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by buff-a 15y ago
That's what surprised me most about this article: they crow that it's a CPU-only technology... why? Because they don't know where raytracing research has gotten to with GPGPUs. Indeed if a few years ago you had told me that GPGPUs would b
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by buff-a 15y ago
Its hierarchical data, most nodes of which are empty at the highest level, or 100% solid, terminating the search. Its basically a specific optimization of raytracing as far as I can tell.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Unfortunately, this engine can only create an entire world out of voxels because it uses insane levels of repetition, i.e. compression. As soon as you do any of the kinds of interesting things that voxels let you do, you have instantly lost
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by buff-a 15y ago
This is a really good point. I've worked for a company that had a great team, but HR were beyond words. Even where I to choose a word that would get me modded down, even here, it would fail to convey my animosity towards them. HR is usually
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by buff-a 15y ago
All server based vcs are push based. Certainly they can be used pull-based, where others diff code, send the patch, and a committer then integrates and commits. Git, on the other hand does two things differently. 1) it makes it vastly easie
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by buff-a 15y ago
Mikeal isn't arguing that Apache source should be put on GitHub. He is saying that ASF would benefit from the kind of community development that git promotes as exemplified by GitHub and linux.
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by buff-a 15y ago
So after telling us that your current environment is working with people who have a hard time with svn/cvs, forgive me if I find your opinion on git's ability to handle the requirements of large-scale, community driven development of the co
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by buff-a 15y ago
What you describe is the original use case for git: pull-based community development. So I can only conclude that you don't see a problem because you've never actually done it.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Discussion on this subject with a reply from Linus: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...
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by buff-a 15y ago
You seem to be arguing this as if this is reality. What you are stating is the justification. Its the theater. The story. The reality is that there are two ways to get people to give you money. 1. Make something people want. 2. Bribe people
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by buff-a 15y ago
And then cue up the "realist" who says "this is just how it is". This IS newsworthy. This shit should be the only news until it fucking stops. As you say: "But there simply is no system in place for shutting things down. It just keeps g
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by buff-a 15y ago
You seem to be arguing that a lot of work went into selling this piece of shit to the government, and so therefore, we the people, should pay for the cost of that selling too? I know that is how it works: I bribe a government official to bu
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by buff-a 15y ago
In discussion of an article which makes the claim "The problem here is less about git and more about the chasm between Apache and the new culture of open source." it is ironic that an objection is raised that is trivially answered by using
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by buff-a 15y ago
I need not respond to the actual concern because the ASF has already done so. The ASF has already decided to allow git to be used . I assume that their lawyers OK'd this change. So I did not intend to continue an ongoing discussion: ASF
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by buff-a 15y ago
As I understand it, if the repo has receive.denynonfastforwards=true, a user can't push changes that will destroy history. This flag has been available since 2006. (And I didn't mod you down. You ask a legitimate question). A bit more resea
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by buff-a 15y ago
Oh, I can think of a million scary sounding consequences of using git and I'm sure that all were raised. This is what established groups do when confronted with change: raise any objection even though a moments thought demonstrates the pauc
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by buff-a 15y ago
FTA: One of the experiments tested whether water-deprived participants would experience an energy drain from visualizing a glass of icy cold water (a simple but elegant study design) and found that indeed, in even something so basic, the b
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by buff-a 15y ago
Indeed. Git => designed for forking and reintegrating . Subversion => fucking painful for either. I find it ironic that your first post complains that the author is comparing ASF to a sand box, but then you go and suggest that GP
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by buff-a 15y ago
There's no reason apache can't maintain its own "legally authorative" git repo. Nothing in the authors post suggest that he is confusing the ASF with a "coding sandbox". Making that claim suggests to me that you are invested in the alternat
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by buff-a 15y ago
10% of what the other team spent.
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by buff-a 15y ago
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-11/tech/tech_mobile_californ... California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited police in that state from conducting warrantless searches of the cell phones of people under arrest.
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by buff-a 15y ago
What was Dennis Ritchie's exceptional "other talent"? Sergey Brin? David Patterson? Yale Patt? Linux Torvalds? Conviction?
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by buff-a 15y ago
However, "the work being done", is now "get paid as much as possible, while bribing government officials to cover our losses". And for this work, they are choosing exactly the right kinds of candidates. You seem to believe that working hard
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SCC 2011 results: 1st Taiwan, 2nd China, 3rd USA(theregister.co.uk)
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by buff-a 15y ago
With all the myriad of documented ways that rich people have worked with other rich people to fuck us all over, I'm amazed that anyone can write that there is no conspiracy. The revolving door between government and industry, between regula
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by buff-a 15y ago
Well, you might have to move.
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by buff-a 15y ago
You are living in fear. There is an entire rational society in the USA that is alive and well. Its just not as large as the ignorant, irrational one.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Because conspiracy theories are never true? Or just this "kind" of conspiracy theory? You object to the idea that a democracy can't turn into a place where the government is dangerous to its citizens? Have you heard about http://en.wikiped
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by buff-a 15y ago
I think this is one of the types of things that is going to (eventually someday) finally wake people up to the limitations of unstructured (although colorful) ASCII source editing. This.
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by buff-a 15y ago
> The amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight. Except that you get it in a milliseconds, instead of over a period of several hours. I get a lot of sunshine in a day (h

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