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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Actually, rigid body simulators using impulse based constraint solvers can simulate soft constraints (including soft contact), and you can control the stiffness from very stiff to very soft without becoming totally unstable. See this slide
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Thanks John. SL devs should check out Roblox, plenty of fun experiences in there.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
The 0.01% is temporary/new, due to the wealth tax declared illegal by the European Supreme Court. This link explains the situation around the "Box 3" wealth tax better: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/magazi
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
No, they use hypothetical yield (of over 5%). It applies to savings accounts, that had negative interest rates... See my reply above.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Yes, the Netherlands has wealth tax, also known as "Box 3", and it includes tax on hypothetical yield on your savings accounts. The government got into issues with the European Supreme Court for this: https://home.kpmg&
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
ChatGPT output: "I am not sure which specific programming languages or libraries were used to train my language model, as I do not have access to that information. Language models are typically trained using a combination of various pr
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Indeed, self-evaluating your smartness precisely seems unlikely: you are more likely more or less smart.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
I recall NaCL, that also provided a sandbox and had a standalone version next to the web browser integration.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Agreed, Ununtu is way worse. Especially when Ubuntu performed a background update, and the NVIDIA GPU stops working properly. It happened several times to me, and a few times the GPU drivers were so hard to update that a reinstall of Ubuntu
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Fun, didn't know that. I recall both games, Maniac Mansion on C=64. Impossible Mission is the first game I recall with working terminals inside (but those terminals didn't play a full game although it likely could be done).
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
BeOS was fun. I recall attending BeGeistert and showing my Blender port (as a Not a Number/NaN employee) running on its software OpenGL driver (eventually I also beta-tested OpenGL hardware on BeOS). Be had a close knit community, with
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Laikago, the quadruped robot from Unitree is also a homage to Laika: http://www.unitree.cc/e/action/ShowInfo.php?classid=6&id=1
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Mac seems mote secure in sleep: "If your Mac has the T2 Security Chip (recent Intel-based Macs) or uses an Apple silicon chip (M1 family and future), security is significantly improved. The Secure Enclave in both systems uses encrypted
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Sleep mode could suspend all activity? You could encrypt all memory before sleep? It doesn't seem unsolvable, as long as sleep (closing lid) suspends all activity. (lock with background activity is different, lets discuss the sleep cas
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
That sounds like a security issue. Why are disk encryption keys not evicted in sleep mode? Seems like no apps should be running in sleep mode?
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
This C64OS video seems nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUosmUcckU
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
It would help to replace pointers by integer offsets, and keep the base in only one location. Using offsets is also useful if you move your code to GPU.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Any chance for joystick controls?
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
6502 assembler, good times with some SID tunes (or armsid) in the background :)
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
>> GPU may allow creating a cross-platform compute stack That was the intention of OpenCL.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
You can use (the data of) statistical analysis to train a deep neural network to avoid detection. That may also help avoiding chess detection cheaters, so the moves are not perfect anymore.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Dhwem3 has a native macOS M1 (arm64) version that runs well: https://github.com/MacSourcePorts/dhewm3/releases
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
The PS2 architecture is implemented in the open source PCSX2 and plays "over 98% of the official PS2 library is considered playable or perfect". Amazing feat and well worth trying out: https://github.com/PCSX2&#x2F
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Agreed on small doses, not full-time: I've done some pair programming with people I enjoyed working with, but only a few hours a week. It felt motivating and rewarding.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Doing interesting programming work is not unrealistic, but you need to make it a priority if you care for your day job. 3D graphics, robotics, physics simulation and AI/deep learning are still exciting to me after decades.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Cool use of Webassemly! See also the 500 line https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer or the 100 line Python/numpy version https://github.com/rougier/tiny-renderer Both cpu renderers with textu
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Usually running 'sudo ldconfig' will sort this out, once the shared library directory is added in the right ld.so.conf file (for example /etc/ld.so.conf) See also https://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007&#x2F
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Very pretty, those macro images inside music instruments. Would be fun to see 'internal' videos while those instruments are being used.
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by erwincoumans 4y ago
Someone may write a technical book for a niche community. The book may help others, build a portfolio etc. It doesn't need to earn lots of sales to be satisfying or useful.

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