turtledragonfly

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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
It depends on what the various different layers in between you and the gfx hardware are doing. For instance, see the discussion on this "monitor calibration" shader: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/NsS3Rw In t
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
> it creates forced riders, a problem very rarely addressed Yes, I think that's the idea. I don't think it's inherently a "problem", though [1]. Lots of good things in society have this same pattern. I pay taxes
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Exactly. Just to spell it out some more for any other readers: this is the same reason you want (for example) a large health insurance pool, including young healthy people who don't need that insurance. The idea is to have the health
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Tangentially taking this opportunity to mention the far-superior "Lying and Cheating" version of Stratego, that (as far as I know) my father invented. It makes the game so much more interesting, IMO. Played it a lot as a child. He
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
This is neat! However I still think they'll have to pry my pencil and paper out of my cold, dead hands (: Maybe I'm biased, since I've been drawing a fair amount from a young age, but as I watch these videos, and with every o
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
I enjoy when the nice abstract models we work with are given a course-correction, and we are reminded of the profound, gargantuan complexity of the real world. Sometimes, we get lost in our models and start thinking that they are reality,
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
For another nice discussion of this topic, see this older publication by Blinn (yes that Blinn): https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse576/03sp/readin... In this older terminology, pre-multiplied alp
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
> Gamma rays don't go very far into our atmosphere before getting scattered or absorbed. I think part of the "fear factor" is the idea of a much closer burst happening, dumping vastly more energy our way, which we would ha
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
And as a counterpoint, if you use a well-chosen deterministic sequence, it can make some Monte Carlo methods produce better results faster than true randomness would (quasirandom sequences and all that). So, interestingly, "bad randomn
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Completely unrelated: I was impressed by this interview for being no-BS and interesting. It's such a rare occasion that I actually think to myself "ooh, I wonder if this site has more good articles like this." Never heard of
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Thanks — I had never heard of that (:
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Check out DejaVu Sans Mono[1], if you haven't already. That's what I use for programming. Has good versions of 1LiI0O (etc). [1] https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ (examples in PDF: http://dejavu.sourcefor
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Amen (: Checking uptime on my FreeBSD home server ... 388 days. Probably 15-year-old hardware. That thing's a rock. I can't say I'm very proud of my security posture, though (: One day I'll do boot-to-ZFS and transubsta
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
I agree that overall, documentation is not a "career building" activity, but there are certainly some notable exceptions where the documentation is so good that people rave about it. A few that come to mind: * The Bash manpage
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
Genuinely curious: do you know of any C implementations that do not use a stack for such cases? It seems so prevalent that locally-scoped variables are often referred to as "stack variables" in casual conversation, but I'm cu
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by turtledragonfly 4y ago
I've been using Linux Wacom Project[1] drivers with success, but this seems nice, with its GUI (and supports more things). Using `xsetwacom` can be a bit fiddly to get right. I wonder what happens when both are installed... [1] https: