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by gct 2mo ago
What if the original page is untrustworthy and adds JS?
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by gct 3mo ago
Is there actually video of the talk?
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by gct 4mo ago
They'll put up thousands more starlinks and track every mobile device on the planet simultaneously, might as well have a homing beacon in your pocket.
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by gct 4mo ago
We thought this was so punk back in the day.
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by gct 5mo ago
Orbits do not work that way
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by gct 7mo ago
I'd be curious to hear more about how you do the 2 -> 3 embedding there. In S2 it uses cartesian three space, but points are constrained to be unit magnitude. This has advantage and disadvantages obviously.
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by gct 7mo ago
I'd like to hear more about the synthetic part of these three spaces, because S2 works exactly as you say, embedding the 2-sphere in three (cartesian) dimensions. S2 points are always three dimensional.
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by gct 7mo ago
You can do this with [S2]( https://s2geometry.io/ ) as well which has the very nice property that parent cells do indeed always contain their children, and sorting the cell ids puts them into in-order order.
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by gct 8mo ago
Mars which is literally covered in poisonous perchlorate soil
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by gct 9mo ago
emacs!
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by gct 9mo ago
The Box is very frustrating, especially when there's no one handling the other things, yet you're still not allowed to do them because it'd make the wrong people look bad.
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by gct 10mo ago
Managers can be lazy just like anyone.
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by gct 10mo ago
At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.
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by gct 11mo ago
This person admits he drove people to quit with his behavior, that goes wayyyyyy beyond trying to get the full details. I've worked with this type before and I can envision the cold sweats in the office as he comes around to hold peopl
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by gct 11mo ago
I've worked with this particular kind of toxic personality, they think until they've personally internalized all the details, that its not "right", and will exhaust everyone doing so.
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by gct 11mo ago
One of those that thinks everyone owes them explaining everything to them in every detail or its not "right".
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by gct 1y ago
They were also loose powder hand loaded weapons, you could fire three rounds a _minute_ if you were really skilled. Everyone in town had to store their powder in a (secure) communal location because it was, duh, an explosive.
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by gct 1y ago
Everyone's decided that writing regular software to run locally on a computer is the weird case and so it has to be called "local first".
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by gct 1y ago
Let's just start shifting the overton window: let's make all paid advertisement illegal y'all.
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by gct 1y ago
No wonder software is so slow today when we're this profligate. "let's run four AIs and ignore 3/4 of them!" ugh.
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by gct 2y ago
They usually have dedicated acceleration hardware, yes: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/sprabb6b/sprabb6b.pdf?ts=174057874...
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by gct 2y ago
Mandatory CR is mostly a way for mediocre programmers to feel like they're contributing IMHO.
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by gct 2y ago
Impossible, HN has assured me that Microsoft has changed.
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by gct 2y ago
A thunk is just a function with no arguments representing a computation. In C++: int a=1, b=2; auto thunk = [=]() { return a+b; }
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by gct 2y ago
FFTW will definitely query cpuid at runtime too, since it's piecing together kernels anyways it's not much more work for it to choose to ignore AVX, etc. If you use the [guru interface]( https://www.fftw.org/fftw3_
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by gct 2y ago
This isn't really apples-to-apples comparing with FFTW. 1. It's been my experience that distros don't configure AVX properly for it, and 2. PhastFT takes its inputs de-interleaved in separate real/imaginary arrays
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by gct 2y ago
Given they're indexing into a tree, animation will be a pain.
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by gct 2y ago
EEE
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by gct 2y ago
Never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Splashy_Pants
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by gct 3y ago
Fun fact static is very broadband

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