nicebyte

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by nicebyte 1mo ago
I don't know what's worse, people dying of a disease because there is no cure, or people dying of a disease because they can't afford a cure? not having a vaccine for a deadly disease, or having a vaccine AND a monstrous medi
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by nicebyte 1mo ago
Sure yeah. propaganda has to be subtle sometimes.
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by nicebyte 1mo ago
reader mode helps.
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by nicebyte 1mo ago
are you implying that text is impure bits?
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by nicebyte 2mo ago
2015 called
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
No, that is exactly the reason I am bringing up physics. There used to be a time when a singular person could make an outsized impact. In the recent past though, this has not been the case: significant breakthroughs are usually the result o
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
now, if you said "don't get into it because your primary employment prospects would be games or film industry, which are known to be less than stellar towards their workers" - that would be a different story.
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
My only additions to the article would be to study your probability/statistics (can't do efficient path tracing without it) and get comfortable with integrals, especially integrals on a sphere (physically based rendering will be a
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
Ridiculous justification. "Where is todays Jon Carmack?" Where is the "John Carmack" of ML? Where is the John Carmack of physics? This hero worship crap needs to be left in the past. There isn't a singular active re
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
"Github Repo" "Find Us on GitHub" ????
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
general rule of thumb is that you never want gamma-corrected values if you intend to be doing any sort of math with them. the only exception is when you want to match the behavior of softwares that actually do all the math with pixel values
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
there isn't much that is "arcane" about gamma correction itself (as in, the math itself is really simple). at the fundamental level, if a surface is illuminated with one lightbulb and we add another light bulb, the difference
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
that just sounds like DNS but more centralized and not super human-friendly...
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
but dynamic DNS is a thing. I've had setups for it since god knows how long, though admittedly not on my phone.
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
I am confused why this is needed. > IP addresses can break, without warning, and it's outside of your device's control. We have DNS? > Keys, however, are created & controlled by you. They stay the same as your device mov
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
If done right, this is more like a monthly bus pass
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particul
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by nicebyte 3mo ago
they're technically not wrong. C is literally an "abstraction" of the machine. As we know, the whole point of an abstraction is to ignore the multitude of details :-)
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
250k for base pay is about in line with median I'd say. If 250k was the total comp (taking into account bonus/stocks/what have you) then yeah, you definitely should have negotiated.
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by nicebyte 4mo ago
"outgroup"? what outgroup? we're talking about inanimate objects here. by your own logic, you treat your home appliances as an outgroup so you must be secretly a dangerous psychopath. or do you thank your microwave after heat
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by nicebyte 5mo ago
it's a neat experiment but I think it's ultimately flawed because color is usually perceived in context, and depending on context I could easily see anyone reinterpreting the hues they labeled "green" in this test as blu
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by nicebyte 5mo ago
> There is no consequence for choosing blue there are consequences in both cases.
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Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers(gpfault.net)
4 points by nicebyte 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
I've found Trellis specifically to be very "over-promise and under-deliver". Nothing i tried with it got even close to th level of quality that they were advertising - felt like a bunch of examples were hand-picked, at best.
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
jumps is another one. jmp can have many encodings depending on where the target offset you're jumping to is. but often times, the offset is not yet known when you first encounter the jump insn and have to assemble it.
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
> I want a single-line malloc with zero care about usage flags and which only produces one single pointer value That's not realistic on non-UMA systems. I doubt you want to go over PCIe every time you sample a texture, so the alloca
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
> Not sure if this is an "oh, no" event. it's not. descriptor sets are realistically never getting deprecated. old code doesn't have to be rewritten if it works. there's no point. if you're doing bindless (w
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
just use the vma library. the low level memory allocation interface is for those who care to have precise control over allocations. vma has shipped in production software and is a safe choice for those who want to "just allocate memory
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
some of this is what's khronos standards are theoretically supposed to achieve. surprise, it's very difficult to do across many hw vendors and classes of devices. it's not a coincidence that metal is much easier to program fo
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by nicebyte 7mo ago
assembler is far from trivial at least for x86 where there are many possible encodings for a given instruction. emitting the most optimal encoding that does the correct thing depends on surrounding context, and you'd have to do multipl

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