jheriko

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   by jheriko 11y ago

   i think in your sector of the industry it probably matters more than most. if you care about games or finance, you will find that silicon valley is about as far from the centre of that world as anywhere else.
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   thanks for clearing that up. good work. :)
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   its because they aren't talking about what the majority mean when they use the word "tensor". try looking into "psuedotensor". that is the established word for this for nearly a century. you may have better luck...
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   poor choices of name happen all the time. we can't change them after they set in, so we have some really dumb use of terms today in the context of 5 or 10 years ago. it even happens inside of software development alone - the use of &qu
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   He keeps saying tensor when he means pseudotensor. It's an important distinction Tensors and tensor fields can be even more powerful by expressing non trivial relationships between components that remain unchanged under transformation
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   "they do not use a password hashing function" this is a bit of a facepalm whenever i hear this.
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   This is not a valid line of reasoning. Why not use boats in the main and planes in an emergency? You get the same lead time for much less. It also seems not to understand the continuous nature of supply/demand... the reasoning only wor
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   i like how everyone's definition of affordable is different. us centric net journalists seem to have a pretty low bar in particular...
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   by jheriko 11y ago

   this only works if there is a delay. part of organising this sort of thing is doing it upfront to avoid the delays, the deliveries can all still arrive at the same time. the trade off is that you can not react to supply/demand change s
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    by jheriko 11y ago

    colour coding is generally really bad, and especially when there are more than 4 or 5 things to be labelled.. would it be so hard to put the short one/two/three letter haplogroup names from the keys inside of the largest slices? o
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    by jheriko 11y ago

    i look forward to a time when there is free discussion of genetics without having to apologise or make allowances for racists at the same time.
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    i am very skeptical that they use air freight. having worked in large scale logistics, its like the very last choice you use when you are going to be guaranteed a lot of money because it is expensive. there are not that many planes, they ar
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    wait... its not april 1st? awesome. :)
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    it varies from game to game. most often there is some kind of sparse 'navmesh' containing nodes in a 'grid' for doing the classical part of path finding. its possible to do this sort of thing automatically if you split t
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    Reminds me that most optimisation is an exercise in caching, although I'd be curious how this compares to even more cache-y approaches. (e.g. complete lookup as a naive example) PVS/VSD applies to all kinds of problems, its nice t
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    right, but it keeps it very simple
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    A lot of big projects are terrible to build. Once upon a time minimising dependencies was considered good practice. Now I get a pasting if I write clean code without reusing someone else's library... even if the suggestions don't
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    i never really took the advice that way. this is probably down to my stereotype of the rich person... people who stay rich do not just spaff their money around left, right and centre. i think rich people call this 'new money' and
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    true. its one to take carefully with consideration.... have you met many rich people who spend like there is no tomorrow? its about acting like a /rich person/ not as if you have a limitless supply of money and are actually rich.
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    thanks for that little gem about Mater's voice. looking at efforts spent on voices around the world in high quality productions is always interesting (in high quality dubs, even ambient background conversation is re-recorded, for examp
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    this is a much better example since it does away with the needless complexities, and is a good starting point for looking at interrupts and how they are used in this environment... since their importance isn't hidden behind a layer of
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    i'm not sure if this is good. for one it uses more code than necessary to do things it doesn't need to do (checking arguments, storing the string in two pieces) for another its just not in the spirit of hello world, which is suppo
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    Its hard to take the article very seriously from the title, but it does make for a slightly cringeworthy read. As someone from a very poor background (actual poor - starving in africa poor, not US overprivileged 'I can eat for free out
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    Don't confuse the very privileged western society that I'd guess you have direct experience of, with the whole world. Its not the same. America and new purchases are the tip of the iceberg of the market... maybe those kinds of sta
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    No, the GPL inhibits the power to make use of software. Its not really the same... Freedom is something we are born with, and I am free to do what I want with any software. The GPL asserts rights based on societal understanding to the contr
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    do you realise i develop for these platforms amongst others? i don't just pull my opinion out of my arse, at least not entirely... :) your source of figures is very dodgy. you need to account for the devices that aren't brand new,
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    as much as i dislike GPL, i think that the success of LLVM/Clang comes from being a much superior platform to GCC. having built languages targetting both GCC was frought with "Who on earth implements this like this" moments.
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    i'll always concede that these technologies are extremely relevant in the web backend space, but for the most part their are bizarre curios that some technical people know about and even fewer actually use. gcc has done okay, and its a
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    is this actually any better than the existing compiler warnings? sometimes a function is meant to be unused so it can be exported too...
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    by jheriko 12y ago

    those blue marble 2012 textures are still awesome. webgl thing, okay for a mist shrouded sphere. technically worth approximately nothing though... :)