mattnewport

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by mattnewport 4y ago
> Here @Peter Cacioppi delivers what is in recent times to most expressive answer! I'm not seeing a link to go with this?
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by mattnewport 5y ago
> I do not have any answers in which I am confident, just Socrates line on the beginning of wisdom. Socrates who was censored by being executed because he said things the authorities of the time didn't like? That Socrates?
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by mattnewport 5y ago
I was working on the central technology team at EA during the run up to the launch of the Xbox 360 and some of us got early access to help prepare for the new architecture. I was blown away by the amount of technical detail we were getting
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by mattnewport 5y ago
Moosh means mice not rats but otherwise correct. This is a Persian idiom that we learned in my Farsi classes. Mice are considered cute in the culture ("my mouse mouse" is a term of endearment) but I don't think that changes t
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by mattnewport 5y ago
I don't know about Serbia but in the countries we're dealing with so far (Canada and the UK) they have local companies in those countries that act as the employer of record and handle compliance with all the local employment, tax
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by mattnewport 5y ago
We have a few people working as contractors internationally but it's a bit painful for both the US company and the international contractors. We're just starting to try a new approach using Deel https://www.letsdeel.com
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by mattnewport 5y ago
This should probably be marked 2008.
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by mattnewport 5y ago
It's around a 36 storey building if that helps.
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by mattnewport 5y ago
- Writing small, standalone, often throwaway programs to play with a new language feature, concept or API, or to answer a question about how something works or performance. This helps with understanding but also got me over the fear of star
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by mattnewport 5y ago
Yeah, we just did this this week to work around a bug in the URP package, it does work.
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by mattnewport 5y ago
The old package system definitely sucks. The new system has promise but until it works for asset store assets it's a bit limited. You can actually use F# quite well in Unity, I've done it, you just need to develop in a separate vi
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by mattnewport 5y ago
> I am reasonably confident that there is a group out there that was more careful and has something that might have been useful What is that confidence based on? It seems like the researchers here made a reasonably thorough effort to fin
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by mattnewport 5y ago
Covering your tracks when committing a crime doesn't make it not a crime. At best it makes you harder to catch. In this case he posted publicly so was obviously not trying to cover his tracks. I've no idea whether he is doing anyt
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by mattnewport 5y ago
I backed the Oculus Kickstarter and decided VR was going to be big. I quit my games industry job, moved to a ski resort for 6 months and snowboarded and did a lot of VR experiments. I decided I needed to partner with someone with domain exp
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by mattnewport 5y ago
Part of the scandal mentioned in the article is the accusation that they got in through nepotism and bypassed the usual vetting process.
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by mattnewport 6y ago
I'm not really familiar with Roam as I'm not interested in a non open source tool for this type of app (why I am more interested in what you're doing). What are block references? I guess I can see perf becoming an issue for a
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by mattnewport 6y ago
What do you see as the advantages vs. Zettlr? I haven't got to a point where perf seems to be an issue that would require a real graph database and having your knowledgebase just be a collection of markdown files is the ultimate in loc
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by mattnewport 6y ago
The "prisoner's dilemma" stuff at the end of the article makes no sense. The article starts by explaining why UPS does this - it benefits UPS. UPS doesn't do this to be a "good citizen", it does it because it i
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by mattnewport 6y ago
Osso VR | Senior VR Programmer; Software Engineer | REMOTE (US only) Osso VR is the leading Virtual Reality Surgical Training & Assessment Platform with a mission to improve patient outcomes, increase the adoption of higher-value medica
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by mattnewport 6y ago
Git mostly treats merging as a line oriented diff problem. Even though you can specify language aware diffing in theory it doesn't seem to buy you much in practice (based on my experience with the C# language-aware diff). It wouldn&#x2
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by mattnewport 6y ago
Hot lemon and honey (hot water with lemon and honey dissolved in, sometimes with soluble paracetamol) was my mum's standard treatment for sore throat / cough / runny nose type ailments. Maybe there was something to that.
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by mattnewport 6y ago
Osso VR | https://ossovr.com | REMOTE ONLY - US | Senior VR Gameplay Programmer Osso VR is the leading Virtual Reality Surgical Training & Assessment Platform with a mission to improve patient outcomes, increase the adoption
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by mattnewport 7y ago
The article implies that the percentage increase in cases is highest in the US but that's not actually the case (the list of percentage rates at the bottom includes several other countries with higher rates). The US seems to have added
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by mattnewport 7y ago
The study doesn't seem to do much to attempt to disentangle cause and effect. Poor health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty and there are correlations between traits that tend to lead to better health and to better caree
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by mattnewport 7y ago
But people can already order almost anything from Amazon and have it delivered next day in many cases. No doubt it's a good thing for a business to be able to match that themselves from their own website but it's not like the chan
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by mattnewport 7y ago
That sounds like incremental efficiency improvements, not something that will radically change people's lives. Not that that's not valuable and may help us keep economic growth going at reasonable clip but it doesn't seem lik
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by mattnewport 7y ago
Can you give some examples of applications that you think will have big impacts? I see places where current AI techniques can make incremental improvements but I just don't see any applications that really seem game changing. The ones
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by mattnewport 7y ago
I suspect your example is only meaningful to people who already share your view. Knowing nothing about the NFL I barely know what you're talking about here and have no idea what point it's supposed to be making.
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by mattnewport 7y ago
Presence is possible, although my experience is that things like the cliff effect get less potent the more you use VR. You have to be a willing participant though to buy into the alternate reality and agree to play within the rules. True in
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by mattnewport 7y ago
Working in VR, the state of the art is closer to Pong than to the Holodeck or the Matrix. That doesn't mean there aren't useful applications for the technology but we won't see anything that passes for reality in my lifetime,

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