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by romwell 2y ago
TL;DR: what about <unrelated issue> See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism (A Russian bad-faith technique used to defend Russian software — what could be more fitting?)
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by romwell 2y ago
Are you a working 3D artist? If so, would you mind linking your ArtStation profile? Otherwise, we don't have to agree to disagree. You can go and ask actual working 3D artists how they feel about retopologizing bad geometry, and f
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by romwell 2y ago
It's about as "trivial" a distinction as considering Crimea (or the entirety of Ukraine, for that matter) a part of Russia. Many, many people have died for this triviality. "Somewhat fraught" is a very interesting c
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by romwell 2y ago
It's the same thing as limits in spirit. It's not that the chances of lying are small, it's that they can be made arbitrarily small. Let's say my standards of "proof" are that there's only 0.1% chance th
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by romwell 2y ago
>No, but it's not exactly hard to retopo bad geometry. Said no actual, working 3D artist ever.
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by romwell 2y ago
It also means that everyone is driving significantly slower, while making frequent stops. A LIDAR is pretty much all you need to avoid a collision. It's a pretty forgiving environment.
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by romwell 2y ago
>Now, if the rubidium atom is moving, the light hitting it head on will be Doppler shifted into the wavelength that it absorbs, slowing it down, whereas the other light wouldn't affect it Spooky. It's like having a Maxwell&#x27
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by romwell 2y ago
Hold my acronym. I present you... the MISERIE CUBS : ---- Malaysia India South Africa Ethiopia Russia Iran Egypt . China United Arab Emirates Brazil Saudi Arabia ---- Note : splitting into two words is necessary to keep Iran separate from
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by romwell 2y ago
>Russia falling back to their local currency Ah yes, the yuan[1]. Though the way this is going, it might as well be the Russian local currency now. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-yuan-ruble-1912458
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by romwell 2y ago
OK. What kind of positions can the joystick take? I.e., is it a point on a hemisphere (equivalently, X/Y controller)? And what kind of rotations are you talking about for the sword? Are they constrained in any way? I'm assuming it
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by romwell 2y ago
See, I don't think it's nice because it's not a proper arcball implementation . This is what my pet peeve is about! * There's gimbal lock at 180 degrees: you can only do some rotations with a single drag, and others r
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by romwell 2y ago
> I'm spinning a world [...] there's no "ball" I don't think I understand you, unless you insist that the Earth is flat :) >It gets worse. What if there is a ball but it's say 4 cm across on my screen.
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by romwell 2y ago
The 180 first part was right. Make sure you are rotating 90 degrees in the same direction both times from your frame of reference (clockwise looking from the top ).
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by romwell 2y ago
>any chance to make this work on mobile? I wrote it a while ago with ProcessingJS, whose support for touch events was lacking. Will try to fix it and/or rewrite in P5JS, stay tuned :)
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by romwell 2y ago
Well, FWIW I increased the radius of the gizmo to 1/3 from 1/4, and made it visible. I'm still not handling drags outside the canvas area - those will cause jumps, but everything else should feel better.
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by romwell 2y ago
>Distances are canonically defined in the space of rotations I am sorry, but this is simply not true. There are many distance/metric definitions that are applicable to the space of rotations, and the best choice of metric is def
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by romwell 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Imagine you're spinning a globe with your finger. Obviously not much would happen if you poked outside the globe. And while your finger is on the globe, you can't point at the sky (unless you finger is
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by romwell 2y ago
Then you may like playing with this too (if you're on the desktop): Press 1-6 on the keyboard for cubes to go all spinny https://romankogan.net/math/arcball_js/index.html
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by romwell 2y ago
What's your context for averaging multiple rotations? Averages are something that you can do with sums, where order of composition doesn't matter. Rotations don't commute, so the concept of average as we understand it doe
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by romwell 2y ago
This talks about one of my pet peeves with a lot of 3D software: they don't use Arcball[1] interface for rotation. Autodesk products do (3DSmax, Maya), but Blender and OpenSCAD don't. And when I worked at Roblox, I couldn't c
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by romwell 2y ago
I don't know what's common knowledge, but comparison to Green Hills doesn't hold. KLA makes wafer inspection and process control equipment and has very little (if any) competition in what they do. They're big . As in, t
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by romwell 2y ago
>In this way the promise of passkeys, and the main marketing message around passkeys, is that they are phishing-resistant. This isn't strictly true though So, it is not true . However, what's true is that if you're arrest
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by romwell 2y ago
Yes, the question is: what's a person to do in that case? Particularly if they only have one device (a phone), and they lose it.
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by romwell 2y ago
>never heard of KLA KLA, ASML, TSMC are companies that are huge globally in their fields. The field being semiconductor design and fabrication. Whatever device you're reading this on almost certainly has components made with machine
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by romwell 2y ago
When Cadence switched to "unlimited" vacations, my manager straight up told me that he expects it to be three weeks unless I exceed his expectations, or it will adversely affect my performance reviews. Which is how it effectively
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by romwell 2y ago
Well, with an ORM you put everything in data structures, and write them . Most data fits into hierarchical data structures that don't form a complicated memory graph with references. Once you know how to write primitive types and arra
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by romwell 2y ago
Once upon a time, I revamped a binary file format for a propriety industrial-scientific software. The software was writing vast arrays of numbers into a file, and reading them based on offsets . As the software (and its data) evolved, vers
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by romwell 2y ago
>Tech jobs have long had much better vacation time Yeah, no. Google is 3 weeks/year, and has been that way for as far as I have known it. KLA+ (formerly, KLA-Tencor) has several (IIRC, 3) weeks of sick days and vacation COMBINED ,
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by romwell 2y ago
> to keep it afloat Can't "cash out" (early or not) if your company is sinking .
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by romwell 2y ago
>From the perspective of the security experts who designed the system, it's a feature and a requirement. Great, all day I dream of making someone else's job easier by adding hassles to my life. What's next from the &quot

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