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by nxobject 3y ago
I'm curious: what field did you work in? One of my reasons for not pursuing math was going to a summer undergrad research mentoring thing by a well-known-enough American algebraic topologist (the field that Eugenia works in), and findi
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by nxobject 3y ago
I've talked about this in a replay to another comment, but I don't think she's making any value judgment in the article, or (at least in the article) actually articulating any claim about colonialism and mathematics. In fact,
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by nxobject 3y ago
I'm a little confused by your description – it doesn't seem like a tirade at all (and indeed "colonial" is the interviewer's phrase), or even a judgment on anything: more like a sober conversation about the history
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by nxobject 3y ago
Well, it just means you're not a minority in the world of mathematics.
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by nxobject 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the author was interested in quickly playing with variant light transport algorithms, BRDFs, etc. There, hotloading might be useful.
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by nxobject 3y ago
NTFS on non-Windows systems aside, I wonder whether there are any "pure NT" environments you can access in Windows where you can create and use these folders.
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by nxobject 3y ago
Rivalled only by IBM... which makes for an interesting comparison; IBM for enterprise, and Microsoft for personal computing.
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by nxobject 3y ago
I think part of it is the constant drive to add features – sure, we can do chat and video! But, what if we put background blurring in there? Crap, Zoom has polls, we'll have to add polls now... well, shoot, if we're cranking out f
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by nxobject 3y ago
Beyond the other posts, I wonder whether some of the reactions are due to the fact that destructuring here is purely syntactic sugar – there's no "fear of missing out" on new semantics that offer a drastic new improvement in
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by nxobject 3y ago
If wonder if they'd port iOS Notes first for text editing – apart from being small-screen native, built around syncing, and slowly gaining rich text capabilities and limited dynamic UI, Apple might be able to figure out AR twist.
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by nxobject 3y ago
Anyone up for a Heathkit-style "learn as you build your own C64" kit?
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by nxobject 3y ago
I'm a little confused -- how do we get from "it takes one homophobic reaction to deeply affect someone", to "if someone is deeply affected by one homophobic reaction from a population, we should be a jerk to the entire p
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Elektronika UKNC/MS 0511: the Soviet more than a ZX Spectrum, not-quite-Amiga [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nxobject 3y ago|1 comments
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by nxobject 3y ago
An educational personal computer, which debuted in 1987, that took the defacto Soviet standard platform, PDP-11 clones, strung two LSI PDP-11 clones off a single system bus, one controlling a 640x288 framebuffer, 192kb of RAM (with memory m
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by nxobject 3y ago
I think there a lot of niceties that make laptops and portable computing possible - suspend to disk, advances in scheduling, ubiquitous hotplug support - that I do appreciate, but also do take a bit of architecting.