fizixer

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   by fizixer 10y ago

   It may be a lost art for game developers. Far from it for CG grad students and researchers. Quite the contrary, it's actually part of the rite of passage, heck an undergrad level prerequisite to know these things like the back of your
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   how so? Are Gentoo apps containerized or isolated from each other in some way? As someone seriously dissatisfied with my existing setup (6 year old Ubuntu install that is now a complete mess), I'm shopping for an insanity-free way of m
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   Count me in. My LCD monitor gets hot with usage all day, and is next to my bed (very close to my pillow). I turn it off just before going to bed. In a few minutes, the monitor cools down, and the plastic makes a crackling sound. Boom. Flash
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   I used to be very good with MS-Paint when I used Windows XP. When I switched to linux, I didn't find a single program that has equivalent functionality with equivalent ease, though there are many (including GIMP) that can do much more
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   Thanks. Got it.
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   What can Scribus or any DTP system can do that LaTeX/TeX can't? I haven't heard of DTP, QuarkXPress in 20 years. I'm surprised they're still relevant today.
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   wrong thread?
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   By jump ship, you mean you now consult? or work for contract to fix/automate a company's process and move on? As someone who's interested in this kind of work, do you have any advice?
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   by fizixer 10y ago

   - So no one can re-patent the expired patents? - If you build and sell a product based on one of these, you don't have to worry about getting sued? (but at the same time you have no protection against cheap clones of your product eithe
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Need minor clarification, is it really that an inspector typically wants such a house torn down or is there some paperwork that needs inspector's signature and the inspector refuses to sign it? If it's the latter then it should be
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    > If every major language provides an O(n log n) sort function, is it still a leaky abstraction? Yes, if the performance is still not acceptable and you look into the problem and discover that your scenario could benefit from radix sort,
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction in the sense that every algorithm/physics-principle/mathematical-theorem is a leaky abstraction. Take 'sort.' If you use a sort API for large N in a performance-critical section of
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    I would love to get into hacking/tinkering based on processes like MBE/CVD etc. Does anyone know where to get started in terms of reading, what are the options for a hobbyist?
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    One row represents one instant of "the machine". By adding another row below it, the human is doing the execution very very very slowly. Actually, depending on the rules, there is no need for more than one row to be present at any
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    I'm sorry you had to do such a long write-up and yet you seem to have made utterly unconvincing arguments. You make a nice mention of 'socialist protectionism'. Essentially what you described, looks like Cuba is a giant facto
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    > If we continue to refuse (as many have since the 1970s) addressing the labor shortage problem with our established institutions, people like me will be forced to address it technologically ... What would keep you from addressing it tec
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Would you confirm or deny my two hunches: - Lab-grown diamonds are purer, more perfect crystals, cheaper, and better than mined diamonds in every way. (ignoring the market manipulation factor, which I'm not too knowledgeable about, exc
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    see my response to marze: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12766618
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Ok I'll mention the elephant in the room. Musk has been surprisingly silent (or has seriously downplayed) on the radiation question, which is a pretty big deal for travel beyond earth's magnetosphere. But here's the thing, IM
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    The size of this thread, and the split of opinions, is a clear indication to me that this goes beyond the single decision of "Whether or not keep Thiel on board". I would like to bring your attention to that bigger issue (sorry if
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    It just occurred to me. There's a difference between political speech and political action. When you express your political views, you're using your right to freedom of speech. When you donate based on your political views, depend
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    As much as your response tries to solve GP's particular problem (OCR for PDF-to-text being not the right tool), I 100% agree with the extreme annoyance expressed in it regarding the state of the free OCR. In principle, text-pdf-to-text
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    The syllabus says prerquisites are 10-701 and 36-715. Could you say something about 36-715? I can't seem to find any details.
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Odd coincidence (or maybe not) that the father of the founder, Elizabeth Holmes, worked at Enron (per wikipedia).
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Highly recommended: Allen Downey The Little Book of Semaphores (free pdf here: http://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/ )
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    After reading your comment multiple times, I have no idea what you said.
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    You could rant all you wanted but why did you have to give a bad rep to the term 'metaprogramming.' I think what you described can adequately be called something like 'hipster programming'.
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    Well, the way I see it, there are only 3 games in town: JSON-style variants (including YAML, arguably), XML, and S-expression variants. XML is definitely not better than JSON IMO. Are you hinting at either S-expression, or something like YA
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    I guess the only gripe I have with make is that it has a rigid syntax (that includes tabs). Since what a Makefile eventually is, is a graph, I'd be happy if that graph is specified as a JSON file, which automatically gets converted int
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    by fizixer 10y ago

    So I guess the purpose is to find center-of-mass of a large collection of points, without using all those points for calculation (instead using only the ones inside a pre-defined radius)?