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by fsloth 4y ago
To be fair, I don't think 3-5 books suffice at all. So from the point of view of adding books no-one else has mentioned, from the point of view of C++ Software Engineer, a few of my favourites: Code Complete 2 - McConnel Professional S
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by fsloth 4y ago
The point is small communities should be able to have local renewable solutions, even though the solution would not scale to large communities.
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by fsloth 4y ago
His example is wood shipped from US to EU. This is bogus in many cases as wood for pellets is sourced and processed locally, hence energy input is much lower.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Hypothesizing about a billion year old alien remnant is not Loch Ness monster, it’s just discussing statistics about a phenomena we have no good statistics for - except we know it’s plausible since we already know interstellar space is alre
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by fsloth 4y ago
The only reason contracts are binding is because they are enforced by courts. Legally enforceable contracts and the courts that enforce them was one of the killer features of western societies an a non-trivial reason for their economic succ
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by fsloth 4y ago
If one knows C++ then Peter Shirley's https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht... is a pretty nice raytracer one can type in any language.
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by fsloth 4y ago
If we agree to measure political stability as world bank does, the only countries more politically stable in the world than Finland in 2015 were Switzerland and New Zealand. https://govdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/h
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by fsloth 4y ago
I think monarchy is irrelevant for HDI and the correlation is more about long term political stability rather than better politics. My country (Finland) could have been a monarchy but ended up not being so. I can’t imagine what could be bet
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by fsloth 4y ago
'more terrible managers exist than those "good ones" that you allude do' This is quite hyperbolical. A person can have a life experience of "mostly bad manager", but that does not mean "most managers are b
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by fsloth 4y ago
With this effort it sounds it would be faster to actually draw the frames yourself. Get exactly what you want and so on…
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by fsloth 4y ago
”who needs to heat so much anyway?” When outside temperature is -30 C pretty much anyone who does not want to freeze to death…
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by fsloth 4y ago
I have no idea what "external corruption" is - is there a definition for this term somewhere?
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by fsloth 4y ago
Yes, this comparison is extremely weird. The author did not really do his homework. It's like saying libpng is a replacement for Photoshop. To clarify: Autocad is a CAD suite used for 2D and 3D drawing production. In addition to that,
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by fsloth 4y ago
Indeed! Especially big corps seem to prefer software with clear licensing terms and a capability to license software for organization at scale. In that competition the software with better licensing options win, not the cheaper one necessar
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by fsloth 4y ago
"Final thing is that buildings are hard to manufacture off site because," There are lot of pre-built workflows - element based / prefab. Still needs on-site work of course.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Reciprocally, historically this is nothing new. Fame begets adoration. Mona Lisa became famous painting and hence valuable only by the publicity created due to it’s theft. Without the publicity it would be exactly the same painting, only no
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by fsloth 4y ago
Well, the money bin is filled with coins (some notes as filler as well), most of which have never been minted out of gold :D
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by fsloth 4y ago
As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong) IQ tests work as a predictor for a population not for individuals. I.e. if you prefer IQ in your job application process, you will get a more performative workforce. However, with
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by fsloth 4y ago
An arbitrary C++ project cannot most likely be compiled to WebAssembly out of the box. Emscripten needs to be a supported compile target from day one, not an afterthought. Talking from experience.
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" good managers has always been important, and there's really no way to test for that. For whatever reason, we seem to think we get to play by different rules." I presume one reason may be because tech industry may be a bit i
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by fsloth 4y ago
The role of a programmer is really weird in the sense that the complexity of tasks you are expected to do is in no way limited by your job title or domain. I presume technology sector pays more attention because the task of programmer is il
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by fsloth 4y ago
I would call that a successful interview (succeeds in detecting a candidate who would likely fail at their duties). Interviews are important. But would any random programming or whiteboarding task add anything of value to this?
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by fsloth 4y ago
Generally companies succeed in hiring by filtering resumes and interviewing candidates. That's it. It's weird if a company feels it needs to do more than that. Companies either have trial periods or can let go of non-performing pe
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by fsloth 4y ago
This probably would merit context as my employer has implemented several model viewers in Unity which by definition imports resources at runtime.
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by fsloth 4y ago
I see this as pretty high brow academic trolling in vein of the Sokal hoax [0] - but I suppose it's a sign of the times the "publication" is a single tweet. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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by fsloth 4y ago
See https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... and the "cividis" colour palette for one approach to colour blindness friendly colour scheme.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Very nice! A small nity-picky: From academic point of view if I was a reviewer I would point out that the Potree project is prior art in rendering points in browser, considering Octree based spatial distribution of points for rendering of a
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by fsloth 4y ago
Regarding C++. IMHO - it’s not getting intrinsically better. More complex. Easy things become a bit less verbose, but the hardest things remain as hard and the compiler is as unhelpful as before. I agree C++11 and it’s successors are sugari
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by fsloth 4y ago
Consumers cannot decarbonize the economy by their choice because fossil fuels are used in everything at some point in their value chain. It’s not about will you fly or take the train. The food we eat, the clothes we wear - everything has
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by fsloth 4y ago
I think the problem here is working for your employer over weekend. Not hobby programming or sideprojects.

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