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Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by saagarjha »

nikolay wrote: post #96
lmilcin wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was never supposed to support conversation in the first place. People were supposed to shoot short, simple, single messages and other people maybe react to this with their own short, single messages.

Yeah, I've never seen any value in Twitter. They should've called it "Public IM" or limited IIRC and make it function well like IM. Even the poor implementation of threads in Slack is way better than the perverted version of Twitter.

> I've never seen any value in Twitter.

Except for the information that doesn't show up on other platforms, which is why it is a frequently linked site here?

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

aprdm wrote: post #209
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #192

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I’m guessing Pixar is using a distributed file system opposed to traditional NFS? Do you have any idea what storage system render farms tend to use? At my workplace we have a smallish HPC center and ended up moving off of NFS at about 2PB of storage since we were starting to hit the limits of NFS (think 1TB of RAM and 88 cores on a single NFS server).

Everywhere I worked has been traditional NFS, and I've seen more than 3 times the figure you quoted working well. Usually you have different mountpoints/vfs`s in different servers for different kinds of files.

Interesting, maybe the scientific computations we are doing are more I/O intense than render applications? How do studios manage disaster recovery? What happens when a multi petabyte NFS server keels over? Are there tape drive backups? It seems risky to have a such a critical system serviced by only a single node.

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by Havoc »

hadrien01 wrote: post #10

For those that can't stand Twitter's UI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html

Longish form writing on a platform that specifically restrict length of each message is painful to say the least

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by nikolay »

folkrav wrote: post #218
nikolay wrote: post #96

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Yeah, I've never seen any value in Twitter. They should've called it "Public IM" or limited IIRC and make it function well like IM. Even the poor implementation of threads in Slack is way better than the perverted version of Twitter.

Apart from being stuck to a single level in depth (which IMHO kind of makes sense in the context of an IM platform), what's that bad about Slack's threads?

Well, literally, you need to move aside - they took the skeuomorphism of people getting aside to discuss a topic without bothering others too far.

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by nikolay »

saagarjha wrote: post #221
nikolay wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've never seen any value in Twitter. They should've called it "Public IM" or limited IIRC and make it function well like IM. Even the poor implementation of threads in Slack is way better than the perverted version of Twitter.

> I've never seen any value in Twitter. Except for the information that doesn't show up on other platforms, which is why it is a frequently linked site here?

An ever-increasing number of people uses https://threadreaderapp.com/ though.

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by djmips »

dirtyid wrote: post #136
hadrien01 wrote: post #10

For those that can't stand Twitter's UI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html

I wish there was a service that restructures twitter like a reddit thread.

Posted in another comment. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by djmips »

NickNameNick wrote: post #198
dodobirdlord wrote: post #144

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> This question is possibly based on an incorrect assumption that feature (animated) films are rendered differently than VFX. They're identical in terms of most tech stacks including rendering and the process is largely similar overall. Showcased by the yearly highlights reel that the Renderman team puts out. https://vimeo.com/388365999

For a 2020 showreal, there sure were a lot of 2019 and earlier movies in there. I'm pretty sure one of those shots was from Alien:Covenant (2017)

A showreel is more like a resume / sales sheet than a summary of a particular year. The 2020 date would only mean it included stuff up to and including 2020.

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by nikon »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #202
nikon wrote: post #182

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Where can I watch the documentary?

It's a little bit on Disney+, one of the extras called "Soul, Improvised". It's very much not technical, more focused on the emotional impact of WFH.

Thanks! I just checked it out. So interesting they use Linux for non-developer staff!

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by jlgaddis »

mschuster91 wrote: post #126
ksec wrote: post #119

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I cant even remember the last user feature changes Twitter has.

Proper support in the UI for RTs with comments. But honestly I'd prefer if they spent some fucking time upstaffing their user service and abuse teams. And if they could finally ban Trump and his conspiracy nutcase followers/network.

If the very light gray color of your comment is any indication, folks here didn't like what you said.

I certainly don't think that HN should ban you because of it, though.

Re: Pixar's Render Farm

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Post by saagarjha »

nikolay wrote: post #225
saagarjha wrote: post #221

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> I've never seen any value in Twitter. Except for the information that doesn't show up on other platforms, which is why it is a frequently linked site here?

An ever-increasing number of people uses https://threadreaderapp.com/ though.

I am not arguing that Twitter is the perfect interface for its content, or even that its content is particularly good. I am just saying that it can have value regardless of its (many) faults.
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