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by gary_0 4y ago
I think BSP was kind of obsolete even when it was used in Source 1, but was left in because removing it would have required changing a lot of code for no real benefit. The blocky brush-based level geometry system from GoldSrc still remained
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by gary_0 4y ago
It should be noted that virtually all renderers do frustum culling , meaning anything in the game world that is guaranteed to be out the camera's viewing volume is not rendered. Frustum culling is quite simple. Occlusion culling is
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by gary_0 4y ago
We're gonna party like it's 1999!
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by gary_0 4y ago
On the Visual C++ side of things, STL (Stephan T Lavavej) is also well-liked for working at Microsoft while being allowed to sound like a human. He helps moderate the r/cpp subreddit, and some other MS-ers post there too.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Yes, workers should own the means of production directly, not let a Party take control! Please, just embrace this idea of perfect utopia and ignore how things work in the real world.
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by gary_0 4y ago
It's also silly because if it's a gene, then it's just using conventional chemistry to produce an effect. Plants have genes to make chloroplasts that use quantum effects[0] to efficiently do photosynthesis, but nobody is argu
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by gary_0 4y ago
That's from the chat at the end, and I'd hardly call that "angry and adversarial", just exasperated -- and naively assuming the person they were talking to cared that "Anthony" had been giving them the run-arou
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by gary_0 4y ago
> Getting angry and adversarial They didn't get angry and adversarial, they just explained and asked for clarification. Of course, kafkaesque bureaucracies don't like that, so making a random trivial change and obsequiously res
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by gary_0 4y ago
It's very silly, and seems like a sad effort to shoehorn dualism back into science. But if the human brain is quantum-magical, kindly point out empirically how its mechanisms are special versus that of any other mammal's brain,
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by gary_0 4y ago
I don't need to be a pilot to know something's wrong when an airliner is careening towards the ground at a steep angle.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I still have doubts that regulators will step in and take decisive action to prevent this kind of thing happening again. Is fraud basically legal now?
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by gary_0 4y ago
It's nicely bare-bones. I drag my music folder into it, hit Sort > Randomize, hit play, minimize to tray. Then music comes out.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I think the advice can be more general than just "make a training program", too, because the point is that you can't stick a junior next to a senior and hope knowledge will transfer by osmosis. That's lazy management. In
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by gary_0 4y ago
What does look like the native UI? I'm not a Mac user so maybe that platform has some uniformity? Windows is a total mish-mash and just about every app and utility for the past 20 years (even MS Office) has had its own "skin&quo
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by gary_0 4y ago
- Uninspired cinematography (some shows nowadays really spoil us) - Future London relies on too much flashy CGI instead of building the setting more subtly - Flamboyant villain with stock henchman character - Relationship complications that
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by gary_0 4y ago
No, the amount of conditional logic in code is more or less the same. But memory is as slow as ever relative to the CPU, which means the CPU wants to start reading in the instructions it will need as soon as possible. Without good branch pr
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by gary_0 4y ago
HN thread discussing Fastmail experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989061
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by gary_0 4y ago
I know it's not using a proximity sensor because the front camera turns on when it's trying to fake-proximity-sense. I also know what a proximity sensor looks like (I've worked with such sensors for my job), and there isn&#x2
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by gary_0 4y ago
Samsung Galaxy S10e (with recent software). It wasn't cheap. And all my previous Android phones were fine too, but this one only has the little hole in the screen for the camera. There is no sensor.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Because phones aren't allowed to have bezels anymore for some reason, I'm constantly hanging up on people because there's no room for a proximity sensor to turn off the screen so my cheek presses the "hang up" butto
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by gary_0 4y ago
I'm worried about the guy. This doesn't seem like something a mentally healthy person would write.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I used to think the black bar was a CSS bug in my browser, until I finally saw a thread like this one.
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by gary_0 4y ago
I remember when web browsers just loaded websites! I miss those days.
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by gary_0 4y ago
RISC-V seems increasingly inevitable in much of ARM's former feeding grounds, something I doubt ARM is unaware of, so it makes sense from a business perspective to squeeze out every cent while you still can.
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by gary_0 4y ago
Would there still be a batteries-included curl package that some software/packages could depend on, if they don't want to worry about which protocol is supported? I'd hate for users throwing an FTP/whatever link at a too
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by gary_0 4y ago
Ah, bundling shenanigans, just like the cable companies. Although I guess Netflix became a cable company the minute they started doing streaming: same business model as HBO, just over the Internet. But now they're no longer special in
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by gary_0 4y ago
Good point. Arguing about who or what to point the finger at for SARS-CoV-2 seems more like politics than epidemiology. The evidence of a laboratory source is unclear enough, and the chance of a natural source plausible enough, that I'
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by gary_0 4y ago
I'm of the same mind, but I worry that the total failure of the VR Meta-whatever is wishful thinking on my part -- because even if it succeeds, I want no part of it. If that means I end up living in a hut in the woods while everyone go
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by gary_0 4y ago
So you're saying all I need to do to knock a business offline is spam it with enough fraudulent CC numbers?
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by gary_0 4y ago
Is there no way to get Stripe to automatically refund all chargebacks/disputes? What if you're only getting a 5% fraud rate for something cheap and you want to just eat the loss and not have to manually deal with disputes? Or if y

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