dualogy

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721.
by dualogy 12y ago
Timely yet on-topic ;) https://twitter.com/tom_forsyth/status/482337551718440962
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by dualogy 12y ago
Well, you didn't
723.
by dualogy 12y ago
Khmer proverb: "you have the clock, we have the time"
724.
by dualogy 12y ago
Sounds pretty normal for someone from the Cali/SV/SF ego bubble.. and these types are flocking to Berlin now? Gonna have to shorten my annual Berlin summer break from 3 months to 1 then :D
725.
by dualogy 12y ago
> Artists are way more expensive than computers YC disciples totally need to Disrupt The Heck Out Of That Niche
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by dualogy 12y ago
Outperforming everyone contributing to shadertoy.com might be a start ;)
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by dualogy 12y ago
> they enabled entire new genres of game Such as? There have been great enjoyable DOS-based 3D games for a number of years ever since Wolfenstein so I'm curious what 'new genres' you're thinking of that the introducti
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by dualogy 12y ago
VBOs are really pretty easy to explain though, no? "Look your GPU probably has 1 or 2 GB of its own VRAM, so there's no way we would upload many polygon meshes every frame via 10000s of individual glVertex calls, so just assume so
729.
by dualogy 12y ago
Clicking "how does this work?" leads to the HTML source of the link target to be shown in plain-text instead of being rendered. Win7, both in Chrome and Firefox.....
730.
by dualogy 13y ago
Yeah, HN
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by dualogy 13y ago
> a handheld sprayer next to them -- part bidet and part firehose "Bumgun"
732.
by dualogy 13y ago
If crypto ever wants to win over fiat among the "masses", then yes, it clearly is. Because most people don't care about scary-sounding fluff pieces about the "Fed's fractional reserve ponzi" etc.
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by dualogy 13y ago
Well maybe your company is lean and smartly frugal . Many Enterprisey customers aren't, many are as un-lean and un-frugal as they can "get away with". So if there's one tiny little thing a user thinks they need they&#
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Heh, you know how developing countries "solve" the bureaucracy problem? Through corruption! True and this "grease lubricating the economic engine" does "work" on a small scale. Problem in an environment wh
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by dualogy 13y ago
Eh this guy is patio11, he's a practically celebrity around these parts! > I don't think that having the problem yourself is necessarily good. First off when he started this, he was very close to the "problem". Then,
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by dualogy 13y ago
Von Nueman? Is he related to von Neumann? ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
> I'd wager that the current rasterising pipeline is more flexible than one based on raytracing - capable of generating a range of styles, not just photorealistic ones Nope. I'd say the "raytracing pipeline" really do
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by dualogy 13y ago
I think they're already using their own fork of an older Mono version. They couldn't work out a mutually beneficial licensing deal with Xamarin to keep using their newest Mono versions or something. I think Unity have a good relat
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by dualogy 13y ago
See my reply to mcguire above ;)
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by dualogy 13y ago
Warren is correct that gold is a poor "investment" in the same vein that a Picasso/fine art, old wine, intergenerational (not buy-to-flip) land possession, vintage cars are. That is, they may well appreciate with or outstrip
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by dualogy 13y ago
"The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything." I find it staggering that the calibre of a Warren Buffet can demonstrate so little capacity for sound thinking about value, wealth and
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Computer Genius Builds Language That Lets Anyone Calculate Anything(businessinsider.com)
2 points by dualogy 13y ago|1 comments
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by dualogy 13y ago
> I still find it slightly bemusing, that 2.5 billion people lack access to any sanitation [1], but only 1 billion lack electricity and access to a mobile phone I don't find it too surprising. Having spent time in various poor count
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by dualogy 13y ago
> due to performance reasons, you're always flying around in some pea-soup like fog In fairness, this is also the case of 90+% of real-world flights I partake in..
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by dualogy 13y ago
No matter how far your draw-distance is, you totally DO want to "fog anyhow" in any event: you want distant scenery to smoothly fade-out rather than abruptly pop-out (regardless of your actual far-plane distance), plus fogging i
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Did I just realize that all money in our current form is credit and I never actually own anything? You own whatever you exchange your money for, in the simplest terms. Even if it's a bitcoin or a "financial security" or
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by dualogy 13y ago
KloutCoin? So all the "attention economy" peddlers had it right after all? Then many of us doing old-school value-adding are royally screwed.
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by dualogy 13y ago
> Don't you hate it when people conflate money with credit Is it any wonder? Any medium-of-exchange immediately becomes credit -- a claim on some unknown-person's future offering of something. Everything else more-complicated
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by dualogy 13y ago
Partly true, but we're also talking hypothetical here, as in "why don't we just print the basic income" -- "bread would get pricier" -- "in a normal national currency, yes very quickly, but in a global res
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by dualogy 13y ago
True for all national currencies but hardly for the world-reserve-currency. Here you have the following reality instead: > generally as the supply of dollars goes up, the price of a loaf of bread goes hardly up in any noticable way, fina

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