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by a_e_k 2y ago
Archaic spelling of "jail". Read it with a soft g and a long a and it makes a little more sense. There's also the derivative "gaoler". (American here, but that's one I've come across before.)
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Okay, now that last one is just hilarious.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I'm not sure about other Americans, but I'll sometimes say "swim[ming] trunks" if I'm specifically referring to male swimming attire. Otherwise, yeah, it's often "swim[ming] suit" or "bathing su
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by a_e_k 2y ago
If we're just talking web , I'm old enough to remember web rings [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Right. The lossiness in JPEG comes from quantization of the DCT coefficients. But with the way the DCT works: - You can flip a block horizontally, left-to-right, by negating the DCT coefficients in the odd-numbered columns (zero-indexed).
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by a_e_k 2y ago
From the same guy: https://www.space.com/china-space-plane-caught-on-camera
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I used a reverse-slashed zero in my programming font [1][2] for exactly that reason. I wanted it to be clearly distinct from an O with stroke (and by more than just the slash not extending past the bowl). [1] http://eastfarthing
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I continue to be fascinated by how they: 1. Are able to diagnose the problems remotely at such distances and on such old hardware. How can they even measure the thruster tube apertures here? 2. Decide what actions to take. It's not l
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I've come to really like language servers for big personal and work projects where I already have my tools configured and tuned for efficiently working with it. But being able to grep is really nice when trying to figure out something
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by a_e_k 2y ago
> So, in some code it can make sense to "zap" subnormals, converting them to zero since they're almost zero anyway. Flush to zero (FTZ) is the usual term for this.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Watch closely in the videos and you'll see that enemies often respawn when offscreen and sometimes when onscreen. Destroyed barrels come back, ammo count and health fluctuates weirdly, etc. It's still impressive, but its not per
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by a_e_k 2y ago
The headline may be misleading. It initially read to me as though Intel is forming a new division to work on this. Instead, these folks are going to a new startup outside of Intel.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
FWIW, (i.e., for some historical fun) Dr. Dobbs Journal published a program called "Small C Compiler" by Ron Cain back in 1980. [1] Later, it was expanded by James Hendrix into a full book with a more complete implementation. [2]
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I've seen it joked that with Proton, Win32 is a good stable ABI for gaming on Linux. Given that, and that I'm most comfortable developing on Linux and in C++, does anyone have a good toolchain recommendation for cross compiling C+
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by a_e_k 2y ago
They can, yes. For example, here's a simple Compiler Explorer link with a simple loop conditionally copying from one of two values: https://godbolt.org/z/TbeK99sx1 . If you look at the assembly code produced, you&#
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by a_e_k 2y ago
This sort of use of turning conditionals into bitmasks and then shuffling masked values around was fairly common back in the day when writing code for SSE intrinsics. You wouldn't want to have to check each lane individually since that
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by a_e_k 2y ago
The difference is that it was a one-and-done thing rather than leapfrogging back and forth as it sounds like `theluketaylor` was describing. And yes, the drivers would coordinate. (I've sometimes seen it done with a brief honk for att
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Another simple strategy that I've seen is simply for the loaded bus to allow the empty bus to overtake it and go on ahead (and just stay ahead).
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by a_e_k 2y ago
That mantra reminds me of "Any problem that goes away by itself can just as easily come back by itself."
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Interesting. For contrast, switching to the one-good-pen approach was what finally did the trick for me. These days, I find I'm more likely to run out of ink than lose my pen. To each their own!
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Robot animals with gun turrets make me think of Horizon: Zero Dawn . For example, the Ravager: https://gamingbolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/horizon-ze...
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Yep. That's still fine for building BVHs and shooting some rays around.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
These sorts of data sets can be useful for graphics research, particular as a data set to test ray tracing algorithms on. See for example, the Moana Island data set. [1] I definitely foresee papers on BVH construction using this scene. For
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by a_e_k 2y ago
There's also the funding acknowledgement in the YOLO v3 tech report ( https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf ): > But maybe a better question is: “What are we going to do with these detector
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by a_e_k 2y ago
I also like that I can point to my production credits as public proof of employment history.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
As a night owl myself, I've often thought I might prefer it if the Earth turned on a 25 or 26 hr cycle.
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by a_e_k 2y ago
If you're interested in this, let me also plug the High Performance Graphics 2024 conference where this paper was accepted and will be presented at the end of the month. It'll be co-located with SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver, CO. Come
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by a_e_k 2y ago
There's a relatively straightforward trick that you can do here. If you've got a transform that turns a circle into an ellipse with the relative radii and orientation that you want, then: 1. Apply the inverse of that transform to
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by a_e_k 2y ago
Yes, that's a clever way of demonstrating viability (and with more than one compiler implementation). I do like the examples that I see there. This seems like the kind of language feature that I might not make much use of directly in g
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by a_e_k 2y ago
[Repeating a comment from a few years ago:] When I developed my own coding font (Luculent), the compact sample that I ultimately came up with was: // The five boxing wizards jump #include <stdio.h> // &l

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