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901.
by smokel 3y ago
For one, the successful ones might have learned from the unsuccessful ones that which does not work. This is especially the case if the unsuccessful ones are brave enough to write down that they failed. The latter does not seem to happen
902.
by smokel 3y ago
One could also try to be friendly towards strangers, and not have them be their adversaries in the first place.
903.
by smokel 3y ago
Only a few people who were in the right place at the right time and struck AI gold got lucky. Many PhDs have been slaving away and metaphorically died in several harsh AI winters. Nothing to be jealous of. There are several examples of pe
904.
by smokel 3y ago
Either the post has been updated, or the URL has changed, because I see this in the opening paragraph: "Kotlin Multiplatform (is) an open-source technology built by JetBrains that allows developers to share code across platforms while
905.
by smokel 3y ago
For those who like to read biographies of the brilliant minds, instead of the actual mathematics they produced, I can highly recommend "Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel" (2021) by Stephen Budiansky, which is n
906.
by smokel 3y ago
Rumour had it that the Nintendo GameCube, which had small discs, used a highly specific reader which would make copying the discs with regular hardware near impossible. This was done by making the discs spin in the other direction than in
907.
by smokel 3y ago
Unless you wrote it in HQ9+ [1], I wouldn't be so sure that it's finished. If you wrote it in C, I wouldn't be surprised that in a few years time you'd have to check a few security policies before you can actually write
908.
by smokel 3y ago
Interestingly, this book is from 1971, whereas a famous duck went through a similar plot already in 1952 [1]. Now, how to decide if I should add this to the Wikipedia entry of "The Dice Man"? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia
909.
by smokel 3y ago
As a non-native speaker, I was interested in learning the perfect British accent. Turns out there is no such thing. There are many different accents, but none of them is the default. "Received pronunciation" [1] probably comes c
910.
by smokel 3y ago
To prove that you are elite, what do these mean: RZR, FLT, DRG, TDT, TRSI? Oh wait, you can just look these up on the internet :(
911.
by smokel 3y ago
I recently browsed the source code of Little Big Adventure, and there are some hints in the comments of FIRE.ASM [1]: TEST AH,65h ; Wanna know why 60h? Me too. JNZ @@nx ; This is pure experie
912.
by smokel 3y ago
By that logic, reading a classic novel such as Anna Karenina would set you back $720. [1] [1] https://www.readinglength.com/book/isbn-0143035002
913.
by smokel 3y ago
Musk and Gates received some criticism here and there.
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by smokel 3y ago
I wondered how much she could give back to her fans by watching YouTube videos all day long. At $2 per 1000 views [1], and assuming ~100 views per day, that would lead to $52 per year, assuming she takes some time off during the weekend. [1
915.
by smokel 3y ago
This made me look into the etymology of "engineer", and I was slightly surprised that it is all about weapons, and not so much bridges.
916.
by smokel 3y ago
Instead of a "DO NOT ERASE" sign we have introduced a system where you can simply draw a lock icon somewhere on the whiteboard. Only few colleagues know about this arrangement, and even I myself often erase a lot of stuff before
917.
by smokel 3y ago
The irony is that we are now all very enthusiastic about a text based user interface.
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by smokel 3y ago
I have been toying with similar apps, but never got around to polishing it like this. Great work! A few things I would have liked to build, if I had infinite time: - A "tone trainer" app, where you can gamify your ability to reco
919.
by smokel 3y ago
You probably know this, but it gets even worse. Paint can be applied in many translucent layers, and the reflectance of paint materials can differ a lot. The color therefore also changes depending on how you look at the painting and under
920.
by smokel 3y ago
I agree that software is easy, and managing (human) processes is hard. Just the other day I advocated for a Free Management Foundation [1], in the same vein as the Free Software Foundation. Anyone care to spend their life on that? [1] ht
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by smokel 3y ago
This has to do with the fact that robots are still pretty bad at basic tasks such as picking items from a container, or handling fabric. Just have a look at the state of the art in garment manufacturing robots. For most tasks, human muscl
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by smokel 3y ago
No it won't, unless we build infrastructure for them to work with. Even worse, given modern security standards, I wouldn't be surprised if programming and scripting were to be prohibited in the next ten years or so.
923.
by smokel 3y ago
Figure 12 illustrates how infuriatingly bad ASCII art looked on the IBM PC. I used to run a utility in my AUTOEXEC.BAT that installed the Amiga font in the character ROM, but it still felt like we PC guys missed out on most of the cool stuf
924.
by smokel 3y ago
It appears that those cutting boards are made of Richlite [1], which seems to be fused layers of paper. Apparently some form of phenolic resin is used during the creation process, but only little of that ends up in the actual board. Not s
925.
by smokel 3y ago
That's a refreshing take. I tried real hard to understand what some continental philosophers, such as Latour, Deleuze, and Žižek are on about, giving some of their texts quite some benefit of the doubt. After about ten years of doing
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by smokel 3y ago
I'm sometimes a bit ashamed of the IT sector as a whole. I have been programming professionally for more than 20 years, but I have not seen much improvement in time to delivery. For each step forward, we seem to be taking two steps b
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by smokel 3y ago
Note that both Little Big Adventure (also called Twinsen's Adventure) and Alone in the Dark were created by the same person, Frédérick Raynal! There is a very nice presentation [1] in which Raynal shows some of the old tools that were
928.
by smokel 3y ago
Given the direction this was going, I was hesitant to look up "kitbash", expecting it to be a niche anime fetish. Turns out it is quite innocent, but it's still adults having fun with models: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by smokel 3y ago
Some items in the inventory, such as the knife, and the book appear to have some kind of "metal shading", which was typically implemented as a modified Gouraud shader. It could all be texture mapping of course, but somehow I doub
930.
by smokel 3y ago
True, but only a few combined flat shading, Gouraud shading, texture mapping, and vector balls :)

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