thrax

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91.
by thrax 7y ago
It wasn't Linux but was based on mach Unix iirc. And they weren't cheap.. but they were cheaper than a similar horsepowered SGI workstation at the time, iiarc. But probably 10x the cost of a Windows machine.
92.
by thrax 7y ago
Immediate mode uis are fine for debug displays or for displaying data that's changes every single frame, but for anything else, in a shipping product they are just a waste of resources. The primary wasters are excess memory allocation
93.
by thrax 7y ago
Yeah. Like millions if not billions of dollars.
94.
by thrax 7y ago
Shhh!
95.
by thrax 8y ago
Yawn. Everybody is beating it to internet porn. It's probably the main reason that being seated for long periods isn't killing more people.
96.
by thrax 8y ago
They're also living in them. :/
97.
by thrax 8y ago
Are you a programmer? Because that doesn't sound helpful. If I didn't have internet at home, I basically wouldn't learn.
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by thrax 8y ago
And by 10 years, I mean 25 and counting, but I don't count the first 15 since Im self taught and there wasn't much of any internet then.. so even if I sucked.. I was still an expert compared to the next guy in the phone book.
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by thrax 8y ago
Why are you writing your own 2s complement and Huffman coding? Better people than you or me have already written that stuff. The larger question is why did you get into computing in the first place? Focus on that.. everybody is a moron unti
100.
by thrax 8y ago
Exactly my thoughts on this.. if you could detect when the network was getting saturated or over fitted, spawn new layers. Maybe this would allow starting with much simpler networks, operating on lower rez inputs, and then scaling then up a
101.
by thrax 8y ago
Game dev in my 40s here. I have the same problem. The way I mitigate it is by sampling lots of games and just giving myself permission to just do that. You gotta figure all creative persuits are like this. Winemakers can't drink all th
102.
by thrax 8y ago
Voice on my pixel 3 is incredible. I normally have problems with voice recognition but this understands me better than some friends I have. It really is magical.
103.
by thrax 8y ago
Browser compatibility is improving because the incompatible browsers are dying off.
104.
by thrax 8y ago
Magnesium definitely helps. Restless leg runs in my family. Another thing to try: a glass of shweppes tonic water (the kind with quinine in it). That works for me when RL is so bad I can't sleep. My poor wife has bruises on her legs so