Tossrock

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by Tossrock 6y ago
Toby Ord's book The Precipice does a good job evaluating them. Top contenders are AI, bioengineered viruses, nuclear war, and climate change, with natural disasters that we fail to avert/mitigate, like asteroid impact or supervolc
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Conveniently, BepiColumbo is already scheduled to do a flyby next month for a gravity assist en route to Mercury, with some brief atmospheric science while there. Probably impossible to alter the trajectories at this point, but it sure woul
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by Tossrock 6y ago
They used two different observatories (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array) to confirm the signal. The chances of both being wrong in the exact same way is very low.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
"Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and processing old landfills, recovering the valuable materials that had been thrown
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by Tossrock 6y ago
That sounds awful - glad I've never encountered it. FYI, you can use a lot of the built-in window management functions via keyboard shortcuts - Windows key + Shift + [Left|Right] arrow key moves a window between monitors.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Uninformed speculation: I wonder if you could mitigate via a precisely out-of-phase second boom which destructively interfered with the first one? Kind of like noise cancelling headphones. Schlieren photography shows us that there are actua
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by Tossrock 6y ago
It doesn't need to be one or the other. The quiz could be optional, and answering correctly would simply give your comments a rating boost - or inversely, you could put a badge of shame on any comments from people who hadn't passe
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Not to mention IMGUI => UGUI => UIElements/UIToolkit, InputManager => Actions, Animation => Timeline, GameObject/Component => ECS/DOTS, ParticleSystem => VFXGraph, Legacy renderer => Scriptable Render pip
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Unity is not really made in Unity - the core engine is in C++ that is separate from the userland C# scripts. However, it uses the same UI library that's available to users (IMGUI, and being upgraded to UIToolkit), which makes it easy t
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I've made a node-editor based UI heavy application for real-time texture synthesis in Unity[0], for which it is quite good. Although I agree that it doesn't integrate platform native UI patterns well. [0]: https://www.y
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by Tossrock 6y ago
No one will probably see this so deep in the comment tree, but I appreciate your level-headedness throughout this exchange, and I agree with your point that a winning high level strategy for Mozilla is not self-evidently obvious. And for wh
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I didn't see anything about networking - is that a feature you intend to include eventually?
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Unity just bought Bolt, so Bolt visual scripting is included in all Unity licenses for free, now. There's also the vfx graph and the shader graph node editors.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I've been working on a texture/video synthesis framework for VJing / music visualization on a large LED installation. It uses a node editor (no relation to node.js) visual scripting approach to pipe data between different sha
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I use Autohotkey to set up my tmux bindings when working under WSL, it's gotten my WSL environment nearly up to parity with an OSX iterm2 environment.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Looks like a 16' radius 4v conduit dome, pretty standard as that size is the most material efficient when using 10' stock. They cost around two thousand USD in materials (depending on the price of steel).
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Unity does sort of do it, but even then, the result is not the same as compiling on OSX - in particular, I've noticed differences in the shaders emitted, around HDR/bloom.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
This type of club swinging is still practiced (and advanced!) by jugglers and flow artists - see for example the first 30 seconds of this performance by Kyle Johnson: https://youtu.be/7yoY6JI-RGo
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Really neat! Shame it's Chromium only, though. Does Firefox intend to implement web MIDI eventually? I'm using MIDI as an input to the control software for an art installation at the moment, and once WebGPU is out and compute shad
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Tesla is notorious for exactly the kind of DRM, in-house only servicing that the farmers are trying to avoid.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
I'll take this opportunity to appreciate C# in VS as a counterexample to the article. Fast as hell (sub-second compile times for a moderately large project on my 2011 vintage 2500k), extremely stable, productive, and aesthetically plea
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by Tossrock 7y ago
General Fusion is based in British Columbia.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Perhaps it was true when this was written, but it's certainly not true now that "mechanical objects on microscales do not exist". The whole field of MEMS is about them, which includes such prosaic things as smartphone gyros&
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Quite a lot of Google-developed code goes back into the Linux kernel. Look at cgroups - the entire containerization revolution sprung from code Google gave back to Linux.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Man, I wish Microsoft was paying me, but I'm just a guy who uses OSX and Windows 10 (and Linux) regularly and doesn't have much of a dog in the fight.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
I think the misstep by Apple was to focus so heavily on iPhones that they stopped paying attention to the developer experience on Mac. Look at the fucked Catalina release, the slow MacPro update cycle and the abandonment of the Mac Mini, th
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by Tossrock 7y ago
I think the pendulum has been swinging from Apple towards Microsoft for developer friendliness for some time now. This is definitely an active strategy on MS's part, and a huge misstep by Apple. Some key parts of the MS strategy: - Emb
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by Tossrock 7y ago
There isn't - the V-22 rotors tilt continuously from vertical to horizontal rather slowly as it builds up enough speed to transition to forward flight. Same thing with Quantum's VTOL UAVs.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Star jugglers do not make a killing, unfortunately. A man with a not unreasonable claim to "best juggler in the world" gave it up and became a concrete contractor. Salaries at Cirque start at $50k.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
I know he's not as well known as some of the other legendary programmers whose deaths have been posted about, but this one hit hard for me personally. I've been a FastLED user for many years now, including in a commercial product,

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