muyyatin

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by muyyatin 8y ago
If it's in orbit, yes. I thought the discussion was based on something sitting on the surface of the Earth.
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by muyyatin 8y ago
But, ignoring things like air resistance, the lower the thrust is, the more delta-V/energy it takes to escape? For instance, if you had a rocket with a fixed delta-V and it used all of its energy almost instantaneously, say it escapes
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by muyyatin 12y ago
I've been tracking a number of differences between how browsers render Canvas content: http://jonathan-olson.com/notes/canvas-browser-specific-quir... , and take advantage of it to use the same code to generate a d
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by muyyatin 12y ago
It's somewhat similar to a Flash-only website, since it has less support and most notably lacks many of the features HTML makes easy (search engine indexing, browser search-and-find, ease of development, layout, and separation of conte
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Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles on the GPU [pdf](iquilezles.org)
109 points by muyyatin 12y ago|25 comments
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Sorry about that! I had someone else report that it fails across all browsers with the HD4400.
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Sorry about that! Do you mind if I ask what browser and/or graphics card caused this?
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by muyyatin 12y ago
I just checked http://www.browserleaks.com/webgl on Win 7, and Firefox 30's ANGLE uses Direct3D 9, whereas Chrome's Canary (v38, best performance) uses Angle with Direct3D 11. Firefox might upgrade this sometime,
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by muyyatin 12y ago
I've done some similar implementations years ago (but with C/OCaml, nothing on the GPU), so I didn't refer to many things for this. Fresnel reflectance is based off of http://mathinfo.univ-reims.fr/IMG/pd
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Thanks!
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Author here! It's very true that the GPU does the heavy lifting, although I'm not sure exactly where an "in the browser" line could be drawn (conceptually any page uses the browser as an execution engine and library). It
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Show HN: WebGL 3D Path Tracing Test(jonathan-olson.com)
5 points by muyyatin 12y ago|1 comments
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Seems like it might make people more likely to run into camouflaged obstacles (particularly those vision-impaired). Imagine running through a park at night with camouflaged electrical boxes. I heavily agree with painting artwork on them. A
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by muyyatin 12y ago
Taking test-driven development too literally?
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by muyyatin 13y ago
I haven't seen it mentioned, but working for a university project funded by public and/or private grants (in my case for free educational software) is working quite well.
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by muyyatin 13y ago
Very nice! I'm also working on a similar scene graph (Canvas/SVG, WebGL soon), which also has bounds, DAG-support, and implicitly inserts the needed layers for performance ( http://phetsims.github.io/scenery/ ). I look forward to seeing wha
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Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests(azspcs.net)
17 points by muyyatin 14y ago|2 comments
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Bend me, shape me - flexible phones 'out by 2013'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by muyyatin 14y ago|0 comments
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by muyyatin 14y ago
It can also make UI code much more readable, but it also comes with the cost of making the bytecode much larger (each use of the double-brace initialization creates a new class).
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by muyyatin 14y ago
So if 12 parents let their children play with knives (and the children were harmed) like the 12 instances for Buckyballs, we should ban all knives? It seems like parents ignoring warning labels on an item not marketed towards children is th
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by muyyatin 14y ago
Any chance you have a NA account?
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by muyyatin 14y ago
Typing in a particular phrase in the Google search box won't delete all of your mail and files, so you could think of it as a "safer" or "immutable" shell. CLI in contrast can modify things, not just give you back information.
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by muyyatin 15y ago
You are especially unkillable if you pick a very defensible location, like "mount evans"
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by muyyatin 15y ago
Your proxy wouldn't send the user's cookies with its request.
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Unauthorized access hits Sony PlayStation accounts(hosted.ap.org)
1 points by muyyatin 15y ago|0 comments
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by muyyatin 15y ago
It seems like the statement of (1) is an admission that we aren't accurate at evaluating whether someone is "healthy" or "not healthy" to an acceptable level yet, since I would include precursors to cancer in my "healthy" classification.
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by muyyatin 15y ago
The question looks extraordinarily vague. It doesn't seem to be written by someone with a large amount of math knowledge, as they want a "variable that allows us to change the weight given to either half of the equation." where the weight n
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by muyyatin 15y ago
Sorry I don't have a reference, but as long as you are outside of an object, its gravitational force on you is the same as if it were a point-mass (at least for classical physics).
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by muyyatin 15y ago
Lots of CSS written in the wrong way can actually be pretty processor-heavy.
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by muyyatin 15y ago
I'll bite. For the 1st question, you are drawing only from families with boys (excludes families with 2 girls). Only a 1/3rd of picked families would have two boys, so 2/3rds have the girl as the other child. For the 2nd question, if you ar

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