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by jholman 6y ago
I might say that there are an infinite number of copies of the image always there, all washing each other out. Each is a slightly different image (each has a slightly different centre of projection, in the jargon). If your pinhole is infi
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> Is that what you truly believe I did above? That I am labeling you, and think you to be a white supremacist? Looked like it to me, an uninvolved curious third party. > the very real reality that these are uncomfortable conversations
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by jholman 6y ago
As I implied in another comment of mine, I agree with you that it's interesting to look at how athletes use coaching. Things like music training are another area with, I think, similar patterns. Almost by definition, truly top athlete
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> My interests and struggle become topic of suggestions to others even though it's half good ideas half fluff. This is a wonderfully honest observation. I suspect we all have this experience; I certainly do. Of course the suggestio
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by jholman 6y ago
Yeah! The best students learn alone! That's also why the best athletes don't use coaches. Wait, that's not right. Hang on. Even though all real learning is at least 80% internal and must be owned-and-operated by the stude
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by jholman 6y ago
Note that the interpolating of attribute values along the edges of the triangle is not exclusive to a polygon-pusher, right? If your raytracer has textures, it still interpolates the much same way the polygon-pusher does, right? Am I gett
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by jholman 6y ago
I absolutely agree, drawing rasters or using a vector display (or doing neither, for example doing picking in UX or hitscan in a game) is later in the pipeline. I agree about the more complex taxonomy. But I don't think it's a br
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by jholman 6y ago
Follow-up: If you think that "rasterizer" is a good and accurate name for a polygon-transforming renderer, what would you call the rendering technology in the original Battlezone? It's not a ray-tracer. It works by taking
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by jholman 6y ago
You could say that with some truth about nearly any course of study (modulo the price tag). What's the GWH quote? “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” That general cynicis
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"Apparently" makes it sound a bit like Holmes was something other than a fictional character, composed only of Doyle's beliefs about what would make an entertainingly eccentric genius. It's not even what Doyle thought w
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by jholman 6y ago
Because I am a big jerk, I am going to take this opportunity to complain about a pet peeve, and ask for brainstorming help. This (generally-pretty-great) book, like many educational materials about computer graphics, makes a terminological
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by jholman 6y ago
>> pretty much the only developed nation with it's manufacturing capability still intact > [some minor developed nations were intact] > [some undeveloped nations were intact] Minor thoughts: a) trivial quibble: Spain was no
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by jholman 6y ago
Ah, hmn, that is a very good point. Per my previous comment, motorcycles are more efficient that cars, in terms of consumption of fuel. (though not as much as I'd have thought) But they're also worse on emissions , which is th
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by jholman 6y ago
Hmn. Brief research seems to show that you're more correct than I would have expected, but also that it's less true than I think you imply. For example, https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10310 gives motorcycles a
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by jholman 6y ago
Even if it does, the amount of money allocated from the general fund toward transportation maintenance is surely lower than it would be if those fuel taxes were not there. Unless an earmark pays 100% of the costs of something, the earmark i
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by jholman 6y ago
I mean, I'm not necessarily taking a side on GP's claim, but don't be disingenuous. Should firearms for kids be illegal? Should driving for kids be illegal? Should gambling for kids be illegal? Should starring in porn for
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by jholman 6y ago
I understand initially thinking it's completely orthogonal; I had the same initial misunderstanding. That's the utility of the mob boss analogy. Imagine I sell weapons, legally and honestly, but also knowingly to "bad people
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by jholman 6y ago
You do, I assume, feel a bit guilty about having accepted money from a company that was only able to pay you because of imaginary property laws? As one might feel guilty doing honest work, honestly, for a mob boss?
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by jholman 6y ago
It seems pretty straightforward what breck is claiming, I'm astonished at the incomprehension and downvotes. Breck has said, plainly, that the author is welcome to write a book and sell copies (on robot kittens or otherwise). Or accep
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by jholman 6y ago
Writing replies in a chat app is learning to type. Typing is a job skill, people used to pay for typing classes. If, in the chat app, you create literature, you're creating literature. Some people are, most people aren't. If, o
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by jholman 6y ago
I hate high-level amateurs like you, diluting this serious and noble craft with your hex codes. If you're not etching the silicon yourself, it's ephemeral fluff. Get serious.
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by jholman 6y ago
>> Critical to any military, much less society, is the concept of a warrior class > The GP was talking about a sort of caste, ... treated distinctly from generation to generation If it's true that the kodah meant that, then it
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by jholman 6y ago
Pedantic observation in case you didn't know: the word you were looking for was not "treaty", it was "treatise". If you did know, or if you don't care, ignore me.
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I think you're missing the point completely. Start by supposing, for the sake of argument, that you think that grades matter. Like for example for determining access to scholarships or graduate programs. Also suppose, for the sake of
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That's not true of fixed-wing drones. I've seen fixed-wing drones, made of really cheap parts, just act like helicopters. Hover, translate in arbitrary horizontal directions, VTOL, etc. I dunno if they were "flying backwar
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by jholman 6y ago
Agreed about vim. I'm no emacs guru, but I know this much: even if we suppose for the sake of argument that customizability is the best thing about emacs, it's an absolute pratfall to write > Ox took the idea for the customizat
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by jholman 6y ago
If all you need are some show hide buttons and a CSS animation, do the whole thing in four or five lines of vanilla JS in an inline script tag. You're right that React is the wrong tool for the job, but so is Svelte and so is everythi
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by jholman 6y ago
If you're reading this thread, and you haven't read enough about negotiations to know what BATNA stands for, and you're forced by darksaints' comment to go look it up, then IMO darksaints has done you a favour.
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by jholman 6y ago
I've been keeping ten to twenty windows open, with 100-800 tabs total, in Firefox, since before Chrome existed. Chrome never has even come close to being able to handle that. I am so baffled by stories like yours.
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by jholman 6y ago
Enjoyed that youtube explanation (3 minutes, clear explanation). Just a comment to encourage later readers to follow the link, if they were on the brink of doing so.

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