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Thank you so much! Love the interactive examples.

Thanks for sharing! I had come across similar kinds of issues on my annual LeetCode prep and this very clear articulation is very helpful. Props to the author for making this so easy to visualize.

Impressive. Feel like finding issues like this in such a large project is like looking for a needle in a haystack

Alfred

Thanks for checking it out! And yeah, I’m not expecting it to gain much traction, just having fun with it.

Sure why not, updated.

I made my own distributed render orchestrator that supports Cycles + custom plugins. It uses Modal’s cloud compute APIs to spawn jobs on up to 20x containers with an L40S GPU (like 80% as fast as a 4090 with tons more VRAM) each. It ain’t cheap but it’s absurdly fast, and much easier in terms of cash flow than outright buying the equivalent GPUs.

https://github.com/stoicsuffering/distributed-blender-render...

Love how lightweight and fast it is. Use it every day!

What companies are they? My Roomba from 3 years ago is awful

Agreed

Is there any solid argument for the value of x86 in desktop computing? My watch, phone, laptop, and Mac Pro are all running ARM/RISC and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.

I have a Ryzen workspace that I pull out to play Doom Eternal every now and then, but is there any significant value proposition besides compatibility?

Performance is often stated as an advantage of x86, but performance per what? Per Watt? Hour? Dollar? Chip size?

Wild, interested to see how Nova would perform on a benchmark suite.

Please do :)

Seattle is an interesting area, so many different pockets. I moved to Seattle in 2016 from Southern California, could never shake the depression. Moved to Cupertino in Jan and am as happy as a (very busy) clam.

Absolutely amazing work!

Wow literally just what I needed to see for a project I’m working on, I love hacker news!

Eh, at that point you might as well just get tickets for a burlesque show

As a teenager I played so much KSP that my grades suffered, played KSP2 a few days ago & did a moon landing, the game has a long way to go but the experience wasn’t nearly as bad as the reviews suggested.

More interesting floppy content: https://youtu.be/qSehRwClXNk

Title: “How did Microsoft store 1.68 MB on Windows 95 Setup diskettes?”

Interesting, that actually makes a lot of sense. Be careful with capacitors!

Neat!

Storing individual frames in S3??? Insanity! Their initial distributed architecture is unbelievable.

This is why I always turn off Bluetooth when watching porn, otherwise my phone auto-connects to my wife’s Mini Cooper when she drives into the garage. DAMN YOU AUTO-CONNECT!!

What about the web client?

As an audio engineer this was incredibly hard to read. As a dog owner it was also hard to read. Yes yes the bass rolloff switch & having the mic to the side, that could have been 2 bullet points.

This is why I don’t use Linux for any of my daily drivers, I do enough debugging as part of my full time job

Hah, it just so happens that I’m listening to the audiobook right now. Very fun but too engaging to listen to before going to bed :)

If you’re into Science Fiction:

(Note: I listed to these all via the Audible audiobooks, they were all very well narrated and I’d highly recommend listening this way.)

#1: The Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

This is amazingly fascinating from beginning to end, if you like speculative evolution zenofiction space operas, you’re in for a real treat. I feel like these books were written for me. I went the audiobook route and chugged through each (roughly 600 page) book, neglecting focus to almost anything else in my life. I would be playing Tetris on my phone (via the Tappy app) while listening at 1.1x speed, which is the perfect amount of mental stimulation to have massive amounts of time go by without noticing.

#2: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

I don’t want to spoil too much, but this is a must-read for engineer-brain nerds like me that yearn to understand complex systems recreationally. Enough said. Mandatory. I read Artemis by Andy Weir afterwards and enjoyed it too, but Hail Mary is my fave.

#3: The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

After obsessively finishing the Children of Time series there was a huge hole in my heart, so I started this series. I didn’t really latch on until 15% through the first book, but once I did I was once again obsessively hooked.

#4 (Bonus) I’m now reading Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward and am very excited to report back when I eventually finish. It involves alien life that evolved in the atomic strata of neutron stars (nerd drool).

I’ve now mostly taken a break from reading as it became all-consuming. But it was very worth it overall, best reading year in my life so far.

This is the kind of anecdote that I used to hear about smoking weed. Tripping can be abused as a means of escape like many other things (work etc), but over-use without a proper cool-off/reintegration period can definitely throw one off psychologically. It’s a powerful tool that should be feared and respected (like the ocean) for its ability to fuck you up if you’re reckless.

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1095/