founded Atomic Semi [1] with Jim Keller (yes, _that_ Jim Keller). [1] https://atomicsemi.com/
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by ykl 3y ago
Ray tracing has been 100% software (as in, either entirely on the CPU or implemented in shader code or CUDA/OpenCL on the GPU) up until 2018, which is when the first hardware-accelerated ray tracing GPUs became widely available.
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by ykl 3y ago
https://blog.yiningkarlli.com Writing about computer graphics. Long detailed posts every few months. It's been on a slight pause over the past year, but new stuff coming soon.
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by ykl 3y ago
The Z-mount situation is not great (AFAIK the short version is that Nikon only allows third-party Z-mount lenses that don't directly compete with existing first-party Z-mount lenses), but at least it's better than the Canon RF-mou
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by ykl 3y ago
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is such an amazing/impressive project. Thanks to OCLP, hello from an ancient 2008 Mac Pro that nonetheless is running Ventura 13.4 flawlessly (albeit with a newer GPU). :)
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by ykl 4y ago
If anything Surfaces are even less repairable than MacBooks. At least you can take apart a MacBook with just a screwdriver (albeit with some special bits for Apple’s weird screws), but modern Surfaces are basically filled with glue [1]. [1]
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by ykl 4y ago
Hyperion does not use ISPC. Source: I am one of the Hyperion developers.
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by ykl 4y ago
For anyone that is curious, this is the paper that describes the core vectorized path tracing architecture in Moonray: http://www.tabellion.org/et/paper17/MoonRay.pdf Extracting sufficient coherency from path trac
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by ykl 4y ago
Yes, those are touched upon.
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by ykl 4y ago
Having skimmed the book briefly, I find it oddly selective and incomplete in what it chooses to acknowledge and what it chooses to leave out. Examples: * In the global illumination section, photon mapping is given a whole subsection, but th
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by ykl 4y ago
You will at a minimum get a ticket and very likely you will get your car smashed by some very angry firefighters / police. If you rupture the hose, you will also get an extremely expensive bill to replace the hose. If the hoses catches
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by ykl 4y ago
Wow, the last comparison between the Hasselblad scanner and a consumer scanner is astounding!
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by ykl 4y ago
The classic Bagehot line may apply here: “Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.”
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by ykl 4y ago
I think this piece from a few years ago about how difficult it is to build a startup around GPT-3 [1] is relevant to the AI art product they’re pivoting to. Best of luck to them, but the “build a product on top of open source AI models” spa
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by ykl 4y ago
The point of this is that it's an Windows-on-ARM devkit; you can't buy a ARM NUC that'll run Windows AFAIK (Intel doesn't make ARM machines), and you can't test ARM software natively on an x86-64 NUC.
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by ykl 4y ago
At this point Matt Levine trying to take off only to show up the next day with the note "my boss Elon Musk made me come back to work today" is one of the best recurring jokes in Money Stuff.
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by ykl 4y ago
From the HN guidelines: “Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.” First, there’s some backstory behind that infamous Verge PC guide video- it’s not really Stefan Etienne (the guy in the video)’s fa
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by ykl 4y ago
I genuinely think this feature is going to save lives. I've had friends before who have been in the exact target situation (got lost after nightfall in a remote location with no way to communicate) and only were found and rescued throu
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by ykl 4y ago
The license is Apache 2.0 [1] [1] https://openmoonray.org/license
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by ykl 4y ago
As with almost everything that comes out of Wenzel Jakob's lab at EPFL, the documentation for Mitsuba 3 is _incredible_. Check out this writeup of how polarization is handled in Mitsuba 3 (complete with animated diagrams): https:&#x2F
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by ykl 4y ago
Same! I’ve ordered a case every year since I first saw this, and it’s well worth it. I grew up on the East Coast and got used to being able to just get Vidalias in the grocery season each year in the spring, but when I moved to the West Coa
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by ykl 4y ago
Love the joke in the URL. :) (For anyone that doesn't get it; it's a play on Godbolt)
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by ykl 4y ago
I work in the animation/VFX industry, and I’m constantly amused by how camera and lens companies are constantly trying to make images more and more perfect by removing imperfections from lenses and decreasing grain and noise, and mean
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by ykl 4y ago
Yup, I’m excited by APIs finally moving in this direction. IMO CUDA got it right from the start.
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by ykl 4y ago
Controversial opinion: I wish every GPU programming language and API did memory management like CUDA. In CUDA, you allocate and manage GPU memory using things like cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy, which behave exactly like what their names sugges
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by ykl 4y ago
I think that’s the whole joke; OpenSSL’s various options are so extensive and so Byzantine that this is what you end up with.
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by ykl 4y ago
Is there any word yet on if AmpereOne implements SVE (scalable vector extensions)?

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