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by tizzdogg 11y ago
The article specifically mentions that earlier curvy cars had gone out of fashion and sold more poorly than bigger, boxier ones. Hence the trend towards boxy designs. Theres even a picture of a 1930s streamliner.
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I would change "not punishable" to "not punished". Sure you could be punished for all those things, but there just isnt enough political will to do so. Ulbricht's error was being a criminal whose punishment affects
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Yeah, if you're looking for it, you can see the phoenix motif all around San Francisco, not just on flags. It's the symbol of the city.. a city risen from its ashes. I quite like it actually, though I agree the actual flag is not
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
I dont really understand what you are arguing here. Why would you "remove folks who work outside the city" from the numbers? Those people still exist and need a place to park their car. And there are a lot of them, judging by rush
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Of course very, very many people also drive to work if their work is not downtown, outside the city, or otherwise difficult to access via public transport (which is a lot of places in the bay area). Or if they live outside of SF and commute
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by tizzdogg 11y ago
Yeah the cross-section images in the article are very misleading, because they cut off the full width of the buildings on either side. A typical San Francisco lot is 100 feet deep, of which 2/3 or more is usually house and the rest is
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
The problem with leaving units vacant though is it takes those units off the market, driving rents up for the remaining units. That is the end result of overly aggressive rent control, and one of the big problems in San francisco right now.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
I actually know a few homeowners in San Francisco in this situation right now. They have extra units in their building (which is also where they live), and choose to leave it vacant rather than deal with the hassle of rent control. They do
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
It is fairly standard practice in San Francisco for landlords to offer high tens of thousands of dollars to renters for them to move. I have a friend who paid a tenant $60k to move out. This allows them to avoid the complications and restri
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Yes rent control apartments are at market rate. But rent control discourages people from ever moving, so the market of available housing is significantly smaller, thereby driving up prices for the few units that are in the market. It is an
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Well the geography and political climate of San francisco and its surrounding towns make this pretty difficult. It's a small city in a major earthquake zone, with tons of hills, surrounded by water and suburban neighbors who consistent
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Well I do think Oakland California is the most populous and well-known city of that name so it's a resonable assumption that's what the article is about. I dont disagree that it's a good idea to be as clear as possible in tit
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
I suppose if reading literally the first sentence of the article is too much trouble, then yes, that is a problem.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
But only one that is a "neighboring city" to San Francisco (CA).
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
My point, and one of the lessons of this book, is that the things we see in nature are actually NOT that complex. Sure, they are endlessly varied and superficially very complicated, but the rules that govern them are pretty simple. We'
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Because it shows that it just takes simple math and algorithms to make complex beautiful things, and not an all-powerful deity? Some people see the order behind natural beauty as evidence of a designer, but I think this actually demonstates
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Perhaps they should have written the title sequence in Haskell.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Various public restrooms in San Francisco work like that. I have heard of people trying to stay inside to watch the washing happen by tricking the occupancy sensors. I'm not sure if this ends well ever.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Each layer might only have some subset of the objects in the scene, but the lighting on those objects might still use the indirect contribution from all other scene objects. So for example if your scene has objects A, B and C, you might bre
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
I just happened to buy this book the other day after having my first child two weeks ago. What a coincidence to come across this comment. I have to say I'm really enjoying reading through it! I've only tried the triangular-face-im
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
I don't know what you mean by "a few" frames per day, but it sounds like you have a misconception about how it works. Typically many, many thousands of frames are rendered every day, and most of those are rendered multiple ti
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
No, layering just means generating multiple renders for a given shot, which can then be combined to create the final image using 2d compositing software such as Nuke. Full 3d renders are always going to be much slower than just doing image
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
In my experience, typical render times are whatever can get finished overnight. So up to 8 hours or so on average. Many complicated renders will take much, much longer. And then of course many simple things like previews and non-final rende
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Likewise most 3d graphics software like Maya, Houdini, softimage ICE etc. These types of node-based interfaces tend to arise in applications which need high interactivity and have a fairly specific domain. They usually don't scale well
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
And now, number 1. The larch. The larch. I appreciate the joke at least!
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Fascinating article. Iterating over all the possible permutations of notes reminds me of Brian Eno's composition for the chimes of the Long Now clock. They will ring with a different melody every day for 10000 years.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
Gruber also mentioned it recently on one of his talk show episodes. I cant remember which episode, but as I recall he was not a fan of the effort at all and thinks it is not necessary.
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
How is Gezira relevant to the topic of this book? The title says the book is about "graphics programming", but from the description it seems clear that it is primarily about GPU programming, and pixel shaders in particular. I&#x27
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player?
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by tizzdogg 12y ago
I also usually have dozens of terminals open, though my workflow is probably different than most people on HN. I do 3d graphics on linux, so I have a separate desktop for each session of Nuke, Maya, houdini etc that I'm working on, eac

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