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>> But Qt is also significantly harder to develop and maintain, especially if you want optimized application for minimal hardware. If by that you mean it's easier to hack together some awful JS+HTML compared to hacking together
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I don't believe algorithms decide the direction of markets, but it's pretty clear that they amplify effects triggered by real-world conditions. HFT trading is just a way to make money, and things like large market swings, high tra
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Except that it doesn't. There are no forms of life on earth that have been growing exponentially for millions of years. Sooner or later growth and expansion always hits its limits and populations stabilize or decrease.
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Yes I know about that, but that kind of defeats the purpose, right? If I have to type 'pizza' to get a symbol for pizza, I can just use the word itself. Or do people use them to communicate with illiterates or people who speak a d
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What I don't understand is how it is even possible that anyone would use the emoji's in a different way. There's now such a ridiculous number of them that it's basically impossible to find any of them except the most rec
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It's not that simple. The basic idea behind path tracing maps very well to GPU's, so you can get huge speedups there (10x-100x depending on the scene, geometry, representation, etc). For example path tracing signed distance fields
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I understand what you were saying, but my point is that it doesn't make a lot of sense. What I'm saying is that you can have a system that is great for probably close to 95% of all health care needs, at lower cost and for all of y
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Right... According to the WHO [1] the US health care system scores first on exactly one metric, which is cost... It boggles the mind that someone could rationalize a healthcare system that leaves millions of people uninsured, bankrupts and
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>> What's the Dutch perspective on American media? My perspective on American media is that even though everyone has access to (mostly) unbiased, factual sources, quality investigative journalism, uncensored internet etc, for s
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Just get a power bank for that, way more useful than carrying extra batteries that only fit your phone.
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Couldn’t agree more. I guess this is one of these insights that come with experience ;-)
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Basically all your objections boil down to the fact that the UniFi's are not very easy to manage. I'd say none of this matters if you just want to have a few access points around the house for a WiFi network that currently runs on
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>> Don't bother with repeaters. Get normal access points, and install several of them if you need to disperse the range around a large area/building/complex. Or better yet, buy a bunch of Ubiqity UniFi's, which w
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>> Now it's hard to get her to navigate to a URL and (even using Google) she struggles to find the information she needs because she's not used to accurate queries anymore. Haha, if my mother needs to navigate to a URL, sh
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Yes, it's relatively simple things like this that can actually improve car safety right now , no self-driving capabilities necessary. Automatic braking, lane departure warning, dead-spot detection, driver attention detection, missed s
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I have a similar problem with remixes from trance tracks I listen to regularly. Some of them have literally 30 different remixes, and they keep getting into the 'discover weekly' playlist. I guess these would be coming from the ac
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It just stops working and I cannot enter any text in the editor area anymore, even though all keyboard shortcuts and the terminal area still work. Enabling/disabling the extension fixes the problem, until it occurs again. I've dis
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Thanks, I’ve definitely not given up on VS code considering how soon after I started using it I already liked it as much as I do. So if I somehow manage to isolate/reproduce some of the problems I’m seeing, I will file an issue fo it.
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My setup is just the official, latest release, with the Microsoft plugin for C++, the Vim bindings everyone uses, and one additional plugin for switching between header and source. I customized nothing besides a few keybindings and enabling
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I really wish Microsoft had used a different platform to build VS code on, like C#/Mono, Java, anything except Javascript/Electron basically. I just started using VS code for C++ development, trying to switch from Vim, an I basica
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I can second that. I'm by no means a fan of PulseAudio, I got bitten by it many times in the past, but my experience with Windows and audio over HDMI has been at least as bad. Even with a fully updated Windows 10 and a bog-standard on-
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>> draw government funds away from transit projects that would be a far better investment. Not just government funds, but also car maker funds. I honestly don't understand why all the research in automated driving doesn't
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Automated: yes. Autonomous: no. There's a fundamental difference between the two. Airplane autopilots are basically scripted, and operate fully within the parameters set by the pilot. There is almost no intelligence, and very little ad
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Uhm, no? Even a PC video card from 10 years back can literally render millions of textured polygons (=basically sprites) at a steady 60 fps. Any modern card with programmable shaders would be able to do all the transforms and effects on the
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I never understand why it has to be either one or the other. Either we accept deaths caused by human drivers, or we go full autonomous and we accept deaths by software errors. The way I see it, AI assisted driving is the way to go. Fully au
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Very cool, I've actally thought at making something like this using the OpenCASCADE CAD kernel at some point (I'm familiar with that because we are using it at work). Does LeoCAD itself have built-in capabilities to create the Leg
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Being lazy is a good personality trait to have if you are a developer, as long as you channel your laziness to be more efficient and get more done in less time. This frees up time you can spend thinking, relaxing, or reading/learning a
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Handmade hero [1] mostly, and sometimes Jonathan Blow's compiler programming streams [2]. Not all of these video's are equally interesting, but there's some real gems in there, e.g. where Casey (of HH) hand-optimizes his bili
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That makes no sense at all. Only if you presume you are always going to start with some horrible piece of code that only uses the worst possible algorithms you may get that kind of speedup. And after you got your 100x to 1000x speedup, or i
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Additionally, if a factor 2 improvement by the compiler on top of a factor 4 improvement by using better algorithms and data structures can give you an 8x improvement overall, why would you not take it? Reading through the various comments

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