roytries

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by roytries 4y ago
I guess the debate then comes down to if Apple, as an insider , had already committed to development of Metal before they knew AMD was up to something. With the public announcement of Mantle in Q3 2013, and the first release of Metal in Q2
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by roytries 4y ago
I'm purely a hobbyist. But I was under the impression that D3D12 is so different compared to D3D11 that this would be a good time to consider both D3D12 and Vulkan. Is the choice for D3D12 standard because it 'sounds' familia
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by roytries 4y ago
I don't believe that Apple did not know about these initiatives before committing to building Metal. Apple was using the OpenGL graphics API (governed by the Khronos group) and AMD GPUs exclusively around this time period. Note also th
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by roytries 5y ago
Maybe you're thinking of this incident? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/1xkAB1KmLrh5g3v9ZE... . It was a few days earlier and took almost 2 hours.
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by roytries 5y ago
It would be a huge undertaking, especially if the DirectX types leaked into the rest of the application. DirectX 7 is from 1999, games like Half-Life 1 used it. This is when GPUs were mostly fixed-function. While nowadays a GPU is almost as
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by roytries 5y ago
I don't understand how NFTs or blockchain in general helps in any way for this, or many other examples of this. All an NFT is is an encrypted hyperlink in the blockchain. The hyperlink points to a resource on someone's server. I t
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by roytries 5y ago
Is this a quote that comes from somewhere? I see multiple people talking about this 'analogizing a list of funny names to genocide'. I think its been properly debunked multiple times in the comments here to say its untrue. Just wo
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by roytries 5y ago
Note that when you're poor your surroundings are usually also poor. So even if you are young and not yet burdened by health care costs and maybe even have free/good education you might need to drop out or at least spend a lot of y
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by roytries 5y ago
"Is anything with future value being build by European companies?" Ehhhhh, the machines that are going to be in the chip factories mentioned here for example (ASML).
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by roytries 5y ago
I don't know. How can you gauge the effectiveness of your model without good data? A model can be wrong, but it can also be changed/redone/rebuilt. Without data you can neither develop nor verify imho.
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by roytries 5y ago
All you need(ed) was an e-mail address that ended in @myuniversity.tld and use that in the registration at the shop.
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by roytries 6y ago
To me ComputeSharp looks a lot more accessible. I could understand how to use it instantly from the readme file. While I've gone over the documentation for ilgpu now and it mostly raises more questions. Looks like ComputeSharp is at a
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by roytries 6y ago
> My suspicion is that the concern with machine learning over racism is rooted in two things. The first is just the general modern trend of accusing anything you don't like of being racist, because everybody hates racism and wants t
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by roytries 6y ago
Is this entirely true? Isn't the UK now trading with Europe at World Trade Organization tariffs? Or was a better deal made? The EU has trading agreements with a significant part of the world. See this map for example: https:/&#x2
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by roytries 6y ago
Indeed, people struggle with? Adam Savage (53 years old) navigates that pile of rocks without problems, while controlling the robot. Never even needing to use his hands. The work Boston Dynamics does is extremely impressive, but they'v
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by roytries 6y ago
How do you conclude that from that PDF? It shows almost all of the states in the US in yellow (low mask usage). While almost all of Europe (except for the UK and Scandinavia) in blue (medium mask usage) There's even a special call-out
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by roytries 6y ago
In the Netherlands we have signs like the one below. Telling you to stay on the highway and turn off your GPS. Because Google Maps and other software makes you take all these weird short-cuts. Putting trucks through small towns etc.. I thin
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by roytries 6y ago
That should be about 360MB of uncompressed data (1024x768x88x4 bytes) which should fit into the memory of most IGPs, which generally reserve 1 or 2 GB. Compositing 4 images at once should be something that even a very old GPU should have no
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by roytries 6y ago
I'm not sure your data rhymes with your interpretation. Having 0.5%~1% of people having a positive corona test in the last two weeks means that every week 3.2~1.6 million people are walking around with Corona. I would not call that a h
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by roytries 6y ago
This is on a phone managed by your employer I assume? Intune protects the data in your employee accounts from leaking outside of those apps. In a regular Outlook without Intune installed you can copy/paste just fine. Source: I've
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by roytries 6y ago
I find this an extremely weird set of argument. Opening the task manager or explorer takes less time than I can measure on both Windows and Linux... what kind of metric is this? As for background services, of course they spend (at that mome
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by roytries 6y ago
Not sure why this is showing up on HN today. But Dear ImGui is absolutely amazing. And its not just for C++. I use it myself in my C# game engine. (There's a C# port that uses System.Numerics: https://github.com/mellino
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by roytries 6y ago
DLSS is trained with a much higher resolution version of the game. So when it 'upscales' 720p to 1080p its not just using the 720p data as input but also the knowledge of how the game should look at an extremely high resolution. B
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by roytries 6y ago
In my experience its absolute junk. There is too much friction throughout the entire systems. So it often slips the filament when extruding or retracting. Leading to clogged nozzles, holes in the filament and other nasty business that take
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by roytries 7y ago
I work for a large webshop. I was amazed by how many engineers work here. But now, after two years, I understand why we need them. Handling millions of customers, sending millions of parcels, logistics, storage, customer support, etc... req
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by roytries 8y ago
".NET is cool, but otherwise it doesn't really feel like they're contributing anything particularly valuable or tangible" Not to be snark, but .Net is one of the most used development eco-systems [1]. Making the tech ope
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by roytries 8y ago
I'm not a heavy MS Office user. But at my current job I get to use Office 2016, while at my previous job I had to use LibreOffice. While LibreOffice is usable its just nowhere near the quality of MS Office. I take this as an example, b