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by dahart 9mo ago
The rest of the article answers that question. The followup article answers it more directly, and compares polar to rectangular. https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/monte-carlo/ Short answer: yes it’s uniform in area.
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by dahart 9mo ago
At least some people say yes, but it could be useful or interesting to talk about why you ask and what difference you see between knits and knots. Perhaps it depends on how one defines “knot”, but it seems like most definitions I can find w
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by dahart 9mo ago
FWIW, when a problem truly is weird, AI & vibe coding tends to not be able to solve it. Maybe you can use AI to help you spend more time working on the weird problems. When I play sudoku with an app, I like to turn on auto-fill number
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by dahart 9mo ago
Nope, but I’m not surprised if this is widespread… :(
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by dahart 9mo ago
That sounds like a recipe for skimping on safety and design systemically. No thank you. You can’t legislate aesthetics, and there’s already a huge incentive to make buildings look great. People already spend a lopsided amount on the facade
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by dahart 9mo ago
That depends on which array & extrusive linked list classes you’re talking about. Let me put it another way: in three decades of professional coding in scientific computing, video games, film vfx, web programming, and GPU driver and har
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by dahart 9mo ago
> for just 5kWh we can desalinate 250 gallons … pipes are relatively cheap I live 1500km from the ocean at 1500m altitude with 3 million other people in a place that’s neither poor nor a war zone. Ignoring the cost of pipes for a minute
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by dahart 9mo ago
Intrusive linked lists still firmly have a place in modern code, for reasons other than performance. I don’t know many good reasons for extrusive linked lists, even before caches. There might be a few, but a dynamic array is (and has alwa
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by dahart 9mo ago
Depends. Throughput is probably higher, but the latency of a big scan might be larger than a small one, so many small lookups might feel more responsive if they’re each rendered independently. The example on the page doesn’t look like it ca
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by dahart 9mo ago
Partly for the same reason it’s fast for small sites. In their words: “SQLite is not client/server”
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by dahart 9mo ago
Possible, sure. But likely? Increased submissions with no change in average quality can fully explain an increase in front page quality, as can increasing average quality, of course. And scores aren’t a quality metric, they’re are a popular
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by dahart 9mo ago
That’s certainly possible, but by no means guaranteed, right? If someone selling goods to the US is selling out (supply-limited) the rest of the global market might absorb the US share. But one might wonder if that was the case, why would t
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by dahart 9mo ago
It doesn’t help that the person who imposed these tariffs was indeed claiming the cost would be borne by foreign countries, and the political party in power is repeating the claim ad nauseam on every channel imaginable. It’s a misleading cl
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by dahart 9mo ago
It’s not only for robustness. Splats are volumetric and don’t have topology constraints, and both of those things are desirable. The volume capability is sometimes used for volume effects like fog and clouds, but it also gives splats a very
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by dahart 9mo ago
That sounds like the opening line to a joke. What bribe are you referring to? Who’s getting paid, and what favor is being exchanged?
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by dahart 9mo ago
Agreed, that’s what I’ve been saying from the top. Again, you’re disagreeing with @latexr, and agreeing with me. The tautology is that all companies care about money. Companies care about money by definition . Many companies and many peopl
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by dahart 9mo ago
> Where did you find this tidbit Google it. There are pages and pages of sources. Here’s one: https://gregslist.com/ > Every company “cares about their customers” to the point where that’s how they make their money. A
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by dahart 9mo ago
> even if they do “care” about the customer You’re not debating me, you’re contradicting @latexr. > infinitesimal You invented a narrow niche to knock down there, but as I said, I actually looked it up and the majority of startup comp
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by dahart 9mo ago
I see, so no comment at all on the fact that caring about products and customers requires making money? I have read the thread, thank you, and you certainly have been talking about startups and founders as if these issues are unique to them
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by dahart 9mo ago
You’re arguing something different than @latexr did, and picking a VC as your example makes sense here but fails to counter the fact that most startups aren’t VC funded. Still, you’re also like GP confusing VC motivation with founder motiva
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by dahart 9mo ago
Yes!! The software market is still growing quickly. What moat are you referring to? AFAICT, moats are bigger now than ever before, but the moats I see are centered around things like consumer habits and B2B contracts and hub/platform e
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by dahart 9mo ago
This is to some extent a false dichotomy. Generally speaking, products that prioritize fixing a problem “above” making money do not exist. There are no alternatives. Businesses can’t sustain that. Sometimes it happens for a short while, and
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by dahart 9mo ago
This seems like a very jaded comment, and if it’s because you got burned in a startup, then you have my sympathy and I’m sorry for debating. Just know that not everyone is running on nothing but greed. You might be confusing VCs with startu
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by dahart 9mo ago
Hehe, not that that hard pressed. IMDB has a whole horned-demon category keyword: https://m.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=horned-demon&explo... . And those results don’t even include South Park, nor Hellboy.
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by dahart 9mo ago
You might be confusing consumer purchasing choices with the national energy policy and infrastructure we were talking about. Going green personally is only more expensive to consumers in places where our country isn’t building and offering
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by dahart 9mo ago
The trend is clear that if we keep using fossil up, then soon nobody will have a good source for it. And it’s clear that for geopolitical reasons in addition to environmental reasons, energy independence will be a core necessity everywhere
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by dahart 9mo ago
There are lots of reasons you don’t see a lot of SDF skeletal rigging & animation in games. It’s harder because the distance evaluations get much more expensive when you attach a hierarchy of warps and transforms, and there are typicall
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by dahart 9mo ago
I agree that training on copyrighted material is violating the law, but not for the reasons you stated. That said, this comment is funny to me because I’ve done the same thing too, take some signal of disagreement, and assume the signal mea
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by dahart 9mo ago
Okay, but only if this is balanced by accounting for the cost of IC engineers’ solo time too. Sometimes it does feel like meetings waste a lot of time/money quickly, but I’ve also watched people burn money by not having meetings and go
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by dahart 9mo ago
Yes, you’re right, good point. Maybe there is no one good term for this case (but given the ocean of terminology, I’d be slightly surprised). ‘Not a function’ also isn’t the right term here because functions of x that returns a constant are

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