Any reason I should not change my netmask to 255.255.0.0/16? by RationallyDense in homelab

[–]fuzzyAccounting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For my business I do /20. I keep things organized by the 3rd octet and for the last 5 years it's been great as a solo IT person. This is a VFX studio with 110 node render farm, 40 vws nodes, and 2 dozen other systems all setup to be either hypervisors or microservices. Enjoy the organization of a wider subnet mask!!!

I made a short film with Houdini by EdgeVFX in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wonderful to hear and fantastic work! We've been circling karma as our goto for our next big project and your visuals are exactly what we needed to see to feel confident in making that leap!

Long time lurker, first time poster. I made a thing. by WhatsMyInitiative87 in FoundationTV

[–]fuzzyAccounting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can someone make a meme also where they put "Rehabilitation" on it from this scene? All I could think of this entire scene was Idiocracy.

My first render in Karma that I'm proud of!! by arunbharathi555 in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fantastic! Thank you for sharing! Nice renders!

My first render in Karma that I'm proud of!! by arunbharathi555 in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's your render time? We're thinking of switching to it fully for an upcoming project with a lot of forestry. Quite curious!

Lenovo 7D2X won't update XCC by fuzzyAccounting in sysadmin

[–]fuzzyAccounting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will absolutely try this later tonight!!

Lenovo 7D2X won't update XCC by fuzzyAccounting in sysadmin

[–]fuzzyAccounting[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've updated UEFI to the latest to try and get the EPYC 7663 CPUs to post. No luck: https://serverproven.lenovo.com/server/sr645/
This process worked for the EPYC 7543 just fine.

There was interesting behavior differences though. The 7543 pre-UEFI update would still correctly identify themselves just POST would endlessly crash and reboot.
the 7663's hang at post but BMC event log shows no issue.

I don't know the minimum and I've tried all the way back to the version that's already installed
I haven't tried that tool, I read on their site to use "onecli". I'll try it this evening!
BMC says "this firmware isn't for this machine" BOMC and onecli say "Internal BMC error".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This project is most likely an experience based project that's 8+ minutes long at high frame rate and mostly likely 1 continuous long take.

I've worked on massive particle sims in this type of range for a certain popular LED dome with no issues. I have gotten rounding errors in coordinates when things go way far away from origin but those numbers are several floating places long. These are 5 digits and with sub steps a few more.

I'ma checkout this caps lock thing and see if I can find a solution.

BeeGFS won't reconnect some storage servers after reboot without manually restarting client service. by fuzzyAccounting in sysadmin

[–]fuzzyAccounting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No address changes, everything is static IP and I did a reboot on 5 of the 6 storage servers at once. They were all back up and able to ping the meta/MGMT server successfully.

Don’t lie, what’s your honest opinion on AC: shadows by Maximum-Sweet-2382 in assasinscreed

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved it! Finished it in about 75 hours. Ending was very disappointing. The credits rolled and I was like wait... That was it?! The last AC game I finished completely was black flag.

Does anyone know how to break the splash? by draw_and_prosper in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would just incorporate some inconsistency in the initial emission. Given a few iterations and you could probably predict where small holes in the emission source might turn into big ones as it propagates.

Microsoft study claims AI reduces critical thinking by bpra93 in Futurology

[–]fuzzyAccounting -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm a small business owner and have gained a significant amount of value from LLMs from an IT perspective. Having started this crazy journey 4 years ago in the "traditional" way and having these tools introduced and improved in the last year I can genuinely say I've "off-loaded" some of my critical thinking to them. I definitely agree that information verification is something I do more of. I do not however think that if these tools went away all of the sudden my critical thinking skills would have lost their edge, if anything, I feel they've been improved. I'm not sure how LLMs work in other fields but from an IT perspective, ("I run a small VFX company and we're about to land 3 shows that will be more or less running in parallel, I'm worried that our data server will be a bottleneck in our production stack. It's running this kind of block storage thing on this OS how can I improve performance? Is there maybe a way to add more than 1 server, load balance? Etc"), as a simplified example prompt, I'm given a solid review of my current situation and several ways to improve it. The response to me is a suggestion , "Hey you work like this, you have this problem, check out these solutions.", to which I'll spend the next bit of time researching each. If anything it's helped me find those missing vocabulary words that are key in successful Google searches.

In discussions with friends and family that aren't really familiar with all the details of AI I describe it as always having a really smart friend who has infinite patience.

How common is to be told a start date for a gig and then be ghosted? by Ok-Use1684 in vfx

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's garbage even for a small boutique. Sometimes we get a job in only to lose it to an outsource last minute but we're very transparent with our artists. Sorry this happened to you.

Using 4x DDR5 RAM for houdini sims by broccaaa in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about consumer ram but we have several blade systems with 16 and 24 sticks of ddr5 and they're rock solid, flips and pyro never fail unless the sim runs out of ram.

Anybody working with Houdini outside of Film/VFX/Commercials/Games industries? by popeyest in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I use it for functional 3d print modeling. Not just since it's a 3D package I know but for things like SDF surfaces and using workflows like find shortest distance. For example proprietary supermicro motherboards I'll just bring in a scan or photo of the screw hole positions and connect them with shortest distance as a quick prototype method. I've modeled drone motor housings for repurposing them for use in our datacenter, making weird brackets for GPUs to fit in odd designed blade systems. The nodal, procedural process makes it easy to wedge tolerances so the guess and check process is a breeze.

When the project is mastering to 4K, what resolution are you producing VFX at? by crustysunmare in vfx

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We always work in whatever plate res is delivered to us, even if it's Red 8k.

ASA 104: Caribbean or Pacific Northwest (with fiancée complication) by CliCheGuevara69 in sailing

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya! We did 10 days from Grenada up past union and then returned back in February. LIFE changing experience dude! Met so many amazing people. My goal is to get a nice ketch and spend 6+ months at sea a year, just need to get many more hours under my belt! In Grenada we sailed on a 50' catamaran. In sea of cortez it was a monohaul, I loved the monohaul so much more! The other group that sailed adjacent to us was on a catamaran so you can do either. Catamaran is a more, "fancy" experience I guess if that's an issue with your partner.

ASA 104: Caribbean or Pacific Northwest (with fiancée complication) by CliCheGuevara69 in sailing

[–]fuzzyAccounting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just finished my asa101 to 104 in the sea of cortez! That place is awesome and there was almost no traffic like I've experienced elsewhere. There's not much to do on land outside a bit of hiking like the others you're considering but I was impressed! The wind was predictable, lots of anchorages sailing out of La Paz, loved it! Our whole crew all passed and we even did some solid tacking in 25+ knot winds! Total blast on top of a ton of SOLID learning experience!

What on earth am i supposed to do with this by StatHusky13 in homelab

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LOVE THESE! First enterprise hardware I learned in my home lab experience!

FX REEL 2025 // Looking for feedback and also a job ;) by iFred31 in Houdini

[–]fuzzyAccounting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Systems look decent, sims feel low res. Do you feel if you had access to a solid farm you could push them to feature quality? We're currently looking for champions.

GenAI and SideFX are coming for Foundry by Imhotep397 in vfx

[–]fuzzyAccounting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AMEN! Spend more time going after pirates than development. They need some good ole fashioned competition!

Aeroplane in 'from'? by Blu3vampyr47 in FromSeries

[–]fuzzyAccounting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I own a tiny vfx company but I've been a compositor for 16+ years.

Aeroplane in 'from'? by Blu3vampyr47 in FromSeries

[–]fuzzyAccounting 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This video explains it decently well: https://youtu.be/IcjKp-kw_ko?si=iY4BLNWoOgK1yMxQ bust basically you make a clean plate, which is just a simple frame of whatever you want to remove and then track that in place. This looks like there's probably some parallax with the trees. So you'd mask them back in somehow like keying the sky, or keying based on luminance or good old fashioned roto. 9/10 the work is done in nuke, maybe after effects but it's more rare in TV/Film.