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For me it's hard to imagine not starting on the second PR after submitting the first one, regardless of AI or stacked PRs. For focused work I find it important to avoid context swi…

I'm curious how you got the energy consumption for 8 hours of use. I would imagine there's a huge spread there too. Depending on hardware, size of the model, requests being batched…

I think initiatives for forge federation are trying to do too much. When running a forge for a project, I'd don't want to be dealing with spam or large amounts of data from other i…

More recent content from Netflix is part of the ASWF Digital Production Example Library. https://dpel.aswf.io/

For the EU and US: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_... > For technical reasons, there is not one “absolute” figure for the average tariffs on EU-US trad…

Yes, a big problem is indeed API documentation and making it easier to follow best practices. Regarding angles, users want to see degrees in the UI, but the python functions like m…

Blender 2.5 has changed the UI significantly from the original commercial version, and most comments I read about it say that it has improved significantly. Blender the open source…

The mouse focus issue is more related to missing APIs. If you call operators (tools) from Python they do indeed depend on context, just like they would if you use them from a toolb…

I agree it's possible to do better than forward path tracing, but a big part of why nearly everyone switched to it was that it significantly reduces artist time, is a lot less pain…

Just one nitpick, Arnold supports the same BSSRDF profiles and has been used for realistic skin rendering in movies. The gaussian profile is actually suitable for rendering realist…

Forward path tracing is what is used to render more than 95% of graphics you see in movies today. It's not great for closed spaces and VCM is better, but it's definitely possible t…

For a fair comparison we should compare PRMan's RIS with Cycles though, not REYES. RIS is what Pixar are focusing on and rendering their movies with now. Yes, REYES is great at sub…

I think this misses the point, if someone doesn't understand open source etiquette then I would give them a friendly reply. Even if it was mentioned somewhere in the documentation,…

This is the same strategy I've used in open source projects. Handling the report is annoying, but then having to go spend time fixing the issue to help someone who is being an ass …