jheriko

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by jheriko 12y ago
we are still comparing apples and oranges even with your argument...
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by jheriko 12y ago
I'm not sure you can describe an essential amino acid as an addictive substance... sure there is a strong desire to consume it, but its closer to things like oxygen, water or any vital thing that keeps you alive. Caffeine on the other
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by jheriko 12y ago
Well done for cutting something out and losing weight to try and improve your health, this is an admirable goal. However, from your tone I would hazard a guess that the problem is not your diet coke so much as your desire to consume so much
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by jheriko 12y ago
i mean stuff like the wonky reflection code and checkerboard logic... its a bit 'special', even for a proof of concept. its unexpected given the apparent intuition for rendering/geometry/maths from the simple, yet clever
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by jheriko 12y ago
its legal in plenty of other places and the bulk of research (some very recent) seems to show that it is very safe within the constraints of those studies, with the well documented and understood exception of people with phenylketonuria. th
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by jheriko 12y ago
i'm surprised to see so much badness in the original code. it kind of takes away from the rose tinted view i have of the past being dominated by awesome programmers who got the most out of the hardware...
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by jheriko 12y ago
i believe it is legal in the UK, but lots of activities related to it (e.g. running a brothel, soliciting it in public places) are illegal. afaik (i have no real, direct, experience of this tbh, so don't quote me) there are none of the
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by jheriko 12y ago
yes. its nice to see the common sense, with tons of historical data that indicates it, being backed by some data we are collecting right now today. well done to those bits of the US for being progressive and intelligent instead of reactiona
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by jheriko 12y ago
because you can throw 3d data down the pipe naively and it 'just work', it comes out with the same problems as naive use of 2d data - that the transform from world to clip-space becomes the identity matrix, which results in aspect
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by jheriko 12y ago
my issue is more with the specific criteria the author uses being invalid. there is no special 2d functionality, e.g. aspect ratio correction or rotations. there is special 3d functionality, and contrary to the authors claim, you can just t
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by jheriko 12y ago
it may not know. it depends on the context... but basically you have to tell it somehow.
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by jheriko 12y ago
i think i came to the conclusion of 0x5f375a84 at the end of that article. at least by the criteria the test program used to measure error. the differences are tiny though, and there are other measures that can be used (which will result in
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by jheriko 12y ago
why is it not valid? these things are part of the libraries involved. as languages both Haskell and C++ are extremely free form to the point where you can abuse them into behaving like domain specific languages. or do you mean the bit about
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by jheriko 12y ago
don't confuse standard libraries, libraries and languages :) Prelude is functional, C++ STL and the C library are imperative. There is a valid argument that a 'good ol' fashioned' bit of procedural code (for loop) makes
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by jheriko 12y ago
isn't this name confusing? interesting stuff... although i do not enjoy the novel operator overloading, it does keep it tidy.
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by jheriko 12y ago
yeah, this is not really true either. you should be careful with bold claims, especially if you don't have a great depth of knowledge (everyone should believe this...) i commented on the post. (don't let me nay-say too much. you h
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by jheriko 12y ago
its always good to see websites with nice 3d elements involved like this. started reading the tutorials... and i have to say the quality is questionable. from very big things like the claim that the API is fundamentally 2D (really?) down to
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by jheriko 12y ago
its not exactly accurate or relevant. clip space is 2d because the monitor is. all of the 3d operations and 3d relevant functionality breaks the argument. the depth buffer for instance, and even more so, the perspective transformation hack
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by jheriko 12y ago
its still alive?!?!?!
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by jheriko 12y ago
interesting, not entirely surprising given how we love to jump to conclusions over these things, and the history of fish oil as a 'common knowledge' 'good thing'. slightly disappointed that the headline was not fish oil
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by jheriko 12y ago
can't read this in the UK. wtf?
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by jheriko 12y ago
most of that specific optimisation advice is very far out of date. the principles remain good though, basically * know your shit * measure your work and make sure you really do know your shit i do constantly cry and bleed inside over the tr
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by jheriko 12y ago
sure. you are right. i do wonder how long it will take for Apple to come around to mipmapping and trilinear filtering to tackle their very normal problem of multiple resolutions. it seems to work well enough in all their use cases for the l
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by jheriko 12y ago
I do prefer the comments, but it feels rude to start before reading the article. :)
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by jheriko 12y ago
Be careful. A lot of the drugs with strong effects necessarily have long term consequences from repeated use owing to their mechanisms of action. You risk making yourself 'dumber' over time with prolonged use. Especially, with the
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by jheriko 12y ago
why does OpenGL rule out vector formats? there aren't that many great libraries out there for doing it cross platform, but if you treat them as platform dependencies it should be easier... you can probably google and find loads, but to
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by jheriko 12y ago
this is quite cool. reminds me of making levels for games using ascii art in code... but taken to a whole other level :)
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by jheriko 12y ago
right, that's a good use case, although i'm not sure its terribly important. the slow part of processing a png file is not identifying its contents... although this maybe different with XML and HTML parsers. i'm still not sur
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by jheriko 12y ago
> Law enforcement agents seeking to interview you are not your friends. oh dear. this is a very sad statement all on its own, without any of what came before it. law enforcement should be our friends.
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by jheriko 12y ago
i still fail to see the enormous fuss about hash tables as if they are some revelatory data structure. the special cases where you can construct perfect hashes are normally amenable to setting some fixed index 'hashes' for each it

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