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1. 931.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   Does the pi allow to put own routines straight onto it's "IO processor"?
2. 932.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   As I didn't know what the BVH is, from the first, OP linked article: In this series we explore the wonderful world of the bounding volume hierarchy: the mysterious data structure that enables real-time ray tracing on recent GPUs, in c
3. 933.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_volume_hierarchy _A bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) is a tree structure on a set of geometric objects. All geometric objects, that form the leaf nodes of the tree, are wrapped in
4. 934.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   The article is talking about deliberate practice at an individual level. No conductor, no orchestra, no collaboration. I agree there are incompetent men-in-the-middle managers who make things worse. It didn't occur to me to think abo
5. 935.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   You may want to watch a number of Benjamin Zander's YouTube videos and revise your statement. I share your frustration on feature pressure with no official room for practice and refactoring however the metaphor about the role of a cond
6. 936.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   "Full of faeces from cows" is and remains vulgar no matter how it's spelled.
7. 937.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   Please add the Ukraine war, Georgia (the country) and even Afghanistan to the list of oil/gas drilling or pipelining related. Ukraine: https://www.trade.gov/energy-resource-guide-ukraine-oil-and-... Georgia: https:&#x
8. 938.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   I agree. sidenote: Lend. Lend a hand.
9. 939.▲
   by froh 5y ago

   Chancellor Merkel holds a PhD in quantum physics, I think she knew how to read scientific papers, statistics, probabilities.
10. 940.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Yes, a sibling comment meanwhile found the right angle symbol U+221F ∟ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015104
11. 941.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Yes and no. Yes, we indeed used and afaict still use the thunderbolt for contradiction in my German university. However "perpendicular" and "bottom/falsum" are two different Unicode codepoints with very similar glyp
12. 942.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Nice try:-)
13. 943.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Perpendicular + Unicode combining solidus = ⟂ + / = ⟂̸
14. 944.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    As a 53y old German living in Germany I had to look up "Wanderwort". Because in German that's a "Lehnwort" --- a "loanword". And it means that's a word everybody uses and it came from some other langu
15. 945.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Also the problem affects the whole the meta group of coders, beyond emacs. Even in the article one of the poor RSI victims explicitly is an avid vi user and emacs hater (John Ousterhout of TCL fame). Phew.
16. 946.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    On a tangent, wondering "but what about thx?": TIL that THX is orthogonal to the compression/transport format and is about measuring and adjusting the movie theatre audio to better and "well enough" match the record
17. 947.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Thanks for the background and the update to the article!
18. 948.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Thanks for the list. How are you certain the author didn't independently rediscover their perspective?
19. 949.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    I just hope they have deposited some post mortem disclosure somewhere...
20. 950.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    You've sent me down an interesting reading path, about a group of mathematicians working under the pseudonym "Nicolas Bourbaki" and lo and behold they do even have a web site these days: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
21. 951.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    "Hummer" was the brand name of the consumer version: https://youtu.be/GEMRkQmh9WI
22. 952.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Tom Duff at the end is referring to a very nuanced kind of response of Knuth to Dijkstra from 1974, like so: > The best reference on programming in a disciplined way using goto is still D. E. Knuth's paper Structured Programming wi
23. 953.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    While technically correct how does that relate to the dialogue above? A PhD is even deeper work in a niche topic than a masters, right however that doesn't contradict that the niche know how may become useful later.
24. 954.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Thanks! I still hope to learn how they deal with infamous "bi directional requirements Tracing" and similar bureaucracies in the name of dependability. How do they evidence engineering scrutiny, how do the embed it into their pr
25. 955.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    My personal pet peeve theory is that automotive engineering missed the memo that the hard part of software based systems is integration and remote dependencies. All their engineering and supply structures have evolved from mass producing me
26. 956.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    do you happen to have pointers evidencing this handy? IS this also true for Dragon?
27. 957.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Also known as transparency. And complemented by accountability.
28. 958.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    How did Chun's liberation then come about and end this? I mean, it did, did it?
29. 959.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    Yes. It's even in the name. As a clone of Unix it's "not Unix", NU, which is homophone, pronounced the same as gnu, the animal. To avoid confusion with the animal, the leading g of G-NU is thus pronounced and audible.
30. 960.▲
    by froh 5y ago

    From themselves, via about and a link there "A Brief History of LessWrong" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S69ogAGXcc9EQjpcZ/a-brief-hi... > In 2015-2016 the site underwent a steady decline of activit