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by a_e_k 6y ago
My reading had been that they plan to build a nice configuration UI on top of the JSON eventually, but the focus right now is on the core functionality (and letting the settings stabilize first).
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by a_e_k 6y ago
In higher-end rendering, a quad that can be non-planar is called a bilinear patch. Yes, it can curve (cross sections tend to give parabolas), and while you won't get infinitely sharp creases you will get saddle-shapes. See, e.g.: htt
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I suspect that most people attempting to vectorize their ray tracer try the straightforward horizontal approach here and discover that it's not really any faster. I certainly did when I first started in this area. The key to the verti
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by a_e_k 6y ago
(Original author of this code[0] here.) Yes, that looks like a corrupted copy. The line should be: <p)t=p,n=v(0,0,1),m=1;for(i k=19;k--;) [0] http://www.cs.utah.edu/~aek/code/card.cpp
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by a_e_k 6y ago
My wife is a SAHM. Usually during summer vacation she does just fine handling the kids without their being offloaded to professionals. The current situation is a lot tougher, though, since a lot of the things she'd normally do with th
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Animal Crossing seemed like a game that my kids might really enjoy relaxing with and I was prepared to pop for it on the launch day. Reading about the one-island-per-Switch and primary vs. secondary users thing kind of killed our interest
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by a_e_k 7y ago
"1.5. What does the name Sylpheed mean? It means light weight, like air. This comes from the name of the wind spirits, the Sylphs." https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/doc/faq/en/sylpheed-faq-1.html#d0...
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I switched to it recently as a refugee from Bitbucket since it supports Mercurial. No complaints so far, though admittedly my needs are pretty simple (just a few private repos).
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by a_e_k 7y ago
There are two Bethesdas. Bethesda Game Studios is a developer and makes Oblivion and Skyrim and so forth. Bethesda Softworks is the publisher for the ZeniMax-owned development studios like BGS and id.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Not just that: I think it's also wise to assume that a data breach may someday make one's e-mail and Slack messages public. Or they may get subpoenaed in a suit.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
The linked article had a picture of the Windows-version box cover for Myst: https://www.filfre.net/2020/02/myst-or-the-drawbacks-to-succ... Look more closely at the last review quote in the upper left. :-)
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I really like the approach that the Steam survey uses which blends engineering and communication: 1) Pop up and ask for permission to scan the machine. 2) Show the data collected that will be sent back and give a second chance to decline. 3
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I've typically seen A-F rendered like so: _ _ _ _ |_| |_ | _| |_ |_ | | |_| |_ |_| |_ | (Variations would be a double-story lower case 'a' and lower case 'c'.)
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by a_e_k 7y ago
From the original 1996 proposal "A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet - sRGB" ( https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB ): > The effect of the above equations is to closely fit a straightforwa
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by a_e_k 7y ago
That's something that really drives me nuts about it lately. If I just wanted general results, I'd do the lazy thing and not put in the additional terms. Worse, I've been finding that it still ignores some of the terms even
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I'm still waiting for Slack video calls to work in Firefox.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Oddly, the left and right curly braces seem to have different vertical alignments in the "sans" (proportional) variant with medium weight and "linear" style.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. That's quite interesting. I'd ended up settling on XFCE aound the time of the Gnome 2 / Gnome 3 / Unity schism. At the time, XFCE had felt a bit snappier than KDE. I've lately be
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by a_e_k 7y ago
If someone tried to infer anything about my marriage from observing some of the games of Settlers of Catan that my wife and I have played together, I suspect that their conclusions would be hilariously wrong. (Given the way that some of the
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I run XFCE (via Xubuntu) on my home desktop for the same reason. The lightness is a bonus.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
> 4. Things We Tried That Didn’t Work I love seeing a section like this when reviewing a paper. I really wish more authors would include one. (Goodness knows I've chased down enough dead-ends in some of my own research efforts.)
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I basically have one. I just use a plain text file formatted according to `fortune` conventions.
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by a_e_k 7y ago
> In a footnote, the anonymous editor of “The Library of Babel” imagines a book containing “an infinite number of infinitely thin leaves.” Borges expands on this idea in the separate (very) short story The Book of Sand .
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I was surprised by that omission as well. It is from his short story, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (one of my favorites) for those who don't know the reference. A lot of the concepts that Borges writes about have always struck me as r
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Yes! I live in Seattle and whenever I try their checker it tells me "Great! You qualify for up to 12Mbps" for $45/mo. I'm not a fan of Comcast, but that Century Link offer is a poor joke in comparison. And this is desp
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by a_e_k 7y ago
I suspect that GP was riffing on typical responses from a therapist chat-bot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Revsets: a single, uniform syntax for querying and selecting commits. Used throughout Mercurial and accepted almost everywhere that a subcommand takes one or more commits as a parameter. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo&#
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by a_e_k 7y ago
Just for fun, here's how some of OpenCV's feature detectors handle the first image: AKAZE: https://imgur.com/EvcStcH ORB: https://imgur.com/YHSEDD7 I certainly wouldn't make any claims about
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by a_e_k 7y ago
How about ray tracing? Peter Shirley (whom I learned a ton from in grad school) wrote a trilogy of mini-books beginning with "Ray Tracing in One Weekend." https://github.com/RayTracing/raytracinginoneweekend
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by a_e_k 7y ago
This happens everyday with the sun during sunrise and sunset [1]. When you first see the apparent top of the sun during sunrise, the sun is still well below the horizon physically. It's just that the image of the sun is refracted aro

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