xeonmc

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by xeonmc 4y ago
I propose that a more catchy name would help its adoption. "Org-y" would suffice.
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by xeonmc 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33188484
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Ask HN: Are “normal” vocabulary getting depleted by tech-brand hijacking?
3 points by xeonmc 4y ago|8 comments
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by xeonmc 4y ago
> it works just fine with Windows 10 until today What happened to it?
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by xeonmc 4y ago
I disagree: instead humans should drop base-10 entirely everywhere and use base-2 or base-16 instead.
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by xeonmc 4y ago
I fail to see how nuclear fusion is "revolutionary". The principles are simple and has been known for a century.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't anisotropic filtering integrate over trapezoid?
2 points by xeonmc 4y ago|1 comments
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by xeonmc 4y ago
gimbal? And the reflex for keeping the gaze fixed is oculovestibular reflex
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by xeonmc 4y ago
Pushing on solid wall is more effective than pushing on air. Shockwaves are effectively momentarily solid air that you could push on. RDE basically uses shockwaves as turbine blades. (technically I should say "incompressible vs compres
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by xeonmc 4y ago
floats = floating decimal point (or perhaps it should be called binary points) Posits have floating range as well as floating precision, so doubly floaty. Therefore I propose that they should be called "Lofties".
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Ask HN: What do you use GitHub Issues (& equiv) for, outside of development?
2 points by xeonmc 4y ago|1 comments
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by xeonmc 4y ago
God please no, Unreal Engine 3 forced that approach which is why games derived from that engine all had wonky mouse inputs
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by xeonmc 4y ago
That's not quite what I meant when I said cubic are generally 3D. I'm saying that flat-span cubic Beziers are a tiny subset of possible general-span cubic Beziers. The degrees of freedom pertain to the _embedding dimensions_ (coul
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by xeonmc 4y ago
At the very least people could have the decency to draw it as a scissoring X to show that the control point actually represents something tangible, and that the inscribing parallelogram describes the boundaries that the mixture fractions in
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Ask HN: Why are quadratic Bezier curves described so obtusely?
6 points by xeonmc 4y ago|5 comments
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by xeonmc 4y ago
Could this potentially be integrated as an extensible platform for moddable gamelogic, like Quake did with their .qvm bytecode Quake-Virtual-Machines?
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by xeonmc 4y ago
TEX Shinobi
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Show HN: Using rubber bands to create a base256 glyph system(imgur.com)
1 points by xeonmc 4y ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 4y ago
So this is basically a fancy game-specific VPN isn't it? How is it different from Steam Networking which lets players connect to their closest endpoint and routes traffic through Valve's backbone? The only way this service could o
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by xeonmc 4y ago
I wonder if the initial choice to $ and $$ syntax was to keep the syntax identical to VSCode's built-in KaTeX rendering for Markdown preview? You'd think that they could just port over the VSCode implementation directly which alre