AndrewMoffat

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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
If it was true, it would be incredible dedication. Lots of people want them dead. To put your life (and your kids' lives!) on the line like that for either cause (legitimate bigotry or reverse shill) is insane regardless
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
this is the algorithm that governs the surface waves. it's remarkably simple and well suited to the parallel computing that shaders can offer: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/graphics/x_water.htm
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
that's just the initial surface disturbance. it starts at the center of where the sphere breaches the water and has an amplitude. the disturbance radiates outward from that center, but there's no "sticking" to other meshes happening
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
The OpenGL orange book has helped me tremendously http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HMJYC4/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
from what i understand, the voxels more or less dynamically adjust their resolution according to their distance from the modelview origin (where the player is). if the engine generated dynamic shadow maps per light source, would'nt the vox
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
It sounds like he's railing against the motivations of the business as a whole that allow Google, Twitter, and Facebook to live at the scale that they do. As for why someone would have hostility, I can relate with him. I think it's a gener
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
Here's a picture of Utoya Island http://i.imgur.com/SnFbQ.jpg I guess it makes sense how he was able to kill so many people...no way to escape or for police to arrive quickly.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I don't mean this in a sick or offensive way, but 80 , that's got to be a lone-gunman record.
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Ask HN: Anyone else miss not having a downvote button?
36 points by AndrewMoffat 15y ago|26 comments
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I can only hope these instances get more and more ridiculous, with higher profile people, until something finally gives.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I'm kind of shocked at the lack of over-inflated ego.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
No problem, I'm happy to share something that genuinely helped me. I love what you're doing, please keep doing it :)
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
> though i have looked at euler's identity with awe, it's mostly been a mystical sort of awe. betterexplained also has a fantastic visual explanation of euler's identity: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-..
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Complex numbers have never been so intuitive to me(betterexplained.com)
154 points by AndrewMoffat 15y ago|46 comments
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
> Moving sucks if you're carrying an extra 50-100 lbs. around. Most skinny people don't really get this. I was always a skinny guy most of my life. 4 months ago, I was 5'11", 140lbs, really lean. I recently got serious about weight tr
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
> Just as you don't really understand how a CPU works until you've programmed in assembly, you don't really understand math if you haven't done hand-computation, at least up to a point. Conrad Wolfram addresses this very point in the vi
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I absolutely agree, but I think that the creative part of photography comes from having "the eye" for knowing what a good photo will be, before it's taken. The photo would not have existed to be as good if the photographer did not apply hi
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
Twitter isn't really amplifying it, people are. It's the dynamics of an angry mob. Twitter just facilitates communication that's closer to a group of people in real-time than previously possible.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I like the idea, but I won't use it, because I don't think "enough" people will use it.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
> I don't believe that hell exists now, but it would certainly be possible to create a technological hell if brain uploading and simulation is possible. Bostom's simulation argument says we're almost certainly living in a computer simul
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
The fact that these legislators don't see those immediately-relevant cases you mentioned as being enough gray area to put doubt in their mind as to the effectiveness of the legislation really doesn't speak well to their comprehension of how
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
The top 10 torrents for movie The Expendables on thepiratebay.org still have a total of 4595 seeders, 500 leechers. Healthy numbers, I wonder if they'll drop dramatically over the next couple of weeks.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
On an exploit like this, I expect a patch. I'm sure people at Google and abroad (if the exploit exists in Chromium) are scrambling to find it, both for the e-cred and just to make other people safer.
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
I had no idea there was so much work on the subject. Thanks!
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
These things are fascinating to me. They're like mind-viruses...hacking our belief systems so effectively that they spread with amazing speed and ease, and persist with incredible resilience.
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Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born(theatlantic.com)
18 points by AndrewMoffat 15y ago|12 comments
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
Unrelated to the story, but interesting: According to a counter on its website, Humble Bundle has generated over $730,000 in sales on 147,000 bundles ($4.96 per bundle). Linux users pay the most at $11.72 per bundle, Mac users are in the m
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by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
What laws govern police asking for things? From what I've gathered, police can ask for all kinds of things that they legally have no right to (searches, being let in, etc), but you can still ignorantly comply. They can even legally lie a
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
There's some great discussions going on in the Economics section of their forums: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?board=7.0
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Why is Bitcoin a good currency again? If I understand how it is distributed correctly, those with higher/more computational power receive more of the finite bitcoins. How does that not favor the already rich?

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