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by Chabsff 4y ago
The general idea is that for something to have monetary value, it has to be scarce. Why would you ever trade a loaf of bread for something that you have an infinite supply of in the first place? Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally a means of
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by Chabsff 4y ago
FOSS is not the same thing as "everything digital should be free". They are not the same people/movements, though I will admit that there is some overlap. It's absolutely true that a vast majority of crypto projects revo
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by Chabsff 4y ago
You can only cool something by making something else warmer by a larger amount. The heat has to go somewhere, and moving that heat in any non-passive way will invariably produce yet more heat in the process.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Kinda? Taking the experiment outside of earth`s (and the sun`s, I guess) gravity well would have the effect you have in mind. But the impact would not be particularly pronounced considering the magnitude of the curvatures we are experiencin
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by Chabsff 4y ago
They sure do have one: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
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by Chabsff 5y ago
That's not necessarily true. SSL/TLS does not prevent all MITM, it prevents unwanted MITM. To be fair, I don't think you can install certificates on a Chromecast for example, so it might not be practically feasible for all
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by Chabsff 5y ago
My apologies. I thought you were providing an explanation as to why slerp() is preferred in general. The circle example is a really good way to frame the distinction.
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by Chabsff 5y ago
Still mostly relevant to their use as encoding for transformations, but the fact that a unit quaternion's conjugate is also its inverse is extremely useful from a computational performance point of view.
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by Chabsff 5y ago
10-12 years ago, the consensus used to be that this singularity simply does not show up in the wild in the vast majority of scenarios, and the performance hit of using `slerp()` is just not worth it unless truly needed. It was essentially t
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by Chabsff 5y ago
The two aspects that slerp() addresses over lerp() + normalize() are 1) it can deal with pole-to-pole interpolation 2) It always takes the shortest path. In practice, the former is often provably never going to happen, and the later doesn&#
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by Chabsff 5y ago
I've been out of the games sphere for a long time, but is slerp() really the default idiomatic interpolation approach in modern games nowadays? There are a vanishingly small number of scenarios where lerp() + normalize() doesn't w
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by Chabsff 5y ago
According to the article, it's not the products that are being shutdown, just the centralized organization structure around them. It's safe the expect that at least some of the projects will be terminated as well, but for the most
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by Chabsff 6y ago
TURN/STUN servers are not always used, and more often than not only as a fallback if a direct link is not established.
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by Chabsff 6y ago
It's hard to tell for sure. Double-buffering game updates like that can involve a lot of memory copying. Considering that it would not surprise me in the least if Factorio was close to being bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, this could
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by Chabsff 6y ago
Obviously, there will eventually be a security policy. The libraries are just too early in development for that yet.
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by Chabsff 6y ago
Hello HN, I've been toying away at writing a user-friendly markdown-ish format that lets users to define their own marks and format rules. It's pretty stable at this point, and I'd love to get feedback and ideas before I push
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Show HN: Human-readable, user-styleable markup(github.com)
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by Chabsff 6y ago
Ideally, the lexer should be a system in of itself, exposing a public interface that is consumed by its client, the parser. Public doesn't necessarily mean "not you".
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by Chabsff 6y ago
Well, ideally yes, but let's be honest here. If we can't trust websites to not abuse data, how can we possibly trust them to respect a polite request not to gather the data in the first place? I would personally rather have an inc
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by Chabsff 6y ago
You are asking that browsers announce to websites that the user has incognito mode enabled, which immediately opens the door to websites refusing to serve users running incognito mode at all.
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by Chabsff 6y ago
I think the debatable point here is that the lawsuit implies that the problem is that Google is not integrating analytics and Chrome enough. Analytics works in a certain way, and chrome works in another. The expectation that because both pr
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by Chabsff 6y ago
Right, I meant "prolog-style formal inference engine". My point is that this "human imperfection" also present in probabilistic engines have artifacts that are fundamentally at odds with many business requirements where
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by Chabsff 6y ago
I think it's actually the complete opposite. The current biomimetism direction being privileged by the modern A.I. trends is most likely the correct way to achieve "True" A.I. However, Inference-based A.I. is actually needed
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by Chabsff 6y ago
The rule needs to be deterministic accross compilers, since a library can be compiled using a compiler and linked in an executable using the same header.