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by dahart 1y ago
Great question. It really depends. 10 years isn’t very long, so most well known languages & platforms will be fine. But 20 or 30 or 50 or 100 years, that gets more interesting. I’ve kept all my dumb little side projects for my entire li
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by dahart 1y ago
> You can’t simply take one year, exercise 24/7, and get your 10 years of life That’s not what he said though. How would you demonstrate that it’s a good investment, do you have an alternative? For the purposes of calculating the RO
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by dahart 1y ago
> Driving means less time than transit users in every study I’ve seen […] we spend less time commuting and thus have more time Transit is indeed slower, but there are several big assumptions in there that don’t support your conclusion. I
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by dahart 1y ago
Admitting mistakes isn’t navel gazing, it’s basic humility, and it’s valuable and underrated in many social situations. You have a good point about the rest, but it’s orthogonal to this article so there’s no need to crap on it. Strong visio
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by dahart 1y ago
I hope the tech boards and CEOs don’t miss the not very subtle point that twitter has very quickly doubled in size in 2 years and is still growing after the big layoff and they had to scramble to fix some notable mistakes they made when fir
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by dahart 1y ago
> a heavier aeroplane … is actually safer Just to nitpick your nitpick, that’s only true up to a point, and the range of safe weights isn’t all that big really - max payload on most planes is a fraction of the empty weight. And planes ca
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by dahart 1y ago
What makes you think that? It appears most of this material came straight out of NVIDIA documentation. What do you think is missing? I just checked and found the H100 diagram for example is copied (without being correctly attributed) from t
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by dahart 1y ago
They’re not merely pandering, though, they are swearing by The Lord’s name falsely. Why is it a good thing to vote for them when their stated plan is an active (and immoral) deceit to fake Godliness and trick you into empowering them, and c
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by dahart 1y ago
Oh man as someone who is concerned about the censorship and in favor of religious freedom, I really wish we could have a serious discussion about this, but HN probably isn’t the place. Are the sins you’re referring to mainly centered around
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by dahart 1y ago
That’s not good evidence at all, you’re making massive assumptions that don’t hold up. I did already provide some hard evidence you ignored: several other countries are already paying for education for all interested citizens and are doing
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by dahart 1y ago
On the contrary, we absolutely need variety, we people to study weird things, we can’t all be doctors and lawyers. No idea what “bizarre ideologies” you’re referring to but generally speaking, lack of education combined with polarizing poli
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by dahart 1y ago
Why didn’t you start with that? You implied all professional degrees and then all graduate degrees and only mention humanities now? Forgive me for not catching your unstated assumptions. So who was under the impression they’d get rich with
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by dahart 1y ago
The stats from the US FED show that people with professional degrees earn approximately 3x what people without degrees make, and people with undergrad degrees earn - on average - 2x what people without degrees make. Your hypothesis is som
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by dahart 1y ago
It’s crazy easy to Google that claim, why not try that first? “Every person I know” is also known as type of ‘survivor bias’. Googling, I get multiple answers that 30%-40% of US citizens get any inheritance, which is a minority. Here’s one
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by dahart 1y ago
FWIW, that strikes me as a somewhat myopic view of ‘need’. Homelessness and food stamps are certainly an incredibly acute need, for daily survival. But investing in education is something our country needs for long term survival. The US mak
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by dahart 1y ago
Not necessarily true; this depends entirely on which music notation you’re talking about. Chord charts handle simultaneous pitches easily using a 1D flow of text along the timeline. Most music notations, including standard staff notation, u
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by dahart 1y ago
It was a loose analogy, but it is thought Neanderthals may have hibernated (or gone into a state of torpor). Your comment offers no reasoning nor evidence; is something wrong with it, and if so what, exactly? Food scarcity in winter time is
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by dahart 1y ago
Smaller portion == increased price, no?
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by dahart 1y ago
These are two symptoms of the same problem, I don’t see any issue with the statistics. Plus, of course, not everyone who’s poor or hungry is obese. If you think about it, it makes sense that food insecurity and obesity go together. If I did
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by dahart 1y ago
> and not even nasa could figure out how to run a profit despite a monopoly You seem to be unaware that NASA does run a profit, and that SpaceX wouldn’t have been possible without NASA’s research and money. NASA has invested tens of bill
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by dahart 1y ago
What’s the alternative? How do you propose to fix it?
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by dahart 1y ago
Some people think porn is worse than censorship. Some of those people even feel that censorship is good, not damaging at all, and should be mandatory. I’m not one of those, though it does seem like there’s a possibility that some of the t
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by dahart 1y ago
Fair point, though layers 4-6 are always there, including for shaders and CUDA code, and layers 1 and 3 are usually replaced with a different layer, especially for anything cross-platform. So this Rust project might be adding a layer of abs
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by dahart 1y ago
The first three pictures in the article have direct sun visible in the sky and not clipping. I was referring to that. The sun itself does blow out when you look directly at it, but please don’t spend time staring at the sun as it will damag
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by dahart 1y ago
Okay, the only image that looks “good” to me in terms of color handling is the RE7 image.
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by dahart 1y ago
What, exactly, is relevant about the perception and cognition systems if the signal from rods and cones is clipped or distorted? By ‘blown out’ we are talking about the rods and cones being saturated and unable to respond meaningfully. Your
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by dahart 1y ago
That’s definitely in the same realm, but not the one I was thinking of. I believe I’m thinking of something maybe 10 years earlier, it had multiple authors, at least one woman, and some of the authors were psychology researchers who were in
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by dahart 1y ago
Do you really need a paper? It’s well known that looking at the sun does damage to rods and cones, because it far exceeds their response range, long before perception gets involved.
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by dahart 1y ago
I recall a paper from GDC many years back that studied the perception of immersion and they measured and ranked maybe a dozen different factors. Graphics and visuals were surprisingly low on the list. The number one thing was the player’s s
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by dahart 1y ago
Oh I agree. The art director needs to be exposing the important gameplay elements to be visible. That doesn’t mean they should avoid blacks for everything though, and that’s what all images except the RE7 image are doing.

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