Timmons

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Standard Math Libraries are not IEEE754 floating-point compliant(hlsl.co.uk)
1 points by Timmons 7y ago|0 comments
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by Timmons 11y ago
None taken. I feel the same way about that attitude :)
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by Timmons 11y ago
As an English person I believe you are thinking of the whole of the UK as London. Lots of that sort of thing around there, not so much the rest of the place.
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by Timmons 11y ago
*At the moment
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by Timmons 11y ago
Population UK: 64.1 million Population US: 318.9 million So that is 1/5th the population of a near continental sized country. The UK may not be big but it is dense (Admittedly not as dense as some Asian countries).
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by Timmons 11y ago
For regular trips that is true, and great. For more urgent trips or trips where the date may be flexible you are kind of stuck paying that huge cost most the time. I used to live in Cambridge and had a similar problem on my frequent visits
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by Timmons 11y ago
This comment has caused me flashbacks to a terrible place I worked at that did exactly this.
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by Timmons 11y ago
Not defending this case of its use, but there is a time and place for 'goto'. Not many of them and people do use them for terrible things but in the right circumstance it is the right solution. Only really posting this because I w
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by Timmons 11y ago
There are no secure systems written in ANY language (to my knowledge). At the end of the day all computers and systems can be broken. Using C/C++ might open up that up to being more likely when someone isn't thoughtful enough in t
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by Timmons 11y ago
This is quite ignorant of why C/C++ is used. It is used for that exact memory control and access that this article demonizes so that we can have efficient and thought out systems. When those systems aren't well thought out or secu
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by Timmons 11y ago
Weirdly, UI interfaces are also a problem in the game world. Where we want to have a designer or artist design and implement something in a game in a fast way we often resort to using Scaleform[1]. It is flash based tool for games, within t
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by Timmons 11y ago
There are a number of reasons this is not openly available. Just a few: - It may lock the programmer into a specific CPU - The CPU cache/pipeline is less generic than you might think. Making setting a standard way to change it from wit
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by Timmons 11y ago
Link seems to be dead.
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by Timmons 11y ago
Thank you, I'll take a look for that scheme. I have contacted the University organisations, my application was a little late so I had missed a lot of funding opportunities that go early but applied for anything that was available and s
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Ask HN: Advice on academic funding
4 points by Timmons 11y ago|2 comments