daniel-thompson

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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
In general, internally-directed sarcasm is not a trait that people greatly respect in leaders.
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
1. Don't worry if you don't get something immediately. Unless you have an IQ of 250, then perfect, efficient, bug-free code will not spring from your fingertips on the first try. That's OK. Get something that kinda-sorta work
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
> "Another reason we use assembly over a high-level language is to use instructions that C or C++ cannot really use. For example, the advanced vector extensions (AVX) for an Intel processor don’t have a 1-to-1 conversion from C.&quo
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
To be clear, I was saying Casio's behavior is rational, not the College Board's.
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
It's shitty behavior, for sure, but it's rational given what I assume to be their incentive: to stay in the good graces of the people who set calculator policy for standardized tests. The College Board has an explicit whitelist an
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
I'd watch it in a heartbeat, but sadly, this book has been optioned more or less continuously since it was released in 1992. Another option isn't really news, at least not until the production is greenlit and they start filming.
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
For those who don't know, Theodore Kaczynski is the Unabomber. He killed 3 people and injured 23 others with a mail-bombing campaign. Ideas are ideas, but maybe take with a grain of salt anything said by a guy who advocates for his bel
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
Actor-observer asymmetry. Briefly, it's the idea that when we observe others, we're more likely to attribute their behavior to the nature of their personality than to their circumstances or situation, and that we do the opposite w
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
From the article: > Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It woul
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by daniel-thompson 6y ago
OMSCS student here. I agree with the parent. However, the one downside of the program is that since the marginal cost of admitting an additional student is very low relative to the tuition amount, GT has an incentive to not be very selectiv
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Like any X is better than Y proposition in software engineering, it depends on what problem you're trying to use X and/or Y to solve.
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Sure, but the person would have been in the same boat no matter what specific logo was hanging over the door.
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Spheres are the "hello world" shape of ray tracing, but are generally not used for production renderers for the following reasons: Spheres are not that interesting to render, because hardly anything in the real world is a perfect
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
What you say is true; however, not automatically normalizing ray directions after transformation can be useful in some cases, e.g. to avoid introducing floating point error when calculating points from t values. See http://www.pb
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Note that, as of the third edition, Wenzel Jakob has joined Pharr and Humphreys as an author of Physically Based Rendering.
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
This is basically correct. There are two other contributing factors: - The controller who was talking to the two aircraft was a trainee (and being supervised by a senior controller). - The sequence happened after sunset, but before EENT, an
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
RetroAhoy is also pretty good - he goes over the technical and business aspects of 80s and 90s gaming, including amiga, wolfenstein, doom, quake, half life, polybius, monkey island, etc. Very entertaining, with lots of detail & backstor
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
> A big question is why there's no way for Charter customers to keep using these devices, given that they rely on the Zigbee specification that allows multi-vendor interoperability for smart-home products. Why can't Charter cus
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Update: the issue has been fixed, apparently: "Should note for anyone who comes and sees this that's no longer how were hosting the model. :) Model is now hosted on a peer to peer torrent network so no more costs for us." ht
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
Here's some good reading on robust ways to fix this without an arbitrary epsilon bump: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Shapes/Managing_Rounding_Er...
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
I was kinda hoping they would have done this version of the speech -> https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/this-speech-was-written-for-...
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by daniel-thompson 7y ago
I assume that since the lawyer has history in front of this judge, and the judge knows he's a lying dirtbag, this is the judge's chance to get his willful, continuing deceit on record and possibly get him on the road to disbarment