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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I agree. They should be considered employees, and be given the same benefits as employees. However, Uber doesn't agree, it says all of its drivers are contractors. So I'll continue saying that Uber's employees aren't the
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> Driver payment is mind bogglingly complicated due to regulation differences in different places. Are you expecting us to pat Uber on the back for managing to solve the impossibly difficult problem of actually paying their workers, as i
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Unfortunately, Debian will sometimes also patch the package to remove failing tests, not understanding that it is a security issue. This is not the first time this has happened.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Debian really hates code duplication and prefers risking security issues resulting from trying to reduce code duplication. This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened, and has caused security issues.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
... What's wrong with using something while it's plugged in?
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The modern WebGPU spec was more or less based on Google's NXT proposal, rather than Apple's WebGPU prototype.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
This is a very inaccurate summary of what happened. And I say this as someone who does not particularly like WGSL. Mozilla, Google and Apple are all working to help design WGSL.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
No, IrisGL did not have any functions for creating Windows, you used libX11 and the Xt toolkit to do that.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Did you look at the FSM? It's an FSM, but it's not an FSM like traditional game AI; it only has 3 states! And in modern implementations, it's only got two. It's practically just boolean flag.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The games industry has a lot of things in between state machines and neural nets. Since 2008, the craze has been goal-oriented AI planning (GOAP), which use a graph of states, and A* to pathfind towards a goal. And there's plenty of li
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Simply standing out of frame in the background while Microsoft faceplants into the ground at 50mph does not make SteamOS a "resounding success", it just makes it a thing that existed, at best.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
But we've been building new homes and apartments, they just aren't priced appropriately and are mostly vacant. Let's get people in the housing we've already built before building more. A vacancy tax could accomplish that
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
int % float -> float is not a native operation I'm aware of on any CPU or GPU. Even C doesn't have this operation -- the % operator only applies to integers, and the float variant is a function, fmodf(float, float); shading lan
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The few people with the wealth to be able to live this lifestyle are the ones who left enough records to read about. The commoners definitely existed, they just didn't leave records, or the ones they did leave weren't preserved, o
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The last paragraph is ominously correct: > What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network ch
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
See this follow-up post http://filmicworlds.com/blog/how-to-split-specular-and-diffu...
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
To convince people to run the software, a reward is generated and given to the block author. That's necessary for people to be incentivized to run the slow and expensive mining software. The reward structure is a key part of the fram
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
> the distributed ledger system is pretty interesting, isn't it? It's mildly interesting, until you realize all the limitations with it, and then realize that the use cases are basically nil. There's very very few use case
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Those things are hated here too.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
One of the most important things for a modern cell phone is the GPS receiver. Most couldn't function without it. GPS was and continues to be a system funded by the US government. In fact, the opening of GPS civilian use in 1999 directl
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
As someone who ported a game to Linux, and the person in the office who debugged most of the issues, my experience is the exact opposite: users run fringe configurations and get angry when we don't support their exact use case. Or get
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
There's no guarantee that computers will end up being any better at driving than humans.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Pixel Shader Interlock (or Raster Ordered Views in D3D12 terminology) is effectively the same thing but without a resolve step, but the overhead is massive and basically too slow in practice. To be honest, the game developer way of solving
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
We really don't have the ray-budget for translucency with RTX. We basically only have the ray budget for a handful of rays per final screen pixel, and good translucency requires dozens for every interacting surface. There's a reas
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
The difference is that .sort() only uses the sign of the return value and ignores the magnitude. Ultimately, all the sort algorithm needs is the boundary condition, e.g. a comparator. The SDF equivalent needs both the sign (is this point in
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I know this isn't the point, but you do realize that the IQ is rearranged to fit a bell curve with 100 being the exact middle average, right? By literally the definition of IQ, 100 IQ is not "an idiot".
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
Both things can be true. Perhaps the problem is really hard, and Google also isn't attempting to solve it anymore.
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
I have low faith in the current WebAssembly GC proposal. It's been such a daunting task that they've started talking about "mini-mini MVPs". The GC proposal does not do what most people think it does, the current draft i
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by Jasper_ 5y ago
People throw this claim around, but note that: 1. It's only theorized that pi has this property. 2. Storing the starting index of the digit would likely be larger than any computer right now can hold, and possibly bigger than the estim
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I'm surprised that the Linux kernel doesn't prevent execve with argc == 0. I know a lot of programs that would break on that too.

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