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by bjwbell 11y ago
It's amazing work. The big question is keep two renderers, CPU & GPU, or switch to just GPU? Switching to only GPU I think implies the need for at least a reference GPU backend such as mesa.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. When I was young magic software seemed magic. Then I found out it's 10x harder to debug when it breaks.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Reading this makes me afraid of writing C code all over again. Undefined behavior is almost impossible for a programmer to 100% of the time detect (not that this particular regehr post is on UB).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It had me gripped.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
For the best people there's an unbounded amount of work. But if you're not the best too bad for you. A lot more fields are becoming winner takes all (acting, athletes etc. are all this way).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Like WebAssembly (technically not a bytecode).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Could partly be because you can't have any B players on a squad.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I mostly opted out. I became much happier when I stopped looking at other people's feeds & instead only email/text to keep in contact.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
This is just a suggestion but have you tried running? I'm also a caffeine /addict/ and running is my substitute of choice. Exercise is a huge stimulant (endorphins)
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I'll admit it, I love drugs. Uppers, downers, I love them all. But I TRULY do not understand addiction. I just don't, and I've tried plenty of soft and hard drugs. I'm not sure what I want to say but perhaps just that it
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Going by Paul Phillips's (largest contributor to the scala compiler) YouTube rant, https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=4jh94gowim0 , nobody ever gets over the cliffs. His rant is great, for more than just scala.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I can't agree more. The drug that had the biggest impact on my productivity is http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin , more than modafinil or anything else. And yes besides melatonin I follow the recommendations for improved s
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by bjwbell 11y ago
That's why I prefer the data from satellite measurements. There's a couple for surface temperature at http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ & http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-t
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Canada and Siberia are large & mostly uninhabitable right now, 5F warmer & maybe Edmonton won't be so bad.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It's difficult even with that. The mean temperature is calculated via inference (obviously you can't have a thermometer everywhere). And there's occasional adjustments to how the global temp. is inferred. The NOAA recently di
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by bjwbell 11y ago
In 1880 via ship measurements. They'd take out a bucket of sea water and measure the temperature. They still use buoys as part of the sea surface temperature measurement.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
It's not actually possible without making inferences via models. The NOAA recently switched their global temperature model [0]. [0] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag..
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by bjwbell 11y ago
"Is the primary sex ratio the same in all human populations at all times?" At least the secondary sex ratio naturally varies in human populations, being lowest in African's and somewhat higher in most others, see [0] and many
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by bjwbell 11y ago
When I used to free solo climb, it was more about being in the zone. Putting your concious brain in the background because it will kill you. Anyone doing those kinds of sports fully knows the chances of dying & decides to take it. I eve
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Shipping to multiple addresses is probably pretty common. I frequently send gifts to relatives using my prime account. I'd hate to lose free shipping for those items.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
The devil is in the details. Look at all the drug trials that work in mice or even monkeys but not humans.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
What's happened to Germany? They used to be one of the best in mathematics. But the recent IMO results are very poor (27th this year). Has their education system declined or something else perhaps? I know they have a low birthrate....
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Maybe I'm just dense. Do you mean X11 server ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System ) or something else?
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by bjwbell 11y ago
A point assumed in the article is that MS among others is due to genetics. Pathogen(s) are another possible casual trigger. To quote "our genes didn't evolve to kill us".
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I tried these for a while. It confused my muscle memory more to have almost but not quite emacs behavior in the browser vs standard browser keyboard shortcuts.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
No. They used the slaves there for sugar plantations, among other things.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
FYI: He's done research on the efficacy of SSRI's, http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo... .
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Each of them has advantages and disadvantages. Want to change the pointer using GLFW to one of the standard X11 pointers like the busy hour glass. Good luck, it can't be done as far as I know.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
This would make a great episode plot in HBO's Silicon Valley.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!

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