whatever happened to downloading a mp4 torrent of the movie and watching it instantly whenever you want?
Still alive and kicking. You just need to know where to look.
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fbanon commented on The deception of “buying” digital movies worldofmatthew.com/techno... · Posted by u/worldofmatthew
PS6 will be written in Rust.
> Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit
It has no merit. Do you look at your hobbies as wasting your life? I certainty don't. My alone time playing video games is just as important to me as when I'm going hiking or camping with friends.
Case in point: don't choose a hobby that can be taken away from you on the whims of some dickhead Google exec.
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fbanon commented on Turns are better than radians computerenhance.com/p/tur... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
sin(x) ~~ x only in radians, so honestly that's reason enough.
Once in a while we get programmers wanting to disrupt mathematical notation for whatever reason... Worst I've seen so far was one arguing that equations should be written with long variable names (like in programming) instead of single letters and Greek letters. Using turns because it's a little easier in specific programming cases is just as short-sighted, I'd say, it doesn't "scale out" to the myriad of other applications of angles.
Or just defining the result of division by zero as zero "for safety": https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/
It boggles the mind, truly!
fbanon commented on Turns are better than radians computerenhance.com/p/tur... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
>But math never decreed that sine and cosine have to take radian arguments!
Ummm, actually it did. The Taylor-series of sine and cosine is the simplest when they work with radians. Euler's formula (e^ix = cosx + isinx) is the simplest when working with radians.
Of course you can work in other units, but you'll need to insert the appropriate scaling factors all over the place.
"Turns" don't generalize to higher dimensions either. With radians you can calculate arc length on a circle by multiplying with the radius. This extends naturally to higher dimensions: a solid angle measured in steradians lets you calculate surface area on a sphere by multiplying with the radius. How do you do the same with "turns" on a sphere? You can't in any meaningful way.
fbanon commented on Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory tomshardware.com/news/nvi... · Posted by u/voxadam
I'm not sure who this is really for. I mean that honestly.
At least on the workstation side - i do a lot of solidworks-based 3d modeling. The A6000 can easily, for example, raytrace in real time anything i can even find to throw at it. Like models that Solidworks still has trouble opening and rendering normally can raytrace instantly.
What part of workstation software is still GPU bound at this point on high end GPU's?
I guess if CAM was taking more advantage of GPU's, i could see it useful there, but on the modeling side, i honestly don't get it.
That's not really ray-tracing. That's just regular GPU rendering with physically-based materials and some ray-tracing effects for extra chrome.
fbanon commented on Content based change detection with Make andydote.co.uk/2022/09/19... · Posted by u/pondidum
This guy is very smart!