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peppertree··on Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
As in traditional societies that burn scientists for suggesting earth revolves around the sun? This is why it’s important to learn history instead of just making things up in your head.
peppertree··on The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
I have a feeling it's going to be nearly impossible to replace it without breaking a lot of existing code, since the syntax will have to be a lot more explicit.
peppertree··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
I think the biggest announcement was the private compute cloud with Apple Silicon. Apple is building up internal expertise to go after Nvidia.
peppertree··on Why Triplebyte Failed
The problem was standardized hiring is it become too easy to game the process. You end up with a pool of engineers good at studying and it doesn’t always translate to good engineering.
peppertree··on Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
Ok if you draw a third circle representing all women then this would be the only woman.
peppertree··on Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
peppertree··on Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery
The secret ingredient is benzoic acid.
peppertree··on Internal NeXT video by Steve Jobs (1991)
In the video jobs mentioned he wanted to sell 50,000 units in 1992. The actual numbers were 20,000 units in 1992 and 50,000 in 1993. This just reminded me of Tesla ramp up. Musk was right about volume but too optimistic on timing.
peppertree··on WWDC kick off June 10 with Keynote address
Can't wait for the supercut of every presenter saying "AI".
peppertree··on macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions
What are the best alternatives besides cloud keychains. Coming from sharing same password for multiple accounts, cloud keychain has been step up for me security wise. I'm honestly curious what are the better alternatives.
peppertree··on Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
If you have ever worked with children you will realize vast majority of them lack the willpower to learn new things and seek out answers. A good teacher can provide the social accountability and guide them, but it's not something you can put on auto pilot with AI.
peppertree··on CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
Plasticity was open source before it abandoned c3d in favor of Parasolid. The repo can still be found here: https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity
peppertree··on Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
I have serious trust issues when microsoft makes a claim about battery life.
peppertree··on Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
Still waiting on KaZaA open source. Kids these days don't know what it's like trying to download a music video and end up watching someone getting beheaded.
peppertree··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Since it's all in proper casing I'm going to assume he wrote it with chatgpt.
peppertree··on Veo
This is very on-brand with how Google does branding. "are you confused yet? no? try this other vaguely similar name."
peppertree··on Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian splatting from camera motion blurred images
No it does not "make up things" using generative AI. Current GS implementations assume camera poses are static. This paper assigns a linear motion trajectory to camera during training.
peppertree··on GPT-4o
Just like that Google is on back foot again.
peppertree··on Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event was shot on iPhone with Panavision lenses
After coloring grading there's going to be difference in sharpness but most won't notice. The biggest visual difference is going to be depth of field. Without specialty lens iphone has to rely on a depth matte, which is not very clean with current gen hardware. With Panavision lens you can manually pull focus. It will look better but requires a dedicated person on set.
peppertree··on Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event was shot on iPhone with Panavision lenses
Different lenses are needed for different jobs. That's why most production shops just rent the lenses they need for the shoot.
peppertree··on Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event was shot on iPhone with Panavision lenses
People are obsessing over the lens but really hard part about video production is the workflow. Timecode, track syncing, color grading, AI, storage. Apple is solving it piece by piece I can see iOS based workflow becoming norm in not distant future.
peppertree··on Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator
In my 20's I thought startup was a quick way to make a million bucks. I had a list of ideas. Copied and spun others' ideas. Some of them made money but none was wildly successful. Now I'm older and money is less of an issue, I realized starting a business is more about finding the people you want to help, working with people you like, and being the right person to solve the problem at the right time.
peppertree··on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
I often dread when I see an employer using in-house systems for common tasks like project tracking and code review. I'm curious how does JS's internal tools stack up against systems out there, like Github or Jira.
peppertree··on Google lays off its Python team
I believe this is just a product of US corporate tax laws and high interest rate but I would like to hear other takes on it. Corporations don't want to bring overseas profit home and be double taxed, so they borrow domestically using oversea cash as collateral. High interest rate and strong USD make it less attractive to hire in US.
peppertree··on VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution
Have we reached peak image sensor size. Would it still make sense to shoot in fullframe when you can just upscale.
peppertree··on Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog
$1600 version is just a remote control toy. If you want the ROS programmable version it's around 10k.
peppertree··on North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series
The real question is does North Korean let their animators work remote in a LOCL area.
peppertree··on An electric new era for Atlas
They have out-sci-fied any sci-fi robots I have ever seen.
peppertree··on We need to rewild the internet
Truth is with LLM and chat as main interface, it's going to be harder and harder for niche sites to be surfaced.
peppertree··on Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering
After seeing so many failed file system projects at vmware, I was pretty skeptical when I first heard about APFS. The fact it succeeded with so little noise just blew me away. It proves apples has the best system engineers in the world today.
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