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·last month·discuss
This whole article is just (barely) rephrasing a few popular twitter threads from the past week.
percentcer
·2 months ago·discuss
Unfortunate thumbnail on that embedded video
percentcer
·2 months ago·discuss
what is the Decimation thing?
percentcer
·2 months ago·discuss
Los Angeles just needs buses that come through frequently enough to obviate the need to check the schedule. Also dynamic bus routing, which would reduce the total number of buses required for this.
percentcer
·2 months ago·discuss
I think the alternative should be "this is not blue". I was served what I would call a "teal" or "turquoise" but the alternative button shows "this is green", which it was not.
percentcer
·4 months ago·discuss
it's not a bad trade!
percentcer
·5 months ago·discuss
This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.
percentcer
·7 months ago·discuss
Why wouldn't a qualified developer just run the code? Takes two seconds instead of ... whatever you're going for here.
percentcer
·7 months ago·discuss
Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering
percentcer
·8 months ago·discuss
This was the original goal of the Cornell box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box, i.e. carefully measure the radiosity of a simple, real-world scene and then see how closely you can come to simulating it).

For realtime rendering a common thing to do is to benchmark against a known-good offline renderer (e.g. Arnold, Octane)
percentcer
·9 months ago·discuss
The only thing that ever made this click for me was that the columns can be interpreted as the values for the new, post-transform basis vectors
percentcer
·10 months ago·discuss
Not quite the same but check out A Canticle for Leibowitz
percentcer
·6 years ago·discuss
You won't really get the appeal until you try it yourself. It's $20, easy target for a lazy Saturday afternoon.