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by a_e_k 8y ago
With pen. I usually bring a printout of both their resume and a list of questions that I've prepared based on a careful read-through of their resume. Then I mark these up with notes during the interview.
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by a_e_k 8y ago
When I tested this in the distant past, I found that all the compilers I tried generated exactly the same assembly for both loops. I've seen it said that "The most optimizing compiler is the most normalizing compiler." [1] T
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by a_e_k 8y ago
Mainly video game music and remixes: http://ocremix.org/ Medieval and Renaissance music too, sometimes.
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by a_e_k 8y ago
Something like "-set colorspace RGB -colorspace sRGB" converts from linear RGB to sRGB. Switch those two to go the other way as needed.
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by a_e_k 8y ago
Nope! You can configure the bars as you like.
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by a_e_k 8y ago
Here's the objective criteria that W3C recommends for measuring it: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G18.html#G18-procedure
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by a_e_k 8y ago
Paraphrasing Rumsfeld: you go to ship with the software you have, not the software you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Yep. And of course "Mum's the word!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mum%27s_the_word Though in terms of Shakespeare, my favorite bit on keeping quiet is actually Iago's last line: "Demand me no
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by a_e_k 9y ago
"OpenType features" can let you define variations within a font. There's a standard one for slashed vs. non-slashed zeroes (not sure about dotted): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/openty
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Interesting. I guess it's the economist's version of the physicist's spherical cow. Sadly, I suppose the computer scientist's version would be something like "assume infinite memory/time/etc." which
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by a_e_k 9y ago
What's amusing to me is how closely this resembles the path that some of us went down in film rendering. If that history is any guide, the hybrid approach here is likely to be a short-lived stop-gap before moving on to full ray tracing
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Not the parent poster, but I use NoScript on desktop Firefox. Beyond whitelisting observablehq.com and observableusercontent.com I found that the content was completely missing until I also unblocked objects from fonts.gstatic.com. Could
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by a_e_k 9y ago
You can, but it's probably not worth the effort. Most of that's in the form of lazy-loaded byte code. Other than some lightweight stubs for the entry points, Emacs doesn't load those pieces until you use them.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
"For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good."
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Heck, I've played a few games of Catan where it's tested marriages.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Better to put the effort into a new show, say TS4, that's intended from the beginning to take advantage of the new tech. ;-)
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by a_e_k 9y ago
It's based on Disney Movies Anywhere. If you've bought a Disney movie in the last few years that comes with a digital copy, you'll have gotten a code to redeem on DMA. Movies Anywhere seems to be an expansion of that to dro
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by a_e_k 9y ago
The problem with a transform like that is that it would also scale line strokes.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Exactly. In my case it's the wi-fi enabled blu-ray player plugged into the TV. And this TV has outlived the DVD player that came before that. It's a low-res dinosaur but it does its job without fuss.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
> The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts. Uggh. I'd be very annoyed if, say, the TV turned itself on and woke my toddler from his daily nap because of something li
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by a_e_k 9y ago
My list is similar, though formerly I'd have said Cookie Controller. I'm sad to be losing that, but I've been trying Cookies Autodelete on one of my machines and it seems a decent alternative. I look forward to seeing it mat
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by a_e_k 9y ago
There's a shared service a bit like that that I've seen discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846540
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by a_e_k 9y ago
C++11 removed the original meaning of "auto".
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Andrew Glassner published a paper on something extremely similar back in 2015: "Globs: A Primitive Shape for Graceful Blends Between Circles" http://jcgt.org/published/0004/03/01/
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by a_e_k 9y ago
And in fiction, there is Bilbo's Party Tree: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Party_Tree
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Where I work, our open source stuff is released under fairly liberal licenses because we want it incorporated into other companys' proprietary software. If they adopt our code and our standards that makes it easier for us to interop
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by a_e_k 9y ago
We're getting off-topic here, but see http://www.vfxplatform.com/ RHEL/Centos is probably the most common distro used.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Those doing games, yes. Those of us doing movies are mostly on Linux. Lots of sci-viz folks are also on Linux.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
Sure. That's called displacement mapping. Fairly ubiquitous in high-end renderers.
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by a_e_k 9y ago
I used to live about 20 minutes drive away from SJU (my parents still do) and travelled through it frequently for college breaks. SJU is much like any other largish international airport in the U.S. Many of the houses and buildings there a

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