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by groos 7mo ago
I wonder have the reconstruction techniques been verified by a double-blind experiment to reconstruct the face of a homo sapiens from a skull with a known photograph. Otherwise, you're just wondering how much of it is just artistry and
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by groos 7mo ago
Here's one way to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
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by groos 7mo ago
I've had the good fortune to attend two of his lectures in person. Each time, he effortlessly derived provably correct code from the conditions of the problem and made it seem all too easy. 10 minutes after leaving the lecture, my thou
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by groos 7mo ago
I have a strict policy of no Meta glasses for guests in my house. Socially, they're poison.
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by groos 7mo ago
My statement was accurate as of _when_ I moved away from FreeCad. I'm happy they merged the RealThunder work. But they dilly-dallied for a long time while people were demanding a fix and one was available. Doesn't speak well of th
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by groos 7mo ago
Glad to hear it as I moved away before 1.0 happened. RealThunder had other enhancements as well, if I remember correctly. I wonder if those were taken up as well.
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by groos 7mo ago
It's what caused me to move away from FreeCad to OnShape. Never had an issue in OnShape but got hit with it every time in FreeCad. The sad thing is that there was a fork for a long time which had addressed this problem, and added other
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by groos 8mo ago
Because Tesla Clown-in-Chief asked if humans could drive with just visual input, why can't a Tesla? C-in-C conveniently ignored that, to begin with, humans have binocular vision, and his cars had none. Also conveniently ignored were th
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by groos 8mo ago
In university, one year, our building started smelling like there had been a sewage overflow. Pretty soon, everything around started smelling like this - the stores, restaurants, cinema, etc. in central campus was stinking. It was soon foun
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by groos 8mo ago
Microsoft's SAL annotations are meant to inform the static analyzer how the parameters are meant to be used so any violations of the contract can be diagnosed at compile time. The LLVM proposal is different in that it is checked at run
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by groos 8mo ago
In a couple of days ~2 billion people world-wide will begin intermittent fasting, done from dawn to sunset, for a month, which is one of the components of the month of Ramadan. Nobody does this to lose weight, or even changes their diet, ye
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by groos 8mo ago
My 8 yo M3 has radar and it still is active since the yellow radar symbols light up when passing by obstacles. It's also used to figure out obstacles in the front and back and if disabled, the relatively poor cameras on my car would no
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by groos 9mo ago
What a non sequitur.
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by groos 9mo ago
Deflation is never going to be allowed to happen even if economic conditions allow it. The reason that the Federal Reserve wants inflation at ~2% is so that nobody hoards cash in their home and instead spends it before it loses value or put
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by groos 10mo ago
Storm in a teacup - wait, is tea Canadian or British?
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by groos 10mo ago
I looked but AliExpress makes it impossible to locate even specific sellers, like BohrOptics, who I found to have consistently good quality (bought a beam splitter and fused silica ball lenses from them).
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by groos 10mo ago
The death, maybe, but not the lack of hiring. At $BIGCORP, where I work, I haven't seen an externally hired junior dev in at least 2 years in an extended team of ~100 people.
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by groos 10mo ago
Short names are a figment of the age of teletypes when you had to repeatedly type things out. This hasn't been the case for at least 3 decades. Most good shell+terminal combinations will support autocomplete, even the verbose Powershel
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by groos 10mo ago
Excellent. I might have a go at this myself. Was there a particular AliExpress seller that you got the mirror from?
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by groos 10mo ago
I'm sure he didn't explain it because almost nobody knows what it is (or even how to interpret the interferograms he showed) and learning to figure optics takes years and entire books are written on the subject.
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by groos 10mo ago
Fine. Name it sodium-crypto.a or sodium.crypto.a or whatever. The author's complaint does hold water.
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by groos 10mo ago
It's the usual story of technology divorced from morality.
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by groos 10mo ago
My esteem of Seattle area engineers compared to Silicon Valley engineers has just gone up.
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by groos 10mo ago
It's not just that AI is being pushed on to employees by the tech giants - this is true - but that the hype of AI as a life changing tech is not holding up and people within the industry can easily see this. The only life-changing thin
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by groos 11mo ago
> I'm happy my Tesla does a decent job of having the screen be quite dark at night but the headlights are quite bad with the horizontal cutoff style that only lights the first few feet of horizontal ahead of the car. I need to see t
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by groos 11mo ago
This point was also briefly mentioned in the article, but I think is other half of the equation: even if Ti is made cheap to manufacture, it's use will still remain problematic as it's brutal to machine and form, which increases m
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by groos 11mo ago
This aurora looks predominantly red. The last big one had pinks and greens easily visible to the naked eye. I wonder what causes the difference.
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by groos 1y ago
Would he have gone to jail if the money had come from Zionists? Because that's how campaign finance currently works in the US.
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by groos 1y ago
'Learning must be uncomfortable' - this is the key reason there are some professions which pay more than others. Some people are willing to bear the mental discomfort while others aren't. A lot of people are far more willing
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by groos 1y ago
Any meaning associated with the Nobel Peace Prize was demolished when Obama got it without having done anything meaningful except running a campaign on 'Hope'. This was the person that subsequently ok'd 3,000+ drone strikes i

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