santaclaus

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by santaclaus 9y ago
> SF is even more different in that nobody owns cars 70% of SF households own a car, so still a majority by a long shot [1]. [1] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-v...
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Most of the Northeast U.S. allows right-on-red Is this true? The largest city in the Northeast (NYC) does not have right on red unless posted.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
YouTube influencers
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Snow Ehhhhhh, about 15 minutes after the first snow you prep yourself for spending the next 5 months or so sloshing through giant deep puddles of pitch-black semi-frozen slush. Plus everything ends up with a fine dusting of road salt.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> rich people as a rule don't like crappy weather All those well-heeled Manhattanites might have something to say about that.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Where's the next Hollywood? Georgia, it would seem. If being in New York isn't the key point of the show, chances are it is filmed in Georgia nowadays.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I recently went to Homestead in Oakland, which includes tips. The service was top notch, despite what the include-the-tip naysayers claim will happen.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Newtons method Where are you seeing Newton's method? I didn't think second order information was available for typical systems in statistical machine learning.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Granted, the state of C++ on MacOS is embarrassingly bad. In what sense? Apple keeps Clang up to date on macOS, and it is essentially no work to get the associated Clang tooling and other C++ tools (valgrind, etc) installed through som
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> What are the factors preventing real estate developers from buying up land and building larger complexes to meet the demand? Local property who oppose new development in order to restrict supply, primarily.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> So what are the next movie franchises to get Disney-ized, like they did to Star Wars? The Simpsons Cinematic Universe
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In Ed Lee's San Francisco, Utopia and Dystopia Are Neighbors(wired.com)
1 points by santaclaus 9y ago|0 comments
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Yes, they develop an animation package named 'Presto' that allows them to do super customized character rigs.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> 3D artists prefer windows The 3D shops I used to work at (Pixar, Weta) both used Linux, actually. Houdini does work on macOS, but the super outdated OpenGL drivers were a major problem.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Merzbow and Lou Reed come to mind. Edit: Yoko Ono
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by santaclaus 9y ago
It is interesting to see which systems get thriving home-brew communities. Anecdotally I see a lot of posts about Game Boy hacking, but nothing about Sega Game Gear hacking.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I fly SFO -> RDU direct pretty cheaply a few times a year.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Raleigh is a hidden treasure. Durham is way cooler than Raleigh!
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> That having been said, im not sure id trade California for Ohio or other so called "flyover" states. The only time they end up on the nightly news is when they violate marriage laws (Kentucky) for gay couples, stage a massive
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> disconnect between "doing math" as perceived by someone who studied e.g. CS versus someone who studied math In what sense? There are folks studying theory in CS departments who are by all intents and purposes 'pure'
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> 1) The ARKit "Face Mesh" seems to be a standard model that is scaled and skewed to fit your face (for example, it ignores glasses, still works if you put your hand in front of your face, etc). It is _not_ a 3D scan. This is h
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Gurobi is sloooooooooooow, and scales pretty badly.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> To be honest, this isn't particularly odd, as the experiment removed the component of the agitation that would tend to displace the cubes vertically, which is the only dimension with an asymmetric force that would tend to increase
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Living on $100k a Year(npr.org)
81 points by santaclaus 9y ago|192 comments
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by santaclaus 9y ago
ICC's autovectorization still produces better code than Clang or GCC, at least as of June this year when I last did some major performance tuning on our code.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
If Intel freely released their compilers that would rock. Does the money Intel makes selling compilers outweigh the benefits of having hella optimized code on Intel hardware? The lock in benefits seem to outweigh the few hundred bucks they
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Do people who aren't librarians use DOIs? Most citation formats don't even include it.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
What products will this effect? Maya is essentially in maintenance mode, so I don't think that will get any worse... Hopefully these employees land on their feet!
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> The cost of living in NYC is as high as in SV. The Bay Area has eclipsed NYC, at this point. Average rent in NYC is something like ~3200 last I checked, Bay Area ~3600. Depending where you live (outside of 'main' San Francisc
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Maybe we need a different designation for engineers with 10-20 years of experience? Isn't that what a Principal Engineer is for?

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