jtolmar

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by jtolmar 6y ago
Yes. Some abstractions are good, but I've seen many projects where an abstraction layer or interface is added that does the exact same thing as the code behind it. Or even more often, there will be one or two specific functions in the
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Any profiler. As a development tool: You can default to writing the majority of your code dumb, terse[1], and straightforward, even if you know there's a clever algorithm you might be able to use, because that way is easier to debug. C
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by jtolmar 6y ago
dadgum's blog is really good, would recommend poking around other articles if you haven't seen it. Also, if the author is reading, my mom still talks about how she wants to play Bumbler Bee on modern computers.
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But the price of buying a home would be a lot lower if there was no rent (or other ways to own a home you don't live in). There are more homes than there are people.
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Labor is not as simple as supply and demand; a huge portion of a worker's value is in their knowledge and ability to train other workers. When they strike, they are unavailable to train replacements. Most of the people reading this are
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by jtolmar 6y ago
> making you an extraneous cost which anyone in their right mind would want to remove Wanting to remove people for being "extraneous costs" is not right-minded. It is extreme sociopathy.
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It's just a natural product of capitalism[1]. When you can buy a chunk of a business and own that chunk of its profits, you can use those profits to buy a larger chunk of the business, repeat ad nauseum, until you have so much money th
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by jtolmar 6y ago
There's significant cattle industry in South America too, and they still have screw worms. So private industry has not accomplished it there.
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I love the game theory of this. For a charity, you could choose a good cause that upsets assholes. So they have to donate money to the charity to prevent it from getting the money that was donated.
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People who buy games more frequently are a bigger part of the market because they buy more games.
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None that I know of. Your best bet is to find a post explaining what effects are in a renderer you like (such as the Godot one above), then look up the research papers those effects were published in. I really like democoder Smash's ol
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Light maps are when you use any lighting algorithm to generate a pre-rendered texture of all the lights and shadows in a scene. The result is a big packed texture and an extra set of texture coords on all the scene geometry that says which
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Letting grazing animals eat grass that's just growing on its own is incredibly energy-efficient, but that's not what we do. We manually grow food for them then ship it to the animals.
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> 2. Most people at google care a lot about privacy (either in the secret kept between you and google sense or the more common sense definition people seem to use on hn) When I worked at Google, I saw a lot of earnest efforts to keep dat
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by jtolmar 6y ago
> how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam It's easy to adapt roll-and-write games (the genre that Yahtzee belongs to). One player rolls the dice and puts them in front of their webcam, the rest mark their answers on
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by jtolmar 7y ago
Taxing the hell out of capital is a good idea, but our current political reality makes it hard to maintain any public service that's not extremely visible. These are emergency preparedness problems so funding them means setting aside a
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by jtolmar 7y ago
>I don’t know about the homeless situation. Perhaps there are fewer homeless people. Perhaps they are forced out of public spaces by the police. Perhaps they sleep in 24h McDonald’s instead of outside (perhaps it is much too cold in wint
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by jtolmar 7y ago
Every supernatural gibberish healing practice I've seen gets one thing right - their lobbies are consistently cozy, inviting places full of soft chairs and natural materials. A doctor's office is often a place with horrible lighti
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by jtolmar 7y ago
A lot of the best startup advice is packaged coupled with VC fundraising advice, and if unless you think to question it then it seems like the natural thing to do. This very site was founded by the community that formed around a bunch of st
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by jtolmar 7y ago
Like all robotics, a solution needs someone willing to develop expert domain knowledge, not a generalist software engineer with an enthusiasm for the latest out-of-the box AI techniques. And part of that expert domain knowledge is almost ce
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by jtolmar 7y ago
> Also, this is a detailed simulation, so things move a lot faster if you're not spending CPU on graphics. Pretty amusingly, DF used to spend most of its CPU on graphics. There was a graphics rewrite at some point that fixed it.
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by jtolmar 7y ago
I play DCSS in tiles mode and DF in ASCII mode. It's not that I think graphics are a bad usability feature, I just think they're over-emphasized because they're the first thing people see. Adding graphics to DF means more new
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by jtolmar 7y ago
I never thought the ASCII graphics were a big problem in Dwarf Fortress; once you get used to it using a bunch of symbols as decoration, almost all the weird stuff ends up being things you placed yourself. On the other hand, the complete la
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They have no bearing on those who can't. The people who can't still need food.
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Trying to use mushroom advice from one location in a different location is always a terrible idea.
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Defender, one of the Mario Maker trolls, wrote a big guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ZoqeblLs45HuEfTtsOrq6X0... I'm sure it's possible to make an original troll game (never bet on an artistic
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by jtolmar 7y ago
Same reason large corporations do redundant things and ignore their own best interests; bureaucratic hierarchies just don't scale well. A few layers removed from object reality, all that's left is loyalty politics and meeting your
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by jtolmar 7y ago
Most site interactivity could be handled with forms (though some form inputs need improvement) or some sort of conditional view state (for menus and HN's collapse comment feature). For anything more complex I think the "click to e
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What about the RFP process itself then? Can a company make it easier for startups to sell to the government?
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by jtolmar 7y ago
The Bessemer Process - Steel is cheap enough that you can make buildings, vehicles, and bridges out of it. Notably things like boilers and trains. The isolation of elements and the development of the periodic table - All of modern chemistry

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