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by AlunAlun 2y ago
I came here to say exactly this. Delighted that it’s the top comment (or at least it was when I saw it!). Other examples are Parry (ap Harri), and Pugh (ap Huw) I wonder if there are similar examples from our Celtic cousins? e.g. from Mac o
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
> This is completely false. It's not completely false at all - but it does depend greatly depends on which country you're based in. Where I am, in Spain, your network, and your reputation within it, are _everything_. Good jobs
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
For rendering an individual piece, maybe not; but as part of much larger scene with many objects, animation, and rendering effects, it would place an unnecessary burden on the GPU. It would be much easier to simply have a 3D artist create t
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
This is explicitly a simulation of ocean waves, and ocean waves do not break.
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
This reply is very true and should be higher up. Squatting occurs almost exclusively in second residences, abandoned properties, and places reclaimed by the banks, etc. If you can prove that the house is your primary residence, the police w
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
No, we can’t explicitly establish that. It is of course true that many squatters do so out of financial necessity, but others do so for other reasons: a lifestyle choice, a political choice, or plain freeloading and financial gain - in a sq
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
I disagree. Anyone with a basic understanding of how perspective projection matrices work will understand the article, especially with the code samples and equations. (Edit: and anybody without this understanding won’t be interested in the
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by AlunAlun 2y ago
I suspect what the author takes joy from is more the satisfaction of learning a new skill. Like many things, bike maintenance eventually becomes a chore. Most of my (many) bikes over the last 30 years have been built from the ground up, inc
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by AlunAlun 3y ago
This is very Japanese. My experience was that if you ask for help directly from a stranger, they will stammer and be flustered and not be so helpful; but if you stand around and look like the lost tourist you are, within a minute or two som
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by AlunAlun 4y ago
I suggest, respectfully, that you make an effort to understand the wider context before you make such an aggressive comment. Many people in BCN do not own a car. If they do own one, it is used almost exclusively for getting out of the city
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by AlunAlun 4y ago
Not necessarily, but it doesn’t solve the problem - if you calculate MVP on the CPU with double float precision, when you pass the final matrix to the shader, it will be cast down to single float precision, and cause the issue described.
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by AlunAlun 4y ago
Serious answers (from someone who just raised €10M from European VCs for a pre-revenue, pre-launch company): 1) While US investors can and will invest in Europe, they are more likely to do so at a later stage. 2) Not everybody wants to move
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by AlunAlun 5y ago
I rarely post on HN, but I’m breaking my silence to say that this app is amazing and I can see it changing my life!
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by AlunAlun 5y ago
Specialized and other major bike brands spend a lot on R&D. The reason that you can buy a reasonable quality open mold carbon frame direct from Taiwan these days (and rebrand it as “my great bike brand” before selling it on at a markup,
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by AlunAlun 5y ago
Freeverse.io | Fullstack, Frontend Developers | Full-time | Barcelona, Spain, but REMOTE ok CET +/- 3hrs Our mission is to create Living Assets, the NFT 2.0 platform that will power the next generation digital industry, and reach the m
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by AlunAlun 5y ago
I think at many (most?) universities, an “hour” of tuition is officially recognized as 50 minutes.
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Living Assets – NFT 2.0: A Toolbox for Engagement(medium.com)
1 points by AlunAlun 5y ago|0 comments
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
> in-game virtual goods. But as certificates layered on top of collectibles... I'm not so sure. I agree - the problem with most NFTs at the moment is that you can't actually do anything with them, apart from trade them. There
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
> If I develop something, I am the owner. Funnily enough, it's precisely this attitude which has led to the creation of the product owner role, and Scrum in general. Most developers I know are emphatically NOT good product people (d
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
Step 1: write hello world in console. Step 2: draw the rest of the fucking owl?!
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
I agree the water was weak point, which is why they didn't spend much time looking at it!
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
You're better off using Unity for such projects.
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by AlunAlun 6y ago
Unity pays lip service to AAA but its primary market segment mobile game development (which is nearly half of the entire gaming market).
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by AlunAlun 7y ago
It is very trendy for Barcelona residents (I am one also) to moan about the MWC or ‘gentrification’. It is less trendy to complain about the relatively low unemployment and well-maintained civic infrastructure; both of which are boosted by
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by AlunAlun 7y ago
Of course they can take a cut, just like any physical copy second hand reseller takes a cut. The trick will be demonstrating ownership of digital goods, which is the industry is beginning to invest in things like blockchain tech.
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by AlunAlun 7y ago
Heh, I have a hunch that the ‘golden age of games’ is, for everyone, when they were 18-24!
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by AlunAlun 7y ago
> companies have sprung up to work as a middleman doing all the boring bits for a cut of the money This is creating a problem just as much solving one. The billions in grants that are given away every year by the EU are basically control
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
> The statistics show that Barcelona (and Madrid) are at a historical minimum of empty houses available, yet the spanish population is migrating from smaller cities to the big ones Sources, please?
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
It's a shame that any travel experiences you may have had have given you that impression. My (relatively limited) experience of travel is that it has genuinely opened my eyes to the fact that the vast majority of the world lives a very
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Apple “made it clear” originally that WebGL would never be supported in iOS, but eventually buckled. So I wouldn’t write off WebGL2 quite yet. Though I agree that it’s been stuck ‘around the corner’ for several years now.

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