BearOso

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by BearOso 6y ago
> The hard part of learning OpenGL for me has been the sheer amount of boilerplate needed to get the most basic image on the screen. You think that now, but wait until you get to Vulkan.
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by BearOso 6y ago
There won’t be any fun hidden in there. Once a game developer passes the barrier of accepting cash for progress it won’t be balanced in any way that makes it fun to play.
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by BearOso 6y ago
> 1. Arbitrary resolutions Consult the dot pitch of your monitor for the actual resolution. Everything is “scaled” to that resolution. Of course, the algorithm is physics, which is much better than cubic interpolation, so it does look sl
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by BearOso 6y ago
Given the lifetime of CPU design, if Intel releases a revolutionary new architecture in two years, we’ll know where it came from.
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by BearOso 6y ago
How about using something that has no or slim chance of causing harm to a person? I’m stymied by weapons like tasers and rubber bullets being available in any situation because they’re “less than lethal,” and especially because in reality t
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by BearOso 6y ago
> Linux has a 255 bytes limitation for file names (this translates to just 63 four-byte characters in UTF-8) - not a great deal but copying or using files or directories with long names from your Windows PC can become a serious challenge
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by BearOso 6y ago
You didn't elaborate that <Esc> is a modifier key. So if they've hit <Esc> and are still within the timeout window, it'll think they've hit <Esc>-Whatever, not <Esc> alone. Best hit it twice, or t
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by BearOso 6y ago
Esc, Esc, Esc, :, q, !, Enter is the definitive way to go.
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by BearOso 6y ago
“What’s plugged in?” “Skipe?” You’re seriously overestimating the layman’s understanding of technology. Chances are they hired a company to do a templated one-and-done website, and you’ll need to give them a reason to not just go back to wh
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by BearOso 6y ago
I had a weird bout of something in the middle of March. It was a mild fever, general weakness, and a strange pressure in my upper abdomen. It lasted a couple of weeks. Before that I had gone to see my GP for a med update for refills. Appare
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by BearOso 6y ago
For any span of pixels, you render from one edge to another because your y-coordinate is fixed. You only have to consider 2 edges at a time during rasterization. You can subdivide a quad easily, though, so it's not that much of an adva
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by BearOso 6y ago
Yoshitsuna. I see this false positive on other sites all the time. It needs to exclude censored words that are part of others by checking for white space on the sides. And that won’t work with ligatures at the very beginning of text. Then y
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by BearOso 6y ago
So now you can run multiple memory instances of chromium, one per web site, instead of sharing the core. It’s not like chromium is a huge memory consumer anyway.
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by BearOso 6y ago
I want to like the rust language. The syntax is nice and the features are interesting. My problem is the ecosystem. The packaging and build system clearly isn’t designed to accommodate classic desktop applications. The FFI is really painful
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by BearOso 6y ago
I did mean escaped. There’s plenty of labs that were studying SARS, so it’s not impossible. I agree that we should look at only the facts, but political groups on all sides are twisting them for own convenience, so you have to be skeptical
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by BearOso 6y ago
It's certainly possible it came from a lab. The problem here is political interest. Some on the left are downplaying the lab aspect in favor of a natural origin because some on the right are using the Chinese origin as a basis for raci
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by BearOso 7y ago
Where I went those courses weren’t exactly difficult. But they started at a low enough level to say “this is how things are built.” It’s not intended to frustrate students, but to help them realize what the major is about, and removes illus
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by BearOso 7y ago
Society tends to aggrandize kids these days as the “technology generation” and so on, but those kids don’t have an understanding of all the devices they’re using. It’s just rote learning of applications and interfaces. If you ask them how t
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by BearOso 7y ago
I’m thinking some people pulled strings to get discharged early. South Korea is sequestering people in hospitals if they’re positive, and that’s not exactly a fun experience.
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by BearOso 7y ago
I agree that the crust is good. It needs to have that chewy glutenous quality.
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by BearOso 7y ago
And it’s more contagious than the flu, so even if the fatality rate is identical, more people are at risk.
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by BearOso 7y ago
In our small town, I know of 3 people who came into direct contact with the first confirmed case, exhibited symptoms, but were refused testing. I can definitely believe their guess that the number of cases is an order of magnitude greater t
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by BearOso 7y ago
Pizza was made popular by Italian immigrants in New York. The article’s pizza was never widespread in Italy. Pizza is the definitive Italian-American food, not Italian. In my opinion, “Neapolitan” pizza is not particularly good. They just t
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by BearOso 7y ago
Polaris and Vega were ROP-limited, and performed worse than nvidia cards with similar tflop measurements. The Xbox has a higher tflops rating because of more compute units, but it has the same number of raster units. Because the PS5 clocks
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by BearOso 7y ago
If you’re wondering why, just think how hands-on Apple stores are. Their entire purpose is touching things others have touched.
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by BearOso 7y ago
What is this? I’ve read numerous places elsewhere that cytokine storm is NOT a likely cause of death from Coronavirus, especially given the significantly lower death rates among young and healthy individuals.
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by BearOso 7y ago
Classic situation for Pascal’s Wager. Shouldn’t we opt for action assuming the worst even though we may deem it an overreaction in the future? Then if it is bad we’ll have done what we could.
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by BearOso 7y ago
> 3. In the RGB components of each individual pixels, there was one of them that dominated too much. I think it was the red component but I don't quite remember. To combat this I adjusted the settings quite a bit, and even reduced t
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by BearOso 7y ago
I dunno. In Knives Out the whole family was toxic, so I think Rian Johnson got around this rule with ambiguity.
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by BearOso 7y ago
I still hold that they should’ve renamed GNOME 3 something other than GNOME and let each develop as their own things. I feel like that method would’ve hemorrhaged fewer developers. Clearly there was some sort of closed meeting at Redhat wit

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