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by doorhammer 12y ago
I had two months of severance recently, and most people I told about it said "man, I'd go crazy with nothing to do" but I pretty much didn't stop doing things the entire two months. I made progress on most of the books I
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by doorhammer 12y ago
My friend and I were hitchhiking through Ireland awhile back. We got a ride up into Northern Ireland with an older guy. A little ways before crossing the border he stopped to buy a trunkload tobacco so he could resell it up north. Good tim
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by doorhammer 12y ago
This is the feeling I get. I don't write much Go (I'm just now getting into it) but all of the major features I hear about seem to be directed at creating code and projects that are tractable at "Google Scale". Everyth
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I don't know that the parent meant all frameworks are frowned on, but more the "Heavy, prescriptive frameworks ... like Rails or Django." I say if that's actually the case in the Go community, but I can understand gett
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by doorhammer 12y ago
> My second major concern is that I think spreadsheets and spreadsheet programming would benefit from stronger typing. You seem to not be addressing that? As as an example from your video are people's children not people too? I&#x27
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I think the data is a fascinating point for lively conversation and conjecture as long as you understand that you can only draw so much so much in the way of specific causation from it. I didn't look at the raw data, but it also seems
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by doorhammer 12y ago
This seems absurdly obvious now that you've mentioned it :) I'll have to seriously look into that
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by doorhammer 12y ago
> my wife, a physical therapist, says that lack of flexibility in our 30's and 40's is highly correlated with likelihood of falls when we are elderly. I think this is why a lot of people get injured as they get older. You just
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Throwing my experience with meditation down in here. I said almost exactly the same thing in another post recently. I should preface this with saying that while I'm attracted to Zen Buddhism, and ended up getting an accidental minor
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by doorhammer 12y ago
"The most pyrotechnic test of all requires that dynamite charges be strapped to the compressor blades and detonated while the engine is going full blast."
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'm mostly commenting because I think the "small drone with a gun" idea is interesting; no idea how it would play out in practice. If you had a drone with a weapon, I would think you'd want to fire on someone using some
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah; I think I see what you're saying and I agree. Subjectively this seems to be the benefit for me. It seems to allow myself to reset to an almost default cognitive state when I recognize certain negative emotions/stress.
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by doorhammer 12y ago
> But have you personally tried it? The most important "evidence" may be how it affects you, personally. It sounds lame to say, but I agree here. I fairly consistently meditate. I don't spend more than five or ten minute
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by doorhammer 12y ago
The DK2 experience is pretty phenomenal, if you ask me, but if you buy one you should know that it's definitely still not a plug-and-play affair to get anything substantial working, and real long term experiences are still thin on the
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I was thinking something along these lines. I've never used ex mode, so I could be wrong about this, but briefly reading through the description for it made it seem like you could replicate the functionality through the neovim plugin&#
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Weird. Didn't know the CEO bit. And yeah, the amount of time I spent editing tracks was unhealthy. I also remember having a religious devotion to getting a certain physics bug to happen. I don't remember how we did it, but you&#
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Holy crap. How could I forget scorched earth? That was one of the first games I remember playing with friends until all hours of the night. Actually took a road trip with my friend and his fifty pound laptop, and played it along the way.
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Jazz Jackrabbit and Commander Keen on a gravis gamepad are second in nostalgia only to playing the original Test Drive [1] and Stunts [2] on a crappy old joystick... crap. Also playing Jet [3] on the same joystick. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'd be interested in an elaboration on why Node was a better choice than C# or Java. I don't mean that snarkily; I'm really interested. I work mostly in C# and actually feel pretty happy with it as a language (I've use
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'm interested in this and how SignalR would fit into the picture. I have a few projects at work I think I can squeeze SignalR, which should be interesting. I've heard good things from a few devs that I know of that have used it.
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'm pretty strongly against how heavily armed and often used SWAT teams and general police forces have become (such as against barbershops for licensing checks [1]) but I pretty much agree. In these cases you have someone trying to con
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by doorhammer 12y ago
One really interesting example of this is that of humans who perform echo location. Parts of the brain normally reserved for sight are activated, to some degree, by regions of the brain responsible for vision. Basically, they're not ju
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'm going to google around for this, but do you have any links to the research off hand? I'd be interested in seeing it. My favorite 2048 variation was the 4D version. It was trippy but I felt like I got my head around that. I t
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah; I'm mostly interested in this for HD VR applications where the screen necessarily needs to be at a much higher resolution to cover a wide field of view, and being able to dynamically adjust depth-of-field effects and such would a
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not an expert in this area, but my casual reading seems to make it out to be similar to the problems you have with a lot of VR stuff, where the hardware just hasn't needed to be ultra-low-latency before now, but that the
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah. I'm not involved in any kind of dev work with that sort of thing, so you'd probably know better than I would, but it definitely seems like it's a problem that's very much in the research phase. I can imagine the p
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Supplement to Foveated 3D Graphics: User Study Details [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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Foveated 3D Graphics [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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Foveated Imaging(en.wikipedia.org)
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Something of an aside: I'm most stoked about this kind of thing because of the oculus rift. Even just playing through HL2 with my DK2 is an amazing experience. What I'm really interested in with things like the Rift is foveated re

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