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> I assumed like many that Kodak had a bright future ahead because they had a world-renowned brand and excellent scientists and engineers. What many at the time didn't yet recognize was that there was no business model in digital ca
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Years ago, I managed to track down one of the core Qt maintainers at a conference to ask about my use of QGraphicsProxyWidget on a QGLWidget. He winced at the mere mention of QGraphicsProxyWidget...
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How is USDZ for bones and skinning? I discovered the hard way what a mess COLLADA is, and I feel like there must be a better format out there.
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The section of that document on "Deciding When To Use the FD/Autopilot" suggests using it for "distracting tasks." The FAA states that "the FD/autopilot is used to control basic aircraft movement while the
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by slavik81 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work on AMD ROCm, but my opinions are my own. There's also HIP[1], which can be used as a thin wrapper around CUDA, or with the ROCm backend on AMD platforms. It doesn't yet match CUDA in either breadth of features o
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I meant in positional notation, but most people know that as "decimal notation". Unfortunately, that implies base 10, so I avoided the term. I gave both an example in binary and an example in decimal to clarify my imprecise termin
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I'd picked up from context that it was his real name, and had assumed it was his surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_(surname)
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It's rather silly, but until I read this article, I'd always assumed dang was Asian.
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It's unfortunate. As a computer graphics guy, it's fun to name my domains like GLSL variables. I haven't had any trouble with the big consumer services. Providers like hotmail and gmail let me pass after the first user marked
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by slavik81 6y ago
WordPerfect is still maintained by Corel. The most recent release was in May. They also maintain PaintShop Pro, WinDVD, and WinZip. I think they're running a retirement home for distinguished software products.
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I don't know about chlorine trifloride, but that is one of the strategies used for reactive substances, like molten sodium: https://youtu.be/rAYW9n8i-C4?t=2m
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Note that Valve first introduced lootboxes in TF2, where it was not purely cosmetic.
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I'm much more likely to upvote a post if it's grey, and much less likely to downvote it. I think you'd see a lot more downvoting if you removed the grey effect.
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> We can't compromise with flat-earthers and agree that the earth maybe is sort of an oblong, oval shape halfway between a sphere and a disk. This is kind of amusing, as "an oblong, oval shape" describes a more accurate mo
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The TSA used essentially this system for luggage locks. You could have a lock on your luggage, but the TSA had a master key that could open any luggage lock. The master keys became available on 3D printing sites after the TSA allowed a phot
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The problem is that they aren't precise floats. 0.1 has no finite representation in binary. It's an infinite repeating string of digits, like 1/3rd is in decimal. Thus, when you add a bunch of them together, the inherent erro
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It's been a while since he's done that sort of thing, but Bruce Dawson could probably tell you some stories. I don't remember seeing that specific problem discussed, but his blog is a treasure trove of floating point informat
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There are knitting machines for which you enter knitting instructions. As different machines have different capabilities, you may wish to compile your high-level knitting patterns to different knitting instruction sets. Some compilers are b
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SHA-256 is faster when hardware accelerated, and was judged to be a more conservative choice. You can find their evaluation here: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180609224913.GC38834@genre.cr...
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If electricity cost $0.1/Whr, a cup of tea would cost ~$10 just to run the kettle. You've overestimated the cost of electricity by roughly a thousand-fold. Residential electricity prices in California are more like 0.19 USD/k
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> The first week after getting an assignment is called 'The Wally Period.' Never do work during the Wally period because most tasks become unnecessary within seven days. https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-02-27
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When you procrastinate on mopping the floor or mowing the lawn, you're making a choice to live with dirtier floors or longer grass in exchange for more time to spend on other things. Some of that work actually goes away forever when yo
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If they sold enough stock to pay their creditors, they'd escape bankruptcy and potentially not be worthless.
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The life expectancy of long-lived companies is shorter than you might expect: > Based on detailed survival analysis, we show that the mortality of publicly traded companies manifests an approximately constant hazard rate over long period
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My impression is that their brand is more about quality. I can't imagine the Amish "cost-optimizing" like big manufacturers do. So much stuff is a nice veneer with shoddy bones.
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Pierre Bézier (1910–1999) is a famous example of a late Ph.D. He was awarded his doctorate in 1974.
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Policy prescriptions are always political. Science is a method of creating accurate predictions. It's a valuable tool to inform your decisions, but it fundamentally cannot tell you what you should do. Deciding which outcome is most des
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The native support for OpenVDB volumes is exciting. Having worked with OpenVDB occasionally, it's a very impressive library. The speed at which it can execute complex volumetric operations is matched only by the difficulty of underst
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There's an enormous difference between provincially funded and locally funded, though. In Alberta at least, the funding is effectively entirely provincial. There aren't any significant spending disparities based on the local neigh
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A year later, the FLQ kidnapped the Deputy Premiere of Quebec and a British diplomat. At the request of the mayor of Montreal, the government invoked the War Measures Act, declaring martial law and deploying the Canadian Armed Forces under

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