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by phkahler 1y ago
My old ray tracer could do arbitrary quadric surfaces, toroids with 2 minor radii, and CSG of all those. Triangles too (no CSG). It was getting kind of fast 20 years ago - 10fps at 1024x768. Never had good shading though. I should dig that
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Honestly at this point if you’re a dev and not using a coding assistant at all and in any possible way, you are indeed becoming a liability to your company. Honestly, you were probably a liability to your company prior to AI. Now y
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by phkahler 1y ago
Why GL_EXT_mesh_shader and not GL_mesh_shader? And why for ES? I thought ES was for less advanced hardware.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Now, we're demoing consumer-facing robotics that will soon, within a couple iterations, be able to perform most of your household tasks without issue. Turns out they're either insanely expensive or they just can't ac
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by phkahler 1y ago
Is this similar to how cult followers (and some terrorists) are brainwashed? If you get someone to actually believe a couple things (you're doing the world good, you'll be rewarded in the afterlife) you can use that to get behavio
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by phkahler 1y ago
I think the else part of that seems excessive. You don't want predicated floating around beyond the next instruction IMHO.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Nah, nothing in the current market is based on fundamentals. Sure it is. Stock prices are based on supply and demand. Oh, did you mean company fundamentals? Hmm. BTW that demand is all coming from 401k contributions. The powers tha
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by phkahler 1y ago
Just like it was a crypto company. Its a computational fad chaser. Next up: quantum. And that will be the end of them.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> And the NAS will be sold as a whole package and subscription... Misses the point entirely.
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by phkahler 1y ago
I've always thought instead of compare-and-branch, they should have just made it compare, or a better name would be "if". if r1<r2 execute the next instruction. This should have worked like a 16bit prefix to whatever inst
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by phkahler 1y ago
Or paid
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> The men running these company live like wannabe kings but have absolutely no backbone when it comes to having a stance about moderating for basic decency and are profiting greatly off of festering trash heaps. Part of that is they
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by phkahler 1y ago
Selenium can elevate your PSA, so stop taking it a couple week prior to a test. It also increases fluid production from the prostate.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> There's a phenomena that ofter occurs with large organizations where once their markets mature, everybody who can build a product end-to-end leaves or gets forced out, leaving only people with highly specialized maintenance sk
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by phkahler 1y ago
Maybe the internet is complete. Programming was not that big until the internet came along. Writers started writing for web sites, some of them even started learning to code. Huge hoards of people were needed to "build the internet&quo
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> With mixed solar panels, lowest volts in parallel strands prevails If a panel can hold down the voltage of others, their device should be able to do the same. Sounds like a corner case their software can't handle. Even so, the
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by phkahler 1y ago
Your comment could have been posted under almost ANY story on HN. "Why should we care about .... ?" In other words, it's a very low value comment as far as discussion goes. If you don't care about it move on, nobody sai
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by phkahler 1y ago
I realized long ago that full unattended self driving requires AGI. I think Elon finally figured that out. So now LLMs are going to evolve into AGI any moment. Um no. Tesla (and others) have effectively been working on AGI for 10 years with
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by phkahler 1y ago
The Republicans have this idea that cutting taxes and increasing spending will reduce the ratio of debt/gdp by increasing the denominator. It does increase GDP but I think it increases the debt faster, so it can't work. Happy to b
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by phkahler 1y ago
Why do you think otherwise? He was very clear about it long before DOGE. He viewed the debt as an existential threat to the country and believed Trump was the only candidate that might actually fix it. Looks like the joke was on Elon.
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by phkahler 1y ago
The one they did the most damage to was probably USAID. They didnt have anything to do with Elons businesses. Meanwhile the FAA was still blocking starship flights.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Elon was serious about the debt. Thats why he and Trump don't get along any more. After the initial DOGE efforts, Trump raised the debt ceiling a few trillion dollars and got a new spending bill passed that increase spending like anoth
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by phkahler 1y ago
I suspect they transcend political party. Joe Rogan asked Elon about the worst of it. Elon paused, reflected, and said they couldn't cut the worst of it or he might get a target on his back - like get shot. That was a very disturbing m
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by phkahler 1y ago
Does this do anything at all about enshitification? Data collection/sale? These are IMHO the primary areas software need fixed these days.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Thank you! I heard that on the radio decades ago but never saw a source to point people to. Wikipedia, who knew?
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by phkahler 1y ago
I have 2 homes. Every time I "go up north" I have to switch my Netflix household and then back again when I return. This sounds like that won't even be possible.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I truly don’t understand nor follow what you mean? What makes MIT/BAD bad for software infra? You should have access to the source for your infra as a user of it. MIT/BSD allow people to deploy without offering source, so
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. That means every time the press says something about what Trump did, you
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Am I missing something? No, you're not but I did! So GPL then. Maybe I just wanted to make up a scenario. I'm not sure why MIT/BSD have become so popular, they have their place but I don't think they have any pl
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by phkahler 1y ago
License: This is a perfect example of a project I think should be LGPL licensed and not MIT. Why? Let's suppose he's successful and libghostty become ubiquitous. What happens then? At some point you will be using a closed source

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