Be upset it’s gone. I am too. But it only took it about 30 minutes of work to break in the back door of our databases today, and we use the biggest accounting software in the industry. I get it. I’m annoyed, but I get it.
@cmuratori I mean this sincerely. The answer is because you own it. You paid for it. Your name is on the deed. You put your time and effort into paying for something that someone else originally did the hard work on. Please do not be dense.
Millennials were born into a world where everything was already built, and we were told our job was to simply maintain. We spent our entire lives thinking we would never get a chance to create something new. That’s why everyone you know is building now
A year ago I found out my (then) wife was having affairs during my deployments. I left and my daughter came with me. My family disowned me, written out of every will and asset. No one calls. It still hurts every day, but a little less than the previous day. God is Good
almost every picture you've seen of the sun next to the earth is lying to you. not about the color or the detail, about size. they shrink the gap and pump the earth up so both read like characters in the same shot.
this is the real ratio. that orange ball is the sun. earth is the dot on the right, the one i had to circle so you could even find it. 109 earths would line up across the sun's face. you could pour about 1.3 million earths inside it.
i'll be straight about the one cheat. the sizes are exact, 109 to 1, that's the part everyone fakes and the part i refused to. the distance i pulled in, because at the true gap earth sits more than a hundred sun-widths away and you'd be staring at a black frame with nothing in it. so real sizes, squeezed gap, and i labeled it so you always know which is which.
here's why this even exists. i've been teaching a neural net from scratch to find planets in real telescope data, and the last piece is drawing what it finds. i gave the renderer one rule, it is never allowed to fake a size.
there's a test that fails the whole build if a planet comes out wrong by even a little. doing science means the picture stays true even when the true thing is almost invisible.
rendered on the 5090 on my desk.
that speck i had to circle is every person who has ever lived, every fight, every deadline, every benchmark i've ever posted. all of it, on the pale blue dot.