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by ykl 12y ago
I TA'd a rendering course once and wound up assigning a homework where the students implemented their own software rasterizers in CUDA. Before that homework, a lot of students didn't really understand what a rasterizer did. Afterw
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by ykl 12y ago
Since clang 3.5 (or possibly even earlier), clang has basically been neck-in-neck with GCC. Most benchmarks seem to show the two basically equal to each other, and then there's a handful where clang wins outright and a handful where GC
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by ykl 12y ago
Wow, absolutely beautiful photos and a stunning piece of engineering! That one statistic that a 737 fuselage can fit inside of this thing is wild to me, especially since the only other planes[1][2] I know of that can do that look much more.
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by ykl 12y ago
That number does not include things like airplanes and people and supplies that you need to actually make a carrier useful.
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by ykl 12y ago
Of course you can't actually get an operational navy, you'll just have 12 empty carrier shaped hunks of steel. Hence why I noted that it's a silly comparison.
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by ykl 12y ago
Sometimes just to wrap my head around really large numbers like this, I like to put things in units of aircraft carriers. The US Navy's last finished carrier cost $6.2 billion[1], meaning that $74.6 billion[2] is enough to buy Apple 12
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by ykl 12y ago
Correct link for Q1 2015 is here: https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Rec...
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by ykl 12y ago
This gave me a really good laugh. :)
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by ykl 12y ago
I hope so.
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by ykl 12y ago
What is a spork, as contrasted with a development fork?
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by ykl 12y ago
Considering that the author and Mitsuba's author, Wenzel Jakob, are both at ETH Zurich, I wouldn't be surprised if they knew each other. ;) Additionally, the author has a report page [1] with side-by-side comparisons of material r
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by ykl 12y ago
I was on a team that experimented with building GPU pathtracers at Pixar. We had some interesting results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACmRpMYOak
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"Why yes. Yes [they] are."
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It's a fork of node.js
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We reset every 3-6 months.
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by ykl 12y ago
Yup! All of our old maps can be downloaded here: http://mcp-dl.com/
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The spaceship is made of iron and is the only thing on the map that wasn't player-built. The spaceship was pre-made by the server staff to serve as the spawn point. However, iron is extremely abundant because we figured out how to expl
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by ykl 12y ago
Way awesome! It's really amazing what people can build in Minecraft even in a short period of time, let alone a long stretch. Here's a map from a server I play on. This map represents only 6 months or work (we reset our map every
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by ykl 12y ago
The obvious question in my mind (and the reason I submitted this) is whether or not SpaceX is one of the companies Orbital is in talks with to provide launch capability in the meantime. Does anyone know if the Falcon 9 is theoretically capa
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Orbital Sciences to Stop Using Suspect Russian Rocket Engine After Explosion(space.com)
3 points by ykl 12y ago|1 comments
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by ykl 12y ago
The actual article says sales, so maybe they're not counting Samsung using Samsung manufactured DRAM as sales?
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by ykl 12y ago
This one has actual procedural audio: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldfSW2
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Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser(shadertoy.com)
76 points by ykl 12y ago|18 comments
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Ah, I see. Very nifty!
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Downloaded and playing with it, seems to work fairly well. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get the app to work in 16:9 mode.
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by ykl 12y ago
Once upon a time CIS120 used Java for the first 3/4 and Python for the last 1/4. Get off of my lawn kids.
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Sure you can, just tint your AO pass before comp.
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by ykl 12y ago
As with every other Wikipedia redesign proposal, linking to J. Thomas's Wikipedia Redesign post is necessary: http://jgthms.com/wikipedia-redesign.html
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The big cost driver in making animated movies isn't in the software or tools anymore and hasn't been for some time now; the big cost driver is now in authoring all of the assets and content that you actually need. It takes a ton o
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by ykl 12y ago
He built Tesla Motors and SpaceX, for a start.

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