Where is this glorious place?
Definitely not in the CS campus.
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juunpp commented on An end to all this prostate trouble? yarchive.net/blog/prostat... · Posted by u/bondarchuk
Interestingly, daily masturbation appears to have a protective effect against developing prostate cancer, although no one knows why: https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/ejaculation-prostate-c...
From your own link:
> There’s no proof that ejaculating more actually lowers the chances of prostate cancer. For now, doctors just know they’re connected. It may be that men who do it more tend to have other healthy habits that are lowering their odds.
> Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.
I'm not the expert but, like all things, exercise, sleep and diet probably goes a long way.
juunpp commented on Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects mobygratis.com/... · Posted by u/thm
I think for media/assets, CC-BY is the equivalent of MIT/BSD for source, and CC-BY-SA similar to a GPL. Anything more restrictive than that (e.g., "NC") wouldn't really qualify as "free". The licensing in this case seems to have too many strings attached.
juunpp commented on How to Delete Your 23andMe Data eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03... · Posted by u/hn_acker
Isn't this one of the stupidest versions of capitalism?
juunpp commented on What's Happening to Students? honest-broker.com/p/whats... · Posted by u/atombender
Phones should be banned in school. Really that simple. No serious school/parent that cares about the kids' education would allow phones.
juunpp commented on VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer github.com/facebookresear... · Posted by u/xnx
Hmm, the name seems a bit off. "Librepay" makes me think of a user-respecting service. Liberapay sounds like it is based in Liberia or something.
liber/a/um is Latin.
Since it's nonprofit, are donations 501c3 deductible? I am on the council of a conservation foundation based in Costa Rica. We want to make it easy for US based philanthropists to donate and receive some tax benefits from the donation.
There is an organization named Amigos of Costa Rica [1] which is set up for this purpose, but they have somewhat steep fees on top of the payment processor's, and they only reconcile the balance on a weekly basis, through wire xfers, which is not ideal.
It is French, so not specifically 501c3.
juunpp commented on Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 chipsandcheese.com/p/rayt... · Posted by u/rbanffy
When path tracing works, it is much, much, MUCH simpler and vastly saner algorithm than those stacks of 40+ complicated rasterization hacks in current rasterization based renderers that barely manage to capture crude approxinations of the first indirect light bounces. Rasterization as a rendering model for realistic lighting has outlived its usefulness. It overstayed because optimizing ray-triangle intersection tests for path tracing in hardware is a hard problem that took some 15 o 20 years of research to even get to the first generation RTX hardware.
This doesn't hold at all. Path tracing doesn't "just work", it is computational infeasible. It needs acceleration structures, ray traversal scheduling, denoisers, upscalers, and a million other hacks to work any close to real-time.
juunpp commented on Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 chipsandcheese.com/p/rayt... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I've kind of wondered about this a bit too. The respective visual quality side of it that is. Especially in a context where you're actually playing a game. You're not just sitting there staring at side by side still frames looking for minor differences.
What I have assumed given then trend, but could be completely wrong about, is that the raytracing version of the world might be easier on the software & game dev side to get great visual results without the overhead of meticulous engineering, use, and composition of different lighting systems, shader effects, etc.
Except that it isn't like that at all. All you get from the driver in terms of ray tracing is the acceleration structure and ray traversal. Then you have denoisers and upscalers provided as third-party software. But games still ship with thousands of materials, and it is up to the developer to manage lights, shaders, etc, and use the hardware and driver primitives intelligently to get the best bang for the buck. Plus, given that primary rays are a waste of time/compute, you're still stuck with G-buffer passes and rasterization anyway. So now you have two problems instead of one.