xedarius

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by xedarius 9y ago
I like is the fact the game is written in fixed point maths. It's easy to forget that when this game was written computers either a) didn't have an FPU or b) the FPU was so slow it was useless. I bet if I searched through the code
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by xedarius 9y ago
Cool - I can have a Utah teapot cosy for my teapot.
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by xedarius 9y ago
What I like about this write up is it's end-to-end. Most of the ML write-ups leave you with a Keras model. Leaving many questions around how you turn the model into a product. Especially if you have to move the model to a non python pl
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by xedarius 9y ago
That problem increases when you throw a 4k monitor into the mix.
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by xedarius 9y ago
They're waiting for you Gordon ... in the test chamber.
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by xedarius 9y ago
I recently bought a Ryzen. I was moving from a mac to a pc and I hadn't owned a pc in over 10 years. Thing is, 10 years ago my pc had 4 cores .. and at the time of choosing Ryzen it was the only consumer processor (with a reasonable pr
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by xedarius 9y ago
I like it. I personally don't have an affinity with the colours. Red for amazing? Red, to my mind is danger, and I would naturally associate that with bad things. I think green for an amazing day. Also I'd find it easier to read i
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by xedarius 9y ago
I'd argue they're top of the tree in gaming consoles, but on the whole I agree.
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by xedarius 9y ago
Can also be prevented by rotation composition order of Y,X,Z (where Y is up and Z is forward)
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by xedarius 9y ago
When I get home maybe I can take some screen shots. Maybe it will illustrate what I'm talking about. I take your point about flexibility and you're 100% correct on the gaming aspect.
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by xedarius 9y ago
There's quite a bit. The services dialog is blurry. The dialog that details the network devices is blurry. I have an ongoing battle with IntelliJ and PyCharm, fonts are all broken. Steam is totally broken, not to mention the games. I g
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by xedarius 9y ago
I agree and have taken time to build a PC recently, after living in Mac world for 10 years. The hardware you can get is quite amazing (this is what I built https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/6FXPxr ). Everything works and it
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by xedarius 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. And yet these kind of puzzles still form the back bone of many technical interviews. Which further grinds out any enthusiasm to get me out of the job I'm in.
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by xedarius 9y ago
Missing a trick these hackers, they don't want to ask for a one of payment, they want to turn this business of theirs into a cashflow. Pay X a month and we will keep the data safe. X could be a much smaller number than 100k. As we all
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by xedarius 9y ago
Seems pretty harsh to me, and had you successfully answered that question I'm not quite sure what they'd have learnt. If I were put on the spot with those constraints I'd suggest a lookup table. I'm currently looking for
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by xedarius 9y ago
It's quite common in investment banking. A bunch of them do it. https://www.quora.com/Could-Goldman-Sachs-strategy-of-firing... I think Barclays also used to do it. It's shitty thing to do to people. But you don&#
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by xedarius 9y ago
Agreed, why not let me choose though.
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by xedarius 9y ago
I hope Amazon do something great here. Delivery firms are all awful. They only have one job, get the package to me. So why are you delivering it at 11am when you know I'm at work? And then again tomorrow, and again, and then leave it a
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by xedarius 9y ago
Is this the first domino? Will France (and other European countries) then turn around and say, ah oui we too don't think Uber is fit to operate. Uber is pretty crappy in London, I had one the other night and the guy wasn't even th
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by xedarius 9y ago
Know this, I'm cancelling my holiday just to show you and more importantly my manager exactly how serious this is. Just to reiterate, you've all made me cancel my holiday, you bad, me good.
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by xedarius 10y ago
Reminds me of another piece of magic I used to use during my Amiga demo days. Infinite Bobs. A Bob was a BlitterObject, a graphic rendered by the hardware, not dissimilar to a sprites. People would try many things to render as many Bobs as
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by xedarius 10y ago
Maybe they should rent them out to the UK, we've got loads of spare prisoners.
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by xedarius 10y ago
Without doubt do the Andrew Ng course on Machine Learning. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning It's excellent.
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by xedarius 10y ago
Very little beats TA, not even C&C. I wish I was playing TA right now.
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by xedarius 10y ago
I like creating things and I like entertaining people, that's why I originally became a games programmer. I love cooking, mostly for the same reasons. I think I would be a chef at a fancy restaurant or maybe a restaurant of my own.
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by xedarius 10y ago
Feels exactly like how they abstracted DirectX from direct graphics driver access, which coincidentally was called HAL.
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by xedarius 10y ago
This is 100% accurate in every aspect.
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by xedarius 10y ago
Generally market makers (banks) try to end the day with a flat position, and hence a flat risk profile. However prop trading (usually hedge funds) take more risk (due long term views) and are not so concerned about flat positions. There is
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by xedarius 10y ago
Remember when we missed 'The Internet' ... let's not miss 'AI'
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by xedarius 10y ago
What is not obvious from some of the photos (in particular the Cheesecake factory chicken) is how big the portion sizes are.

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