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Waltteri

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Finished a MSc in CS at University of Helsinki 🎉 Senior SWE at Cactos, battery energy storage systems. Previously Senior SWE at Garden, SRE at Webflow. Recreational computer graphics, Rust, photography, cycling. He/him. Mastodon (Twitter) @anotherwalther

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · Dec 29

Hero Wavelength Spectral Sampling successfully implemented! 🎉

Both: 4 samples per pixel
Left: one wavelength per ray
Right: four wavelengths per ray

With only a modest increase in runtime duration, the image becomes much smoother. This is more efficient than just adding more samples per pixel!

"happy buddha" test object rendered in a grey material in a room with a checkerboard pattern. before: quite a lot of color noise, after: fairly even colors

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 11h

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 4h

#hugops to AWS right now

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 3h

(and thanks to @katef.bsky.social for encouraging people to put effort into alt text 🧡 it's fun!)

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 4h

If you:
1) visit Oulu, Finland
2) enjoy occasionally eating meat
3) enjoy spicy food

I highly recommend visiting Kauppuri5 for a burger and some of their hot sauces!

It's a beast of a feast! This burger has blown up, the buns are gone and the salad is all over the plate. With the title "butcher's salad", it's the wheatless version of their perhaps most famous burger (the butcher).

Ingredients in their own words: "Bacon, Beef patty, Over night braised pulled pork and roast beef, Cheddar cheese, salad bed with mustard vinaigrette, Red Onion, Kauppuri 5 BBQ Sauce".

In the background, there's a small bowl of fries and an unassuming-looking but terrifyingly terrific dip sauce based on Naga Morich, a chili pepper that once held the world championship title on spiciness. Incredible and incredibly hot, even for a chili enthusiast! Served with a tasteful glass of IPA.

The place looks a bit grungy, with hand-drawn art and signatures from people famous and ordinary scribbled all over the walls, and their outdoor sign has the motto "curing and getting hangovers since 2010".

If that sounds like an experience you'd like to try, maybe visit Oulu?

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 4h

okay hello. it's kate alt text clinic time. show me things you didn't write alt text for because you thought it was too difficult, or for whatever other reason, please. i will help

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 1d

Swapping the first two digits in metric could also lead to fun mental images. Going from 170-something cm to 710-something cm would necessitate some infrastructure changes

Waltteri @waltteri.net · 1d

n) read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Ants...

Of Ants and Dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 1d

cottagecore, or something:
- took the pier out of the water
- replaced the hinges on the composter
- installed some decorative lights
- sauna, beer, good food and great company 🧡

Waltteri @waltteri.net · 2d

y'all might also enjoy typesetinthefuture.com/2014/02/11/m...

Moon

After studying 2001: A Space Odyssey in intimate detail, Duncan Jones’s Moon was the logical choice for my second foray into sci-fi typography. As its opening shot illustrates, Moon is a blea…

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 2d

perhaps Gorton?

aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

aresluna.org

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · Jun 24

boeuf boruginoh. beofu burgening. no. fuck. the. beoug bourgenes. wrong. uh. fuck

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 3d

On a train! 🚂

Heading to Oulu for work and leisure - bedtime soon, and waking up there. A customary beer in the restaurant car first though, cheers!

Waltteri @waltteri.net · 3d

Enjoy the trip! 🧡

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Waltteri @waltteri.net · 3d

Many of the U-bahn stations have pretty ceramic tiling and name signs

There's also quite a lot of street art / graffiti that can be fun to look for, with occasional repeat themes like unicorns and motivational messages

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 4d

Goose on the loose!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a goose sticking up its head among a bunch of flowers.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 4d

good luck kitty

a small, tired-looking cat standing next to a factory building with a smoking chimney. the cat says: “hope I don’t have a long day.” the factory has a sign that reads: “LONG DAY FACTORY”

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

Part Deux:

Friend: I don't mean anything bad by it.

Me: I know, which is what makes it worse.

Friend: Huh?

Me: Well, if you meant harm that'd indicate you understood your motivations. Instead, you have these vague feelings you haven't unpacked that are irrational but you act on them nonetheless.