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by megrimlock 10y ago
> giving folks the ability to wait-and-see for years, with zero risk, before pulling the trigger isn't really fair Isn't that what an option represents? The freedom to choose later is the inherent value of the option. And that
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by megrimlock 10y ago
Perhaps there's room for a rust equivalent of cdecl, a tool to map rust to plain English descriptions, offering a gradual onramp to the syntax. This kind of thing seems silly to experts but could raise the rate at which folks make it t
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by megrimlock 10y ago
That Niko's text-arrow lifetime annotations are so helpful here suggests a rust IDE could offer similar highlighting or annotations to explain borrow checker errors. One of the ergonomic hurdles to rust adoption by experienced C++ user
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by megrimlock 10y ago
You are not alone. If you look at the "target retirement date" funds Vanguard etc. run you'll see that by the time the target date is 5-10 years out they have shifted largely to bonds to provide defined income.
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by megrimlock 10y ago
Anything with low-effort access will always connote little value in people's minds because endless alternatives exist. Anyone who wants to get paid for doing something hard should avoid channels like that, or only use them to float as
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by megrimlock 11y ago
Thankfully the executive health plan has 100% coverage so the dna regen and orbital massage treatments are gratis. It's the little things.
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Furious 7’s most stunning effect: Paul Walker (CG recreation)(fxguide.com)
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by megrimlock 11y ago
> If you could point me to a single bank president who says Why do you think they would say what their true goals are to you? People in positions of power are extremely judicious and strategic about what they say and to whom. They get
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by megrimlock 11y ago
Anyone know what they mean by an "inverse modulo" algorithm? That only seems meaningful for numbers coprime to the sensor ceiling value.
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by megrimlock 11y ago
You can approximate low frequency light fields with a suitable distribution of virtual point lights.
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by megrimlock 11y ago
Neat stuff. It's worth noting that shadow rays don't entirely avoid precision issues either. You still need to handle self-intersections. One option is to add a bias epsilon (which introduces other artifacts, depending on the s
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by megrimlock 11y ago
A suggestion. Your comment reads as though you wrote your own press release to then take issue with. Mis-quoting them with hyperbole for emphasis is less persuasive than directly addressing what they actually wrote.
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by megrimlock 11y ago
For a reference point on how far this tech has come: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
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by megrimlock 12y ago
Makes sense. I didn't realize the problem description was for a game that would be played repeatedly with the same opponent -- i.e. one where you can gather information. If we were doing this in person instead of on a internet forum
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by megrimlock 12y ago
Ok, I'm stumped. If I've parsed your description correctly, we get no info about our opponent's actions or the results until the end. Absent any ability to observe their strategy, it seems like you do want to maximize for e
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by megrimlock 12y ago
Old unit testing habits compelled me to txt a photo that already has a mustache. Result? Better mustache. Test passed.
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by megrimlock 12y ago
It feels pretty grand to consider the prospect of no longer having to debug crashes due to expired QTreeViewItem pointers, or spending time counseling junior team members to check for expired weak pointers. Qt is excellent for its epoch, bu
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by megrimlock 12y ago
Agreed. I'd also make an analogy to C++ where you sometimes must hop between std::string and char*'s with ambiguous lifetimes. Not to mention various custom string types that any big app will have (ex. one that internally exploi
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by megrimlock 12y ago
The history of gamedev (in particular) eschewing C++ for years until the consensus flipped gives me hope that something similar might happen here. The strings thing may take a similar path to so many aspects of C++ -- where it took years o
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by megrimlock 12y ago
Agreed -- I've found these pearls of received wisdom often crumble on non-trivial projects. "Premature optimization" can lead some to defer thinking about performance at all. "Profile and fix the hotspots" without
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by megrimlock 13y ago
Your observation reminded me of the Million Short search engine that skips past the first N ranked hits. Is there a name for the phenomenon that the first entries in any contested ranking tend to be less interesting? There's something
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by megrimlock 13y ago
This api really needs to operate off an atomic snapshot, or at least return a timestamp of when monkeyness was observed, to avoid latency & synchronization issues. What if the monkey hands the phone off before the client code can conti
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by megrimlock 13y ago
"Framework" for some has the connotation of being dogmatically prescriptive: a monolithic culture of libraries where you must buy into the whole system to use any of it. For example, a classical C++ framework might come with its
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by megrimlock 13y ago
I have done it and it's not bad. Well worth the trouble and makes a 2008 feel like a new machine. There are detailed tutorials online with pics and everything you need.
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by megrimlock 13y ago
For some reason this resembles the issues you get with numerical precision when doing things like ray tracing with shadow maps, or Z-figthing in depth buffers, or guessing prices on Price Is Right. Here each processor is trying to achieve a
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by megrimlock 13y ago
That's a clever idea. Apple absolutely makes use of Open Source, but only when it makes strategic sense, not out of idealism. (Examples: BSD->OSX, khtml->WebKit, LLVM.) In this case Apple needs a way to massively upgrade the q
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by megrimlock 13y ago
Computational complexity theory tries to find equivalence classes of problems that can map to one another. Each class has a primary representative such as TSP (travelling salesman problem) or 3-SAT that memorably capture the essence of the
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by megrimlock 13y ago
One reason I've seen these projects (take an existing system and make it work well) fail to gain traction is an unstated lack of faith in the people pushing for refactoring. In my experience this often comes from others having been bu
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by megrimlock 13y ago
Does the color coding indicate anything?
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by megrimlock 13y ago
There is something deep about software that thwarts our dreams of making it re-usable, and makes debates about what primitives to put into the stdlib difficult. For one thing, it seems like we should be able to collectively determine a DAG

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