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by cr0sh 7y ago
No - see my comment elsewhere - there was a runthru video made of the city. I remember watching it on youtube or vimeo; not sure if it still exists to watch, tho.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Somewhere (on Youtube or Vimeo I think) there is - or was - a "runthru" by someone (I believe they had to be Chinese) with a gopro or such strapped to their head - where they duck in an entrance of one "side" of the city
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've long blamed Microsoft for killing SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc). MS worked with SGI on a project known as Fahrenheit - to unify Direct3D and OpenGL: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Get one of the mowers that follows a wire and then embed the wire under the grass in the pattern you want. > Hilbert Curve pattern OP is going to be outside for a while depending on the level of precision of that particular "pa
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Our Roomba loves to get stuck under certain pieces of furniture and the low overhangs of our kitchen and bathroom cabinets. It just wedges itself in place and gets jammed, eventually erroring out. If it doesn't do that, then the other
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by cr0sh 7y ago
This is pretty neat; I had the impression that they were going to make something like this, but kinda put it out of my mind after hearing nothing about it for years. I found an old Friendly Robotics lawn mower robot on Craigslist and purcha
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The computer operators (!) loaded them with special "green band" paper stock that came in boxes about the size of a 12-ream box of printer paper you'd buy at OfficeDepot today, but it was all one big continuous z-fold pi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The first company I worked for that started my career as an SWE was a small mom-n-pop shop; the wrote software for insurance companies. I applied for a position (any position; at the time, I was still in school) and they hired and trained m
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> It shook the table so hard things would fall off. One of my earliest "computer memories" as a kid was being in a Radio Shack in the early 1980s and seeing a large dot-matrix printer outputting a maze on greenbar paper; the pr
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Another way to do it is to mount a 2D LIDAR to scan in the vertical plane, and then pan that around. A 180 degree pan will net you a dome/spherical volume (although in a slow manner). You could do this easily with cheap parallax sensor
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I was once working on a small tool that I tried different iterations of using a small variety of approaches; I tried implementing it in bash, perl, python, ES6 JS (classes and more), and a few other methods (I think at one point I even trie
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> It would be good for software engineering overall to be recognised as a legitimate branch of engineering. I think the only way this could happen would be if SWE only used waterfall or some similar kind of practice. Agile and the like m
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The real funny thing is that for most people (not OP) it would still be used mainly for word processing, email, and occasionally casual gaming - and it would still be slow to run and boot. The amount of processing power we each carry in our
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Back then, smaller nation-states wanting to do nuclear device simulation and the like would be my guess. Basically, countries that were restricted in some manner on gaining large amounts of parallel processing compute power for such simulat
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> You can't really know until you have access to such a vast amount of horsepower, and can apply it to whatever you want. Something I've often wondered, and there are probably good reasons why, is that billionaire tech moguls -
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I hate the idea that developers should have blogs. I hate the reality that developers can't easily develop a portfolio of work because generally their work is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the companies they work for, and can&#
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The jokes write themselves, don't they?
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Chunk out a four by four foot section and grow some sugar peas and tell me it wasn't a thousand times more rewarding than a lawn. If you have an HOA - there might be a bit of problem...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Some owners find out the hard way that they are also responsible for maintaining the sidewalk when the city hits them with a notice. I live in Phoenix; in my neighborhood it's basically the same way. City comes around, tears up th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I had VistaPro with the Mars maps on my Amiga 2000 and 1200 back in the early 90s; I should dig those machines out someday (no idea if the floppies still work, tho - I have tons of Fred Fish stuff, too)...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I remember playing with TerraGen back when the original programmer of it was coding it in VB5 and 6 - it was so amazing to see back then, it's too bad the VB source code wasn't ever released.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> There were Turbo Pascal versions of this on websites in the 90s I think, but it seems they were lost. You can still find a lot of this old code if you dig for it; lot's of it can be found on various SIMTEL MS-DOS ftp archive sites
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It seems like this code would be fairly easy to add to a simple 2.5D raycaster (either a cube variant like the old Wolfenstein, or something more advanced like Doom/Doom 2) to give some variation (or more "natural" stuff) for
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by cr0sh 7y ago
My thought too - but then I recalled - vaguely - the "setup" procedure for it - so "even more exponential effort" sounded a bit right...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Last time I "used" NT4 it was to set up a machine for a specific piece of software so I could test a SICK 2D LIDAR unit (one of the blue "coffee pot" units) I had purchased off Ebay; sometime around 2014/15 IIRC. In
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I haven't touched VB6 in ages - I tend to wonder what it would be like "going back to it". Not too long ago I remarked here on HN that I expected VB6 programmers might become in demand in the future (when, I don't know),
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Droplets: https://www.digitalocean.com/ Vultrs: https://www.vultr.com/
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Speaking of COBOL - the next "big thing" of that nature is likely going to be Visual Basic 6. It's an albatross around Microsoft's neck, but every time they update Windows, they keep around the runtime DLLs - because so
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I know this was from 2016, but I'd think that a self-driving vehicle would be programmed to recognize, at a minimum, all humans in the direction of travel, and would command the vehicle to avoid such obstacles - as much as possible and
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by cr0sh 7y ago
No, you can't. That is true. But if my choice is between zero dollars, and 100 lines of code, I'll take the code, because at least it is something.

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