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by slavik81 7y ago
I'll give a shot at explaining isosurfaces in a little more detail. The prefix iso- means "the same." An isosurface is a surface for which some value is the same at every point. Marching Cubes is used for creating a polygon m
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by slavik81 7y ago
I don't think it's just the language. Do an image search for "debugger icon" and you'll find it's all beetle-like creatures. Though, I'll always think of this classic: https://jr.co.il/humo
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by slavik81 7y ago
You might be disappointed. Sometimes the least sympathetic people are the ones that have been there before. Shared experiences don't necessarily translate into compassion.
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by slavik81 7y ago
Why? If I sign a package, that's proof I endorse the contents... but how do you know I'm not a malware author?
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by slavik81 7y ago
That's just a file list on mobile. It's better to link to the README itself: https://github.com/segmentio/encoding/blob/master/json/READM...
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by slavik81 7y ago
The fraction slash (U+2044) was supposed to be a simpler version of that, but it's not very well supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
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by slavik81 7y ago
If I'm mistaken about something, I would appreciate clarification. Is my mistake using box-drawing characters? Or is it thinking that they're disliked?
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by slavik81 7y ago
There's a few sets of punctuation marks that look quite interesting. Wikipedia currently uses SVGs to represent the characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#%22Love_point%22_a...
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by slavik81 7y ago
This would be great. I need a way to cleanly document code implementing equations that contain letters in the superscripts and subscripts. x_i^j, for example, might be the position of Body i in Frame of Reference j. I can mentally pack it b
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by slavik81 7y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. I was under the impression that the Unicode Consortium reviled box-drawing characters, but I find them incredibly useful for documenting code relating to grids.
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by slavik81 7y ago
I would have asked why rather than jumping to accusations, but I too was reminded of the murder of Peter Nielsen. The story of that series of tragedies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Überlingen_mid-air_collis...
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by slavik81 7y ago
I'm surprised it was considered an asset of theirs. How did they acquire it in the first place?
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by slavik81 7y ago
Long ago, when "Attack on Titan" was _the_ anime series everyone was excited about, Netflix had the last two episodes out of order. It was pretty bad. Episode 25 is supposed to end with a big twist that Episode 26 begins to explor
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by slavik81 7y ago
I get a consistent 25-27fps on my Google Pixel.
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by slavik81 7y ago
My personal pain debugging C++ with GDB recently has been the difficulty of creating objects. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to call operator[](vec2u) on my custom data structure. In the end, I gave up and built self-introspec
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by slavik81 7y ago
Canada, but it's the same in the States. Unemployment is for people who have lost a job. I would not have qualified. What stuck with me was that everything required that I already had a job. Maybe it was the economy at the time, but no
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by slavik81 7y ago
I made $0/hour when I was unemployed at the start of my career. Never had a job before, and nobody was willing to give me a chance, so I got nothing. I'm thankful that I will never be in that situation again. It was awful.
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by slavik81 7y ago
AppleCare+ now covers accidental damage. It's very expensive, but repairs without it are even more so. My wife's 13" MBP was destroyed by a 6oz coffee (while closed). That was a $3k mistake. If I had AppleCare+, it would have
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by slavik81 7y ago
I triple-boot Ubuntu, Windows and macOS on my Late-2013 MacBook Pro. I bought one with an Intel card specifically for that reason. I have my choice of operating systems, and I find Ubuntu is where I can get things done most easily. It'
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by slavik81 7y ago
You'll have significantly fewer problems with Intel graphics. The Linux drivers are all open-source and they're better integrated with the rest of the system. The only question is if Intel hardware is sufficient for your workload.
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by slavik81 7y ago
It reminds me of something out of The Right to Read. > Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugg
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by slavik81 7y ago
I bet the performance would look different in a real program anyways. The random input data probably results in more branch predict misses than would occur in normal text, and the tight loop of the benchmark basically ensures the lookup tab
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by slavik81 7y ago
Follow the links in the article to the godbolt compiler explorer. The disassembly there has a short description of each instruction when you hover over it, and links to the full reference.
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by slavik81 7y ago
There was quite a sad case here recently. A midnight bobsled run. They'd done it before. It was great fun and relatively safe. What they didn't know was that this time the track had been set up for luge. The luge entrance blocked
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by slavik81 7y ago
If I've read between the lines correctly, your point is that N bits allows you to represent 2^N values, but they don't have to be the values from 0 to 2^N.
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by slavik81 7y ago
...but they were replying to a post talking about glucose.
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by slavik81 7y ago
When N is fixed, all algorithms become O(1). That's why they appear the same. If you do these calculations by hand, the complexity will be more obvious because each operation will be smaller.
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by slavik81 7y ago
For what it's worth, I had upvoted you. The shallowness of the discussion wasn't something you started, and I'm not sure you really had a responsibility to end it. I just wanted to see us do better as a community.
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by slavik81 7y ago
I wish they didn't phrase it as being about removing a loop. If math.log10 supported arbitrary integer inputs, there would be a loop inside. They should consider the upper bound of their algorithm. Because it uses floating point, it do
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by slavik81 7y ago
For rendering rates measured in frames per second, maybe check out "Real-time Rendering", currently on its 4th edition. https://www.realtimerendering.com/ For rendering rates measured in seconds per frame, conside

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