mntmoss

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by mntmoss 7y ago
This is what I typically recommend to friends: 1. Resistance bands. These are a smaller, lighter, cheaper, and less intrusive investment than a weight set or a gym membership, and they continue to be a useful training supplement at all leve
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by mntmoss 7y ago
You get bottlenecked on I/O eventually, and that is the factor that creates jumps to new platforms. Even with modern devices, I/O is a huge point of contention: we argue for our serial ports and 3.5mm headphone jacks, but we upgra
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by mntmoss 8y ago
The best you can do in most scenarios is to research comparable projects and calibrate against them. "They shipped in six months, therefore we can ship in six months."
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I have an Axis 49 (Harmonic Table layout - and years out of production) but in recent years I've taken to using a computer keyboard with Wicki-Hayden bindings. It lacks a bit in range and consistency but it's very easy to access.
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by mntmoss 8y ago
The other day I had the thought of "all memory is muscle memory" - it's not literally true, but memorizing in an associated form builds up so many cues that it's worth applying to any study: do warm-ups and repetitions
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I've been in a similar situation(never a cavity) and started getting some warnings from my dentist about sore gums and decay years ago, which led to some self-studies. They have gone something like this: * Reducing the source of decay
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by mntmoss 8y ago
All that the rabblerousing gamer anger amounts to is that you and your friends have not yet had the new store successfully marketed to you. The companies involved have fixed their PR before, they'll do it again. Give it a few years.
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I suggest Anton's OpenGL 4[0] as a starter guide for modern GPU pipelines. For a general graphics introduction I would recommend software renderer tutorials such as this JS one[1]. The problem that has made people split on whether to d
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by mntmoss 8y ago
IMHO the experienced future is likely to continue seeing improvements for a good many years without battery technology changes, for the smaller consumer devices. Vehicles aren't going to get hugely more efficient without something mas
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by mntmoss 8y ago
That argument is suggesting a linear correllation of effort to results, which isn't really so with creative work: in a hypothetical "better industry", because talent is more expensive and less exploitable, management has to s
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by mntmoss 8y ago
My personal experiences go something like this: * Strength training tends to be a long term benefit. It can be really draining if you put in a difficult workout every session. Copious logging matters to lock in the sweet spot of difficulty,
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I was frustrated in this way during my math education, but lately my opinion about memorization has softened a bit. The trick is that it has to be approached in the same way as in sports: Demonstrate a technique, explain the principles, att
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by mntmoss 8y ago
A decade and change has passed, so we get to do it against a new set of I/O concepts and performance concerns. Those are always the factors motivating new software standards. I did evaluate WASM as a native runtime environment recentl
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by mntmoss 8y ago
This is the take I was looking for. There are a few things about human interaction that need to be supplemented with time offscreen, but I'm imagining the rich children of tomorrow getting on social media for the first time and immed
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I try to add more structure to how I do things these days. It was not that long ago that I could just sit around for hours on social media, but it helped to have life goals that pulled me away from that. I am only really aware of news in a
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by mntmoss 8y ago
For context, these figures are roughly in line with what Java, C#, and other "fast" managed runtimes manage on the Benchmarks Game. [0] Since WASM's MVP is designed towards manual memory management(GC is proposed but not yet
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I can definitely see where the author was coming from in terms of new code. I've been of the opinion that it's probably better to greenfield new systems alongside a GC'd runtime(which makes Go a pretty good fit, but also D,
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by mntmoss 8y ago
By developing a system of pass/fail signals. A lot of early approaches to feedback involve directly asking potential customers, or existing ones. This gives you vocal feedback, but almost all of it will be of the form "just add
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I believe that rendering has entered an era similar to what audio synthesis encountered after sampling synths became pre-eminent - you can do more-or-less anything given enough time, so the main focus of R&D turns towards providing bett
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I'm primarily a "drawer", not a "painter", but that said, there's a lot that translates between genres of visual art, especially when we're talking about representational work. I work a lot with pixel art
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by mntmoss 8y ago
Automation is just leverage. Sometimes you need the leverage of a trowel, other times you need a six-ton digger. And if you use the trowel, you can employ fewer people and skip approvals and certifications. It does make sense to automate -
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by mntmoss 8y ago
Take improv acting. You learn two highly relevant things: 1. Loosening up creatively(which helps you develop the pitch) 2. Playing a character appropriate to the scene. e.g. during the job interview both parties can play characters that rep
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by mntmoss 8y ago
Rules of Play (Zimmerman, Salen) and Art of Game Design: a Book of Lenses(Schell) come to mind as resources that cover this sort of "comprehensive" study. In my opinion, there isn't a great deal of direct design information t
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by mntmoss 8y ago
There was a proposal for restarting ferry service and possibly developing the Alviso location circa 2010, which I looked at around when the Richmond ferry opened last month. They spent a few years evaluating it but concluded that proceeding
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by mntmoss 8y ago
What comes to mind is the stories about "parachute kids" with (relatively) wealthy parents that sent the kid abroad, ostensibly for study. They end up in an extreme form of latchkey existence - still Eastern in intent, but living
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by mntmoss 8y ago
Indeed. Casio is one of my favorite brands in electronics because they have been so reliable about doing cost reduction without compromising the core device functions. For example, when they do a high end keyboard, which seems to happen abo
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I know where those kids are coming from. I understood 8-bit BASICs "better" than I did QBASIC, because I could spatially follow the flow of a program written with GOTO: knowing the line number told me roughly where in the code it
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by mntmoss 8y ago
Many of the languages of the era, BASIC dialects included, just wouldn't recurse. You could call a single subroutine and return from that one, but it would either terminate with an error or overwrite the first return address if you tri
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by mntmoss 8y ago
There's case for having a "convenience" or "easy mode" wrapper where the amount of configuration is lower, hence the underlying dependency is more straightforward to reuse. For example, I would point to 3D graphics
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by mntmoss 8y ago
I'm definitely on the side of ARM(and RISC-V and other new architectures for that matter) getting "wins", because the modern environment is displaying the signs of a low-layer shakeup: * New systems languages with promising l

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