chrisdirkis

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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
The person who @'d the Epic org owns very little of the blame, in my opinion. If you have a button that causes 60m+ emails to be sent, and you leave it in a public place with no warnings and no confirmation dialogs, that's your ba
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by chrisdirkis 4y ago
I could believe it, in this[1] sense. "It is possible to draw a black ball from an urn full of white balls, without any tricks" would pretty much upset my entire epistemic grounding, but with sufficient evidence, I don't see
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by chrisdirkis 5y ago
The Azure Kinect was released as a successor for the research and business applications[1]. I know one roboticist who has used one, but no one aside from that. Definitely dead as a consumer gaming device, but a product evolving towards a di
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by chrisdirkis 5y ago
If all dogs are animals, it wouldn't follow that all animals are dogs
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by chrisdirkis 5y ago
Most people who consistently exercise don't do it via amazing willpower, but because they enjoy the exercise they do. If you enjoy hiking or marathon running, exercise by doing those. Otherwise, use the responses here and search throug
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by chrisdirkis 5y ago
I believe the question was more about clarifying point (c) of the grandparent. At a guess, it's the comparison to programming audio into the SNES by hand, showing a clear value proposition in comparison to the baseline.
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by chrisdirkis 5y ago
An example might be a function that takes a vector3, adds 5 to the x value, then returns the vector's length. You could model that as "make a second vector v_2 {x = v.x + 5, y = v.y, z = v.z}; return v_2.length", but if you h
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
But does this place have to be StackOverflow? I think it has space for discussion in comments, chat rooms, etc., but the main artifact is intended to be an easily searchable Q&A archive. I think they need to work on communicating that m
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I do not think that a watermark would be a good idea, though I understand the desire for an expanded free plan. The example I have in mind is the Unity game engine, where free users have a splash screen in their exported games. Since most u
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
> On a more philosophical note, I think it is better to have lived and died than to not have ever existed. Would that not lead to a desire to create as many "lives" as possible? I don't think I've met many people opti
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
Not to get too heated or anything, but the framing of "People can read the thread for themselves and decide." concerns me. Saying "I think A", then responding to people who say "I think ~A" with "hey hey h
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
Location: Brisbane, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript, React, C#, Unity, Python Résumé/CV: On request, email Email: jobs [at] chrisdirk [dot] is I'm a software developer with
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I don't think it's a straw man to note that what you want (rigour) comes with a cost (accessibility of development). The decline in rigour among applied computer science corresponded with an increase in software availability, econ
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
Reminds me of writing full-screen fragment shaders, where you'd just get a screen position and time and construct some cool things. This one's much smaller and easier to reason about though, very cool :)
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
If one million people don't care about changing the status quo and 50 do, the status quo will won't change. If one person doesn't care and 50 do, it's much more likely. The status quo exists in everyone who does nothing
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I don't mean to make light of struggling to find somewhere to live, and I know it can be difficult for many due to reasons beyond their control, and this really sucks. Everyone should have a place to live. I'm interested in explor
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
But you've got to aggregate a) over all the billionaires, not just the ones giving. We're not comparing Bill Gates to the US Govt for impact per dollar, we're comparing all US billionaires vs the US Govt.
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I remember hearing that Nvidia were working on an audio spatialiser using their RTX hardware/expertise, but I can't recall hearing about it after 2018 or so, which is where the project I was working on that I wanted audio spatiali
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
Works the other way too, though. When I subscribe to a magazine, I don't get shipped their entire back catalogue. This causes the problems that gnicholas describes. If I did, why subscribe for a year, when I can subscribe for a month a
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
This is a thing I've been pondering recently, and I don't have the same takeaway as you. My thought is: The context doesn't always matter, and a quotation can mean different things in different contexts, and that's not a
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
> If you want to play the violin beautifully, you have to practice for 10 years, there's no way around it. > > If you want to do important things, you have to train in all sorts of capacities, and put in a lot of sweat. I don
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I believe the parent meant breaking it down as "if you earn $100k, add 10 slips that each have $10k on them". The number of slips will be more than the number of people in the room, but that's fine. It's less practical t
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
IANA delegated .au to someone at the University of Melbourne in the 80s. He devised the 2LD structure, and chose .com.au, .org.au, .net.au, and .edu.au as the major second level domains, with various eligibility requirements. Recently, auDA
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I think you misparsed that sentence as "20 million as much [as 10 million as much as one of those people]", where it should be "20 million as much [of one of those people]". An x2 multiplier, instead of an x20 million on
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
This sounds like a play on the old Voltaire quote, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." A common joke response is "wow, we'd better rise up against kids with leukemia.&quot
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
A fun take from the currently defunct SlateStarCodex was buying "offsets" for activities you wanted to support. Carbon offsets for plane trips already exist, in the range of $30 to $150 or so. In theory, you could find someone who
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
From a quick search, common dietary recommendations for protein seem to be 0.8g to 1.4g per kg bodyweight per day. 190g per day would likely be way more than most people need, being that both a) a lot of people weigh less than 190/1.4
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I'm not sure what the interface for trading should be, but some interfaces are definitely meant to have friction. The common example is React's `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`. It's a long and annoying name, with the word "dan
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
To quote the top answer on that questions: > To claim like the campaign that this would be the symbol, or even a really common one – in the US – seems to not have been true. This changed obviously in a reverse-Streisand now.
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by chrisdirkis 6y ago
I am well aware that the NYT has been inconsistent at best with their anonymity standards. Definitely undermines that policy. Still don't think that construes sufficient evidence to claim that this current situation is intended to canc

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