bjourne

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811.
by bjourne 2y ago
I don't entirely disagree with you, but ImtelliSense might have increased the prevalence of long and stupid symbol names. Had people been forced to type out names, their naming might have been more careful.
812.
Ray Tracing in One Weekend(raytracing.github.io)
110 points by bjourne 2y ago|14 comments
813.
by bjourne 2y ago
I have never played a fantasy game where characters regularly had to take a dump (maybe Dwarf Fortress has defecation but it's more of a simulator game than an rpg). Yet the lack of shitting in fantasy games has not caused hordes of
814.
by bjourne 2y ago
There are hundreds of DSLs for ASIC design but not a single one of them has ever been used for actual tapeout . It's 100% unheard of. Hence, I doubt your DSL saved any time over using an RTL language directly. Sorry for sounding harsh
815.
by bjourne 2y ago
For the longest time a mmorpg I used to play used to have gender-based bonuses an maluses. So a woman would make a shitty warrior and a man an under-powered mage. On the game's boards this was argued about forever because many girls wa
816.
by bjourne 2y ago
Before that you had bucket brigades.
817.
by bjourne 2y ago
A modern ALU has multiple pipelined data paths for its operations. So maybe three adders with a one-cycle latency, two multipliers with a three-cycle latency, and one divider with a 16-cycle latency. Sustained throughput depends on the oper
818.
by bjourne 2y ago
Herding is the best defense. If everyone who expresses opinions online do so non-anonymously it becomes much more difficult for the sleuths to target specific individuals. If everyone runs the risk of getting "sniped" for somethin
819.
Btop: A Monitor of Resources(github.com)
3 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
820.
Ask HN: Linux on Snapdragon X Laptops?
5 points by bjourne 2y ago|3 comments
821.
by bjourne 2y ago
Too easy to game since the sensor couldn't detect where the glove hit.
822.
by bjourne 2y ago
Usually psychology studies are conducted by field workers or assistants. I don't think the person you interacted with was the actual author of the study.
823.
by bjourne 2y ago
That's because Yahweh was a sky god and lived high up in the clouds. So raising your hands, standing on mountain tops, etc, reduces your distance to him. Raising your hands while praying doesn't make as much sense anymore since He
824.
by bjourne 2y ago
Not a lot. The limiting factor is the wiring and not the size of the elements themselves. So one bit of ROM might be much smaller than one bit of RAM, but it's irrelevant because the size and length of the wires transferring that bit t
825.
by bjourne 2y ago
Sorry Sherlock, I meant charge back as in "refunds" not credit card disputes. Also, merry Christmas.
826.
by bjourne 2y ago
Reminds me of a similar bug in a payment processing system the company I worked for used. Long story short, overflow in Java numerical types (counting milliseconds for durations in weeks...) caused the system to go haywire and charge custom
827.
by bjourne 2y ago
That data does exist but is mysteriously excluded. Perhaps because it doesn't support the race bait? Moreover, contrary to the figure's claims, PISA does not exclude immigrants. It's just a hodgepodge of crappy statistics.
828.
by bjourne 2y ago
No racial breakdown for countries other than the US and immigrants are generally not excluded in PISA.
829.
by bjourne 2y ago
It's ironic that your comment includes immigrants to show that America is great, while other comments exclude immigrants to show that America is not so bad.
830.
by bjourne 2y ago
Figure created by arbitrarily massaging the data to reach the desired conclusion.
831.
by bjourne 2y ago
Honestly, it is super brain-dead that Linux and other operating systems still have such massive problems with "special" characters. Just the other day I had to help someone who had trouble building. The cause turned out to be that
832.
by bjourne 2y ago
Though it has very much decreased in recent years due to rampant inflation. My real wage has decreased since increases have been lower than inflation. For unemployed and low earners it is even worse.
833.
Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after police complaint(pcgamer.com)
5 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
834.
by bjourne 2y ago
Did no one watch the talk? :) After 13 minutes it ends and tells you to go to a IAI website to continue to watch. Fucking infuriating.
835.
by bjourne 2y ago
I'm a bit skeptical because real source can be quite messy. Parsing C source code works because there are neither comments nor preprocessor directives to consider. You have clean input which you can map into an AST using well-defined r
836.
by bjourne 2y ago
Agree with this. Calling SIMD superscalar is a misnomer since it is single instruction (multiple data) with very wide data paths. Superscalar implies multiple different instructions in parallel, such as adding a pair of numbers, while s
837.
by bjourne 2y ago
Maybe I'm wrong then. But there has been many slightly-different-sampling-method papers in the past that showed impressive results which were then difficult to replicate on other models or experimental setups.
838.
by bjourne 2y ago
Maybe. The 7-8 workplaces I've been to have been remarkably homogeneous with very few people sticking out in any way. All-male teams or teams where most people were the same age. If one goes by what they do rather than what they say th
839.
Jon Kalb Talk: "Don't use unsigned for quantities" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
840.
by bjourne 2y ago
Fascinating that very minor variations on established sampling techniques still generate papers. :) Afaik, neither top-p nor top-k sampling has conclusively been proven superior to good old-fashioned temperature sampling. Certainly, recent

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