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by stoeckley 4y ago
I used an iPhone 4s from 2011 until end of 2018. Probably most remarkably, I never put a case or any kind of screen protector on it. The thing was still practically scratch free when I stopped using it. It’s still sitting in a drawer next t
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Largest 3D concrete printing project in the world, in Den Helder, Netherlands(nltimes.nl)
2 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
> the article doesn't state Heroku by name Heroku is mentioned in the first sentence.
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Color Interpolation(alanzucconi.com)
1 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
> Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience And much of Europe.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
As do many other countries. You really cannot live without it in much of the world.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
I don't know the history, but there is supposedly a fixed set of Porter Duff blend modes, specific algorithms. For example, this C++ library: > Blend2D supports all Porter & Duff compositing operators https://blend2d.
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Hash Functions for GPU Rendering (2021)(reedbeta.com)
2 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
They are typically referred to as Porter Duff blend modes, so I assume that these algorithms were invented mainly by those guys. (by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff)
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Social media damages appearance satisfaction(phys.org)
1 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
Same. I've written probably more C++ than any other language, and I have a lot of respect for the language overall, but I recently had to use only C for something, and I found it rather refreshing. My use case didn't hit a lot of
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by stoeckley 4y ago
And here I thought you were looking for help understanding how normal vectors work to define the reflectiveness of a 3D surface, and I thought, that’s a rather specific item for guidance!
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by stoeckley 4y ago
I had to pull out the big guns, shift + escape. It will clear your anxiety, or at least help a little!
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by stoeckley 4y ago
>Sweden seems to be a country with significant social pressure I'm curious what you mean by this?
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Shor's Algorithm, Straight from the Source(youtube.com)
4 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
An English link to the same topic on the same site: https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/treba-zvilnyati-vid-ros... It starts: Dear Ukrainians! An important decision was made today. It's fair. Legally perfect
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by stoeckley 4y ago
The drawings are amazing, but the reason he is so well-known is his process, which you can only see in the videos.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
He was certainly very busy, always traveling. This happened (from what I read) as he was leaving a show in Paris for a flight to New York.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
He is all over YouTube and did exhibitions around the world -- I'd check out his drawing show videos.
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Intel says Moore’s Law is still alive and well. Nvidia says it’s ended(cnbc.com)
1 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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The New York City Evolution Animation(youtube.com)
2 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
for me, main thing is turning on the (now native) vim emulation which is decent though missing some things (dot operator please!), and learning the keyboard shortcuts for the various UI panes for "prettier" all I've ever need
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by stoeckley 4y ago
That is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
I remember once telling a friend of mine, after I'd spent several years writing Clojure full-time, that upon getting back into writing C++, the feeling was like "sculpting with electricity." There is a strange sense of power
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda (for $0.40) (2021)(blog.nelhage.com)
3 points by stoeckley 4y ago|0 comments
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by stoeckley 4y ago
It would seem to me that as long at C++ is the primary language to write for a GPU, it will be a necessary language for new projects for a long time.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
I thought “World War II in Color” was a pretty nice series for getting a full understanding of the war across the world.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
If you haven't seen the documentary King of Kong, it's quite an entertaining backstory for these events.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
We order a lot of meals for delivery and one of the restaurants always includes a handwritten note thanking us and wishing us a nice meal. It's such a simple thing to do and really makes a nice touch, I'll have to admit.
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by stoeckley 4y ago
The MacBook Air makes no noise at all because it has no fan.

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