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by trzy 4y ago
Question: where did you learn 3D rendering in the 1980’s? How was this knowledge disseminated? How much was “solved” at the time?
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by trzy 4y ago
This is a “debate” that exists only on HN. Laptops are not what propelled Apple to become the most valuable company in the world and their importance inside the company reflected that until fairly recently.
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by trzy 4y ago
Research on finding a legitimate use case ;)
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by trzy 4y ago
You’re right, they’ve moved on from periodicals and discussion groups to laptop usage for hours at a time :)
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by trzy 4y ago
Historically, cafes were social forums where people gathered for hours at a time to read and converse. Maximizing absolute profit by optimizing customer throughput is the modern take. But that’s not what cafes are for and so you should not
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by trzy 4y ago
True but the thorny question is not “what happened” but “what happened that was important?” What do we focus on investigating and how do we connect it to a broader narrative (and when writing a paper, a book, or a lecture, there is always a
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by trzy 4y ago
I don’t understand the point about the difficulty of grayboxing with Unity. Can you elaborate? All my projects start with programmer art — often just the built-in primitive (cubes, spheres, cylinders, planes).
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by trzy 4y ago
Put a bunch of smart, pragmatic people in a room and you’ll only end up with the current state of the software industry. The stricter the rules, the more durable the movement. He could definitely benefit from coming across as more pleasant
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by trzy 5y ago
It was not due to terrain but to Europe's encastellation. The first two invasions of Poland were devastating because the country's villages lacked stone fortifications and were instead still based around traditional Slavic wooden
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by trzy 5y ago
Reasonable-sounding people in the West will — already are — argue that the combined economies of Poland, the Baltic States, Romania, etc. are not worth WWIII and that a comfortable and secure Russia will want to reintegrate into the global
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by trzy 5y ago
The planes themselves are irrelevant. Poland supplied them and retaliation would be punitive.
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by trzy 5y ago
No, NATO has plenty of wiggle room to decide not to retaliate in order to prevent further escalation. And furthermore, you might see a flat out refusal to honor treaty obligations to avoid “the unthinkable”. EDIT: and remember 1939. They ca
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by trzy 5y ago
Bad move. This opens up Polish airbases to retaliation by Russian ballistic and cruise missiles. If push comes to shove, NATO Article 5 will not be invoked for Poland’s sake (Western European nations, the UK, and the US will not be willing
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by trzy 5y ago
I would treat threats of nuclear weapons as bluffs. He doesn’t want to perish in an inferno and a first strike is hard to justify over a mere military humiliation on foreign soil. Rather more likely are cyber attacks on infrastructure here
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by trzy 5y ago
Agreed but the Russians have known for a long time what they’re planning. The betting market is now looking backwards.
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by trzy 5y ago
Shows how useless the prediction markets are if they’re integrating information this late.
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by trzy 5y ago
I worked on AR at one of the FAANGs. Game developers as far as the eye could see. It’s definitely a transferable skill set. Any job that hires you because you can be productive in some particular obscure stack (like AWS) is going to be bori
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by trzy 5y ago
This is really cool but I wish the code were available. It seems that increasingly it is becoming the norm not to release the training code. The paper seems thorough, though. I can think of some great applications of this and I hope that fr
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by trzy 5y ago
This problem will become more acute as all-day wearable AR devices become mainstream and the state of the world is recorded and parsed by a distributed network of them. You’ll be able to check the quasi-real-time and historical states of a
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by trzy 5y ago
Interestingly, when I’m in the Bay Area, I find myself calling restaurants and picking up the food myself because it’s significantly faster than any delivery service.
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by trzy 5y ago
Are any emulators set up to properly simulate these persistence effects? Seems to me that it would properly involve passing in the last N frames to a shader to allow for time integration. I don’t think that’s how RetroArch works but I could
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Show HN: Turn your home into VR laser tag(youtube.com)
2 points by trzy 5y ago|2 comments
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by trzy 5y ago
Thanks! It was a surprising amount of effort to get it working and I didn’t want to skimp on the docs :)
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by trzy 5y ago
There is a difference between understanding 10, 100, and maybe 1000+ but beyond that I'm not so sure. Who really understands a 100k code base they didn't write themselves except at a high level anyway? I think once a developer acc
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Show HN: Faster R-CNN object detector implemented in PyTorch and TensorFlow 2(github.com)
15 points by trzy 5y ago|2 comments
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by trzy 5y ago
Reading this made me picture a future in a few years where programmers grind leetcode for low-paying FAANG jobs competing against millions of new remote entrants into the job market for whom the salaries are worth it.
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by trzy 5y ago
That’s how it looks from the outside but internally, Apple is also turbulent and decentralized. Products are incubated by engineering teams and only much later in the process do HI and ID get involved. PMs analogous to Google’s don’t seem t
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by trzy 5y ago
The SV “campus culture” is a contributing factor to the area’s overall social dullness. The downsides of this are not immediately apparent but there is an opportunity cost to eating all your dinners with the same group of (mostly) guys and
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Show HN: A full AR helicopter action game built as a Snap lens(youtube.com)
3 points by trzy 5y ago|0 comments
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by trzy 5y ago
https://github.com/trzy/FasterRCNN I don’t think it’s worthy of posting on the front page of HN but hopefully some folks stumble upon it and find it worth a look :)

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