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by erikbye 6y ago
«anything that may destroy your future» Did I mention a specific event? No. Stop bickering, it is childish.
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I am talking about participating in unlawful activities. I do not think most people need to be afraid of being seen in public. The system I am working on is not for law enforcement. I respect people standing up for what they believe in. I d
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To clarify, largely do not mean completely solved, right? It's not perfect, yet. Either way, I should have qualified by saying I think it's a largely solved problem as far as the technical implementation. What an artist does with
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> One of the big problems at the moment is that photorealistic texturing basically requires finding and mapping a real life actor, which is all sorts of expensive. As a hobby game dev myself I find this to not be a problem at all. I thin
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I disagree... this is an area I research, working on a surveillance system. But even so, if gait alone was not enough, modern recognition software can easily single out a subject in a crowd with just seconds of footage, and through thousand
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> I can't run the gui on a gnu screen session on that server I've been working on, for example. Why not use Tramp Mode?
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> I wish I had more evidence-based arguments for my opinion, but I strongly believe text-based interfaces are among the best out there. That is very broad. The best for what? Efficient video editing? Music production?
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> All I mean is: anecdotal evidence and social bubbles Sure. However, there is usage data available if one's interested. https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/02/whatsapp-fac...
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You can be identified by gait alone.
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> As the looks of it, US is pretty non-free when it comes to peacefully protesting What is your definition of peaceful protest? What we see in the US now is definitely not within my range. Thrashing stores, looting, torching vehicles.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Message craze is a purely American phenomenon This is mistaken. I'm in the EU and do not know a single person using SMS, nor Whatsapp, they use iMessage, however, bigtime. Whatsapp used to be a thing, but that has been over for so
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by erikbye 6y ago
Exactly. I'm in EU, can't remember last time I used SMS. iMessage and Telegram, however, daily.
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A dordy affair, then?
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> I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically, at least in my CS classes. Lamentably, this sentence tells me you think coding == computer science, which betokens you are not prepared. Ho
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So, approx. 3 years == disillusioned? Unless it was a planned stepping-stone all along, to land the real "dream" job and have the credentials to command a more magnanimous compensation than they would without that Google tenure.
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The average for Google is 3.2 years. For most, that is not FU money.
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Is C++ code formally verified, e.g. with something like Coq?
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SpaceX has had a booth at GDC at least two times, they attend in order to recruit game developers (programmers), as they feel these programmers work with a lot of the same constraints they do in terms of resources and experience with real-t
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by erikbye 6y ago
Several well-known desktop games use Python.
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First release was major version 4, same as curl (using that name) itself. https://curl.haxx.se/docs/history.html
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Ask Gitlab.
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Master Suppression Techniques(en.wikipedia.org)
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> the ones the planet's most capable people are spending their days with. I think you are greatly exaggerating the capability and means of the average HN visitor, submitter, and commenter. That said, I think people, generally, are u
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by erikbye 6y ago
> The fact that this piece of "news" is front page is really stupid. There was a BBC piece yesterday about the condition in the Malakasa camp in Greece ... HN is not a news website in the traditional sense, even though "ne
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> The whole point of asking is precisely because I dont know how many hours I have to add You know, how about you learn it? Once. Instead of asking Siri or Google every time. In other words, learn to fish.
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It's not important what any other company has done. Motivations and end goal is. Microsoft's embrace might be a vampire's. Long term, the involvement of companies like Microsoft in OSS and OSS communities might be damaging, n
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In this vein, Frictional Games (Amnesia The Dark Descent) released their first game and game engine. https://github.com/FrictionalGames
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> learn from Microsoft Apparently, Microsoft is now the exemplary open source hero. Previous to them, there was none other to learn from.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Sign up for a mailing list Which mailing lists? I subscribe to some dev stuff (LKML, etc.) and various OSS lists, but the rest, the ones I see referred to here and elsewhere, typically started by some no-code-wanna-be-entrepreneur tryi
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by erikbye 6y ago
As mentioned, not by me, elsewere in this thread, people seem to have trouble separating businesses from the kinds of blogs that are sorely missed. They were not the kind that tried to sell you anything. I only checked two of these, Food52

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