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mircea_popescu: "Pixar does NOT use Apple computers
to make 3D for
their movies (modeling, animation, render, shaders, etc.).
They use Linux, just like everyone else in
the industry. Now
they might use a Mac
to paint a background or
texture something but all feature animation is done in Linux (Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Animation, Blue Sky, etc. etc.).
That's also
true for SFX shops like ILM, Weta, Sony Imageworks, DD, etc. etc. All Lin
mircea_popescu: "The crappy 3D support on Mac OS is in direct conflict with
that goal. Furthermore, as a non-Mac OS user, I would kindly request
that no disproportionate developer effort be spent on such an inadequate and developer-hostile platform.
mircea_popescu: "And
that article Richard posted just seems
to exist
to stroke Apple's ego. I don't
think I know a single artist who would choose
to buy one of
the new Mac Pros for
their work, especially considering
the premium you pay and
their reliance on AMD hardware in a field dominated by nV and CUDA."
mircea_popescu: what idiots do isn't really in
the scope of
this discussion.
mircea_popescu: anyway. jobs could have pulled something like
this off, maybe, as an outlier result. mostly, he'd have failed miserably while denying it all along.
mircea_popescu: they'll just pretend like
the poroblem doesn't exist and will go away, like any mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't believe cook has
the guts
to even
try.
mircea_popescu: looks more like, "neither nvidia nor amd were willing
to go into a intel-ms deal with fucking apple, because who
the fuck do
those assholes
think
they are and it's about
time
they figured out a) jobs is deads and b) if he weren't he'd be in jail ; meanwhile apple won't
talk
to intel or asus etc because
they
think
they're
too good
to deal with lesser babka, and so
they're saying fuck you
to
the entire modern computing g
kakobrekla: >The Navy
tried
to sail away from XP in 2013, but it seemed
to hit some headwind with
the project as of May
this year it still had approximately 100,000 workstations running XP or
the other software.
mircea_popescu: as
the costs
to prop it up just keep on growing and eventually
tyhe whole "ecosystem" collapses
mircea_popescu: if
they don't have decent driver suport
they COULD make some in house abomiation circumvent it all, and so on
mircea_popescu: apparently it's not going
to. i dunno whence
this idea comes
that something can run magically-like.
mircea_popescu: those folks, whatever
they may
think, or wish
the worlkd
to be, still have
to eat.
mircea_popescu: if you want
to process say a shader and it
takes you half hour on mac and five minutes on gentoo
then by
this standard one would i guess say it doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: but runs as in what ? "can't access
the driver, here's a nice welcome box" ?
mircea_popescu: oris it just
the
thing chicklets derping on facebook and calling
themselves designers favour ?
ben_vulpes: 'works' means different
things for people who use computers vs program
them.
ben_vulpes: i work with
the 'agencies'. design happens on macs.
mircea_popescu: apple wants
to be a "mobile platform". because it worked so well for nokia, and for samsung, and for fucking blackberry.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, apparently
the problem is
that whatever actual driver support
they had, marginal as it was,
they're chucking in
the new osx
mircea_popescu: the
things one finds on
the internet. i
thought mac survived principally because graphics shitheads.
assbot: Logged on 28-05-2015 19:48:57; asciilifeform: 2)
tiny
turds, stored and
then reclaimed, lead
to fragging
phf: mircea_popescu: yes, will post here, once i have closer
to complete blockchain
mircea_popescu: phf do you intend
to publish results of your run anywhere ?
phf: mircea_popescu: i guess
thermonuked is less efficient network utilization, but per asciilifeform better
then less efficient memory utilization which was
the case pre
thermonuke
phf: bastard in
this case is something
that's will eventually be joined onto blockchain
phf: asciilifeform: a hunch, but also poor understanding of how blocks are requested. i
thought
that maybe bastards will compete for bandwidth with legitimate blocks
phf: ben_vulpes: heya! yeah, i quit my previous job, so i have a lot more
time for avocation
phf: asciilifeform: right, no surprises
there so far. i
thought
that maybe as blockchain grows
the cumulative delay will increase, but i don't see
that happening yet
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phf: asciilifeform:
that's how i understand it, just poor wording on my part
phf: bitcoind keeps rerequesting same bastard blocks before
there's enough blockchain
to accept it, on average i got 3-4 rejections for
the same block, with a few worst cases of ~100 rerequests
phf: so i'm running
thermonuked version: at 180k blockcount, i got 44526 bastards, 44007 of which have been eventually accepted with an average 3 minute delay.
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 22:17:37; pete_dushenski: i can see
the epidemiology headline now : "sids linked
to living in suburbia"
BingoBoingo: punkman:
The difference is in
the preparation
that
takes it
to
that point.
punkman: kinda hard
to distinguish baby goat/lamb after cooking, at least for my
taste buds
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 22:00:51;
trinque: pete_dushenski: so I hear, yet primate infanticide is most certainly a
thing.
pete_dushenski: trying
to control variables in any such sids experiment would require insane amounts of data and coordination
mircea_popescu: but so far most of
the productions on
the
topic are "smoking is bad and vaccines good mkay"
pete_dushenski: i can see
the epidemiology headline now : "sids linked
to living in suburbia"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not
that inadequate. iirc it's
the leading cause of death in small children in
the western world.
pete_dushenski: and
the scope of science such as it exists currently is woefully inadequate
to study
the matter
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, spontaneous abortion is a
thing, and obviously children inhabit some sort of continuum between
that and adulthood, so...
mircea_popescu: i suppose on
the surface "sudden infant death" seems insanity, as adults don't do anything like
that.
trinque: yeah, I can see how
the
thing resembles other media-fueled panics
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu go figure
that
the courts would find personal responsbility where
there is none
to counterbalance
their continued lenience when it's actually
there, as with 'insanity' pleas.
mircea_popescu: eh from what i've heard,
they convicted a buncha women for what actually was bona fide kids dying
trinque: I've seen more
than a few
things published on whether "sudden infant death syndrome" (obviously a questionable concept on its own) is a more palatable "diagnosis" for infanticide