skolemtotem

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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> None of this is particularly controversial Judging by the fact that most maths degrees are listed as science degrees, it's pretty clear that "mathematics is not science" is a controversial claim.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Assembly offers just as much capability for abstraction as any other language, and I think that it demands more "ability to grasp abstraction", because you pretty much have to build those abstractions yourself.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
How can this make anyone feel safe if they won't even admit that it's happening?! Moreover, the people are forced to compromise on just about every issue when voting, so they naturally get swayed by marketing and personal prioriti
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Firstly, it's not unjustified to say that someone who thinks vanilla JavaScript is "bare metal" obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Secondly, as a software-engineer-in-training, I agree - software &qu
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
No, but the right way should at least be easier than the wrong way.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> orders of magnitude harder They seem to be at about the same difficulty to me; it would be nice if you could elaborate.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
I suggest you try asking on Workplace.StackExchange, too, since the people there have more experience answering this kind of question.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Rust takes a similar approach. For unit tests, you use the #[cfg(test)] attribute (/ pragma / directive) for conditional compilation, and #[test] to mark a function that is a unit test, which is run whenever you run the `cargo tes
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
That, I sort-of agree with. Layering isn't unique to 3D, so it's debatable whether the incorporation of a depth buffer makes OpenGL a 3D API.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Metal is actually not that bad to live in. Vulkan, on the other hand, is micromanagement hell. I definitely agree with the people saying that it's for "building your own OpenGL".
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Yes! I'd suggest learning OpenGL, then Metal, then Vulkan/DX12, which is how I'd rank them from high to low level.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
It would always be possible to project a 3D world onto a 2D plane in any 2D graphics API, which is exactly what the projection matrix does in OpenGL.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Will AV1, or even VP9 for that matter, ever be suitable for realtime encoding, or is that just not their target market?
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Hi Byuu! You're a cool guy and I hope I can be like you one day!
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
But look, if I started a company called McDonald's, everyone would be confused and it'd probably be illegal. Complaining on forums about names is the open source community's alternative to trademarks.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
A single box?! Do we know its specs?
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Oh no, someone's going to MITM my shitty blog posts. "Secure" is a word that only makes sense with context, and without that context it only serves to cause irrational panic. I wonder why Google's really doing this.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
The App Store is closer to the official Arch repos, since it is vetted by Apple. The AUR is closer to just downloading stuff off the Internet.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
This article talks about two issues at the same time: the first is Facebook's insidious "free basics" plan, which I'm 100% against, but the second is Facebook's role as an "accelerant" in Burma, for which
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
There have been talks of adding a GC to WASM for a long time, so there's hope yet
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> The entire web ecosystem is a closed platform. Please clarify what this means. Standards are open access and browser engines and JS engines are for the most part (Edge, Safari, Chromium, Firefox) open source, so "closed platform&q
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Familiarity and consistency across platforms are two obvious reasons that come to mind. Another is that it's easier for those unfamiliar with a terminal.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> I would rather they go out of business if they can't figure out another way to make money. Only for some other unscrupulous company to replace them? Ideally, the most profitable method should be ethical by nature, unlike the curre
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
I don't remember what, but there is already something fairly popular in the Rust ecosystem with the name crust. Edit: I think it was https://github.com/maidsafe/crust .
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Gmail is by far the most popular email service in the world. I assure you that plenty of "non-tech users" have no trouble using it. But while I, too, am sad that skeuomorphic design has been abandoned, Apple has abandoned it too.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> Apple design, by contrast is very obvious. Surely this is a joke? The million different gestures are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Apple and interface discoverability.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
> The popular culture talks too much about Einstein but sadly doesn't understand and hardly even knows Michelson. I'm not sure if that's true. At the very least, his story is given a lot of attention in my country's
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
Similarly, despite the existence of LLVM and the simplicity of the various assemblies, tons of languages target C, mostly to facilitate easier interop with native libraries and because pretty much everything has a C compiler. Perhaps there
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
I agree, but it would be much easier if we had a new document-only port instead, since it wouldn't break most of the Internet.
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by skolemtotem 8y ago
it's not bugged, it's been hacked

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