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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I depends on what we're updating. ATM I suppose I generally trust a core OS feature's devs to be trustworthy. On the other hand I don't trust random app that was trustworthy to stay trustworthy. Maybe they decided to add an a
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
> Japan's business culture is no-frills "get it done" which rewards performance + optimization Uhhhhh what? Japanese IT companies run decades old practices, are hugely inefficient and if anyone suggests they change its the
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Are they sandboxed individually? If not it's insecure by default. I mostly don't mind auto-updates on iOS and maybe Android as they're at least supposed to be each app sandboxed by default. MacOS is getting better at this. Wi
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
45 to 90 mins to update my Macs. They might not reboot 5 to 10 times but it's not quick. 19.04 Ubuntu just died on me today (I know some expert could have gotten in working). Apparently 19.04 support ended and someone took down the ser
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I hope some enterprising startups find ways to make work social because for me sitting at home with slack/chat/zoom is death. It may be less efficient but I like going to work precisely for the face to face time and camaraderie. T
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
Are you sure you're not just rebelling against the new? Like in the past most people had to separate work from travel but now there's this new thing "digital nomad" that lets lots of people work from anywhere and they&#x
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I guess I forgot about Apple and Intel in the 90s? I thought it was Motorola (68k) -> IBM Power PC -> Intel (present). What was the 90s Intel + Apple thing?
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by gfxgirl 6y ago
I'm confused. "Hourly 4s sprints" sounds like one 4 second sprint every hour but the second paragraph of the summary says > Purpose > This study determined if the interruption of prolonged sitting (i.e.; 8-h of inactivi
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
If was to pirate I'd be doing it because I don't want to be tracked. I don't want Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Google, whoever knowing what I'm watching, when I'm watching, how many times I watched, what parts I reviewed,
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
it's hard for me to imagine this ever working in the USA. People will assault the drones both "4 teh lulz" and to steal the contents and or the drone itself. A car/truck/bike usually has a person involved and for wh
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
> elaborate 3d scenes built up out mostly out of distance field primitives, a stunning demonstration of the power and flexibility of the technique. Also a demonstration of how slow that technique is. I can run stunning games with entire
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
No, it's probably some random steam game downloaded an entire hard drive or network share. It's not like games installed via steam provide any kind of security or sandbox whatsoever. Every game you download and every library those
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
The problem is you don't even know where to learn about the mistakes of others until you make the mistake yourself and in making the mistake you get some clue was to what to search for that then uncovers the mistakes of others.
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
What I want hear on static types vs dynamic is how it plays out on a team of say 30 to 100 people. I love JavaScript when it's just me but I much prefer types when using someone else's code because they provide guidance that other
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
There were 100s of PDAs before iPhone. Palm Pilot, Sony Clie, Dell Axim, Compaq iPaq. Yes, it all finally came together with iPhone but you can clearly see the progression if you back and look at those devices.
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
The Quest is underpowered to run any of the truly compelling VR experiences. You can't play Half Life Alex on a Quest, nor No Man's Sky, Boneworks, SkyRim, Lone Echo, etc.... You basically get a 3 or 4 mobile class experiences and
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
I don't have advice but am looking for some along a similar vain. I've made lots of projects in the past but now not so much and my fiction is that I'm super jaded by which I mean since I have lots of experience I know all th
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
It wasn't Unreal Engine that gave you that perf. It was your GTX 1080. Unreal Engine (or any Engine) in this situation is doing next to nothing. Sorry it's just this kind of thing pushed my buttons. I see someone showing their eng
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
Based on a recent post about WGSL (the WebGPU shading language) it sounds like Apple is in a legal battle with Khronos so Apple seems unlikely to adopt anything Khronos related. this might be why WebGL2 never really shipped on Safari. They
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
reject it and there will be no WebGPU for 1.5 billion iOS devices just like there is no WebGL2 for 1.5 billion iOS devices.
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
Not for any arbitrary Three.js project. the css3drenderer is severely limited
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
The one that hits me all the time is trying to reference the OpenGL and OpenGL ES spec pdfs. The last numbered section of the specs contain state tables in landscape layout vs the rest of the spec in portrait layout. Neither Chrome nor Fire
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
If you get rid of the `width = 940` line then the charts become responsive. `width` is a preset observablehq variable. There's more work to do but it's a start
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
100% Agreed. I've written 3D engines in shipping games and yet I can't do math for shit. I've tried watching 3blue1brown and they have pretty pictures but they don't help at me all. I feel like they're mostly apprec
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
https://students.open.ac.uk/openmark/mct.level3/ > Question 1: Sara wants to buy a desk before she starts her Open University course. She has chosen a suitable place for it but needs to measure the space before
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
When i lived there it was 20 minutes everywhere. Now between 3pm and 7pm it can easily be 2-3hrs. A few years ago visiting I made the mistake of trying to from Santa Monica at 4:30 pm to Alhambra. Took 3 hours. The ride back was 30 mins My
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
There is evidence that play and exploratory learning are not actually a good way to teach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
Your PR gets several deprecated warnings and the docs still tell you to wrongly download the latest three.min.js and use panolens.min.js which are not compatible. If you actually try it you'll get an error from three.js, versions don&#
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
It's so hard spread the knowledge you need to link to versioned libraries. THREE.JS has a policy of basically ignoring backward compatibility with every new version prioritizing forward momentum yet this library tells you to just downl
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by gfxgirl 7y ago
I don't know if it's changed but at least at one point the USA moving industry was super corrupt. There was a 60 Minutes episode on it decades ago. Here's a more modern version https://www.cbsnews.com/news&#x2

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