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by dexwiz 3y ago
L2 is unstable, so you need some amount of active thrust to stay in the orbit. The point is relatively close to the moon, and changes enough to not collect natural bodies. Same with L1 and L3. Once the James Webb runs out of fuel it will le
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Gamers have celebrated the introduction into then mainstream and a major medium. But it you look at the numbers, the market is primarily mobile games that are either gambling or gacha.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
“Gravity’s Rainbow” should be here. It’s constantly rated as one of the best American novels but it’s the most difficult read I’ve ever had. You thought Naked Lunch was crazy? This book will melt your brain trying to follow characters, them
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by dexwiz 3y ago
In my High School experience I encountered two styles of knowledge competition. Quiz Bowl, which was essentially Jeopardy. And Academic Super Bowl, which was like extra school. Quiz Bowl was full of a ton of smart kids with various interest
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by dexwiz 3y ago
It's because there are enough rich people who only want to hire Ivy League graduates. Not for any fact other than everyone around them that is Ivy League tells them its the best place to hire from.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Density doesn’t mean anything at the ion level. Yes, lead has a higher atomic mass, but at the end of the day it’s about momentum and energy. If they can shoot a Mo2+ out twice as fast as Pb2+, it’s about them same.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Orbital shapes and energies influence how light interacts with a material. Yes, once you get to QED, it’s simple. Before that is a whole bunch of layers of QFT to determine where the electrons are, and their energy. From that, there are man
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by dexwiz 3y ago
This article focuses on parallax in games, but parallax has a long history in animation. Multiplane cameras from Disney and their predecessors are almost 100 years old. You can do a lot of trickery with 2d images to construct scenes with de
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by dexwiz 3y ago
It’s still a model at the end of the day. Material properties like roughness are approximated with numerical values instead of being physical features. Also light is REALLY complicated when you get close to a surface. A light simulation tha
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Had the same realization that game engines were closer to theater stages than reality after a year of study. The term “scene” should have tipped me off to that fact sooner.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Trait's may be interrupted as attribute sliders, but people aren't judged that way. They are judged by the summation of their traits, and often they posses traits that counterbalance each other. I know plenty of people who shirk w
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Not really. Modern 3D games have an arbitrarily placed camera and use linear algebra to flatten everything from 3d into 2d clip space and then rasterize. Games like D2 use sprites and offsets to give the illusion of 3d, they don’t have a 3d
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by dexwiz 3y ago
What will all the new E-5's buy now?
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by dexwiz 3y ago
You don't have to be gaming to use a GPU. Plenty of rendering software have a GPU mode now. But writing GPU aglos are often different from a CPU simulation algo, because it is highly parallelized.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
This reminds me of the old GameFAQs before everything was monetized blogspam. You knew you had a good guide if it had a decent ASCII art header.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
How I long to be a snake eating its own tail.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Nuclear technology does have its ups and downs as in power generation, medical imaging, and advanced physics experiments versus thermonuclear weapons. If anything you are only highlighting the negative variant in your argument.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Every technology has its ups and downs. The same nitrates can grow plants or blow up a building. While blind optimism is bad, it’s depressing how negative discussion surrounding new technology has become. People have become literal luddites
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Base64 uses / and +
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Thoughts are fleeting. 15 minutes could be filled with hundreds or thousands of distinct concepts. Not to mention active recording is different from passive observation.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Everyone is this thread immediately went to mind readers as interrogation. But what about introspection? Many forms of teaching and therapy exist because we are incapable of self analyzing in a completely objective way. Being able to analyz
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I wonder if you could develop techniques to combat it, like a psychic nail in the shoe. Or maybe an actual nail. How useful is a mind reader when all it reads is “PAIN!”
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by dexwiz 3y ago
For now. Modern antennas are amazing. Maybe you could beamform from a lower number of devices.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Scott Peterson seemed to have made edits to the wiki page, most of which have been reverted, and he has been banned. But definitely some wild claims in there. Its kind of sad. It seems like this game and the fight surrounding it has claimed
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by dexwiz 3y ago
One part of the patriarchy I can't stand is its love for loud and big vehicles. Since the primary users are also disproportionately represented in government, and regulation against them is extremely unpopular with constituents, we see
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by dexwiz 3y ago
Socialization is highly correlated with happiness. So maybe complaining is orthogonal here.
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by dexwiz 3y ago
I'm not German, but don't the Dutch also complain a lot? They are even more honest than Germans in my experience. But the Netherlands are much happier in this index, so I am not sure this argument holds.
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Robo caller is still robo caller. Ban them all.
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Very cool. DNA is more than than its base pairs. I think a lot of hype around genetics in the 90s/00s was the thought that if we could read it end to end, then we would have full power over it. Really it just gave us the information to
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by dexwiz 3y ago
It still shows a broken character for Japanese in Safari on iOS. Edit: fixed on reload.

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