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Yeah. For the most part those communities seemed to have not jumped to lemmy which I'm grateful for. I think hate is like the fast food of emotions, it's addictive and we love it but it's bad for you and eating nothing but that will fuck you up. That video really fundamentally changed how I view things on the internet and if there's one thing I really wish I could expose more people to, that's it.

Back on reddit, there was a subreddit called non-golfers. It was created to poke fun at atheists, being a metaphor for a community around something they don't like. It grew, with newcomers not understanding the joke and taking it seriously and unironically being a community about hating golf. (I was one of those people, I'm self aware now). It kinda strikes me as human nature, tribalism, rearing its ugly head once again. I'll leave you with this relevant video, highly worth the watch.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

Informlemmy?

I finished building a fuck machine last weekend and I literally fucked myself silly. No thoughts, head empty, giggly bitch silly. Great time, 10/10, highly recommend to anyone open to the idea of putting something up their butt.

Shitty people can make good things. If the things they make aren't connected to what makes them shitty people, and they aren't using their position as a thing maker to spread shittyness, I don't see anything wrong with supporting them. If their things are disconnected from what makes them shitty people but they DO use their position as a creator to spread shittyness, I might still consume their creations but I won't support them. If their stuff IS connected to what makes them shitty people, I probably wouldn't want to consume it in the first place.

For example, if a bigot makes good instrumental electronic music and isn't using their somewhat wellknown face to preach bigotry, I have no problem buying their music and recommending it to others. If they were actively being shitty with the face of their music, I'd pirate it and not spread the word instead. If their music was bigoted, I wouldn't want to listen to it to begin with.

So, as far as I know the cycles engine does ray tracing until it hits a noise threshold, then does ai denoising for the final cleanup. You can see where the more visually complex parts of your render are, because it will take a lot longer to render to a less noisy state. I don't know specifics of how it works under the hood, but given how complex parts of your image take longer to tender to an acceptable threshold than simpler parts it seems obvious to me that render time scales with complexity.

The complexity of your scene makes a huge difference. If your scene has fewer things for light to bounce off of, doing the ray tracing is much faster

(Source: I do blender renders with cycles)

Really depends on the complexity of the frame being rendered for how fast your laptop can render it

Computer engineering is not comp sci lol

Computer engineering is the hardware level of designing and building computers, it might involve firmware depending on the job and the area but it's way closer to electrical engineering than software engineering. Software engineering is also very different than computer science.

Software engineering is called that because it is the equivalent of engineering in software. You are engineering and designing a product/system. Computer science is more of the theoretical side, more detailed study of algorithms and math, etc.

What do you think of electrical engineers? Is that "real" enough to be called engineering?

Yeah, but clearly it does make a lot of people feel good

Feelings are a powerful force. It makes people feel good, why would they stop?

Ah yes, if you recognize and denounce genocide then obviously you must be pro terrorism.