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@xXaia @andrewpprice Someone has to pay for 200 developers and 2800 managers!

@andrewpprice I find it funny that 315M is not enough to develop software anymore ...

Last year, Autodesk made $315 million from mostly 3ds Max and Maya subscriptions. Over the same period, Blender made €3.1M, or 1% of Autodesk's earnings, despite having significantly more users. This is the wrong way around. Be someone that supports the next generation of creatives. Become a monthly donor: fund.blender.org/?utm_campaign=… (It's easy!)

@Malvision If you want to a good "making shaders experience", have a look at Unity's shader graphs. Any Maya shading editor, From HyperShade to Bifrost, is, to be generous, quite behind in term of UX...

I'm falling in love with making shaders in MaterialX (Maya/Arnold), quick example *audio*

What could go wrong...

@jawwwn_ And here's $QQQ volatility:

@jawwwn_ Complaining about short sellers is a bit ridiculous. They play an essential role in creating market liquidity and price efficiency — particularly in volatile stocks like $PLTR. Hard to believe he does not know.

$PLTR CEO Alex Karp talking about short sellers on CNBC live right now: “They just love pulling down great American companies so that they can pay for their coke” Lmaooo he’s really not holding back today ❄️ 🔥

@TrendSpider What do you expect from a micro-strategy

Year-to-Date Return: 🟢 $BTC +16% 🔴 $MSTR -15% Sometimes the levered play isn’t the better play.

@KobeissiLetter It’s at 276, go back to sleep

BREAKING: Apple stock, $AAPL, falls -5% despite posting stronger than expected Q3 2025 earnings.

@TheLongInvest In other words — and I can’t believe I have to say this too a platform with 7M users like SWS — you cant start from a hypothesis (“fair price”) and arrive at reality (current price). You have to do the opposite: start from the observable reality and project toward the hypothesis!

@TheLongInvest But what they’re actually showing is this: 853.86 * (1.0 - 0.575) = 362.50 In other words, they’re calculating how much lower the current price is from the fair value — not how much it could rise to from the current price!!! UNBELIEVABLE.

$UNH wild.

@zerohedge Oracle may have emitted bonds knowing how much money for sure are they gonna get on the next 2 years given their backlog — not sure just guessing

"Oracle’s stock jumped by 25% after being promised $60 billion a year from OpenAI, an amount of money OpenAI doesn’t earn yet, to provide cloud computing facilities that Oracle hasn’t built yet, and which will require 4.5 GW of power (the equivalent of 2.25 Hoover Dams or four nuclear plants), as well as increased borrowing by Oracle whose debt to equity ratio is already 500% compared to 50% for Amazon, 30% for Microsoft and even less at Meta and Google. In other words, the tech capital cycle may be about to change." - JPM's Michael Cembalest

@zerohedge Apple debt is its bonds

#veach #ajar scene at sunset with #pathtracing (no denoise) #rendering

@wayneyap 1/ type more 2/ get fat faster 3/ offset workout see 2/ 4/ less time to think (thinking is forbidden! just work 5/ see 2/ and 3/ 6/ this is ok 7/ more brainwash for kids Three words for you: WAKE UP, NEO

6/ Sharing Gone Wild Shared bikes? That's 2020. In 2025, you can borrow: • Umbrellas • Basketballs • Phone chargers • Mahjong tables The crazy part is that it's everywhere - So you NEVER EVER have to worry about your phone running out of batt.

I'm Singaporean. Singapore is famous for being advanced. But it's NOTHING compared to what I just saw in my 15-day China trip. Here's 7 shocking technology I saw in China this month:

@artixels With vintage you mean old 3delight RI/RSL ? Because the new 3Delight NSI/OSL is the most modern offline renderer out there, versus the dinosaurs. So total avant-garde. Nice btw.

Fragmentation.38 rendered using vintage #3delight

What I am doing right now

@Apple @tim_cook @Sethrogen @evandgoldberg #TheStudio EP2 "#TheOner" is an absolute masterpiece. I haven't seen anything as light and as entertaining in a LONG time. Add to that two🍒 1) the whole episode is a oner, 2) the episode has a bookend. Thank You Thank You Thank You🙇

@artixels lensing

fog rolling in from the harbour and saw this beauty, reminds me these CGI jargons Volumetric Photon Mapping Participating medium and ?

@Ayjchan Amazing that in this last paper they happily give relevance to the Furin Cleavage Site, while in the Feb 2020 "A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin" there is no mention of it. Clowns. Dangerous Clowns.

Leading science organizations and journals appear to be utterly tone deaf. Up till last month, the National Academies kept Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance as head of their forum on microbial threats. Nature journal continues to play the mouthpiece of the Proximal Origin authors & friends. There appears to be zero introspection that they created/are part of a system that incentivizes risky research including the work in Wuhan that likely caused the pandemic. Just this month, another top journal published 2 studies where MERS-like viruses were used in human cell infection studies at low biosafety (BSL-2) in Wuhan. The journal did not attach notices of concern to either paper. Are we just waiting for another outbreak of ambiguous origin to occur? And will we endure more years of "it was the pangolins/bats/raccoon dogs/name your favorite intermediate host?"