Darkphibre

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by Darkphibre 4y ago
It's fascinating to me how many comments seem to be defending the workplace culture at SpaceX, and outright dismissing the letter in a hostile manner.
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by Darkphibre 4y ago
Love the anecdote, wish it applied to me!! I constantly drift upwards, even when eating crazy healthy. My "caloric rheostat" is just dialed in a bit high, so I have to accept I need to eat less than I think is correct... so I have
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by Darkphibre 4y ago
I mean, the James Webb makes use of such to drop to, what, 20 Kelvin? https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/67554/ICES_2016...
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by Darkphibre 4y ago
The thing with using cloud services is that sometimes the hosting provider can make changes to configurations that have impacts (such as monitoring software that steals precious CPU at seemingly random moments, or network topology hardware
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by Darkphibre 4y ago
Along these lines is the venerable TRIBES Engine Networking Model whitepaper. It was so good, it was shipped as part of the XDK for a decade. I believe Bungie even leaned on it quite a bit when creating their networking stack. https:/
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Heh, that's in the article under _Wrapping up and next steps_ > For the tickets themselves, a QR code could be added to link directly to the issue on GitHub. You could also add in more details from the issue itself like tags and sev
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
The first time I realized the danger of Easter eggs was one that was triggered by Alt+Ctrl+Shift+PERIOD or some such. Tested it out and sure enough it would paste an email exchange about needing to add an easter egg into a comment field. Th
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Man, this is amazing. I had to hand-unroll bit packing in a binary encoding scheme we used in a game. Rare enough that making a tool wasn't worth it, but damn I love your visualizations! Doing something like that would have helped othe
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
> They found that, even more than the total mass of the objects, the slime mold reacted to how much of the horizon the objects occupied. It repeatedly preferred objects spread along the horizon as opposed to those at a single, stacked po
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Yup! I'd told them last year as the divorce was starting that I'd need to be promoted within 18 months, or I'd start to become bitter and perform less well... and I'd leave before that happened. Just put in for a GDC tal
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Oh, I'm sure that's the case. That, and they know I love the product and would (usually) be willing to put up with lower pay to keep working on it. But, losing assets in the divorce, I'm going to need to take more risk to get
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Please tell me you found better pastures! A place where you were compensated and appreciated. :) I've been at the current job for 10 years, receiving the highest level of performance review for all but the last year (the global pandemi
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by Darkphibre 5y ago
Oh, this is fascinating. Seven years ago I architected a true-realtime telemetry pipeline with end-to-end sequential guarantees (with roundtrip times <200ms excluding network latencies, and cloud processing times <20ms, leveraging BON
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Oh, fascinating! My first vehicle was the family's 3/4-ton Diesel '84 Chevy Pickup from the farm, and I'd forgotten it had an Aux fuel tank! This makes a lot of sense.
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Hooray! Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. :) https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Hmm? This timestamp is known to be local-time, used for measuring durations-between-events on a single session, and not used for cross-session reporting. Time would be compared from one event to the next. Cross-session reporting (such as ca
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
"Funny" story about a binary 8601 implementation. I was architecting a true-realtime telemetry pipeline for a AAA videogame studio (later used by a dozen or so franchises for all titles by the publisher). It had a requirement fo
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
I don't know... atomic clocks are approaching precision that can measure the effects of time dilation due to gravity on the order of inches . They have to take into account daily tectonic tides. > The precision of current optical c
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
I guess my point was a curiosity that these control codes had become obscure, when text format interchange is so prevalent throughout computing history.
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Heck, that reminded me of The Well! Looks like they're still going strong. :D https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/510/State-of...
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
You know, why don't we use 0x1F (Unit Separator)? Seems like we have had a hierarchical delimiters since ASCII / punch cards, yet I never hear about them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
As someone that worked at Microsoft on the XAudio 2 for the Xbox 360 & Windows Phone stacks... holy heck that android audio path is painful to read. >.<;; We went with a 5.33ms quantum on the Xbox 360 (vs. Window's 10ms), and
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Fun read, tyvm! I loved this anecdote from the second link: > On sol 20, the command team sent it the command SHUTDWN_DMT_TIL ("Shutdown Dammit Until") to try to cause it to suspend itself until a given time. > > It seemi
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Yes, obesity is a risk factor when catching COVID. Or, if you meant to question the truthfulness of their claims (without offense, is that possible?)... A quick internet search shows that the heaviest person recorded was 50% heavier. So, ye
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Yup! I've also found what I eat is important. Carbohydrates to be a source of brain fog as I get older. I've also found cutting them out to 0g/day seems to increase anxiety for me (studies have shown reducing it below a cer
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Thanks for the heads up! Will definitely check it out.
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Yup, was planning to use ffmpeg (or, more likely, OpenCV), and a subset of the frames. Thanks so much for the tip on DeepSpeech!
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Interesting! I've been thinking of running OCR on video frames. I'd also like to do speech-to-text extraction for searching my archives later (have about 4TB of video to trawl through, and desire text-based search capabilities). I
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Open inquiry: Anything out there recommended for Android or PC?
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by Darkphibre 6y ago
Thank you so much. I was worried recounting my experience would be perceived much like the first person responded. It feels good to know there are those out there that get it. May your holidays be safe and rejuvenating.

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