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by zero_iq 9y ago
This case was discussed on HN a few days ago, and from the comments there it seems there may be prior art from a 1997 MUD, which has been previously used to defend against similar patents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by zero_iq 9y ago
I always think back to when I had a 120MB hard disk in the early 90s. It contained multiple editors, raytracers, games, music editors + music, images, paint programs, multiple programming languages and development kits, a multi-tasking oper
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by zero_iq 9y ago
This has a lot in common with Progressive Buffers, and works with arbitrary geometry not just voxels: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~psander/docs/progbuffer.pdf If vertex clustering is used as the simplification algorithm,
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Running smoothly. Smooth as the cream cheese on your bagel.
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by zero_iq 9y ago
I think you probably confused GEOS (C64 OS/GUI) with the Atari ST's GEM, GEMDOS, or GDOS. Lots of similar names!
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Random noise isn't necessarly a hindrance -- it can help. Contrary to intuition, the presence of random noise can actually make detectable a signal that is otherwise below the minimum detection threshold. See, e.g. stochastic resonance
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Do I know what I'm talking about? Yes, and no. Yes, I know about GPUs and graphics programming, and no, I don't know the specifics of the Star Citizen game engine, other than being an interested follower of their YouTube channel,
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by zero_iq 9y ago
No, he means 64-bit. Most games use 32-bit floats, (which pose far greater practical precision/range issues in many scenarios involving multiple scales and reasonable distances) and this is what most GPU hardware has focused on until r
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by zero_iq 9y ago
But that doesn't contradict your parent poster's wish in any way. Read your quote again carefully. He says he did NOT seek professional help about this. (Only about other issues, and seems he was never given good advice). He didn&
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Actually, a warp drive is permitted by general relativity assuming it's possible to create 'negative mass': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive Of course, that's not a small assumption.
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Indeed. It was (is?) pretty well known, but I've not heard it mentioned for a long time. With all the fashionable modern RPC and serialisations around nowadays, perhaps the original Pyro is now obscure enough that the name can be reuse
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Also Cython: start with pure Python and add types and other annotations to get the performance gains of static compilation (to C Python extension).
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Cherry-picking / confirmation bias.
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by zero_iq 9y ago
I think he's referring to this classic article (or one of its follow-ups): http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Just going to chip in here to mention LMDB, which essentially provides an mmap btree database with single writer + multi-reader snapshot concurrency, ACID transactions, and is extremely robust. If you think something may benefit from a shar
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by zero_iq 9y ago
A point I made myself, and I didn't say otherwise. I also clearly mentioned that was the formal definition, not a working definition. In mathematics and computer science that is indeed the proper definition. And HackerNews is definit
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by zero_iq 9y ago
What you are describing might be called a computational method or process. "Algorithm" has been formalized over the years to have a very well defined technical definition: To be considered an algorithm, a method must be: 1. Finite
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by zero_iq 9y ago
I am rather stunned that the entire global bitcoin network, with its colossal combined computing power, and staggering electricity consumption, is only capable of sustaining 7 tps. The level of inefficiency here is mind-boggling. Surely thi
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Nice, but isn't this basically just dribbble.com lite? What sets it apart?
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by zero_iq 9y ago
Try actually following those instructions. They don't work. There is a step missing, and you may get warnings even if you know to hit escape first.
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by zero_iq 10y ago
My god, they're almost as bad as books.
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by zero_iq 10y ago
I was thinking it was an odd choice to post a jpeg image of a font screenshot, but that site seems to serve PNG images with a .jpg extension... odd!
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by zero_iq 10y ago
Judging by some of the 'professional' code I've read over the years, I'd say that's not a particularly high bar...! At least if you're horrified by code you wrote, it shows you care, and that shows some promise
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by zero_iq 10y ago
Talking of the Atari ST, there was an excellent example of this colour-switching in an ST software utility called Photochrome, which could use overscan effects, multiple palette switches per line, plus the colour switching technique in this
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by zero_iq 10y ago
A few years ago Disney were working on simulating bumpmaps on touch-screens [1] using dynamic variation of friction achieved using electrovibration [2], but I've not heard anything about it recently. I wonder what happened to the resea
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by zero_iq 10y ago
I'm learning Swedish, so that was the first I tried, and it worked perfectly for me. (Firefox 51.01, MacOS X 10.11)
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by zero_iq 10y ago
I assume that by 'obscure' you mean 'outside your-state, USA'. Here in the UK, rectangular manhole covers are the overwhelming majority.
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by zero_iq 10y ago
Works fine here (Firefox 51, MacOS 10.11, 2009 iMac). Is your WebGL definitely enabled? Check Graphics section in about://support
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by zero_iq 10y ago
This was my impression too. Pretty sure I read it in an Atari magazine back in the 80s (Most likely "ST Format").
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by zero_iq 10y ago
> with that technology will come surveillance and... Wrong tense. This has already happened. What 'will come' is more of it.

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