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Sebastian Aaltonen
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Sebastian Aaltonen
@SebAaltonen
Building a new renderer at HypeHype. Former principal engineer at Unity and Ubisoft. Opinions are my own.
Helsinki, Finland
Joined August 2015
- When our son was 3 years old he casually asked us "why is sky blue" in public place. My wife redirected that question immediately to me. People around us watching at us to see how badly we fail in the answer. Thankfully I have written some sky shaders so I knew this one :)
- During these 6 years Apple managed to develop the best CPU architecture in the world. Outpacing both AMD and Intel. Also their GPU is nowadays state of the art, beating Nvidia in some areas (Nvidia is a $3T GPU company). I'd say Apple spend their $100B wisely in R&D.Apple after spending $100B+ on R&D over the past 5 years:
- Optimization thought: Why do we even store/compute the red channel?
- Just a reminder to everybody: If a website compares your new password with your old one, the web browser has to send a plain text password instead of a hashed one. This is a security issue.Oh so you're not hashing your passwords cool cool
- I hate unreliable UI. UI should not be cool, it should be realiable. Low latency is also important. If the response can't be immediate, then there should at least be an immediate sound cue. Laggy UI makes the user to repeat their action. That's super frustrating.Huawei’s gesture controlled doors
- Finland was a key tech player 20 years ago: We invented SSH and IRC protocols. Nokia was EUs most expensive company, selling more phones yearly than Apple and Samsung sell today combined. We invented the OS that runs most internet servers today. Nokia failed and Linux is free...
- Replying to @SebAaltonenTo answer the other question: No money is not real. It's just an agreement between people. And nowadays governments just print as much money as they want and loan money and pay loaned money with another loan, etc, etc. Money is super messy.
- I don't understand... did Firefox just remove the only reason they still exist?This is one of the wildest git diffs I've ever seen
- 200ms is fast for web programmers. Meanwhile game programmers have to target the latest 240Hz screens. That's 4.16ms to simulate and render the whole game world (can contain million objects). Any operation that takes 1ms+ is considered an expensive operation in real time apps.“V8 engine in Javascript is miraculously fast” Wait till you learn about C Also, 200ms is slow, why is that the acceptable?
- Have been waiting 3 years for no-compromises monitor. Finally it's here! 4K resolution 240Hz refresh rate 1000nit peak HDR Pixel perfect dimming (OLED) 0.03ms response time HDMI 2.1 ports + 90W USB-C port for laptops
- Replying to @panna_pudiYeah, it's the opposite. Ocean looks blue due to reflecting the sky.
- I plug in a single 40Gbps USB-C cable between my computer and my monitor in the morning. Monitor has USB-hub connecting mouse and keyboard. Single USB-C cable carries the 4K 240Hz HDR image, charges laptop at 65W, and connects keyboard and mouse. Don't want a cable hell.
