McKayDavis

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by McKayDavis 3mo ago
I think the idea is a huge waste, but the Utah State Legislature already considered exactly this in 2022 (building a massive pipeline to the Pacific Ocean). https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/05&#x2F
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by McKayDavis 1y ago
The title is incorrect. According to Wikipedia he he died May 25th, 2025. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
My kids were able to make complex 3D games at 9yo with very little help using Roblox Studio. It’s free. https://roblox.com/create Disclaimer: I work for Roblox Corp.
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
[1] timeanddate.com is a great site that provides a visualization with times and directions for a given city. I don't think its possible to link directly to a specific lat/lon, so you'll have to choose the city yourself. For
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
It certainly burned but is still intact. Who knows if it will survive. Video of the banyan tree after the fire: https://twitter.com/PandaToybox/status/1689394756844138496?s...
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
I don’t know the exact year the CDRS group was acquired by PTC, but it be around the same time I attended the same High School Computing Institute in 1996.
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
East High School is the closest public high school to the University of Utah. Because of this proximity the school was fortunate to get a direct T1 (1.5 Mbps) connection in 1992 (93?). The original domain was east.east-slc.edu before it was
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by McKayDavis 3y ago
Right out of high school I started as an intern at PTC in Research Park shortly after they acquired CDRS from E&S. CDRS was originally started by some of the researchers from the University of Utah that created the Alpha_1 NURBS modeler
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by McKayDavis 4y ago
Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull will both be speaking next week (March 24th) at the 50 year celebration of the University of Utah Computer Science Department. https://www.price.utah.edu/ieee-milestone-events#graphics
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by McKayDavis 4y ago
This Imgur collection of animated gifs capturing the 2017 Oroville Spillway crisis is an amazing work of journalism: https://imgur.io/gallery/mpUge https://imgur.io/gallery/6IyCi https:/&#x2
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by McKayDavis 4y ago
Like
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by McKayDavis 4y ago
I doubt the veracity of your claims because according to multiple sources [1][2] the only nuclear reactor in the state of Utah is located on the bottom floor of the Merrill Engineering Building on the University of Utah campus. If a reactor
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by McKayDavis 4y ago
Often, you can considerably reduce the file size of an SVG text file without a noticeable reduction in perceptual quality just by reducing the precision of the coordinates. The awesome SVG Optimizer [1] has a filter (cleanupNumericValues) t
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
For more Utah arch vibration content, check out Prof. Jeff Moore's twitter feed @UtahGeohaz (Jeff is in the same department as the link). Here's some very cool visualizations showing exaggerated vibrations of natural wonders: htt
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
> * Remove all unnecessary headers. Template expansion is slow, and preprocessing is even slower. Some of the standard includes (like `<regex>` and `<iostream>`) are notorious for slowing individual translation units to a cra
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
Not really. Roblox the company doesn’t actually publish games (or experiences as we prefer to call them). Valve and Epic both develop big titles in-house. Whereas Roblox’s experiences are developed by entirely separate entities.
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
That’s partially due to that fact that Roblox is a platform and is not a gaming company. It’s a different business model and culture that isn’t subject to the vagaries of the games industry. (And yes, it’s a great place to work!)
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
> And they don't run ads, which is great You must be running an ad blocker because Worldometers most definitely runs ads.
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
Her Twitter account was one of the most interesting ones I followed. Unfortunately, even though I had never interacted with her, she blocked me out of the blue some months ago. I was entirely confused at first. From what little I could fin
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
On the morning of January 13th, 2018 I was looking at my phone. When at 8:08am, every cell phone in the entire state simultaneously emitted an emergency alert tone and displayed this exact message: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII
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by McKayDavis 5y ago
Please don't discount the people in Hawaii that experienced this event. We lived on O'ahu when it happened and the topic still comes up occasionally. At the time, it was quite traumatic for myself, my wife, and our kids. I spoke
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
Also, the original domain was pineapplefund.org, whereas this is pineapplefund.me
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
> Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. I too had thought that this was the case, but it appears the press does get at least some advance notice. Last Wednesday Jennifer Doudna found that she had won the 2020 Nobel P
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
@dang recently (17 days ago) posted a list of the most favorited HN comments in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360449
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
> Unless I am unaware of something, CRISPR is not yet ready for medical usage. CRISPR has been used successfully to treat Sickle Cell Anemia in at least one patient. [1] You're spot on though that there are many obstacles to overcom
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
Related HN discussion on Aug 5 of the Luau github page [1]: "Luau A fast small, safe gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua" [2] [1] https://roblox.github.io/luau/ [2] https://news.yco
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
If you have a Costco membership, I highly recommend you contact the Costco Auto program [1]. They pre-negotiate a discounted price with nearby dealer on your behalf. [1] https://www.costcoauto.com
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
This appears to be the story OP was linking: https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2020/aug/07/1...
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
Please check out Roblox Studio [1], the free Win/Mac IDE for creating and publishing games on the platform. Also look at the developer site [2], where you can find documentation, tutorials, and an awesome, active community in the devel
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by McKayDavis 6y ago
Roblox | San Mateo, CA | Full Time | ONSITE (Remote during Shelter In Place) We are actively hiring and all interviews are currently done via phone & zoom. Roblox is ushering in the next generation of entertainment, allowing people to i

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