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by selfsimilar 6y ago
I seem to have fallen through the floor. Refreshing doesn't fix.
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Belarus election: Police use live fire on protesters in Brest(bbc.com)
187 points by selfsimilar 6y ago|34 comments
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by selfsimilar 6y ago
Pragmatically, I think the real issue is editor tooling. Polygons are much simpler to subdivide and edit and are perfect for real-time interaction, at least much better for high-complexity scenes. At render time, though, you need to use a b
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by selfsimilar 6y ago
I agree the quality of the render engine is much better with physical rendering, but I still love constructive solid geometry and the ideal of pure curves to define the scene geometry. All these meshes with their triangles! Whatever happene
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by selfsimilar 6y ago
I credit POV-Ray with getting me into programming in the early 90s. A fascination with computer graphics led to Fractint, POV-Ray, and dreams of someday being able to play Kai's Powertools and SGI machines. I think I even had a subscri
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by selfsimilar 7y ago
Just attended a talk by Jonathan Balkind titled "Fixing Serverless Computing in the Post-Moore Era With Open-Source Hardware" and this paper is addresses a lot of what was covered in the talk.
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Architectural Implications of Function-as-a-Service Computing [pdf](parallel.princeton.edu)
5 points by selfsimilar 7y ago|1 comments
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Raccoon Resistance – Raccoons in Japan(99percentinvisible.org)
3 points by selfsimilar 7y ago|0 comments
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by selfsimilar 7y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with PHP but it has undeniably gotten better than its reputation would imply. That said, I think that regardless of the language's continued improvements its reputation will continue to suffer simpl
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by selfsimilar 7y ago
The article is about how much above or below the plane, specifically the central plane of the galaxy we are. Spoiler: We're currently above (north) of the central galactic plane by tens of light years, and still traveling upwards, but
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by selfsimilar 7y ago
Jean-Jacques Perrey is really worth checking out if you find the Ondioline intriguing. 'The In Sound From Way Out!' is a classic, and actually a great album for listening to with kids. I really like playing a game where I ask them
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by selfsimilar 8y ago
TFA gets a few things wrong - the analogy to house building is off, and I don't think the moral argument is even necessary - but ultimately if, as I infer, he's talking about web professionals, not hobbyists, those people should c
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by selfsimilar 9y ago
I assume by 'grab' they mean shoplift or less politely, steal. There's also the trick of rooting through the store garbage for receipts, then going through the store to find the corresponding items and 'returning' t
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Moon to get 4G mobile network(bbc.com)
2 points by selfsimilar 9y ago|0 comments
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by selfsimilar 9y ago
No one's mentioned this but could this be a precursor to weaning themselves off of Intel for MacOS devices?
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by selfsimilar 9y ago
Here in Chicagoland in the 80's we had the Eenie meanie of the article, but also this variant: Eenie, meanie, hippa-teeny A la la-la booba-leenie Atchie, katchie, booba-latchie Out goes you Then a whole slew of other rhymes used for pi
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by selfsimilar 9y ago
Lawyers and judges are not just hardware interpreting and 'running' the 'code' of law. Law needs to be flexible to handle all manner of unsanitized inputs, and judges need to have leeway to (attempt to) serve justice and
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by selfsimilar 10y ago
I don't play chess regularly but the stalemate was obvious to me immediately and the mate after about 3 minutes. Kinda clever but I'd be surprised if a chess AI couldn't see this. Penrose is notorious for thinking that consci
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by selfsimilar 10y ago
In PHP I like using Yoda Conditions because there's a common idiom of testing assignment in the conditional: if ($value = getSomeValue()) { // Safely use value } Yoda Conditions defend nicely against accide
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by selfsimilar 10y ago
One note I wish the author would add is that ^a to move to the beginning of a line often conflicts with screen or tmux as a command prefix, so I tend to use ^x^x as a replacement.
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by selfsimilar 10y ago
But you still paid for it, at least a little bit. Blank media was taxed against piracy with the 'Private copying levy'[1]. It wasn't perfect (and could never be) since they simply tied payouts to chart position, but at least
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by selfsimilar 11y ago
What should (but will never) happen, is an agreed upon streaming API that arbitrary clients can connect to. Pay for a subscription and you can use (Amazon, iTunes, Spotify) from a single application. The only trick will be the application w
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by selfsimilar 11y ago
What the what?! I stand corrected, though how I'm standing with my mind splattered across the ceiling, I'm not sure...
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by selfsimilar 11y ago
I think you meant cetacean expert. Which I'm not, but I know a whale's not an ungulate :)
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by selfsimilar 11y ago
Re: an eye for an eye. My uncle who's a pastor gave me an interesting perspective on this phrase. Before Solomon it was common practice to escalate a transgression. So a theft begets a retaliatory murder, begets a retaliatory massacre.
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by selfsimilar 11y ago
I'd recommend getting a native English speaker to proof-read your text. 'More faster' was used repeatedly on the page and should be simply 'faster'. There were a few other typos, (e.g. 'A bug fixed will be rele
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by selfsimilar 12y ago
Safari is the last holdout for prefixing the CSS3 transform properties. http://caniuse.com/#search=transform