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Tech Artist, Graphics Programmer, general Game Dev, racing snail. (he\him) mastodon.gamedev.place/@bgolus ko-fi.com/bgolus
Kirkland, WAmedium.com/@bgolusJoined August 2010
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Anyone else notice that the auto captioning on YouTube keeps putting in the word "foreign" when a video has music playing? No one has talked in the previous 10 seconds, and no one talks for a while after, and yet this subtitle popped up.
MUSIC: Lagrima Tarrega (foreign)
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And the first example in that video of someone moving their whole hand to hit the arrow keys to go back to the front of the current line. Have they not heard of Ctrl+Home. Or ignoring that, do other people not use their pinky to hit the arrow keys?
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Some PC laptop makers have already shown off upcoming products that use non-user replaceable RAM moved to be basically touching the CPU, and are seeing significant performance improvements from doing so.
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The physical connectors for things like RAM sticks fundamentally limit how close you can reasonably get the RAM to the CPU. And we're at the point where a few mm can have massive implications on latency, and thus performance.
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Were there people expecting this not to be the case? A huge part of Apple Silicon's impressive performance comes from the tight integration (physically speaking) of these components.
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The next Mac Pro may lack user upgradeable GPUs in addition to non-upgradeable RAM. Right now Apple Silicon Macs don’t support external GPUs and you have to use whatever configuration you buy on Apple’s website. But the Mac Pro GPU will be powerful with up to 76 cores.
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My wife's favorite keyboard, the $70 Logitech K740, has been hard to find for the last few years. It seems there's still a market for them because scalpers have bought the few that remain and are selling them for $300. *sigh*
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This was 100% "manual". Like imagine being handed a collage of disparate images, having to figure out what order they should be in, and coming up with a coherent story that described what was happening in those images. That's what talking was like for me.
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I could listen to people talk just fine. I had no problem understanding, but my responses would come to me as emotions, or as kind of little vignettes, that I would have to try to translate into words for, and then structure back into an understandable sentence.
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That's not to say I'm some kind of undiagnosed savant, only that spoken language did not come naturally to me and I had to forcibly push myself to have a mental dialog. Mainly to cut down on the lag between people talking to me and the time it took me to translate the response.
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Random aside. AFAIK I am not autistic, or at least not far enough into the spectrum to get diagnosed as such. However before my 20's my experience with language closely matched the Temple Grandin's has described of it. I did not think in words, but images, emotions, & colors.
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The difference between autistic and neurotypicals is we put a lot of unnecessary importance on that fluff _being there_, even though we totally ignore it and can quickly decode it w/o ChatGPT.
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I saw an example use case of using ChatGPT to write a job application e-mail from the prompt "I want the job", and then the theoretical employer using ChatGPT to simplify the verbose and eloquently written letter down to "He wants the job".
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Something I don't feel radio DJs get enough credit for is the ability to sound exactly the same all day, every day. It's a seemingly minor thing, until you've tried to record your voice and edit together sections done different days, or out of order, and make it sound natural.
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On the other hand I've heard my wife complain about public women's restrooms frequently. And I've know several women who'll choose to use the men's restroom instead of the woman's because it's cleaner (also because they don't want to stand in line).
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My son sits to pee. He's not tall enough to stand and pee into toilets yet (or urinals). Also, do these women think men are barging into Women's restrooms when they're not looking to pee on the toilet seats? I've literally never seen a man walk into a women's restroom on purpose
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if every woman agrees to potty train their son to sit while peeing, we can completely eradicate pee covered public toilets within 2 generations. let that sink in.
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This is literally two orders of magnitude slower than OLED, but still extremely impressive. For comparison, here's what another recent "1ms IPS" monitor looks like. ... Yeah, not even close.
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There are a small number of transitions that are quite close to 1ms with little to no overshoot, and most under 2ms. But almost all of those <2ms response times come with overshoot, meaning some ghosting.
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Whenever I see people talk about how much they appreciate their therapy I get a little jealous. My experiences with my attempts have always felt a bit like this:
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Wendy’s changed their fries again. Personally I’m still waiting for them to bring the originals back.
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With so many vehicles lately coming out in fastback form, SUVs, sedans, wagons, etc., how soon until we start seeing fastback pickup trucks?
Honda Rideline Fastback
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For comparison, here's what I look like actually looking at the camera w/o Nvidia Eye Contact, and an example of where I was actually looking in the above image.
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An common example is reconstructing world position from a depth buffer. Where many people do: normalize(viewDir) * linearDepth instead of: viewDir / dot(viewDir, viewForward) * linearDepth
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Math People: A common mistake I see people make when getting into shaders / graphics programming is using a normalized vector (unit length of 1) instead of a vector where it has a "width" of 1 along another arbitrary direction. Is there a name for this kind of vector?
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