mk_stjames

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by mk_stjames 4y ago
Yes, this. In the project I was doing, using chromium as a command-line interface I remember having options to do the pagination to a custom resolution, which I used to define a render 'window' as if the browser screen was on som
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
I've done this for a project long ago, incredibly lazily, by using chrome/chromium to PDF and piping to a PDF to SVG tool. There are a few PDF to SVG pathways, I remember it using Cairo and the whole thing was quick and consisten
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
Given the nature of the complexity of some of the 'devices' generated in the GoL for some rules, doesn't the fact that in this study, the generation space was set constant at 100x100 cells potentially mean that the results co
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
The article has a small mistake, BRep stands for Boundary Representation, not Binary. Secondly, for point of reference, the basic design that the author uses as their benchmark that took them approximately an hour to an hour and a half to g
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
California is an 'at-will' work state, which means you can both be fired at-will or you can leave a company at-will with zero notice (it goes both ways). I know, because I've done it (left, that is, with only notice given the
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
I simply do not see corporations selling off obsolete equipment in the ways I used to. It seems it has become cheaper and less of a burden to take EOL hardware and shred and sell for scrap than to sell off in a way that could ever wind up
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
Whenever I see these modern cloud centers with racks and racks of GPU servers, or 64-core custom ARM CPU blade servers with terabytes of RAM... I can't help but wonder how many years it will be until I can just pick one rack up off Eba
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
My Z840 is a few years old.. almost 8 years old actually. It is a dual Xeon with 32 cores and 256GB of ECC ram which is important for the computational fluid dynamics software I use. Brand new this machine would have probably been $20k...
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
Something I'd like to reminisce on for a second is the absolute amazing combination of both form and function the G3 and G4 standard tower case was, in my opinion. It was a machine that looked sleek and futuristic while also being &#x
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by mk_stjames 4y ago
In 2001 I was using a G4 with Mac OS 9.2 for Photoshop while working at a studio; that was Photoshop version 7, which is pre-CS (which started with 8.0). My memory of the workflow at that time was that most system operations were snappy as