nwallin

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by nwallin 6y ago
It's a very unusual "character" as it can sometimes be rendered very, very wide- the same width as maybe 20 or so "normal" characters. (whatever "normal" means. The more I learn about unicode...) The same
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by nwallin 6y ago
Humans have visual processing which converts the signals from our three types of cones into tens to hundreds of millions of shades of color. Mantis shrimp don't have this processing. Mantis shrimp can only see 12 shades. Human color de
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by nwallin 6y ago
She ducked out of the onboarding early. When I onboarded at my current company, desk assignment was the last thing that happened- once they sat you down at your desk, HR was done with you and you were your manager's problem now. So if
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by nwallin 6y ago
They used uncompressed textures on the cart, in ROM. (not on-cart RAM) Normally a game would store compressed textures in ROM, and decompress them into RAM. It was a solution with significant tradeoffs though. #1 It was still slower than th
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by nwallin 6y ago
Regarding simply having 8/16/32kB, the cache was integrated with the chip itself, it wasn't RAM that lived on the motherboard. So adding more would have required a larger chip. It was a multifaceted problem, and was ultimatel
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by nwallin 6y ago
There was an instruction to load ln(2) onto the x87 stack. It didn't do anything else; it just pushed ln(2) onto the stack. ln(2) is to compute the natural log. The x87 log instruction had an additional scale factor; if you gave it ln(
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by nwallin 6y ago
I violently agree with you. The most important thing you can do during a job interview is to as best you can figure out who the talented people are and how long they've been at the company. If the most talented people are the people wh
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by nwallin 6y ago
> The Stanford mathematician Jonathan Luk describes Moschidis’ work as “amazing. … What he’s discovered is a rather general instability mechanism” — one that could apply to other settings, unrelated to AdS, in which matter or energy is c
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by nwallin 6y ago
Your post does nothing to explain why server side cheat detection is in such a poor state. "Don't trust user input" is a fundamental maxim in this industry. When you log into your bank's website, does it do action valida
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by nwallin 6y ago
This is why it's a red flag to have been with a company for "a year or two" before moving on. Did you call Google HR and ask if they're eligible for rehire?
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by nwallin 6y ago
The difference here is that everyone is going to get an absentee ballot in the mail, not just the people who requested one.
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by nwallin 6y ago
I bought a 3700X in September, two months after they were released. (took a while for prices/supply to stabilize) I have never had any problems with it. Linux problems only crop up with heavily integrated custom systems. Typically lapt
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by nwallin 6y ago
That jumped out at me too. There were a lot of others; Michelangelo got a lot of press. I remember being in the doctor's office on March 6th 1992, and all the computers' power switches were conspicuously taped shut and the recepti
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by nwallin 6y ago
Natural gas is cheaper, produces less greenhouse emissions, can be ramped up/down quicker, and produces less other toxic emissions (fly ash is horrible stuff) per kWh than coal. It's better in every way than coal. The only reason
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by nwallin 6y ago
> Also, DAW performance is not very good on Zen. Why is this? It's something I've heard a lot but I don't understand why. Is it something fundamental about audio, or is it simply the case that The Application With the Mind
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by nwallin 6y ago
There's a problem with that. Lots of people who regularly drive cars but never cycle see cyclists flagrantly ignoring the law on a regular basis. It's easy to come to the conclusion that the reason cycling is so dangerous is becau
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by nwallin 7y ago
"The" and the postscripted "s" imply plurality, and therefore the use of "are". Nearly all sports teams in the US are pluralized, so it would be "the Seahawks", "the Bears" etc. There are a
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by nwallin 7y ago
If a bank were to seize your money, you'd notice, because you wouldn't have that money anymore. And it would be very well documented, leaving a clear paper trail to a criminal conviction and a civil suit. If your bodyguard did you
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by nwallin 7y ago
Eta Carinae underwent supernova imposter events, not supernova. Otherwise there wouldn't be an Eta Carinae.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Tangentially related: C++ does have algorithmic complexity guarantees. For instance, std::unordered_map at() and operator[] are guaranteed to be average case complexity of O(1), and std::nth_element is guaranteed to be average case O(n).
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by nwallin 7y ago
> which is based on SDL (simple directmedia layer), which is based on porting windows code. Huh? Building on top of SDL is probably the easiest way to make a game native on all platforms. There's nothing Windows specific about it.
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by nwallin 7y ago
9/11 killed 2,977 people, mostly in NYC. COVID has (at the time of this writing, 2020-04-19 5:40AM PDT) killed 13,157 people in NYC alone. If you scroll through the list of counties in the US sorted by COVID death toll, the majority of
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think the author is underselling WWI. 1. Undid the Ottoman Empire. If the Ottomans had limped around for 20 more years, they would have found themselves in a century drunk on oil, while in charge of the majority of the world's oil re
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by nwallin 7y ago
Holly berries taste delicious to birds, but are slightly toxic to mammals. (enough to cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, but not to kill you) Birds don't have receptors for capsaicin, the chemical that makes chilies spicy, which mak
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by nwallin 7y ago
We don't have enough evidence to say conclusively. MERS, which is related to COVID, is endemic in the Middle East, doesn't seem to be seasonal. People shouldn't make preparations based on the idea that this will go away in th
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by nwallin 7y ago
I mostly agree with you. One caveat though is that airborne diseases spread much more rapidly and are much more difficult to prevent than other forms of transmission. Diseases that spread by skin to skin contact (smallpox, for instance) alm
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm not convinced the current economic situation is entirely due to the coronavirus. The yield curve has been inverted for about six months now, which has been a sure fire predictor of recessions for as long as it's been measured.
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by nwallin 7y ago
No, social distancing affects the base, not the exponent.
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by nwallin 7y ago
No one is suggesting food deliveries should stop. If you deliver food, lockdowns don't apply to you, not even in Wuhan. Same with medical personnel. If you work for the water or electric company, you'll still be going to work. On
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by nwallin 7y ago
It's often a convenient shorthand for saying you think a person or policy is racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic etc without actually saying it. It's like "alleged" only there's always an "alleged <some

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