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by blihp 8y ago
The fact that there's so much of it and the sources are indirect and imprecise. All motion capture with actors is from the surface of their body and then you have to reverse-engineering all that data into skeletal and facial muscle po
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by blihp 8y ago
You are correct regarding the initial concept, but what were the objectives of the Learning Resource Group that Alan Kay was leading at the time? And what were the various iterations of Smalltalk (i.e. -72 through -80) working towards? Squ
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by blihp 8y ago
Well Lisp and Smalltalk were designed for two entirely different purposes and audiences[1] so of course they were trying to jettison everything they could and keep things absolutely as simple as possible in Smalltalk. That doesn't m
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by blihp 8y ago
Unfortunately, this is absolutely in character for him. I also sort of hope that people try what he's suggesting since it will almost certainly backfire. It's not that I want him or the install fests to fail (I'm a big fan
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by blihp 8y ago
They might get the referrer (i.e. the URL the page the request came from) and information about the browser since it's your PC/phone that actually contacts Google's servers to request the resource. As long as the URL doesn&#
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by blihp 8y ago
Just keep mind that doing what you're proposing will probably cost you 90%+ of your revenue. I'd recommend simply not being abusive with ads (either showing excessive numbers or working with shady ad networks) and offer the small
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by blihp 8y ago
Great to see the progress of this project. It will be interesting to see if they further alter their GPU API roadmap as their stated plan (or at least thinking about) of deprecating ES 3 support[1] seems about as infeasible as deprecating
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by blihp 8y ago
I remember many of the isometric drawn/pre-rendered games with a fixed PoV (i.e. Zaxxon etc) being described as 2.5D back in the day. We knew they weren't exactly 3D but then again, they weren't your typical 2D platformer&#x
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by blihp 8y ago
I suspect that for many of the existing developers, it's deeper than that. A subset of the devs work a significant fraction of their time offline so firing up a web browser isn't going to work for them at all. Also, another sub
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by blihp 8y ago
You set up your own charitable foundation/trust which you control. While technically not your money anymore, you get to decide how it gets spent. I even heard about a man who had his charity buy a portrait of himself ;-) Snark aside
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by blihp 8y ago
Note that none of the successful large companies are actually open sourcing their 'secret sauce'. There is no open source version of Google's search engine, Facebook's social network etc. It's only supporting tool
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by blihp 8y ago
It's nice in theory, less so in practice based on the various reviews of the various DIY filament solutions I've seen. There are problems both with the consistency of the diameter of the extruded filament and the fact that each t
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by blihp 8y ago
Scale and consumer behavior would be their moat. See Amazon, Google and Facebook for examples of what they have in mind.
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by blihp 8y ago
Enough so that you're comfortable that you have a solid mental model of what the CPU is actually doing when a given program is running. (i.e. at least get to the point where the CPU is no longer a black box to you.)
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by blihp 8y ago
She's got a point with respect to durable items. In the last century it was uncommon to throw something out just because it had a crack or tear... minor repairs were the norm. Now we throw out perfectly good phones when the battery g
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by blihp 8y ago
For those doing it right, it's about networking and/or making a name for themselves rather than the actual content of the conference. I've gone to a couple and agree that the content itself generally doesn't warrant the
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by blihp 8y ago
I probably would. I think the problem is that so many people associate ie/y with nicknames for kids that it biases them. I'd probably use Ron initially and then when you get to the face-to-face interview stage you can let people
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by blihp 8y ago
Yep, that's why I only suggested it as a starting point. Anyone embarking on a business that potentially involves a (heavily) regulated industry needs to step carefully.
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by blihp 8y ago
Here's a post about a story that made the rounds back when Patreon made some changes a while back: https://geoffkratz.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/is-patreon-about... It should give you a few pointers on th
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by blihp 8y ago
You are right that this isn't the be-all, end-all but is merely one of the pieces needed. I was trying to give a layperson's reason for caring (i.e. what was being asked) which often involves oversimplifying things.
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by blihp 8y ago
From an end user point of view, probably the most important thing it allows Debian developers to do is verify that the binary packages they are shipping are the packages they intended to ship. You trust them, they have to trust their tools
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by blihp 8y ago
That's a valid complaint (I too wish it were simpler) but am not sure how feasible that is given the myriad of ways upstream packages are managed and the varying degrees to which they do or don't support distros in general, let al
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by blihp 8y ago
Assuming you're referring to Debian, you've missed the mark. Debian is more committed to open source, in the RMS 'free software' sense, than any other distro I'm aware of... it's the foundation of the distro.
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by blihp 8y ago
It's not hanging, it just takes a bit before it gets going. I had to wait about 30 seconds before the IDA* visualization started running.
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by blihp 8y ago
It could be as simple as one of the maintainers still using the S5 as their primary device (or is being sponsored to support it) but none of them are using an S6. Or there could be a driver issue with the S6. Or something else entirely.
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by blihp 8y ago
We said the same thing back then too.
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by blihp 8y ago
Sure, but what prospects will those newly minted COBOL developers have when the next recession hits and their department decides most of them aren't that critical after all or when they realize they're in a dead-end job and want t
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by blihp 8y ago
Not at all. I was making the point that there are lots of trucks on most roads all the time, not that they aren't necessary. Also, while salt makes the road drive-able in the winter, it actually does long term damage to the road (incre
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by blihp 8y ago
Are you sure about that? I see garbage trucks, delivery trucks (package, furniture, appliance etc.), lawn service trucks, salt trucks, snow plowing trucks etc day-in, day-out.[1] And to do their job, they probably need traverse 95% of the
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by blihp 8y ago
It's not about malice. It's well known that public statements by corporate officers and other key people can move the market so their statements tend to be scrutinized by all sides, including regulators. Another problem is it&#

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