exDM69

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by exDM69 9y ago
> If you're the type with a lot of tabs open I'm not and I don't store/restore tabs on close, so that's not the case here. It's just Firefox + Vimperator + uBlock origin with about:blank as home page. I&#x27
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by exDM69 9y ago
To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the s
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by exDM69 9y ago
Yes there are and that's why e.g. Ferrari have been going towards turbo charged cars with conservative exhaust pipes recently. At least where I'm from, most regulations don't apply retroactively. You can still drive around in
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by exDM69 9y ago
> Shouldn't there simply be a "tree aware" git-bisect that can intelligently handle branches and merges? Afaik, git-bisect is aware of branches and merges. But there are two drawbacks to not rebasing/squashing: 1) the
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by exDM69 9y ago
Absolutely. Seems like modern compilers inline everything they possibly can, regardless whether you mark your functions inline or not.
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by exDM69 9y ago
Thanks to the Gnome 3 / Unity / Ubuntu fiasco years back, I started using tiling window managers and never looked back. I might have kept on using Gnome 2 happily but the intrusive changes made me look for alternatives. The deskto
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by exDM69 9y ago
It's a Git web frontend like cgit or gitweb, but it's statically generated and this is it self hosted. The title is descriptive and there's a more info in the README. Perhaps the default view should be README and file listing
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by exDM69 9y ago
Virtual function calls can be expensive, just compare the out-of-the-box performance between std::sort (c++, no virtual calls) and qsort (c, "virtual call" via function pointer). This can make a 10x difference when sorting somethi
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Exactly. The cost is not the overhead from the actual call - it's the fact that it inhibits other optimizations. The same applies to normal function calls when link time optimization is disabled. This only becomes relevant in hot loops
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by exDM69 9y ago
Solving the lag issue is only relevant when you do multiplayer over the network. At which point you are committed to a non-trivial engineering project that will take a few months of work to get off the ground. Prototyping the game idea shou
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by exDM69 9y ago
Thanks for your contribution! I've flown many interplanetary missions with your tool. For more accurate and realistic missions, there's this tool [0] to calculate pork chop plots [1] to find minimum energy transfers. (you surely k
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by exDM69 9y ago
You've hit the nerve there. OpenGL has so much implicit state and "defaults" set for you that you can get a "hello world" -style app done really quickly, but then it all falls apart. And if I'm guessing correct
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by exDM69 9y ago
Someone in the comments mentioned that Amtrak's sleeper train travels daytime on the SF to LA stint and the terminals are some way away from the city. So the travel by night advantage is gone. Amtrak's sleeper cars are also quite
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by exDM69 9y ago
Yes, it's impossible to tell from the footage but I would have assumed hearing the pilot, not the ATC call for go around if it was pilot initiated. But you're right, the pilot may have started the go around but we can't tell
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by exDM69 9y ago
Seattle-Tacoma has three parallel runways with unequal horizontal spacing, it's easy to mistake that parallel taxiway between the center and right (north approach) as the right runway. I've only done it in flight simulators but it
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by exDM69 9y ago
If the pilot initiates a go around they need to announce it to the ATC. It is usually a drastic full power pull up that will certainly disrupt nearby air traffic. So the pilot probably did not start the go around before being told so.
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by exDM69 9y ago
Assuming the liveatc audio in the article has not been edited, it sounds like there's about 10 seconds between ATC giving go around and the United pilot saying they flew right over. With instructions given to Air Canada in between so i
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by exDM69 9y ago
All space craft perform a roll program to align with the selected launch azimuth, which is chosen for a specific orbital inclination and launch site latitude. Without roll, all spacecraft from a launch site would be placed on similarly incl
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by exDM69 9y ago
> Tables are neat to read but pretty annoying to write, especially in ASCII form They sure are annoying to write in a text editor, but the article does mention built-in support for them in the Dr. Racket IDE/repl. Dr. Racket does se
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by exDM69 9y ago
Because of the plants' sensivity to lighting (need about 12-12 hours of light/dark) and the requirement for female plants only, around the year production is not feasible in all parts of the world. Indoor production can also have
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by exDM69 9y ago
High yield production needs precise control over lighting, needs to have approx 12-12 hour light/dark lighting for blooming, otherwise it'll grow indefinitely unlike most plants which start blossoming at a certain age. Additionall
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by exDM69 9y ago
He's also the author of "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics", which is a nice book that covers a lot of the fundamental topics and is a useful book to have in your library for reference if you do any 3d
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by exDM69 9y ago
MechJeb doesn't do proper roll, pitch, gravity turn launches either. It does a pre-programmed ascent profile. In reality all the control of a space launch takes place in the first seconds when the vehicle is subsonic. After that it&#x2
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by exDM69 9y ago
But it's not hard. Especially since KSP would be a restricted n-body problem (only the spacecraft are affected by gravity from multiple bodies) and the "n" in n-body is about 20 (number of massive bodies in solar system). I
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When that movie came out, I was studying a basic astronomy course at the university and we were going through some simple orbital mechanics. We had a long discussion about can the debris of Hubble hit the ISS or not. The conclusion was pro
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by exDM69 9y ago
Isn't this the opposite of "screen saver"? Most of the graphics on the screen are stationary, that would burn marks to your CRT.
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by exDM69 9y ago
I agree that trying to use a 2007 smartphone wouldn't be a pleasant experience. However I think that running a 2017 phone in 2027 might not be that far fetched. I can't really tell a difference between my previous phone and my cur
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Yes, almost everyone at my office walks on socks and it's very common elsewhere too. Some guys have flip flops. It's basically everywhere indoors here, if you get invited to someone's home, you leave your shoes at the door an
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Here in Scandinavia, it's very rare to wear shoes inside. That's probably because most of the year the weather requires shoes that aren't practical inside and you want to leave your filthy wet shoes at the door and not bring
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by exDM69 9y ago
All of what you say is correct. git is great in many ways and not too difficult to use once you grok the internals. But git's user interface is inconsistent, has got weird error messages and confusing terminology with too many ways to

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