buildartefact

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by buildartefact 1y ago
For the scenes that they’re showing, 76ms is an eternity. Granted, it will get (a lot) faster but this being better than traditional rendering is a way off yet.
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by buildartefact 1y ago
https://svraster.github.io/
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by buildartefact 1y ago
Because none of what they call “tariffs imposed on the US” are tariffs. It’s the trade deficit divided by the country’s exports to the US. They’re literally making shit up and expecting stupid people to take it at face value. They’re imposi
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by buildartefact 2y ago
I used to believe this vehemently. It has become clear that that’s a notion from a bygone age. The internet has created a global town square where the loudest voices are the ones that catch people’s attention, regardless of the veracity of
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by buildartefact 2y ago
What’s hilarious is there’s nothing physically based about the Disney model. It’s empirical and It’s not even energy conserving. As sibling pointed out, physically based rendering precedes “PBR” by a looong time and goes much, much deeper t
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by buildartefact 2y ago
They do.
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by buildartefact 2y ago
In path tracing blue noise does not increase convergence, but does reduce the perceptual error.
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by buildartefact 2y ago
CUDA IS the merit. They’ve been developing the software stack to make GPU programming accessible for 2 decades now. They’re a software company as much or more than they are a hardware company. Ignoring this fundamentally misunderstands why
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by buildartefact 3y ago
This is exactly what the article is about. TLDR they can be roughly equivalent
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by buildartefact 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. I’m definitely planning on trying to build something as I learn so the tip on DigitaOcean is appreciated too.
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Ask HN: How to Learn Cloud Development?
5 points by buildartefact 3y ago|5 comments
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by buildartefact 3y ago
Asks for screenshot from movie. Image generator gives screenshot from movie. Who’s at fault here?
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by buildartefact 3y ago
egui is pure rust. It is not a rust binding of ImGUI
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by buildartefact 3y ago
Do you know of a good style guide that encapsulates common conventions like create/destroy?
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by buildartefact 3y ago
PowerShell is the worst of all worlds. Its a terrible shell compared to bash/zsh/whateversh, and for anything complex enough to need a long script you’re far better off in Python.
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by buildartefact 3y ago
That’s for sRGB, which as for most colour spaces is defined relative to CIE XYZ, which is itself defined in terms of the perception of a “standard human observer”. In XYZ, the Y coordinate is the luminance (brightness) of the colour and tha
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by buildartefact 3y ago
The worst part of it is they aliased a bunch of common posix command names to their power shell equivalents but then they have different flags or semantics. Works fine until it trips you up destructively.
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by buildartefact 3y ago
>There's no option to "turn the borrow checker off" - which means that when you're in prototyping mode, you pay this huge productivity penalty for no benefit That’s not really true. The standard workaround for this is
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by buildartefact 3y ago
You’re seriously suggesting writing a game engine in Python?
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by buildartefact 3y ago
It means if you don’t like it, or take any objection to its design then you are not a good programmer and just don’t “get it”. Considering the author, it’s completely unsurprising.
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by buildartefact 3y ago
And you pay for that in performance
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by buildartefact 4y ago
GPU-accelerated terminals have been a thing for a long time.
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by buildartefact 4y ago
In what way is that better? Jailbroken iPhones represent a tiny fraction of the devices out there. So now we have to expose everyone for the sake of the “WAlLeD gaRdEn” minority?
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by buildartefact 4y ago
Can’t wait for every company to have their own App Store I need to install just to download the one app I want. All the inevitable data mining and security bugs will just be the icing on the cake!
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by buildartefact 4y ago
Similar story for me, though I only roughly count calories. Stick to it aggressively during the week, relax at little at weekends, don’t beat myself up if I go out and get trashed occasionally then eat a whole tub of ice cream. I’ve been we
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by buildartefact 4y ago
> Emacs is not an independent project, and it isn't governed by its contributors. I'm the head of the GNU Project, and that includes Emacs. I think it might be you that’s missing the irony.
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by buildartefact 4y ago
Probably an irrelevance thanks to the GPL. We should all be grateful RMS missed that email.
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by buildartefact 4y ago
Pay it. Then tweet @ them how disgruntled you are that you have to pay it. Worked for a buddy of mine.
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by buildartefact 4y ago
It was in response to this blog post: https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinl... Basically your standard CAS loop with _mm_pause() to yield.
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by buildartefact 4y ago
Obligatory: “ I repeat: do not use spinlocks in user space, unless you actually know what you're doing. And be aware that the likelihood that you know what you are doing is basically nil.” https://www.realworldtech.com/

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