fizixer

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by fizixer 5y ago
As an experienced programmer, I have spent enough time trying to understand and make sense of some aspects of pure/higher math, specifically logic, that I feel qualified to say this: - Experienced programmers are better trained at form
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by fizixer 6y ago
Touch typing is not that hard. You can learn, and then try yourself and see if you like mouseless work.
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by fizixer 6y ago
You don't touch type I assume? Touch typing is not only about typing faster. It gives you this other ability of "running your control panel" out of the home keys only (four fings on each hand resting on a,s,d,f and j,k,l,;).
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by fizixer 6y ago
Well. Looks like the hacks, gimmickers, and salesmen have succeeded wonderfully.
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Is there a reason to make this distinction here? The original method, by Whitted, that looked much better than any previous methods, and yet looks horrible by today's standards, is ray tracing. It had no global illumination. The m
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by fizixer 6y ago
As always, path tracing is not ray tracing.
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by fizixer 6y ago
You missed one comparison: C infra (no C++). (well strictly speaking, additionally you could also have hand-written assembly infra).
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by fizixer 6y ago
Machine learning is nowhere close to replacing the human coding activity. Nonetheless, machine learning is creeping up into newer and newer areas of application in surprising, unpredictable, and unprecedented ways, and ignoring it would put
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by fizixer 6y ago
Can't you spin up your own software in a docker instance on the cloud? what does official support mean here? New to cloud.
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by fizixer 6y ago
I just want to point out one thing, for the record. I'm sorry "Stop Monday Morning Quarterbacking (MMQ)" isn't directed at you per se, but the general direction of whoever is reading my comment. MMQ is, unfortunately, pr
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by fizixer 6y ago
MySpace was massive when Facebook was a year or two old. I had accounts on both and MySpace looked way more attractive compared to FB (it had the feel of Instagram). So no, FB did not take over overnight. And even a few years into FB, no on
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by fizixer 6y ago
Homebrew is 11 years old. I'm willing to bet there are as many people (likely fewer) people who knew Guido in 2002, when Python was 11 years old, or even 2005, when Google hired Guido. And I'm willing to bet when Google hired Guid
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by fizixer 6y ago
> This is Guido van Rossum. If I were him and asked to solve puzzles, I'd tell the hiring company to fuck off. Not sure what you're trying to get at: MacOS homebrew creator is an effin nobody compared to Guido, therefore he sho
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by fizixer 6y ago
I agree what you say while also pointing out that unix home directory has become a complete mess. Anyone (any installed software) can do whatever they like, there is no mechanism of enforcement, and advice in the form of constructive critqu
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by fizixer 6y ago
> YC application needs one to clearly articulate who ones target customers are, what they do today, why is it such a pain, and what one is building to solve that pain-point ... Which in my opinion is the hardest part. If you don't k
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for a bloated programming lanugage FTFY
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by fizixer 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24982942
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... scientists themselves weren't sensationalizing their findings ... Yeah right. They were saying things like "please prove us wrong" while doing interview rounds, and (I'm sure) celebrating, loving and looking for
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by fizixer 6y ago
Uhhh ... by playing the kind of competitor that nVidia couldn't have imagined in their wildest wet dreams?
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by fizixer 6y ago
Fantastic. Can we have 24M next?
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by fizixer 6y ago
"learning superpower" = A learning technique so effective so as to be sufficient for all kinds of learning, to the exclusion of all other learning techiques.
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by fizixer 6y ago
Pandoc ubuntu apt installation is horrible. I have installed the latest texlive in home directory. When I invoke 'sudo apt install pandoc' it requires me to install a massive texlive setup at the system level as part of it. This i
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by fizixer 6y ago
> Anki as Learning Superpower If it's a superpower, it's at best a rote learning superpower. Can you use Anki to learn quantum field theory, and solve the lamb shift problem without looking at the existing solutions? Cut out th
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by fizixer 6y ago
So we're freed from GPU vendor lock-in by getting a programming language lock-in. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Great.
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by fizixer 6y ago
JuliaGPU appears to be a textbook example of 'how to present a bug as a feature'. "You're a CUDA programmer. Well, why don't you learn it all over again the Julia way, and also unlearn CUDA, so the next time you hav
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by fizixer 6y ago
pandemic has worsened the situation big tech engineer turnover has ground to a halt (employed engineers playing it safe) they have open positions but those were based on pre-pandemic turnover estimates so they don't need to hire as man
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by fizixer 6y ago
> ... code-behind ... > We need an Access for the web, but nothing comes close. You're using ASP.NET terminology (code-behind) and implying that Access was some sort of DB revolution on the desktop. About time to get out of your
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by fizixer 6y ago
Is there a name for the idea of "adaptive JIT"? where the code starts executing without JIT, while another thread is instantiated that is doing JITting in the background, and as soon as the JITting is done, JITted version takes ov
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by fizixer 6y ago
FTLW Unemployment Rate (FTLW: full-time living wage). Done. Wasn't that hard. Now let's not get carried away with dodging the issue, and get back to the topic of real deception, happily perpetuated, treated as gospel, by the power
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by fizixer 6y ago
Title needs to be fixed: C++ still isn't cutting it for a Rust fanboy

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