joakleaf

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by joakleaf 6y ago
It looks impressive, but why does everybody talk in that weird way;"Wow. What an exciting day." It feels so weird and artificial. It actually makes them sound less enthusiastic and genuine to me. They also present a lot of feature
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by joakleaf 6y ago
I still don't understand why there are _4_ lines • air • pro • mini • and "regular" As a potential buyer this has gotten far too complicated for a product and company that is about simplicity and making decisions simple for
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by joakleaf 6y ago
I agree. I don't feel much difference between the 15" MB-Pro i7 4-core from 2014 and the i9 8-core from 2019. The i9 really isn't noticeable faster on single core. Instead it gets hotter and its fans starts sooner. So I recom
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by joakleaf 6y ago
Indeed these numbers are impressive, but can it even be done? Is it even possible both in terms of climate change/overall environmental impact, and in terms of how much methane (fuel) we actually have. Elon Musk's vision is gettin
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by joakleaf 6y ago
You probably don’t need a crew for freight only flights.
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by joakleaf 6y ago
No... I am sorry, but I really need confidence in the person leading the platform I am developing for. My income depends on it, so I need to feel confident that the platform will actually move forward in the right direction. I don't ha
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by joakleaf 6y ago
When I saw the PowerPC to Intel move, it felt like a company with ambition and vision who knew what they were doing with technology. It was a confident CEO that used his own words to passionately live-demo the products his company was devel
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by joakleaf 6y ago
It was pretty much the same with PowerPC to Intel... Steve Jobs demoed OSX first. Then surprised everybody by saying, OSX had lived a double life in a secret building for many years (with photo), and that he had been running on an Intel Pen
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by joakleaf 7y ago
I moved from 2014 15" (i7) to 16" (i9). It is an upgrade, but not by much... The touch bar gets in the way, but I use external keyboardS 90% of the time, so it isn't that big of problem. I would have gladly payed extra for F-
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by joakleaf 7y ago
The Amiga had planer graphics modes, while the PC/VGA cards had chunky mode (in 320x200x256 color mode). It means that, to set the color of a single pixel on the Amiga, you had to manipulate bits at multiple locations in memory (5 in 3
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by joakleaf 7y ago
I absolutely agree with this, and I think it is often overlooked in the "why Amiga lost discussion". The PCs VGA hi-res graphics mode was 640x480 in 16 colors/262144 palette (non-interlaced!) The PCs VGA text mode was 720x400
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by joakleaf 8y ago
Yes, it is certainly possible. Everybody speaks English quite well. Many almost fluently. Often high-tech work-places will switch to English if there are foreigners around. My ex-girlfriend and a large number of her friends managed to live
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by joakleaf 8y ago
I think, that you didn’t see it in person was the reason you didn’t expect it to be a success. The 3G had 3G, but otherwise same hardware specs as the original. What sold me was that Apple got the UI right (“smooth as butter”), the webbrows
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by joakleaf 8y ago
I wonder what happens if you "give weight" to each point relative to size of the airport (measured e.g. by number of take-offs/landings per year)?
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by joakleaf 8y ago
It looks really great! Which frameworks/libraries and languages did you use? What were the main challenges you came across?
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by joakleaf 9y ago
But how do the ants "dismantle" the bridge? How do the last ants cross the gap? When and why do they start to break the bridge apart? Or are the last ants simply left alone to find another way to catch up with the colony?
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by joakleaf 9y ago
Anyone have any idea why it exploded like this recently?
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by joakleaf 9y ago
Taxes are high in Denmark, but this isn't _import_ tax, which seems to be something that is getting a lot of attention in the US at the moment. It applies to _all_ cars, but electric used to be exempt. The tax is for "registration
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by joakleaf 9y ago
As I recall: you could only access XMS memory by copying. So you had to _copy_ a memory block from above the 1MB barrier to the lower 1MB addressable space to read, and copy back up again to write. EMS was pageable. You could had up to four
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by joakleaf 10y ago
He was developing large parts of e.g. Doom: He didn't write the BSP traversal and texture mapper (the graphics engine), but he did write monster AI, level behavior, and level editor. I think, I heard him state in an interview that he a
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by joakleaf 10y ago
If the algorithm has a running time of O(N^3), that implies that it takes O(N^3) < c * N^3 operations to complete. Regardless of datastructures. That's the definition of asymptotic running time. If we disregard c, and set N = 100, t
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by joakleaf 10y ago
.... still seems a bit dangerous. Would also be interesting to hear what the other teams do, but I only remember seeing videos in daylight so far. Somehow I completely overlooked this issue in the past.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Sorry, I don't quite understand the explanation... Do you have some simple pseudo-code? And are you using the same number of instructions in both cases? Note also: If you are moving data structures of different sizes, you are not usi
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by joakleaf 10y ago
No... If you use a "bonehead" data structure each memory reference will force a cache-miss, i.e. taking q CPU cycles instead of 1 CPU cycles. If the algorithms has a running time of O(N^3), it means it is using some number of inst
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Exactly... Now, that alone could make it tricky to get a factor 60 difference.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to question it whether it is possible. I just think that a factor of 60 sounds tricky to achieve if we are just talking about RAM (no disk involved). The first time I encountered this myself, was doing texture mapp
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Ah, ok, so if the can encounters a pre-mapped street signs, the car doesn't bother to actually check the sign. Hmm... seems a tad dangerous to me. What if the sign is changed, or two signs are almost in identical position? I suppose it
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by joakleaf 10y ago
That's a bold claim; Sure it is theoretically possible, to have two versions of the same C program take either 500ms or 8ms purely due to memory layout. But I would like to challenge you to actually do it! I.e. same number of calculati
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by joakleaf 10y ago
What about street signs, road markings, and even signals? That must be visual, and they certainly look different at night Can you create a "normalized" image (hardware- or software-wise) that is independent of the time of day? Is
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Is this using Navier-Stokes based fluid simulation?

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