zdfjkhiuj

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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Pixar didn't use ray tracing much until 2013 with Monster's University. https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/21/4446606/how-pixar-changed... Nowadays ray tracing is common, but as recently as five y
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to describe those as hacks. Those techniques are also used for animated movies, which take many CPU-years to render. Those "hacks" are used even when artist have huge amounts of hardware, no real-t
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Imagine that you run a charity. Your job is to save lives. Should you spend every penny you get on medicine and spend nothing on IT? Of course not. It's impossible to run a charity like that. You must have computers, and you would pref
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Given that your goal is to make toys, the tradeoffs of cryptocurrencies are unacceptable. The whole architecture of cryptocurrencies is based around extreme security and trust. Who needs that level of security for a toy? Why would I tolerat
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
The company they need to beat is AMD. AMD's integrated GPU's are thoroughly trouncing Intel's and are good enough for light gaming. Their weak integrated graphics hurt their core business of CPU sales. They certainly want to
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
That's a pity. I was thinking that maybe Mozilla was getting back on track and making a no-nonsense web browser. Instead they're diverting resources to yet another gimmicky fad.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
It's the truth. If reality really is black and white, it's not oversimplifying to acknowledge that. Modern American politics are not complicated.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Most people aren't psychopaths. The man was crazy, but he was still a person and didn't deserve to die. You should celebrate the fact that even people who he antagonized were upset by his death. Even if they reacted irrationally,
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
The woman in your video is just plain wrong. She's as wrong as if she claimed the sky is green or 1 + 1 = 14. The Common Core doesn't specify curriculum. Period. Anyone who cites a specific problem or worksheet as evidence the Com
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Whether or not it's ambiguous doesn't matter much to me. It's confusing. That sentence is bad writing , Oxford comment or no. The goal of language is to understand others and be understood yourself. This kind of formal analy
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
I don't think the blockchain is a good technology. Traditional databases or something like Git solve the same problems better. I have an ideological desire to see more trustless and peer-to-peer systems and I think they'll take ho
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
He's right, but I don't like that he's the person saying this. Our society has a serious problem with giving too much weight to the opinions of rich people and celebrities. Soros is not an expert on anything except investing.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
One problem with that is Javascript. Users download and run dozens of untrusted programs a day. I have JS mostly disabled in my browser, but that leaves websites partially broken.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
>The reason was data dependencies that I couldn't see, even in the assembly. I don't understand why that would matter. Aren't GPUs in-order? I don't know the low-level architecture of GPUs at all.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
>People switched because the features and interface were far superior. No one should use the web interface, let alone "techies." Use a real email client and everything behaves identically.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
It's tiny and ubiquitous. Even tiny VMs and embedded devices have Vim.
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by zdfjkhiuj 9y ago
Someone with a HotMail account has managed to keep a consistent address for about twenty years. That is a good thing. The idea that they should ditch HotMail for the functionally equivalent GMail just because GMail is popular is, of cours