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by plonk 4y ago
The math involved in a game engine are miles away from actual math research or theoretical physics. > People really need to get out of this webdev bubble. I think you're also a victim of that bubble. If your point of reference is we
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> the more elite software jobs are among the most demanding jobs on Earth Programming is ridiculously easy compared to physics or math. The hardest CS problems are math, not engineering.
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Our programs ship their DLL dependencies in their own installer anyway, like most others on Windows. Just ship your FOSS library with a CMake configuration and let the users build it with whatever runtime they want.
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> the Teams team didn't want to share their source at all for whatever reason Because it probably mines one bitcoin block every time you click on something. No sane codebase could possibly be so abysmally slow.
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I learned them as a generalisation of CNNs where the data is stored in any graph, CNNs being a special case where the graph has a grid structure. Convolutions spread information from nodes to their neighbours. It's just implemented dif
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> Time to take standardization to ISO or another "real" standardization body. Standard noobie here. Isn't ISO C++ a cautionary tale against that?
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> The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problems, they often come with big caveats… use of private/deprecated APIs, hac
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> See for example “geeksforgeeks” and similar sites, which I find to be a poor and overly verbose resource, which now dominates the top position Google Search's and Facebook Messenger's spam filters started letting tons of garb
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I google the same git commands three times a day and end up on stackoverflow. Everything else is answered by the github issue comment with 10 emojis under it.
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> oh, and having to deal with docker desktop is not fun To stay sane, just forget it exists until it crashes irretrievably, then reinstall it and repeat. Containers and images being disposable is the whole point anyway.
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As a French native speaker I find it even weirder. How is "libre" even pronounced in an English name?
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> the well documented asymmetry and inequality in outcomes that cut across gender lines which are likely magnified by these dating apps Or only specific to these apps? I'd like to see the documentation on the "well-documented a
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As someone who uses both, let me recommend to you Microsoft Teams, the only enterprise software that manages to be slower.
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> Many of my peers had middle-class parents working normal jobs who just loved unconditionally + put effort forward... the difference between them and those who had less than ideal upbringings is typically vast. Do you mean their career
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Just do a PhD in electrochemical engineering and be done with it. Aren't there labs that focus on chip manufacturing and would allow students to work on the intersection?
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> require MULTIPLE PHDs Was that a joke? What's the point of doing two PhDs in the same field? That's like 12 years wasted. 1/8th of your life.
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I'd like GitHub to stop disrupting itself please.
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The iPhone 4 came out in 2010 and I haven't suffered that kind of debacle since then. The problems I've had with Apple products are minor in comparison to Dell's. When I've contacted Apple's support, they've al
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> “you’re using it wrong” When my high-end XPS started shutting down under any kind of load, the Dell support closed my complaint and told me "this laptop is not meant for gaming, it's your fault". Went to Apple the next t
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I really liked the XPS 15 9560 until I realised its design and support were trash. It features: - a system that shut down when I gamed for two minutes, it lasted for months and the support closed my ticket with "this laptop is not me
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by plonk 4y ago
I spent 10 hours a day on computers when I wasn't at school during middle school. Started at the end of primary school and continued until now. I pass the letter-reading tests at the GP when I'm not too tired, so I think I have pr
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I loved the smell of coffee before I started drinking it. The taste takes some getting used to but I liked it the first time anyway. I drink one cup a day with small effects but don't seem to get worse when I stop. It's very diffe
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by plonk 4y ago
Some websites call it "computer vision syndrome" [1], but it just seems like eyestrain to me. [1] https://www.aoa.org/healthy-eyes/eye-and-vision-conditions/c...
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Asahi Linux has released an alpha version that supports quite a lot of features.
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You could be ambitious and fund the effort with a nonprofit. Maybe a Foundation of some kind.
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> I do not know a single person that liked or benefited from the switch, except Apple shareholders of course. Everyone, myself included, hates the fact you can't use standard headphones with mobile phones anymore None of my friends
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I don't think this matters as much as some on HN think. People look for an iPhone charger, not for a USB4.0 Gen2 40W fast-charging cable and assorted wall plug that will transfer their movie collection in 2 minutes and charge to 100% i
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I buy best-selling cable packs costing a few euros per unit on Amazon. They charge and connect anything I own that has a USB-C plug.
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They already use USB-C on macs and iPads. The only practical reason for Lightning to survive is existing iPhone accessories. It could have been on the way out even before this. Not sure the fight is worth picking.
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> I know from extensive direct experience that the lightning end is the better physical design. What's so great about it? USB-C is just as easy to plug in and these cables usually last longer. The only difference for me is that Ligh

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