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by boulos 7y ago
What do you run on now? My worry is that while Apple is continually making their machines less and less useful for development (meaning macOS as an environment), that the Linux laptop story remains bad even on the Dell “Ubuntu Certified” ma
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by boulos 7y ago
I’ve used Google Lens as “if it says unsafe, definitely unsafe”. I would not rely on it for “oh yeah, I can eat this” :). I doubt your “few dozen years” though. Humans are only so good at it themselves. Computing has improved a lot since 19
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by boulos 7y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. I'll try to translate this into something direct. Anthos is an umbrella term for things in the combined ecosystem of Kubernetes, Istio, Anthos Config Management, Traffic Director, and so on. Anthos [
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The Air Force wants you to hack its satellite in orbit(techcrunch.com)
2 points by boulos 7y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 7y ago
This is a pretty awful "I'm sorry you feel that way" response. Also, thanks to HN for highlighting this misleading setup in the first place (I wouldn't have heard about it otherwise). I happen to have replaced a failed d
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by boulos 7y ago
The author is actually preferentially sending samples towards "attractors" [0] for lights and dielectrics. Doing so massively reduces variance. My favorite example is Figure 5 in this old paper [1] (I've never actually read P
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by boulos 7y ago
For those looking to go beyond Pete’s “in a weekend” book, the full text of the 3rd edition of PBRT is freely available online: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents.html
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by boulos 7y ago
I’d actually search for “tone mapping” for the camera / film part. For physical light units you want to look for “lumens”, “lux” and “IES Lights” (though you probably don’t need to care about the directional profile). It’s super handy
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by boulos 7y ago
That’s pretty common, because the area lights are often very bright. So the subpixel values are either 0 or white hot (and much brighter than 1.0). If you model the light sources with actual physical units and do some sort of exposure pro
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by boulos 7y ago
What’s emacs --version say for you? My main complaint from using a Mac laptop for so long is that I often had to download some .el packages, that are basically unnecessary with more recent emacs updates. Other than that, I’ve also got a fai
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by boulos 7y ago
Nicely done, you have normalized population data! Would you mind defaulting to displaying your cases normalized by population though for the choropleth? Counties aren't uniform, and so you get wildly confusing results from showing abso
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by boulos 7y ago
The Economist had an article about this last year [1, but paywalled, obviously]. A helpful quote though: > As the drug industry has come back down to earth, the returns of the 46 middlemen on the list have soared. Fifteen years ago they
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by boulos 7y ago
Or use rustls, if you just need modern TLS. I found this back and forth of rustls vs native-tls (which picks up openssl/your favorite system ssl) helpful: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/any-reasons-to-prefer-native-
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Workers in 8 Amazon Warehouses Test Positive for Coronavirus(npr.org)
2 points by boulos 7y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 7y ago
> They must really over provision. Oversubscribe :).
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by boulos 7y ago
No. I should have been more clear: they also do ski trips.
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by boulos 7y ago
Slightly off-topic but the analyses here come from the nice folks at Descartes Labs (Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and with the Descartes Labs folks, we’ve even been skiing together in Taos). If you’re into GIS or large-scale imagery p
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by boulos 7y ago
Hmm. Did you edit / adjust the "D had its chance" statement? I thought that ended with a period. If not, apologies. But it did come across as harsh :).
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by boulos 7y ago
There's tons of material online now. If you want a "traditional Utah graphics" curriculum, Cem is teaching most of the stuff (with updates!) from 15 years ago. You can also probably find the old course slides and assignments.
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by boulos 7y ago
For those not aware, Walter is the creator of D. I feel like this almost constitutes shitting on someone's Show HN post.
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by boulos 7y ago
CS148 [1] varies from year to year (most people complained that I made the final assignment on subdivision surfaces too hard, but I had at least a few "Thank you, this was awesome") and is the pre-cursor to 248. I'd recommend
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by boulos 7y ago
My natural inclination would be to use the predicted fatality and severe outcome distributions by age, as a probability distribution to sample from. But , I assume that the first person who “dies by randomness” would result in uproar. Even
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Who Gets Care as Washington State Hospitals Fill Up?(nytimes.com)
2 points by boulos 7y ago|2 comments
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by boulos 7y ago
Huh! I was about to say "no, we have to see two quarters of decline". Except, NBER no longer uses that rule and hasn't for a decade : > The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline
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by boulos 7y ago
Yeah, that’s how you ended, but I think the root cause in the piece you linked isn’t “deception” but false precision. The false precision is what gives the sense that it seems true. Perhaps this is a variant of curse of dimensionality for e
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by boulos 7y ago
> I can’t imagine that this calculation is meaningful in any way. The errors don’t average out here; the curve we’re modeling is exponential, tiny errors in assumptions can lead to roughly 100% error in the output. Isn’t there a word for
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by boulos 7y ago
Sorry if I was unclear: it's not that China is still a poor country, but people develop habits and customs generations ago. For some fraction of the people (who are now wealthier), it's variously seen as a status thing, somethin
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by boulos 7y ago
I get that you're frustrated. But there are lots of parts of the world that eat bushmeat for various reasons. They persist due to economic challenges that last generations. If you grew up eating a chimpanzee or bat or whatever, because
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by boulos 7y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and also commented on Cockroach’s original draft post, that this is a follow up to). Edit: I am a chump, I misread TPC _RR as TCP_RR and responded. Leaving this here for shame. Thanks to jsolson for poin
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by boulos 7y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Different things! Composer (based on Apache Airflow, which we contribute to) is a general purpose workflow system. Cloud AI Platform Pipelines is really focused on ML pipelines, specifically, like Kubeflo

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