elfprince13

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by elfprince13 2y ago
A standard C corp (and more relevantly its officers) is legally obligated to maximize profit for shareholders at the expense of any mission. For a B-corp if the investors sue the board or CEO for breaching fiduciary duty for not maximizin
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by elfprince13 2y ago
Mastodon migration is not atomic and requires the instance you are migrating from to remain operational (and non-adversarial) long enough for all of your friends' instances to notice you have moved and update their contacts. It doesn&#
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by elfprince13 2y ago
you're just factually wrong on this, sorry.
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by elfprince13 2y ago
> I think you're overestimating how taxing going "viral" is on an ActivityPub server. if one of your posts goes viral, it doesn't get hit for every follower you have. It'll only be a request per instance. Plus, t
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by elfprince13 2y ago
Just gonna throw out a link to this whitepaper co-authored by the now-CEO of Bluesky and one of the lead authors of ActivityPub https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398
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by elfprince13 2y ago
> Bluesky is not owned by you, and while you currently might have some say, as soon as the VC ROI pressure starts building, nobody will care. Bluesky is a PBLLC which pretty severely limits the rights of their investors.
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by elfprince13 2y ago
I think if you replaced the plc directory with a corporate domain that would be pretty straightforward?
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by elfprince13 2y ago
but I thought that Bluesky wasn't meaningfully distributed /s
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by elfprince13 4y ago
I think the main attractions are that it has pretty minimal syntax + core libraries, does a good job binding to C FFIs, and the interpreter is fast.
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by elfprince13 4y ago
It also applies to C++ and Java!
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by elfprince13 4y ago
Very interesting idea, although one potential concern, depending on implementation, is that a lot of landmarks are copyrighted in a way s.t. you can include them in maps of a larger area, but you can't provide them standalone (or adver
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by elfprince13 4y ago
Thanks! And no - we don't have whitepapers, but if you want to get a sense of our philosophical influences, I point to Daniel Ritchie (a prof at Brown)'s publications as he's one of our scientific advisers, although you'
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by elfprince13 4y ago
We're planning the list for our next 10 or so cities! =)
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by elfprince13 4y ago
There are some limitations with getting big mesh models into Roblox but it's definitely possible - I'll ask if my engineer who's been working on testing that if he has recommendations.
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by elfprince13 4y ago
Our inverse procedural modeling process produces 3D models representing/explaining the structures we see in our input sensor data, so it doesn't require hand-modeling first. > Is the benefit that you then can store the paramete
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by elfprince13 4y ago
We haven't been ingesting historical datasets that allow us to generate them, no.
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by elfprince13 4y ago
Yes, we generate water-tight meshes for buildings that are 3D printable (and terrain can be made 3D printable pretty easily). Bridges are one of the weak-points in our current reconstruction process - the gnarlier bits of 3D road network in
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by elfprince13 4y ago
all boroughs!
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by elfprince13 4y ago
We just hosted a GameJam on itch and.... you definitely aren't the only one thinking that: https://itch.io/jam/new-york-new-york/entries
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by elfprince13 4y ago
It looks like their core business model is modular asset packs, not necessarily tied to real world environments? Potentially some overlap, but I would guess it's unlikely we would be going head-to-head with them in most customer use ca
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by elfprince13 4y ago
We are doing inverse procedural modeling rather than photogrammetry, so there will be some idealization/iconification that takes place - but this also allows end-users to bring in their own material libraries in a pretty seamless way.
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by elfprince13 4y ago
I am one of the founders of this company! Happy to answer any questions that crop up.
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by elfprince13 4y ago
FWIW, this isn't mentioned in the book, and only extremely cursorily in the official Rust docs, but looks like 128bit atomics have landed (on supported architectures): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob&
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Show HN: Download 1000km² of NYC under CC-BY 4.0(geopipe.ai)
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by elfprince13 8y ago
Yeah, debugging possible outcomes of undefined behavior in C/C++ is pretty much exactly a mystery language exercise. With older compilers, the usual question is "Will `-2 >> 1` perform sign extension or not?" With moder
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by elfprince13 11y ago
I've been working on a similar project for a while ( https://github.com/elfprince13/RacketMacros4Cxx ), and I should also point out that while templates are Turing complete, that only means you can express arbitra