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by tayistay 6y ago
As some variant of late 19th century man, I'm continually bemused by how many of my peers are on board with breaking up Standard Oil when we all rely on oil! As some variant of mid 20th century man, I'm continually bemused by how
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by tayistay 6y ago
I'm not convinced, because mixing ray-marched and triangulated geometry is quite doable. If you've already computed a ray intersection, generating a triangle and putting a burden on vertex processing makes little sense if the geom
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by tayistay 6y ago
If you're already tracing camera rays, you have everything you need, so why generate triangles? (GigaVoxels doesn't generate triangles)
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by tayistay 6y ago
Looks like the ARC we've had in other languages (ObjC, Swift) for many years now. Any difference?
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by tayistay 6y ago
Interesting as well. I see the MLTon regions have issues with bounding space complexity. I wonder if a language could impose some reasonable restrictions to bound region space complexity. That would seem to make regions quite attractive.
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by tayistay 6y ago
> Why should any one group of applicants be excluded from seeking out that opportunity? They shouldn't. If I seemed to imply that above, then I didn't articulate my point well. Going to Harvard, etc. is not about getting the be
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by tayistay 6y ago
I'm all for Asian Americans getting fair treatment. More broadly than this study, what bothers me about this story, is that by focusing so much on Harvard, it reinforces the hierarchy of educational institutions that we have. It does n
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by tayistay 7y ago
Remote work should be an absolute thing, mandated by law, or at least strong incentives, to reduce our carbon footprint. Unless you truly need to go to a central location (laboratory, healthcare, etc.), you should work remotely. I saw a stu
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by tayistay 7y ago
AFAIK, few seem to choose C for game engines or rendering engines. Not familiar with the other domains.
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by tayistay 7y ago
Thanks. Do you have an example of a proposal that the committee considered an undue burden for an implementation but was otherwise sound?
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by tayistay 7y ago
To what extent does compiler complexity factor into your thinking about the evolution of C? Thanks for this!
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by tayistay 7y ago
I'm no C expert, but my two wishes for C would be: - Basic type inference to reduce keystrokes, and prevent ripples when changing types. (like auto in C++) - Equality operators defined for structs. Perhaps even lexicographical comparis
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by tayistay 7y ago
My software side projects became my career. I write down my various ideas. I then think about them occasionally for months or even years before committing to working, writing additional notes. This reduces the chance of abandoning an idea f
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by tayistay 7y ago
Apparently that’s exactly not what you should do: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/200...
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by tayistay 7y ago
Subdivision surfaces aren't so bad on the GPU. Since each limit vertex is a linear combination of control vertices, you can precompute the stencils to evaluate limit vertices. Those stencils can all be evaluated in parallel in a comput
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by tayistay 7y ago
Having worked at Pixar, I think Catmull's wage-fixing involvement should absolutely disqualify him from receiving the Turing Award. And really, Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces aren't that amazing. Z-buffering is obvious. Those
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by tayistay 7y ago
You're missing important details. The wage fixing scheme lasted well into my time at Pixar, in which the company was over a thousand people (I received money in the settlement). Multiple executives at different companies were involved.
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by tayistay 7y ago
I was at Pixar 2006-2011. On several occasions, I would see Lasseter hugging various people in his entourage. Hugs so long, I initially wondered if someone had died. It was a bit strange. At a company meeting, in front of the entire staff,
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by tayistay 7y ago
Would it be possible to wrap SwiftUI such that we don't have to use that DSL, don't have that 10 child limit (how many hours wasted figuring that one out?), and don't have bizarre non-localized error messages? My guess is the
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by tayistay 7y ago
Why do you find Pd so much better? FWIW, Radiohead used Max/MSP live IIRC. Aphex Twin has used it. Neither are "multimedia performance buffoonery". Though I love your characterization because I've been subjected to plent
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by tayistay 7y ago
Proving my main point--that the semantics are interesting--by way of nitpick and ad hominem.
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by tayistay 7y ago
Sorry, I should have specified that the third object is a unary operator (was thinking just print). The point is that it can execute something twice, and that differs from a proper flow-based language. The main point is that the semantics
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by tayistay 7y ago
Max and Pd are interesting languages. Quoting the original designer, Miller Puckette [0]: "The design of Max breaks many of the rules of computer science orthodoxy, sometimes for reasons of practicality and sometimes of style." Au
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by tayistay 7y ago
- Will Blender put the competition out of business? Maya, C4D, Modo, ZBrush, etc. are all rather expensive, and Blender covers so many workflows. - How could one build new and better 3D software when competing with free and good enough? - D
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by tayistay 7y ago
Lafayette, the town in the article, is nearly an hour away from SF by train. Should we really be building more housing relatively far away from the jobs? The trains and roads are packed. What about focusing on high density housing that&#x27
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by tayistay 7y ago
How could I forget the bugs? We've failed at doing some simple things (like tooltips on styled buttons on macOS). An Apple engineer [0] said the nested generics were used for SwiftUI because it makes diffing view hierarchies easy and m
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by tayistay 7y ago
I've been probably jumping the gun on using SwiftUI in my app. It shows some promise conceptually, but I've encountered some severe pain points. - UI that is more stateful (like text fields, which have a selection range, etc.) are