ci5er

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by ci5er 5y ago
Heck, my kids are theoretically engineers (at least their degree says so!), but even buying BackBlaze for them, I can't even get them to hit Ctrl-S from time-to-time. I think their mom must have fucked the milkman, because she is smart
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by ci5er 5y ago
Well, I don't know how old you were, but ECC has existed in college for a long time - but may not have been so useful to a lot of engineers building machines (for sure), at the time.
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by ci5er 5y ago
Nicely written. For certain. Would it be cruel to suggest that you might want to advance a bit more before weighng in ? I'd say that semiconductor physics, real math, control systems, real mixed signal and a couple of others should get
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by ci5er 6y ago
Hell, I get more than that for child-support (while funding their ivy league schools)!
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by ci5er 6y ago
I prefer ray-tracers (or other rendering or physics engines), maybe because I'm old or have nothing to blog about.
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by ci5er 6y ago
I pay (personally) for the entire Jetbrains tool set. They are damn good. And I guess to be fair, I haven't given a lot of time to VSCode, but TBH: I find that Sublime and IntelliJ cover the spectrum for me (which is Scala, Java, Kotli
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by ci5er 6y ago
THEY cover at 10m. You get the low-rez version. Better than the 90m before, so who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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by ci5er 6y ago
Why? You can just copy the link, open a new tab, past it in the URL bar and see the material...
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by ci5er 6y ago
Edit- planet fall was also fun - these were a nice mix-up with Sirtech"s Wizardry... "A Kobold"
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by ci5er 6y ago
How about Hitchhiker's? There were a couple of frustrating bits there. Gosh - I must have played a dozen of those things - and now, being old, I probably couldn't remember what I did, and am probably too stupid to figure it out ag
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by ci5er 6y ago
> There basically no amount of money that it would not have been worth it to spend. Maybe! But, while the transmission rate appears to be sort of high - the fatality rate seems to be low (and getting lower as we figure out effective tre
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by ci5er 6y ago
Photon mapping. I've never gotten radiosity debugged properly. I tend to like Reyes as something that works for NURB tersellation for me than the triangle interpolation thing. It could be that I'm a lazy programmer that has troubl
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by ci5er 6y ago
The way I implement REYES, it does. But no doubt- Kajiya was the man.
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by ci5er 6y ago
Well, the algorithm was developed in the 1600's, but I remember Turner Whitted's 1979 SIGGRAPH paper blowing me away. I mean, sure, they were slow, but before REYES, they were about the only solution to GlobIlum. (Forward from the
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by ci5er 6y ago
What's weird to me is how freaked out people are about this. I get that it is a higher risk than a lightening strike, but given that the absolute number of deaths in 2020 was lower than 2019 (even given that deaths of despair were up s
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by ci5er 6y ago
What happened with CIGS? There was a privately funded CIGS company here in Austin TX that also didn't make it (even though the founders and investors were solid) and I've not gotten a straight answer as to why - esp. confusing bec
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by ci5er 6y ago
While I believe that most (?) of Europe uses DD/MM/YYYY, I am pretty sure that most of South East Asia (dunno about India and Nepal) use YYYY/MM/DD.
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by ci5er 6y ago
That's an extraordinary (and unsupported, here) claim.
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by ci5er 6y ago
> I don't see a future for Scala. Yeah. It was pretty clumsy before it got less clumsy - and it makes me sad because a lot of the graph-based databased technologies glomed onto it pretty early on - and I mostly like where they say t
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by ci5er 6y ago
A long time ago I used to auto gen http and smtp servers and message queues (similar to RabbitMQ) from very compact descriptions. My in-house I infrastructure build-out productivity went up ~30x, but all the downstream teams hated it.
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by ci5er 6y ago
The ui is a little non-intuitive, but good for small teams. For repetitive process work or small distributed teams, I also like Azendoo or even Asana (which has the reports that managers crave)
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by ci5er 6y ago
As a counter, I have gotten 3 100+ person dev shops to adopt it.
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by ci5er 6y ago
> The culture that feels entitled to free support definitely needs to be rejected however. I have unpubished every open-source package I put out there (small as they were) because of the incessant demands from people who were not paying
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by ci5er 6y ago
Great question, that I am going to answer badly, based on my environment. AV (Austin Ventures) was always known as the big fish in the little pond, ever since I moved here from Japan - and I guess that isn't wrong, but they seemed to h
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by ci5er 6y ago
By Gawd - I certainly don't mind being down-voted, but since this is not Reddit, would people give the courtesy of telling me what they disagree with? Is that too much to ask?
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by ci5er 6y ago
I bet they got the black turtleneck right, though - amirite? :-)
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by ci5er 6y ago
A first level response would be that you were hired at a salary to do a job. If you can't or won't do a coding job I hire you for, I would back-fill for myself and you would be on the street. (Cost of capital for startups isn&#x27
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by ci5er 6y ago
Hey! That's kind of how how I use the CLI (API?) at AWS. It works pretty well! And fortunately (for me), not too much thinking involved. BTW: I have a D3 front-end dashboard/console for the app (not admin) that makes this a little
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by ci5er 6y ago
Ha! Under the influence of certain psychotropics, your ability to do functional planning would be diminished, but the number of creatures that you thought worthy of your empathy might well grow. :-)
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by ci5er 6y ago
Maybe. I would say that for fiction, this is almost certainly true, but for non-fiction, a lot has been molecular biology, or nonlinear economics. Which are neither native to me. YMMV.

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