Gavin Higham
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Gavin Higham
@GavinHigham
[email protected] CG+art+game engines+VR+C+Lua+GLSL Currently part of the Wi-Fi team for Windows, at Microsoft. He/him.
Seattle Katılım Eylül 2009
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@GavinHigham I hear you on this but I shouldn't have to enable this permission to view my interface PHY speed. There has to be another way
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@LowLevelTweets If your app has a package identity, it can be granted this capability individually. It’ll show a once-per-app prompt to enable. Oh, and lastly if you just want to see your link speed, built-in, without enabling anything or a different app, I believe it’s shown in Settings
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@LowLevelTweets So, it is possible today to make a console app that surfaces this information, netsh just hasn’t been updated to do it with the exclusion of BSSID (and that’s subject to prioritization, etc.)
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@LowLevelTweets Win-R: ms-settings:privacy-location, scroll down, “Let Desktop apps access your location”. Essentially old behavior for Win32 but now at least you know who might be tracking you. There’s also a one-time prompt that would have enabled this for you, which you may have dismissed
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@LowLevelTweets Hi, I worked on this. If netsh was privileged to get this access without going through the capability check, every app that we were trying to prevent from surreptitiously tracking you would just call netsh under the hood to get nearby BSSIDs
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@BeachLTC @playcanvas Matterport is a set of 360 panos that you blend between. This is a full, real-time 3D reconstruction of a location.
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Videogame technology is disrupting the real estate sector 🏡
📷 Scan a house
🪄 Train a 3D Gaussian splat
🌐 Publish to the web with @playcanvas
Buyers can speedrun through property listings! 🏃
Try it for yourself on SuperSplat 🔗👇
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@SnipeJohnson2 @aerockrose I admire the hustle of engagement-baiting without a blue check
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@GavinHigham @aerockrose Oh, I know all about him. He’s a dim bulb.
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Steve Ballmer reveals the interview test Microsoft used to separate problem-solvers from gamblers:
"I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. First guess, I give you $5. Then $4, $3, $2, $1. After that, you pay me."
"There are far more numbers on which you lose than win."
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@SnipeJohnson2 @aerockrose Uh, have you looked at his Wikipedia page? Like, pre-Microsoft?
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@aerockrose It’s always hilarious to me when people who think they are clever try to act clever. Ballmer is absolutely one of those people.
The reality is he’s a midwit who was in the right place at the right time. Probabilistically, someone had to luck out. It was him that time.
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@ccallac7 Good inverse checklist for that true indie feel:
- no SSAO
- no tone mapping
- no IBL
- gamma correction issues
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This is what you need to make your custom renderer not look DIY:
- SSAO
- tone mapping (AgX or ACES)
- soft cascaded shadow maps
- a good image based lighting map
- no gamma correction issues
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@SirMichaelRocks All the bot posters ignoring/not understanding your question and instead posting mild variations of the current spin-of-the-day.
Propaganda machine could not be more obvious 😃
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Can somebody educated in politics explain to me how Mamdani is able to do all this stuff but no other politician is ever able to make any noticeable progress?
How does he evade the same bureaucracy the other politicians always blame for not being able to do shit?
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@MaximeHeckel Also I think it’s possible to allow content to be visible underneath the URL, ex. this.
In any case, apparently “Hide Distracting Items” worked on the progress indicator, for anyone else reading on a small iPhone
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@GavinHigham yeah that's meh, it should not be so low
i'll fix this after work
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New post 📝
A deep dive into a topic I wanted to explore for a long time: how to render a realistic sky and atmosphere
I explore everything from simulating the interaction of light with air, to handling sunsets, all in real-time, from ground to space
blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rende…
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@justasquidd00 @theogramme_dev what's an example of this aesthetic
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@cmuratori I don’t know the methodology but it could include VMs, machines under load, etc. Not sure how it could possibly take 100ms to render that, so there’s got to be some waiting on I/O or locks or IPC.
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@GavinHigham Well, it is a confusing number though, because I frame-captured the Win10 Run dialog and it was ~33ms. That was on decade-old hardware. So they would have to be including a lot of really old hardware to get a median around 100ms for the old one, no?
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This is a good thing if it turns out that the number MS posted in their blog makes it sound significantly worse than what's observed in practice with the new dialog.
(Note that "frames" in the post below is not talking about frames of the computer it's running on, but rather frames of an iPhone camera recording it - this is explained by the poster later in the thread).
Thomas Klemenc@thomasklemenc
@cmuratori I like dunking on MS as much as the next guy, but in this case it’s dishonest. Posting their ms value did them a disservice. I counted 14 frames (58.3 ms) from physical button press to rendered on screen. It’s genuinely at least as snappy as the old one, even with animations off
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@nbevans @takeshi_no_uta @tomwarren Usually we don’t run full debug builds, we’d swap in a few debug binaries. Tracing is not likely to add significant latency unless you’re tracing a massive amount, which is unlikely for this scenario. My guess is telemetry shows this as median across many (possibly slow) devices
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@takeshi_no_uta @tomwarren Thanks, 30 YOE and I didn't know that
Bet you they took this measure on a debug build of Windows which has a ton of trace output for Win32API and that's what skewed the stat. Not comparing like for like.
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if we're misleadingly conflating 2 different perf metrics (time to first frame latency and fps smoothness) then just factor in OS boot time so it's less than 1fps 🙃The reality is the new Run loads faster (94ms) than the existing one (103ms) that nobody has ever moaned about
Casey Muratori@cmuratori
Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: Microsoft rewrote the run dialog with performance "top-of-mind", and the best they could manage to do when putting up a single text box was 10fps?
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@TheMirzaBeig This is astonishing. How are you layering the transparency? Painter's algorithm?
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Ray/pathtracing-like glass for Unity URP.
> (without *actually* doing all of that--).
Mirza Beig@TheMirzaBeig
Unity URP glass - convincing results. -- (this is recorded from the editor).
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