pertinhower

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by pertinhower 10mo ago
On my Meta Quest I am positively begging for decent content worth viewing in 3d. Here we have a bookful of 3d astronomy. Can I not get something like this in VR? Why is VR languishing? How is it that paper and eye-crossing are still the lea
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by pertinhower 10mo ago
Yes, but if a chicken and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds off a dill pickle?
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by pertinhower 10mo ago
Quote: “ Inspired by the concept of ‘a piece of cloth.’” Is this some kind of joke? If it were April 1st I’d assume the whole article is meant for comedic effect.
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When the job search becomes impossible(jeffwofford.com)
283 points by pertinhower 1y ago|448 comments
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Why Unreal, Unity, and Source Are Going Free(jeffwofford.com)
7 points by pertinhower 12y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Absolutely. In the 2000s the Unreal Engine had a price tag of half a million dollars up-front plus royalties (I don't remember the percentage) on the back end. That these companies are giving their engines—even their source code—away e
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by pertinhower 12y ago
This is an unusually political post to have risen so high on Hacker News. Is that because of the significance of email to the story? The use of email in this case is not very technically interesting. Or is there some other attraction?
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by pertinhower 12y ago
I don't mean the TV itself. I mean TV programming.
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by pertinhower 12y ago
"We will significantly reduce preloaded applications." As a primary Mac and Linux user, it is absolutely incredible to me that any PC that isn't given to customers for free would have more than zero preloaded so-called appl
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not buying it. I have two complains about this article in particular and this kind of "science" in general. 1. Their conclusion is unverifiable. Science is about hypothesis, experiment, and falsification in a reprod
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FlatBuffers: a fast, memory-efficient serialization library for games(google.github.io)
5 points by pertinhower 12y ago|0 comments
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Help me. I want to care about this. But what does this model have that will make a substantial, observable improvement over my—say—iPad 3?
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by pertinhower 12y ago
I find this frankly implausible. What percentage of people you know have been arrested? I'm guessing very small (even assuming that many hide it and so you're knowledge is substantially skewed). So maybe that's because of you
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by pertinhower 12y ago
This is, among other things, a terribly confusing situation. Who's to blame? The person who asks to have results expunged? The law that requires Google to comply? Google for complying? Or no one—is the right thing being done, the &quot
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by pertinhower 12y ago
How can this not be some kind of internal sniping?
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Shoulda stopped at number 5: "and khseeke" seemed pretty clear to me. But point taken.
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by pertinhower 12y ago
"You can't be the world's best and fail at the same time." Oh yes you can. You can be the best at providing something people don't want. You can even be the best at providing something people should want but don&#
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by pertinhower 12y ago
No. No no no. Sue them. Sue them dead. Where product and brand robbery thrives, developers wither. What's the point in working hard in developing a game (or anything) if all your hard decisions are just going to be copied in a matter o
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Here's an example of where the philosophy helps. You would probably agree that physics is a clear science and that its methods—philosophically reasoned about—produce (or discover) genuine truth. But would you agree that a "softer&
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by pertinhower 12y ago
So, not a flying tramp? Not an evaporating derrière?
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by pertinhower 12y ago
It seemed to me to say that the Future of Kinect is not particularly as an essential aspect a major gaming platform. "Museums, hotels, and corporate offices" seemed to figure large in its increasingly tiny future. The article seem
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Is threesome kind of secret code embedded in the typos?
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Why do news stories like this never link to the actual text of the bill? Isn't it a little worrying when the participants in a democracy consider their governance "over their head" or simply boring? It seems symptomatic of th
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Interesting how the word "weird" has virtually become a codeword for ridiculous bottom-feeding online advertising. I initially overlooked this post simply because my brain docketed it under the "Ignore all internet content ma
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Cf. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
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by pertinhower 12y ago
Scientists need to be extraordinarily careful about this kind of vague, "might be", "coulda been" kind of speculation. Finding the "spark of life" would be amazing, but speculating about how it might have forme
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by pertinhower 13y ago
I think you're right. There are two forces at work: innate ability and social acceptability. Innate ability tends to harm social acceptability. Therefore, to the extent that social acceptability determines a person's overall abili
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by pertinhower 13y ago
"That is her picture, to the left"? Uh... awkward?
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by pertinhower 13y ago
Is this supposed to make me feel better? I'm real happy for the earth surviving and all, but I want to survive too, and I want people to survive. A philosophy of, "The earth will survive though we'll be gone—and maybe that wi
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by pertinhower 13y ago
But Alpha is free.

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