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by ykl 5y ago
I was working on a CG art project [1] where I wanted to render the final image using a real-world lens with lots of "swirly" bokeh [2], but the renderer I was using didn't have the ability to simulate real-world lenses. So, t
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by ykl 5y ago
Hello! Original author (original tweeter?) here. This particular design is from the iPhone 7 (or, more precisely, my guess is that it's from the iPhone 7 due to both the date of the patent [1] and due to the elements matching up with m
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by ykl 5y ago
Buying a controlling stake in ARM or a hostile takeover would still trigger the same regulatory vetting that caused the deal to be called off in the first place.
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by ykl 5y ago
Likely they mean an immediate mode UI [1], as opposed to a traditional retained mode UI. Immediate mode UIs have gained a lot of popularity in the games/graphics world over the past few years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by ykl 5y ago
With the current launcher, you can actually pick which version/update to play, including old versions. For Java Edition, it lists versions all the way back to alpha as options.
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by ykl 5y ago
It’s for both Java and Bedrock, so it should be on all currently supported PC, mobile, and console versions. In general Mojang keeps PC and mobile/console at feature parity with each other and releases updates at the same time across a
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by ykl 5y ago
The new worldgen is incredible, both above and below the surface. Hats off to everyone at Mojang that worked on this! One of my favorite game memories of all time was the first time I played Minecraft during the alpha days and immediately g
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by ykl 5y ago
Mental Ray is used by literally nobody anymore. It was discontinued in 2017. You can't even get a license for Mental Ray anymore. Pixar didn't license any particular special GPU rendering tech from NVIDIA in 2015; they're jus
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by ykl 5y ago
Hi! Author here. I don't call the E5-2680s "somewhat old", I call them ancient, because they are... well.. ancient. I included them in the comparison because up until recently, I was still using an E5-2680 workstation. So rea
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by ykl 5y ago
Hello, author here! I'm aware that that the Xeon E5-2680 is ancient, which is why I also included comparisons with the Xeon W-3245 that is in the current 2019 Mac Pro, and with the Threadripper 3990X, which came out in February 2020. U
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by ykl 5y ago
IIRC the fighters that were mobilized planned to ram since they took off without time to load missiles onboard, but all of our fighter keys have ejection seats. I assume the plan was to eject.
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by ykl 5y ago
Not only CPU rendering! For some time now OSL has supported PTX output from the LLVM backend; a number of commercial renderers are already using OSL on the GPU. See: RenderMan 24, Arnold GPU, Octane, Cycles, etc.
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by ykl 5y ago
I preordered one! I've ben very excited about the Playdate since it was announced. The company behind it is one of my favorite software companies, Panic, which makes a bunch of well-known Mac apps that I use fairly often and generally
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Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022(oxide.computer)
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by ykl 5y ago
Scientists have sequenced the RNA for both covid and influenza, we know for a fact that they are completely different species of viruses.
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by ykl 5y ago
I thought it was funny!
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by ykl 6y ago
They all worked closely together because they all worked on the Manhattan Project. When there’s a single huge government project requiring the nation’s smartest people and on which the survival of the nation depends, it shouldn’t be too sur
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by ykl 6y ago
Here's a letter that Ullman signed (5th name up from the bottom) that seems to pretty explicitly condemn apartheid in South Africa [1]. The letter's main argument is that Israel is not an apartheid state (which I guess is somethin
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by ykl 6y ago
That's a loosing play for Intel. The potential market Intel wants to tap with foundry services is way WAY larger than $20 billion, and on the flipside Microsoft doesn't have a need for $20 billion worth of exclusive fab capacity.
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by ykl 6y ago
I think there are two parts to this answer: the fabless component (meaning designing chips), and the fab component (meaning manufacturing chips). Taking Apple as an example: Apple is fully in the fabless part with Apple Silicon, but Apple h
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by ykl 6y ago
Microsoft has 6x the cash on hand compared to Intel, 7x the market cap, and roughly 3.5x less debt-as-a-percentage-of-market-cap. $100 billion is nearly 40% of Intel's total market cap; $10 billion is less than half of a percent of Mic
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by ykl 6y ago
The parent post appears to be discussing a MacBook Air though. The specified machine doesn’t do much good for someone looking for a laptop; I’d be very surprised if the average customer compares a MacBook Air type device with a PC desktop w
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by ykl 6y ago
Should be fixed now.
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by ykl 6y ago
I wonder what this means for NVIDIA's recent RISC-V efforts [1]. Apparently they've been aiming to ship (or already have been shipping?) RISC-V microcontrollers on their GPUs for some time . [1] https://riscv.org/w
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by ykl 6y ago
Last year my wife and I bought out first house. Given our budget, we had the option of either buying a new big McMansion type home further out from the city, or buying a smaller older home closer to the city. We wound up buying a smaller ho
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by ykl 6y ago
Interesting that Fedora support seems to have been dropped. Anyone know why that might be? Edit: oh wait I think I see. Latest supported gcc for CUDA 11 is gcc 9.x, but I think latest Fedora is on gcc 10.
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by ykl 6y ago
Metacommentary: Every time I see a Bloomberg link on HN, I cross my fingers that it is Matt Levine, and every time it is in fact Matt Levine, it’s pure gold and 100% worth the click. I get the newsletter in my inbox, but since I check HN be
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Nvidia Announces Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit with 6 ARM Cores, Volta GPU(anandtech.com)
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by ykl 7y ago
Amazing work! Mitsuba has long been a staple of the rendering research world, and the new architecture that Mitsuba 2 brings is nothing short of revolutionary in many aspects. Mitubsa 2 allows for essentially writing complex path tracing co
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by ykl 7y ago
I think they are very much complimentary. This vastly oversimplifies things, but you can can almost think of gltf is to USD like PNG is to a Photoshop file. gltf is meant to be a 3D publishing format, whereas USD is meant to be an asset int

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