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by duck2 7y ago
The path tracer is impressive, doing it in a month's worth of work is impressive too :) I took a ray tracing course in second grade, and had to leave everything else and write ray tracers during the term. And, as an item of nostalgia,
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by duck2 7y ago
My grandma has an olive grove. When I last visited her, she offered me a jug of cured olive. I told her I find cured olives still bitter. She seemed very surprised and said she can't taste anything but olives recently. Maybe she leaves
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by duck2 8y ago
Two 9V batteries and four op-amps for a low-current output buffer seems like overkill. does anyone know about a better way to go about it?
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by duck2 8y ago
The article is about "compiler basics", but it never mentions PLs are parsed according to context-free grammars, let alone giving one. Just throws a bunch of code and says "yeah this'll parse it".
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by duck2 8y ago
A rare sight, another user of Acme on HN! You know it probably, but there is also a mouse chord for piping selected text into a command. (2-1)
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by duck2 8y ago
I recently installed Altera Quartus on Debian for a school project. It kept crashing after 2 seconds. First result on google says quartus uses its own libcurl which is broken and you should copy the OS libcurl to /opt/altera/
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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?(jpl.nasa.gov)
4 points by duck2 8y ago|0 comments
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Schottky diode(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by duck2 8y ago|0 comments
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by duck2 9y ago
why downvote? this is just some anecdotal data provided. no strong claims, no offensive phrases.
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by duck2 10y ago
I think there are dwm.exe replacements for Windows. See bblean[0]. [0]: http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/
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by duck2 10y ago
The tone of the article is very disturbing. I would think not supporting the GPL is a deadly sin if I did not know about open source licenses. Furthermore, as it is mentioned, one person's article does not automatically determine the f
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by duck2 10y ago
Xilinx ISE does give the notion of raw concrete.
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by duck2 10y ago
Recently I was fiddling with Julia sets. I find the HTML5 canvas quite comfortable to work with, and after implementing the renderer as a WebGL shader, it was a snappy update/refresh/get feedback loop. Javascript is a nice hacking
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by duck2 10y ago
You can just use stdint types. Or is it really better to typedef a CUTE_INT?
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by duck2 10y ago
There is quite a lot of GNU code written in C. However, since gnu is a political umbrella project which does not necessarily value code quality, we see a lot of unnecessary complexity arising from the focus on creating working "free&qu
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by duck2 10y ago
The cases are different. It was the original maintainers who forked MariaDB off MySQL over a concern for software openness, which sounds like a good reason to fork. A python2.7 fork will have no reason other than "We don't want to
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by duck2 10y ago
The thing here is you cannot use the name Python with the fork. Think about Iceweasel but without Debian's community. The new Python fork would have none of Python's fame and it would need some push to solve the chicken-egg proble
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by duck2 10y ago
That looks very doable in acme[0]. [0]: https://research.swtch.com/acme
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by duck2 10y ago
I have surfed through distros, desktop environments and window managers for nearly a year. My equillibrium point is suckless.org's dwm[0] with all defaults except using Terminus as font and Super(windows) instead of Alt key. ~6 months,
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by duck2 10y ago
s/flawed/sociopathic/
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by duck2 10y ago
Next: Nwm- Npm window manager based on Electron. Works on Mac and sometimes Ubuntu.
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by duck2 10y ago
> It is likely with these tell-tale signs and strange configuration not many hackers will stumble across the host, and if they do they’ll probably quit our right away. This got me thinking about setting all my hostnames to "honeypot
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by duck2 10y ago
functional, oop Do these have any intersection except Scala?
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by duck2 10y ago
In this demo yes, however I have seen CSS image sliders with buttons which happily sit on the back button.
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by duck2 10y ago
The issue with CSS sliders is that they mess with the browser history. I expect my back button to open the previous page, not to move an image slider.
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by duck2 10y ago
I don't see why systemd is at the core of all those graphs. Why do we need that particular program to run containers? Or does systemd mean, in this context, "any daemon-controlling process"?
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by duck2 10y ago
Well I did not know dash is debian almquist shell, thanks. However the Wikipedia page says the standard login shell is still bash for Debian and Ubuntu, while Alpine uses ash all around.
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by duck2 10y ago
If only I could get it to drive one of my three NICs... Then the only remaining concern would be running JavaScript. mothra is nice but god-browsers are teh standard now. I have always seen playing with boot.ini and aux/vga easier than
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by duck2 10y ago
I tried Alpine as my desktop around 4 months ago, but the documentation felt very insufficient. Just to install Firefox I had to change my repository URLs, and this wasn't mentioned anywhere, I only found out when I searched for the Fi