laythea

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   by laythea 9y ago

   True. But there is a reason pilots are still a requirement.
2. 392.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   I wouldn't worry about that. Most people can't even drive cars in "2D" safely, never mind helicopters. The general public will never be given the skies, unless the flights are automated.
3. 393.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   so it is a flaw in the spec then.
4. 394.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   Good point and agreed. This will cost them, and clearly was a mistake.
5. 395.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   When pondering whether I should be grumpled about this situation or accept it as "just how it goes", I wonder if Intel would be OK with me giving them up to 30% less money after agreeing to 100% before walking out the Intel shop
6. 396.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   I think it was meant that a normal application does not utilise the CPU all the time, which can be seen by looking at the task manager CPU usage % = X. Any extra processing needed to fix this bug will have to come out of the remaining 100-X
7. 397.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   I like your style :)
8. 398.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   I am struggling to understand what currency you would define fundamental value - Loafs of bread?
9. 399.▲
   by laythea 9y ago

   But we have HN comments section!
10. 400.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    "replacing human engineering" Good summary, but someone still has to write the machine intelligence!
11. 401.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    The problem is not the software, or how data is handled. There is no such thing as secure data that has been "published". The problem is people accept this level of snooping by software or are ignorant to it.
12. 402.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    If you limit yourself to refactoring within the scope of the task at hand, then you end up with a mess after a certain size of software project. In my opinion, that is why software leads will normally at some point steer the success of futu
13. 403.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    Because not enough people stop buying/using their products.
14. 404.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    yes but what is the point of cutting the telemetry out of the OS, when you cant be sure of what is running in your firmware?
15. 405.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    Yep. It does make you wonder what else doesn't get out...
16. 406.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    Erm abuse of this happened recently with no consequences. Please don't speak like the UK is any better. People are all the same. See https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/16/conservativ...
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    by laythea 9y ago

    Navigation, the UI, the way the databases where setup. I can remember that even basic things not working the way normal windows applications work (usability related things), but it was so long ago I can't remember the specific things,
18. 408.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    Great link thanks. Best floating point essential concept video I have seen.
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    by laythea 9y ago

    Maybe I did not appreciate it properly, but I remember using Lotus Notes at my work a few years ago, and I can remember it being the most awful piece of software I have ever used. Admittingly I am not a specialist, more an employee trying t
20. 410.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    If code block A has X bugs and code block B=A. Then a code block containing B+A still contains X bugs.
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    by laythea 9y ago

    I've seen this also. The amount of hoops and jumps people go through in order to abstract something can be ridiculous, ending in code only the author can understand. Bad for business!
22. 412.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    I agree, but they may not have that luxury. If they offered food vouchers I am not sure they could achieve the economies of scale that seem to facilitate these types of things. Ie. 13 cents would not buy the same amount of food at a regular
23. 413.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    I completely sympathise, however your argument is based on a horse that has already bolted. Un-audited binary blobs already exist and run on your computer. Now off course, there is still an argument that you may not want even more un-audite
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    by laythea 9y ago

    Just think of all the bloat in a browser. Don't mistake size for complexity. Graphics/game engines are complex. Browsers are big. Whilst true, your simple renderer analogy does not work because it is like me saying that if I can c
25. 415.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    You sound like me, except your kernel worked :) Good times.
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    by laythea 9y ago

    I don't know about the article because I cannot stand these "scroll a whole page down for 3 more words" style websites. Please make it easy to consume information.
27. 417.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    I think you missed my point.
28. 418.▲
    by laythea 9y ago

    I develop on a macbook and the good thing is that it forces you to develop efficient software, so when it runs on a desktop it runs oh so nice :)
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    by laythea 9y ago

    > Just removing patterned sensory input from a typical person via sensory deprivation quickly results in their consciousness dissolving. What about people born with out sight or hearing or both. Do those individuals not have a conscious?
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    by laythea 9y ago

    I wouldn't call GPU intimidating, more a royal pain in the butt! :) The approach of simply saving state doesn't work very well due to performance reasons. I.e. If user is "editing" some of 5-10 million+ vertices, via s