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by wildmanx 5y ago
A more suitable title is perhaps "Collision Detection In Videogames Is Hard: The Story of Alf" There are many more areas that the HN crowd would be interested in where "collisions" are a thing. Self-driving cars, hash fu
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by wildmanx 5y ago
US style, to name a few: > - openly friendly towards dictators / other regimes Trump cuddling with Kim-Jong Un and being a good buddy of Putins. > - suppressive, openly anti-liberal laws US Republicans are working on overturning
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by wildmanx 5y ago
So, just like the US then.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
A shorthand memory hook to remember "Tarzan"|(Tarzan) is that this is similar to conditional evaluation of boolean expressions. For example, in Python you often do foo = foo or [ 23, 42 ] Or more generally: foo = foo or ConstructS
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by wildmanx 5y ago
No, it's not hypocrisy but a tradeoff. What does society lose if enlisting before 21 is banned? Most of its recruits. The military would be in ruins, the strength of the country on the battlefield in jeopardy. What does society lose if
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by wildmanx 5y ago
What's getting confusing with this discussion is that the title has changed. Now it's just "Poisson's Equation". But before it was "Most Powerful Tool not yet in your Toolbox" which was really off topic
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by wildmanx 5y ago
And interestingly, both are connected. If d_i somewhat hand-wavingly expresses the vector d_i = (0, ..., 0, 1, 0, ... 0) with the 1 at position i, then given matrix M you can do f(i, j) := d_i^T * M * d_j The RHS is using classical matrix m
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by wildmanx 5y ago
"Completely predictable" is different from "This would minimize the probability of being fenced in by the four ghosts." no?
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I didn't intend to demand "everything I see has to appeal to me". I was merely pointing out that the meaning and impact of a headline are relative to the target audience and this was an example that illustrated the difference
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Also, what's confusing is that algebra usually uses matrices to describe linear functions from n-dimensional to m-dimensional vector spaces. Matrix has n rows, m columns, you give it an n-dim vector and after matrix multiplication you
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by wildmanx 5y ago
This is a typical issue with HN posts. Some poor soul wrote a somewhat competent and maybe even lengthy blog post / article about something they really care about and are knowledgeable about. It may be directed at a specific audience,
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I see your argument, and after having browsed around on your homepage and such, I see that you are a reasonable guy. Is it really so hard to believe that there are legitimate reasons for wanting to anonymously acquire a domain name? One of
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Thank you, that's what I tried to say.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I think the key property of the GPL is its virality. It's part of the vision that if I can use some software, I can also change it, to adapt it to my needs, to learn from it, to build something on top of it. I can disassemble my bi
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Asking developers to own QA is broken because developers are naturally biased towards the happy path This overlooks that "no customer calls with product issues that dev needs to get fixed asap on a Saturday evening" is part o
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by wildmanx 5y ago
But then you are on your own, tooling-wise.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Sounds great, but your reasoning is not actually based in a solid scientific basis. It "kinda makes sense", sure, but is more anthropocentric than based on evidence. For the longest time people defined humans as "we're t
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> your well-performed outrage over fears of harassment Sorry, but this phrase illustrates your lack of good faith in this discussion.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Plus, many companies outsource many services to some SaaS third party, like payments, order tracking, even inventory and other stuff. They come with funny domain names and it's borderline impossible to tell what's legit and what&#
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The difference is that it's a judgement call when to include attribution, whom to attribute with how much, and overall whether something is too close to be counted as a copyright or other license violation or not. Intelligent humans so
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by wildmanx 5y ago
And maybe that poor soul agrees with you and that's why they left? Cause management wanted X and they opposed X?
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Why is the top thread on HN about everybody suing everybody? Geez people, calm down. Nobody was hurt, nobody suffered any loss, we all had a good laugh, and hopefully we all learned a lesson about what technology does, which responsibilitie
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Spoiler: That's not even part of his "lessons learned". I know whom I won't hire for my company IT or devops or whatnot.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Now I get why a popular xmas time pastry in Sweden is saffron-based.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> I woke and the backup was finished! I wiped the VPS Just this single line made me scream in horror. Let me get this straight. He launched some backup command, it didn't output anything for hours, he suspected it hadn't done a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
In other words: Many pre-civil-war cotton farms had great success in the market. That doesn't legitimize slavery though.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I so far haven't heard an anecdote from somebody claiming "I experienced internal competition and it was sooo great!". It's anecdotes from people having experienced anxiety, toxicity and overall bad work climate leading
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It's the exact opposite. If you acquire a competing company, you ideally assimilate the employee work force and integrate them into your organization. You welcome them and make them feel home from day one. At least those that you keep.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It's been reported that it's the Trump management style as well. Both in business as well as among his kids as well as the WH. (Not drawing other parallels to nazis here, please don't accuse me of that.)
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by wildmanx 5y ago
That's the cold number's game. But that excludes a lot of factors which the original article is about. The moment you have internal competition, you build conflicts and distrust. The fallout on both teams may be much worse, in the

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