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by slavik81 7y ago
Linus is self-aware enough that I'm sure there's a kernel of truth to that joke, but both git and mercurial were clearly inspired by the BitKeeper fiasco. They describe an unpleasant and ill-tempered person, respectively. There&#x
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by slavik81 7y ago
> https://wickedengine.net/2018/05/21/scalabe-gpu-fluid-simula... It's unrelated to boids, but I would not recommend using the Poly6 and Spiky kernels. That design originates from "Particle-based
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by slavik81 7y ago
The fake news company takes a photo of a protest. They then deepfake a celebrity into the photo, invalidating its cryptographic signature in the process. They then print the photo, and take a photo of the photo. Their photo of the photo now
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by slavik81 7y ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. You can get a very respectable average speed out of the postal service. Latency is an oft-neglected metric. You can browse the web on a satellite
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by slavik81 7y ago
The problem is that you can't take the data back when good organizations turn bad. Maybe you trusted the US government in 1940 when you took the census, but in 1942 they showed up at your door to take you away if you had listed yoursel
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's even free if you want to ship a patched version of Qt, as long as you also share the modified Qt code.
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by slavik81 7y ago
I probably wouldn't use language quite that strong, but the view from outside the US is definitely quite different. The US withdrawl from the Iran nuclear agreement was more a result of changes in the US than of changes in Iran. Barack
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's not the same. Live ocean creatures are isolated from each other. They're stored in water-tight containers by necessity. By contrast, live land animals are stored in cages and often stacked on top of each other. Vox has a vide
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by slavik81 7y ago
Some previous discussions on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257152
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by slavik81 7y ago
Just to be clear, it wasn't in any releases. It was added in response to this article.
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by slavik81 7y ago
RIP Richard Guy. https://science.ucalgary.ca/mathematics-statistics/about/ric...
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by slavik81 7y ago
The categorization of life and non-life is the first step in taxonomy, which was historically based on long property checklists. I think it may be more the case that advances in biology have changed the science. The emphasis moved from stam
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by slavik81 7y ago
Well, there wasn't when the article was written, but... https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/f36d07d30334f86412a9d277... (it was removed before the next release)
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by slavik81 7y ago
I hate to respond to an essay with a nitpick, but "penultimate" means "second last." If there is an ultimate point that follows your penultimate point, it's not clear where it begins.
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by slavik81 7y ago
There's a SPIR-V text representation that maps directly to the binary representation. Even if it was given a binary, the browser could display the equivalent text representation.
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by slavik81 7y ago
> I'm not really sure how to find the diff that switched from explicit copyright headers in source files to "Guake authors", maybe that was just done as the default while the code was growing. I found it using git blame on
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by slavik81 7y ago
I had the same experience, but I tried to help. Now my name is in the contributors list, but I still don't trust it. My changes have all been lost to rewrites, and I assume new bugs have replaced the old ones I fixed.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Isn't it basically just the old YouTube logo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_of_YouTube_(2015-201...
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by slavik81 7y ago
It's far better today than it used to be, but it's still a work in progress. Over the past year or two, they've been doing a lot of hiring to bring ROCm HIP up to par as a CUDA competitor. I wasn't exactly thrilled to se
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by slavik81 7y ago
A thread on that subject, "ELI5: How is that Alcohol 70% is better than Alcohol 90% as disinfectant?": https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/erfec8/e...
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by slavik81 7y ago
It seems I'm getting old, but you can watch it happen: 2007 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/unintentional_2007_bw... 2008 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/
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by slavik81 7y ago
In that example, the user has configured git to ask their linter if it's ok to commit, and the linter is telling git "no" because it's failing. The git portion of that is pretty straightforward, but whatever the linter i
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by slavik81 7y ago
A person in the truck is the difference between a burglary and a robbery. One is a property crime, while the other is a violent crime. The law views them as very different.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Unintentional poisonings have rocketed up the charts in the past few years. It didn't used to be in first place. That's the fentanyl crisis you're seeing.
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by slavik81 7y ago
The universe actually seems surprisingly young to me. If the universe is a mere 14 billion years old, then dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 1/50th of all time! And life has existed on Earth for 1/3rd of all time! When I was a kid, I
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by slavik81 7y ago
That's a dangerous game. Even if the receiver doesn't notice at inspection time, they might discover it after delivery. They could notice the balls don't move while breaking apart the box. Or, the expensive object they receiv
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by slavik81 7y ago
Kenmore is good about that. I found replacement parts for my fridge, stove and dishwasher quite easily (repairing damage done to them). The sticker with the model number is in a standard location. Then you just look up the manual to get the
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by slavik81 7y ago
The discipline notices for these sorts of organizations are always public. You can browse through the cases on their website [1]. Most of the enforcement actions against licensed professional engineers in Oregon seem to be for failing to co
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To be fair to Mats, I think he was a fully qualified engineer in Sweden. He was quite unreasonable in insisting on calling himself such in Oregon, but I suppose reasonable men don't change the world.
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The engineering association didn't really fine him for the campaign itself. They were upset that he claimed to be an engineer when making his arguments, despite not being licensed in that state. Even then, they gave him repeated warnin

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