pixel_fcker

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by pixel_fcker 4y ago
The new block cluster shared memory and synchronisation stuff looks really really nice.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Ambient occlusion is a horrible hack from twenty years ago. You don’t need to measure pixel values from photographs to know that it bears no relation to how light works in the real world. Just don’t use it.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
That’s because nvidia hired like every graphics researcher.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Men are more likely to die of COVID and more likely to be intubated. Should we start preferentially treating men over women? Why did they not include this advice as well?
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
I assume typo for “None”
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
And there are hundreds of thousands of children under 12 who aren’t vaccinated.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Lol “draconian measures”. Yep we’re all under house arrest down here it’s awful. Basically the same as Stalin’s Russia.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
You said: > Do you support denying re-entry to people who are already citizens as a means of doing that? Which implies the people entering on these visas are taking places away from someone else but they’re not, they’re entering the same
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
A few weeks ago everyone was expecting them to replace MIQ with home self-isolation in Feb-April thanks to the vaccine uptake. Now Omicron has thrown that all up in the air.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
What about people who can’t take the vaccine for medical reasons, or are too young? Fuck ‘em right?
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
This isn’t what’s happening. Everyone trying to enter the country has to go through the MIQ system, regardless of whether they’re a citizen, have one of these visas, or any other type of visa.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Yes it is a good deal. This is manufactured outrage.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
On a similar note - if a huge gravity wave passed through the earth, say one that stretched the space I’m in by a factor of 10, would I feel anything?
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
See comment elsewhere in this thread for how smoking is a massive net gain for the UK government thanks to high taxes and early mortality.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
It sort of goes against Rust’s philosophy to bake anything like that into the language. Where they screwed up was not providing the machinery to make libraries agnostic of the runtime an end user wants to use in their program, so libraries
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
It will if the output is expecting RGB in Rec.2020 or P3 and you give it sRGB data…
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
AP1 is essentially Rec.2020, yes. By working space I mean a space in which a user manipulates the data in some way, e.g. image editing, grading, compositing or rendering.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
ACES (AP0) is an archive format for when you want to be absolutely sure you’re not clipping any colours. As a working space it’s terrible and AP1 should be preferred, either as ACEScg or ACEScc
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
There are several companies offering this out there. ILM definitely doesn’t have it “locked up”.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
VFX companies don’t own any of the assets that they create for films, the studio does. I don’t know what Unity think they’ve bought there.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
I just finished this recently after dropping it halfway through because my eyes were in danger of rolling out of the back of my head due to the Capone stuff.
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Ask HN: Best CS learning material for self-taught programmer?
10 points by pixel_fcker 5y ago|4 comments
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Heh that’s exactly the game I was planning on making. I don’t know whether to feel happy or sad!
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Does anyone know any of the Teams dev team? I’d love to see an AMA with them to understand just how something so terrible came to be.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Teams is a strong contender for most aggravating software ever written.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
What’s the “obvious” downside?
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
The problem with self-references is that if you move the containing struct then the reference is now invalid. Pinning the object so it can’t move works around this.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Ah you’re one of those. I hope you get the help you need before you hurt yourself or someone else.
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
Lol you wot m8? That “heavy handed response” has been NZ living a basically normal life for the past year while the rest of the world goes in an out of restrictions and mask mandates and watches the death toll climb ever higher. The vast ma
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by pixel_fcker 5y ago
What are your thoughts on the performance of wavefront tracing as opposed to regular path tracing approach?

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