uglycoyote

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by uglycoyote 2y ago
This looks neat. I'm interested in some of the more advanced exercises like the Rick Beato one here ( https://app.captrice.io/?eid=ph79of6zlotm8y24mc4 ) but a couple of things prevented me from truly attempting it: Firs
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
yes, the title of this post should be, "Zed, a collaborative Mac-only code editor....". I also find it kind of obnoxious that their front page says they are focused on making the world's best code editor without mentioning th
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
I'm a game developer but not specifically a graphics programmer. Although I work with modern graphics APIs and GLSL shaders in my day job, when my 13 year old recently graduated from wanting to program in Scratch or Python to wanting
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
which is why the title should have been "discover volunteer opportunities around the US"
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
if you're targeting enterprise clients, they may insist that your course fit in to their existing LMS (learning management system). A bunch of large corporations use these old and stodgy technologies and require learning materials to
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
Compilers have always been making guesses about what the most likely code path is behind the scenes, but it still needs to behave correctly in the case where it was wrong (that will just be the less-optimal code path). All these attribut
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
this resonates with me.. I fell in love with python because it made it really easy to write 100 to 1000 like I scripts that I could whip out in no time and make something happen. I still love it for that. But I fell out of love with it wo
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
hmmm.. they don't seem to really explain the rules of the game here. Doesn't the length of time it takes to crack a password depend on the rate at which you are allowed to try different guesses at the password prompt, and whether
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
Very frustrating article to read. The article is setting up a straw man and attacking it. He is acting like everyone else thinks: 1) edges are the only important features in images and 2) line drawings can only represent edges. Who are t
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
I'm in the field but don't actually use USD so when I heard some colleagues talking about it I googled to try to figure out what they were talking about... but was unable to find anything that wasn't talking about currency.
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
it seems to me, if there is one discussion forum where you should be able to point out that a website it broken for technical reasons and why, it is HN. I found this comment interesting (because it explained why the content was completely u
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
in my experience HDMI works better. I have had Dell 4K monitors both at my home and my work, on three different PCs all have the exact same issue: with DisplayPort I can't get more that 30hz and the mouse is so delayed that it is pra
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
I was disappointed in that example for a different reason. it ran on my phone, but when I pinch -zoomed (which is what I assumed a zoom widget built for web was supposed to support) it kept zooming towards the same point, which was a boring
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by uglycoyote 3y ago
I think you still need to explain further. it is not clear why you think the author is being annoying. it sounds like you are agreeing with the author in your last sentence. I'm confused.
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
> in context learning using large language models In which context is it learning the language models of what? If it's learning the language models using a different context than the context of the company I work for, then it'
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
I'm confused about the premise here. The power of self-hosting such a thing is presumably that you would be able to train it on your own company's codebase as a corpus of examples to help other people in the company know how to
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
I'm confused... you are right that it takes no additional torque to keep a frictionless rotor rotating at the same angular velocity, but in the real world there is friction and air resistance where you have to keep applying torque to k
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
regarding accessibility..from what I have heard, other cultures have much different styles of sarcasm which might impede their ability to understand that something you have said is sarcastic. e.g. Japan is known to have a reputation of not
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
I find if you avoid the use of any function that has the word use in it, react is a lot more useful and usable.
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
I live on the opposite planet. basically every bug that I have ever had in python over my 15 years of using it has had to do with a type issue. So the increased use of types and python and ability to express type concepts in python is the
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
the Abracadabra refactoring plugin helps and gives a few more options. But Jetbrains has always been strong in the refactoring department so it is probably going to always have a leg up on VSCode. Even with the Abracadabra plugin I find i
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
There were some paragraphs of the history of luddites that I found fascinating, but when the article turned in to a book review of Frankenstein, he lost me unfortunately.
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
I'm skeptical about vi/vim but I like to watch videos like these occasionally to see what I'm missing out on. But I lost interest here as soon as he said he was going to avoid using regular expressions. Of course you would
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
We only need to look at the tools department of our nearest box store to predict what will happen. They sell you the kit with two drills and two batteries nice and cheap, and then when you go to buy any other battery powered tools after th
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by uglycoyote 4y ago
has the SAT gotten way easier on recent decades or have students just gotten that much smarter or better at taking it, and universities gotten a lot stricter about accepting students with lower scores? one of the commenters in the linked ar
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
This was interesting in light of an interview I was just listening to yesterday, a CBC podcast [1] talking about the benefits of mass timber (glued wood) for large highrise building construction. There were two guests on, both sounded like
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
What is the Western Digital example that your are referring to? I may have one or two of their products
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
I took it to mean that it was a new type of shell from the perspective of unix/osx users who were presumably their target audience, and who are an audience who might either not know what PowerShell is about our discount it is just a &q
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
Sure.. I get a kick out of twisting the throttle on my Yamaha a couple times but I totally disagree that it is an essential part of the experience. If you could sell me a completely silent but very powerful motorcycle I would buy it. And
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by uglycoyote 5y ago
I felt the opposite. Fist pump in the air when I read the part where they said it would be an electron application. Why? Because I knew what it meant... Rather than trying to roll their own editor and doing a second rate job of it, they w

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