HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

buildartefact

no profile record

Submissions

Ask HN: How to Learn Cloud Development?

5 points·by buildartefact·2 anni fa·5 comments

comments

buildartefact
·anno scorso·discuss
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.
buildartefact
·anno scorso·discuss
https://svraster.github.io/
buildartefact
·anno scorso·discuss
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 imposing tariffs on uninhabited islands. They don’t care enough to even try and make it plausible. That’s how stupid they think their supporters are and how much contempt they have for them.
buildartefact
·anno scorso·discuss
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 their claims. There is no truth any more, only the cult of personality.

Tomorrow the US installs a racist, rapist, treasonous kleptocrat as president because the majority of people are unable to think objectively and swallow his promises at face value, despite every indication that life will be immeasurably worse if you’re not a billionaire oligarch.
buildartefact
·anno scorso·discuss
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 than “I put a metalness map in my shader”
buildartefact
·2 anni fa·discuss
They do.
buildartefact
·2 anni fa·discuss
In path tracing blue noise does not increase convergence, but does reduce the perceptual error.
buildartefact
·2 anni fa·discuss
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 they’re in the position they’re in now.
buildartefact
·2 anni fa·discuss
This is exactly what the article is about. TLDR they can be roughly equivalent
buildartefact
·2 anni fa·discuss
Thanks for the recommendations. I’m definitely planning on trying to build something as I learn so the tip on DigitaOcean is appreciated too.
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
Asks for screenshot from movie. Image generator gives screenshot from movie. Who’s at fault here?
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
egui is pure rust. It is not a rust binding of ImGUI
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
Do you know of a good style guide that encapsulates common conventions like create/destroy?
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
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.
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
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 that first equation is computing Y from the RGB value
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
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.
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
>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 just to .clone() or Rc<RefCell<>> to unblock yourself, then come back later and fix it.

It is true that this needs to be done with some care otherwise you can end up infecting your whole codebase with the “workaround”. That comes with experience.
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
You’re seriously suggesting writing a game engine in Python?
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
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.
buildartefact
·3 anni fa·discuss
And you pay for that in performance