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Blender 4.4

antome — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43407989

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

Blender 4.3

antome — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42190863

Points: 241

# Comments: 111

Blender 4.2

antome — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977950

Points: 91

# Comments: 8

New comment by antome in "Native Minecraft servers with GraalVM Native Image"

antome — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:01:43 +0000

This is a Minecraft server, so it's going to be running 24/7.

AU Optronics positions its ChLCD display as an alternative to color E Ink

antome — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:37:03 +0000

Article URL: https://liliputing.com/2022/05/au-optronics-positions-its-7-9-inch-chlcd-display-as-an-alternative-to-color-e-ink.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31254468

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by antome in "Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review"

antome — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:04:55 +0000

I do enjoy how reviewers are now using software rendering of Crysis as a benchmark, even if it's just a joke. It would be pretty interesting to see what kind of game engine you could make if it was hyper-optimized around software rendering for modern, massively parallel CPUs.

Computer Latency: 1977-2017

antome — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:38:05 +0000

Article URL: http://danluu.com/input-lag/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367833

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by antome in "Blender 2.82"

antome — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:54:41 +0000

While not all the new features will be in this release, the rate of improvement for Blender's sculpting tools has been astounding. For example, the new cloth brush:

( https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1223663016811618307 , https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1223060180344147970 )

Available as an experimental build here: https://blender.community/c/graphicall/Sjbbbc/

New comment by antome in "Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch"

antome — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:03:55 +0000

As someone who has used both PyTorch and TensorFlow for a couple years now, I can can attest to the faster research iteration times for PyTorch. TensorFlow has always felt like it was designed for some mythical researcher that could come up with a complete architecture ahead of time, based on off-the-shelf parts.

New comment by antome in "We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone"

antome — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:26:15 +0000

This doesn't have much to do with the algorithms, and is more to do with the engineering decisions that went into AlphaGo and AlphaZero. They are designed to play one combinatorial game really well. With a bit of additional efffort and a lot of additional compute, you could expand the model to account for multiple rule / scale variations, maybe even different combinatorial games.

New comment by antome in "NPM Bans Terminal Ads"

antome — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:36:55 +0000

Key part of the article: " According to these upcoming updates, npm will ban:

Packages that display ads at runtime, on installation, or at other stages of the software development lifecycle, such as via npm scripts.

Packages with code that can be used to display ads are fine. Packages that themselves display ads are not.

Packages that themselves function primarily as ads, with only placeholder or negligible code, data, and other technical content. "

I wonder where they will draw the line with the last point.

New comment by antome in "Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying"

antome — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:07:50 +0000

They can always rebrand it, like how 802.11ax is now "Wi-Fi 6" https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-in...

New comment by antome in "Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations"

antome — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:58:48 +0000

One thing Microsoft has really nailed, is the location diversity of Azure datacenters. They have multiple locations in South Africa and UAE, while also having regions in multiple cities across Australia, Japan and India. If I wanted to launch a worldwide product, why would I want to go with AWS, Google or IBM?

New comment by antome in "Blender 2.80 release candidate"

antome — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:30:32 +0000

For anyone wanting to jump in now, here's a good guide for making your first model in Blender 2.8, even if you have never made a model before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqYTgaFDxU

New comment by antome in "Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera"

antome — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:14:43 +0000

It's just a matter of following the money. A bigger and bigger slice of Microsoft's income is coming from Azure, and an increasing proportion of Azure users are running Linux. This gives them strong incentive to be the business leaders in open source software.

The other increasing slice is services, where they get you to buy stuff from their storefront, or subscribe to their game pass, or office 365, or make personal interactions with Bing and Windows (so they can sell targeted ads). This naturally gives Microsoft the incentive to know everything about you.

New comment by antome in "New iPod touch delivers even greater performance"

antome — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:23:45 +0000

Apple seems to provide IOS updates, at least with the iPhones, for about 4-5 years. Assuming the trend holds with the SE, I would probably expect them to at least support it into mid 2020.

New comment by antome in "Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine"

antome — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:06:07 +0000

Here's a good video on why getting Tidal power to work is hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRiKmgxrh0

New comment by antome in "Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction"

antome — Fri, 24 May 2019 06:52:23 +0000

I have seen people suggest that the "10 year challenge" was created to build an age-related training dataset. While the mannequin challenge was probably just spontaneous, I wonder if we will see an increasing number of viral challenges in the future that center around the creation of structured information.

New comment by antome in "Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspension worries"

antome — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:27:54 +0000

The problem is that the play store is a monopoly. If neither Amazon nor Samsung can create an app store with even a small fraction of the total useful apps found on the play store, who can? And if you can't find one particular app on the Amazon/Samsung store, why bother at all?

New comment by antome in "South Korean students flock to Japan"

antome — Tue, 14 May 2019 05:27:50 +0000

To draw some analogies, Japan has some very conservative people in power, but that's more to do with the election systems that give more power to monolithic parties that attract rural voters. When you look at the proportional vote (Japan has FPTP + a non-reproportioning proportional segment), Japanese people are on average much less conservative than their elected government would make it seem.