xeonmc

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by xeonmc 2y ago
My life for Aiur!
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by xeonmc 2y ago
To shreds you say? Well how were the trees? To shreds you say?
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-27
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Gimbal lock purely a consequence of implementation detail, completely independent from the three modes of interaction. Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your comment.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
For freely rotated objects, trackball rotation is only ever appropriate for touch screens, mice should use tumbler instead so that you don't have to pay attention to the absolute position of the cursor.
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1. you meant near clipping plane, not far 2. clipping is a GPU fixed function done on x,y,z axes separately, so it will always be a planar cut 3. the effect you're talking about can be entirely removed by setting the frustum's nea
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> ...is too complicated, no one understands it. Quoth the AI researcher.
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Riot has a habit of doing this. See their "technical blog" about their reworked League Client where they basically reinvented Electron but worse. The client is still heavily complained for its poor performance and stability by the
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Thus we arrive at a new unit: electric-football-fields
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Neat, the concept is so elegantly obvious: - your dataset is already an analytic representation of stretched spheres. Just assume that they are a hard shape of plasma with uniform density throughout the volume. - for each pixel perform ray
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by xeonmc 2y ago
# A tragedy has befallen all mankind Robert Edwin House, 261, President, CEO, and sole proprietor of the New Vegas Strip, industrialist and technologist, founder, President, and CEO of the multi-billion-dollar pre-war robotics a
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and this was how Randy started covid
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Management's favourite equation: Power = Work Over Time
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1. Yes, take the logarithm, especially if your data domain is a constitutive quantity (i.e. there exists an unequovical "absolute zero"). It converts multiplicative scale factors into translational offsets. If your data domain hav
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This post essentially described Pincipal Component Analysis in its entirety. Trying to find eigencomponents in a mixing of incompatible units means that your result is completely arbitrary to the scale factor of your units. And "fixing
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by xeonmc 2y ago
so the civil engineering counterpart of agile development?
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by xeonmc 2y ago
What if you clarify explicitly that violence is not meant literally? Maybe something like “The Silicon Bourgeoisie should be figuratively guillotined.”
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Reminds me of how Microsoft require paid Office subscriptions for screens larger than 10.1 inches, but the entry level iPad For students just so happens to start at 10.2 inches…
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Evocative of the "power user" scene from Iron Sky[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWovt5-wfk
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My theory that it was created by Terry Davis in his previous birth. Either that, or https://xkcd.com/593/
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Well-illustrated in the article “How Microsoft Lost the API War”[0]: The Raymond Chen Camp believes in making things easy for developers by making it easy to write once and run anywhere (well, on any Windows box). The MSDN Magazi
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Re: source #2, I believe this is a better reference: https://old.reddit.com/comments/1f06cpm
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also note that Mohs is a qualitative ranking rather than a linear scale. Huuuuuge difference in hardness at the top end.[0] [0] https://geology.com/minerals/photos/mohs-vickers-comparison-...
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Can this be embedded into a game engine to enable performant Lua scripting?
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I’ve always preferred the Cave Johnson version.
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It's a Badge of Honor in this case.
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not quite, sampling theorem specifically refers to aliasing, whereas uncertainty is the general reciprocal correspondence.
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Neat, how does it compare with TailDrop?
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Windows 7 Icons Design Guideline(learn.microsoft.com)
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Do you mean that the fans are dust proof but small bugs may be too much for it to handle?

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