pdehaan

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by pdehaan 3y ago
Yet another example that being "ugly" has little impact on utility. This looks right in line (if on a smaller scale) with the masterpiece that is McMaster-Carr https://mcmaster.com/
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by pdehaan 4y ago
My anecdotal experience is that it briefly gets better, then much worse. Build scripts downloading tarballs from dead URLs and dependencies on unspecified versions of libraries that have since had breaking API changes are frequent issues. …
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by pdehaan 6y ago
DSP and more recently SBIRS are satellite-based systems, both use IR. If you track the missile to the end of it's burn you'll have a pretty good idea of where it's going after that -- ballistic trajectories are fairly predict
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by pdehaan 6y ago
I'd be curious about what you mean by software experience. Presumably oculus home gets replaced, but is the performance of things like tracking noticably different?
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by pdehaan 6y ago
The Quest is unfortunately still a bit unique as the only standalone 6DoF headset. Edit: not truly unique as pointed out. The Index is more than double the cost for something that requires spending more money for a computer to run the whole
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by pdehaan 6y ago
I've been using one of the knockoffs for about 6 years as lounge/work chair. It's comfortable for things like reading, listening to music, and sitting in video meetings, but not the best posture for heavy typing. I like the d
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Are there any problems we have a proof for, and a corresponding proof that no algorithm can exist to provide said proof? Basically, why can't I write an algorithm that can be given input for "is the halting problem decidable?&quot
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Thanks, that's new to me (or at least I've ignored it long enough to have forgotten if I had learned it before).
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by pdehaan 6y ago
At a guess, it makes the language simpler. The main function is just that -- a function. It uses tools the language already has to deal with arguments and exit codes. Arguably it also keeps things like libraries simpler. For example, what w
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Not for coding. The resolution just isn't there yet. Roughly, per-eye resolution is in the same ballpark as HD displays, but stretched over a 90+ degree field of view. Fonts need to be very large to be legible. You can create a theater
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by pdehaan 6y ago
It would surprise me if the majority of the market for "linux laptop with fast discrete gpu" wasn't really just a subset of "devs that want CUDA support".
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by pdehaan 6y ago
If the machine doing the streaming is on the local network maybe. VR is not a forgiving environment for latency. If your target 72fps (Quest), about 862 miles is an upper bound for distance. That's just to get data round-trip at fiber
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Python with type annotations is the closest I've used to that, and I hate it. It beats no type annotations, but only barely. As soon as I need to use someone else's code, all bets are off. Half the reason I want types is because i
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by pdehaan 6y ago
So much of what I do as a programmer is just try to understand what some existing piece of code does. If I come across code like that, I can search documentation or start to guess at intentions even if it's something I'm not famil
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Not just more natural, it also lends itself to better accuracy and/or efficiency in some cases too. As a quick example, if you're writing a numerical approximation or even just a LUT for sin(x), you can get away with only approxim
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by pdehaan 6y ago
I recently discovered greenshot. It's not perfect but I found it covered 95% of what I wanted while putting together some tutorial content recently (drawing decent arrows, highlighting important regions, etc)
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by pdehaan 6y ago
In this case wouldn't naming the agent also increase the likelihood that they're targeted? The clients have already been primed to follow the phishing link, so it'd just be a matter of getting a target list. Most agents I&#x2
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by pdehaan 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use case then? I'm imagining something like: A and B are on a phone call. A starts a video meeting. B goes to shortlink.dtmf or opens the app, which starts listening. A clicks "transmit room cod
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by pdehaan 7y ago
For the phone only route, it seems like you could still mostly automate it by going oldschool. Give the host an option to play the meeting code as a DTMF signal (or whatever) while the other person holds their phone near the mic.
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by pdehaan 9y ago
That thing is basically just a laser range finder, it doesn't produce a 2D "image" of distances (unless you pair it with something to spin it around, at which point you just have a bad version of existing lidars).
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by pdehaan 14y ago
I haven't looked into MegaTexture much, but from what I can tell it doesn't repeat terrain textures. In most modern games, smaller textures are tiled over larger areas, allowing for lots of detail for less memory at the expense of variation
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by pdehaan 14y ago
I was a 5-year-old with a penchant for opening electronics, so I'm fairly sure they exist. However, I'd be more worried about adults doing more harm than good by taking apart/putting things back together in an attempt to 'fix' it before goi
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by pdehaan 15y ago
First off, apologies if I was coming off as rude, I wasn't trying to be. My point was more that slurping a file without spawning another process is already quite easy in perl. That method of slurping contradicts common patterns like "while
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by pdehaan 15y ago
This isn't exactly idiomatic Perl and fails completely in environments that don't have cat (Windows). For one-time uses there's not a problem. However, if you find yourself writing what amount to shell scripts in Perl, you might be better o
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by pdehaan 15y ago
Fabric Engine has released version 1.0 of its platform for multi-threaded optimised execution of scripting languages. Kind of cool, if somewhat misleading. The way that's written seems to imply it speeds up the scripting language i