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Today, I'm retiring from Pixar, 40+ years after I first started. It's been a great run. Keep making the world's best movies #pixar
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Tom Duff, deipnosophist
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Tom Duff, deipnosophist
@TomDuff
Retired computer graphics researcher Grandparent Musical Tinkerer Pen plotter enthusiast #plottertwitter @[email protected] @tomduff.bsky.social
Berkeley, CA Katılım Nisan 2007
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@Pixel0Symphony Uh, Plato quoting Socrates at his trial.
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@Pixel0Symphony Or Plato (399 BC, purportedly) “The unexamined life is not worth living”.
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“Look within. Within is the fountain of good.” (Marcus Aurelius, c. 170 CE)
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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I sent out my #ptpx2025 cards yesterday. Here's what's on them: iq0.com/ptpx2025.html
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@furan I am at the age where it's pretty clear that I have more to do than I have time left for.
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I am "years of work left" but I imagine I'll realize it's actually "never satisfied"
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assuming self improvement never stops, how big is the gap between where you are and where you want to be?
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@CompSciFact That’s a non-public link. Try the original: lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loops…
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How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/0…
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#Dodgers bullpen tried their best to lose the game, but the Dodgers batters were just too good for them.
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@yiningkarlli The only plus to this week is Dodgers lost 4 in a row, but Padres lost 5.
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The new new new new worse loss of the year. Wanted in Los Angeles: literally anyone who can hit a baseball with runners in scoring position.
Also maybe leave Tanner Scott in Baltimore and let him walk back to LA.
Los Angeles Dodgers@Dodgers
FINAL: Orioles 2, #Dodgers 1
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Yamamoto having a bad day. #dodgers As is Schanuel for the Angels. (HBP, looked gruesome but stayed in the game.)
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@yiningkarlli Right. I was particularly thinking of Vesia.
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@TomDuff Same problem that’s been going on all season: lack of starting pitching depth has meant an over-reliance on the bullpen, and as a result they’re utterly exhausted and just generally have not been good. I was surprised that Vesia didn’t do well today though.
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It never gets old seeing our designed hitter Shohei show up in a big way to provide run support for our starting pitcher Ohtani.
Los Angeles Dodgers@Dodgers
Shohei Ohtani, pitchers who rake!
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@DJSnM The Rubin telescope will likely increase the rate of these discoveries by a lot, maybe to several per year (in my dreams).
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I did do some math and if you could get a C3 of about 50 a space probe could have been delivered to 3/I ATLAS if it launched *last year*.
Vera Rubin might have discovered this soon enough to make a mission possible.
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It is kinda shocking how small voice recordings can be and yet we're still only requiring 30minutes on aircraft
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@DonaldM38768041 Sounds like it was working but in a state that impeded future development. That counts as broken. An hour spent debugging is likely a cheap price. Not eliminating technical debt is like letting your accountant make engineering decisions.
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Did some clean-up, consolidating replicated code in an intermediate ActivationLayer class. Of course, the program stopped working, and I spent an hour fixing the mistake. This is an archetypal story of programming -- never fix something that isn't broken.
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@yiningkarlli Norm & I were in graduate school together. Sad to hear of his passing.
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The founder of Penn's graphics program, Prof. Norm Badler, passed away last week. Norm was one of the early pioneers of CG, and over the past 50 years his students- thousands across PhD, Masters, and undergrad- have gone on to build much of today's CG field and industry. (1/5)
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@yiningkarlli Oh yeah. And it’s super easy to find anything on their web site/app. Compare to Mouser or Digikey, whose part search just makes you think about switching careers.
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There’s a really strong argument that McMaster’s website is the greatest e-commerce site ever made. It loads near-instantaneous, has pretty much every part you could possibly dream of, their service and reliability and quality are legendary, and their prices are super fair.
David Liu@davidliuxyz
@CalebChamberla6 storytime. mcmaster once failed to deliver some things i needed on a friday. customer service asked how long i'd be at the shop. a knock on the warehouse door at 7pm that same day. they couriered via commercial flight my parts after my call. love those guys.
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@DonaldM38768041 It was a long time ago, memories fading.
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@DonaldM38768041 That poster on the left side is definitely from 1998 or 2000 or so. The skeleton arrived in the early ‘90s. Screens are a mixture, some pcs and some of Bart’s 2-bit/pixel post-BLIT machines — I can’t remember what they were called, maybe others. All would have run Plan 9.
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Lab 1127 at Bell Laboratories. The "UNIX room" where many of the researchers worked in a common area instead of their offices.
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