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by gmueckl 1y ago
Answer: not at all, unless I had to deal with astronomical time to compute locations of celestial bodies with high precision.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
In order to have these mature libraries, someone hat to start building them. They all had to to be incomplete, immature and horribly buggy early in their lifetime, too.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
That is a much more grounded reply than my comment deserved. Thanks!
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Rendering can become extremely nuanced and finicky. Sometimes it can be solved with better, harder to implement algorithms and sometimes it requires tradeoffs that lead to good design. All of this needs time and time is a resource that is s
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Data centers are CapEx, employees are OpEx. Building more data centers is cheap. Employees can always supervise more agents...
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by gmueckl 1y ago
There are tons of incidents with intruders on military bases where I am from. They are atrractive targets for criminals like thieves, too. Guards aren't a very effective deterrent. Also, everyone I talked to who found suspicious activi
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I see that customs declaration in the context of the Outer Space Treaty from 1967. It stipulates that outer space cannot be appropriated by by any nation. My hypothesis here is that the political message underneath this customs form stunt i
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Here's some noise data from Starship launches. This says that it emits over twice the acoustic energy of SLS at launch: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article/5/2/023602/3337259/Star...
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by gmueckl 1y ago
110dB 20km from the origin? That is a serious WTF right there if that number is accurate. If my quick estimate is correct that would mean that the sonic boom is deadly to anything within a few 100m around the booster. Even 110dB is skirting
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Lazarus is a very faithful clone of Delphi, which is the Pascal-based main competitor of VB of the time.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I am not sure whether calling WPF a huge failure is justified. It works extremely well when everything is adaptable to its MVC-adjcent MVVM design pattern. In this case it's almost child's play to build rich and conplex GUIs that
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by gmueckl 1y ago
QML copies many core ideas from JavaFX (released 2008) and Microsoft's WPF (released 2006). Microsoft's XAML for declarative UIs is the most reused/reimplemted approach among this bunch. Its variants are in WPF, Silverlight,
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Even in the hypothetical scenario that sources only exist on a server, there would still have to be branches and personal workspaces for lots of reasons. But there'd be none of the current ridiculously overblown git ceremony around sha
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Twitter has had timestamped amd geotagged posts for ages. Just clustering things like hashtags of tweets spatiotemporally results in a treasure trove if information about events. I'm sure that other platforms attach the same kind of in
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Except that if a developer has that kind of market pull, nVidida will gladly help those devs with getting it right. They are excellent at maintaining developer relations.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Building projection optics is a bench top experiment that we did in 7th grade in school. Electric circuitry isn't exactly rocket science, either. Things like LCD panels for projecting arbitrary images and CCD chips for cameras become h
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by gmueckl 1y ago
No, we are not good at that. We have dire warnings of extreme catastrophes heading our way for decades now and instead of fixing what is broken, we collectively decide to race to our extinction faster.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Recent history is a very, very good reminder that political relationships between countries (or more generally political powers) are extremely fragile and the only reliable constant in these kinds of systems is change and stability isn&#x27
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by gmueckl 1y ago
1% of the world's land surface is massive! That's about 1.5 million square kilometers. That's more than 4 times the land area of Germany or apparently about as much as the entirety of the built up area on Earth.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
"For" for loop statements fits with math jargon: "for every integer i in the set [1:20], ..."
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I'm not sure if it was user tested, but IIRC part of the problem was that there was no visual indication that the menu bar is cut off and some of the commands are inaccessible. We need to remember that this was new - they were introduc
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Is that why the lev tonUeor conversion rate is essentially the same ad DM to Euro?
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by gmueckl 1y ago
There are videos out there where CHM interviewed Bill Atkinson. One part has him go over old Polaroids of Lisa interface drafts. There, he justifies the menu bar at the top of the screen differently: they couldn't figure out what to do
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by gmueckl 1y ago
There is a subtlety here. Having a configurable UI requires that all the buttons and menu entries have a somewhat consistent behavior among themselves. That isn't the case sometimes. For example, if the GUI can have more than one insta
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I don't see how that could overheat the engine. You're backdriving the engine from the wheels and fuel injection should be complete shit down so there is no combustion.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Not quite. Originally, the tighter length limits were intended to give trucks a disadvantage compared to freight trains. But engine technology caught up and more efficient smaller engines negated that limitation.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
The political answer to circumventing laws is usually some form of punishment. This is often much easier than weird technical solutions.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
This is a very one-sided perspective on things. Any precomputed solution to lighting comes with enormous drawbacks across the board. The game needs to ship the precomputed data when storage is usually already tight. The iteration cycle for
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Oof, that is a major error. I'm wary of explanations in nuclear physics that try to describe bound particles with a classical air of everything being nicely localized.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
A fair number of countries can't do the proper inspections required for this, either due to lack of resources or government corruption (or both). They could put a literal carbon copy of FDA standards into their regulations, but it&#x27

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