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scottmichaud

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C++ Developer (on paper; more GPU) @ Riverside.fm
Gamedev, Physics & Education @ QueensU, Puns.
Former: LightTwist, Inc.; Eliot Research; PC Perspective

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thomasfuchs, to random
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lol at “the Iranian presidential helicopter was so old”, the US Air Forces Ones (there’s two of them) were built in the 80s ¯_(ツ)_/¯

scottmichaud,
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@thomasfuchs Would you rather a Boeing from the 80s in the 2020s or a Boeing from the 2020s in the 2020s?

hanakogames, to random
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i had MULTIPLE Jet Lag dreams last night. i may have a problem.

scottmichaud,
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@hanakogames Dreams about having jet lag?

scottmichaud,
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@hanakogames Oh wow this is the first I've heard of it. Huh.

glennf, to random
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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

scottmichaud,
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@glennf Interesting thought.

Personally I think their mindset was more "We're compressing human art and innovation" when it looked more like "Fear my crushing presence, humanity!"

veronica, to GraphicsProgramming
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Is there anyone on here that has a recommendation for NVIDIA graphics cards? I haven't used them for a very long time, only AMD, so not really up to date on them.

I need it to run fine on Linux, which I hope has improved now. I will use it for not very demanding games like WoW, and for Machine Learning. I currently have an AMD Radeon RX 5700 GPU.

I was considering a Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC, since it would fit in my box. I can't have any of the super long ones.

scottmichaud,
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@veronica AFAIK NVIDIA was kind-of the better GPU vendor, if you use the proprietary driver and the features that the proprietary driver considers first class.

Are you reference to ex: Wayland support/Optimus support/etc.?

scottmichaud,
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@veronica That's the opposite of what I've heard from the gamedev and Linux gaming spheres.

ex: https://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driver-quality.html (NVIDIA is A)

scottmichaud,
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@veronica So... while there's some famous examples (Linus' NVIDIA hand gesture) about ex: Optimus, the driver quality in general I've seen has been NVIDIA > the rest (except when they chose to not care, like Wayland and Optimus and OpenCL 2).

As for specific cards... they're all kinda priced whacky these days. I run a 4070 and it's neat, although the Super launch messed with the price/perf ratio.

scottmichaud,
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@veronica Talking with @Venn he seems to recommend the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB over the 4070, assuming your workload is more heavily skewed to VRAM usage than performance.

scottmichaud,
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@veronica Cool. It's a bit less VRAM but if 12GB works for your ML tasks then it should be faster.

hanakogames, to gamedev
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re-writing and re-writing conversations to try and make them less dating-sim-flirting and more 'unwise engagement: unlocked'

scottmichaud,
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@hanakogames Very true for arena shooters.

mcc, to random
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I hate coordinate transformations! I hate coordinate transformations!! I hate coordinate transformations!!!

scottmichaud,
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@mcc WebGPU?

foone, to random
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I'm not saying I am too much of a geek but i just dreamed about using git.

scottmichaud,
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@foone Was it a good dream?

aeva, to random
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It's not the corner of Unreal where I'm typically gnawing on the wires, but I like the word "swidget". It's got a good mouth feel.

scottmichaud,
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@aeva I'll take swidgets for 400$.

aeva, to random
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I found a bug in my rowing machine firmware. If you row slowly, the cadence will spike to absurd values. I got a few in the hundreds today.

I wonder if the folks would appreciate a bug report w/ a detailed log 🤔

scottmichaud,
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@aeva Exercise 🤝 Math Library

Wanna row, but gotta call 'em.

foone, to random
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why the fuck do I have python 2.2 installed?
2.7, yeah, sure, I live in the past. two copies of 2.7? yeah, I guess I needed 32bit 2.7 at some point.

BUT 2.2?!

scottmichaud,
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@foone I'm now envisioning a snake in a tutu.

jrconlin, to random
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My, what a regular and well defined dip in my solar production today, on a day without clouds.

I wonder what could have been the cause?

scottmichaud,
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@jrconlin Mmm... Sun chips and dip.

dotstdy, to random
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It would be nice if laptops also had support for fancy battery saving features like phones have (e.g slow charge please in not in a hurry)

scottmichaud,
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@aras @dotstdy Yeah they target 80% after some number of months of realizing they've literally never left the charger.

Interestingly the iPad has not done that, even though it is also rarely off the charger.

foone, to random
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you know what I'd really like as a monitor? like, I know they're all basically the same now, but one feature that'd really set it apart for me is having exclusive buttons on the front.

like [VGA][DVI][HDMI1][HDMI2][DP1][DP2][AUTO] [POWER]

scottmichaud,
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@foone Literally have no idea whether this is a joke or not. None.

a1ba, to random
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scottmichaud,
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@a1ba I love photos like this where you can just imagine the backstory.

But now I'm curious whether a whole batch of these were fed into the bending machine backwards, or if somehow a single one got flipped, and why.

erin_catto, to random
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Working to fix this now. Optimizing cache usage. Hopefully that fixes it.

scottmichaud,
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@erin_catto Cache makes sense. May want to track the clock rate (min/max/avg) during each test, too.

foone, to random
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I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

scottmichaud,
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@foone By today's standards, that's a piece of Pooh.

eniko, to random
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i feel like people dont appreciate nearly enough that the answer to "omg they cant do that!" is far too often "they can unless you sue them and get a judge to agree with you that they cant"

scottmichaud,
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@eniko And the opposite is also true. "Am I allowed to" (ex: fair use discussions) doesn't mean that they won't try to sue you anyway and hope you'll settle out of court.

mcc, to random
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I was gonna post something depressing about technology but then I decided I had posted too many depressing things about technology today so I didn't

scottmichaud,
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@aeva @mcc It's a bit of a shame. The "Sir, this is a Wendy's" jokes will never be the same...

scottmichaud, to random
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So this is clearly a joke, but my brain wants to understand what sort of backstory would go into this warning label being made (if it was serious).

erin_catto, to random
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Has any game ever shipped with substantial rigid body simulation running on the GPU? Not soft body stuff. I mean things like vehicles, ragdolls, and destruction.

scottmichaud,
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@erin_catto @idbrii I think Unreal Tournament 3, at least with the NVIDIA PhysX map pack, did some stuff on the GPU???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGjUQ0e9_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPVokaEvPJY

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