trevortheblack

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by trevortheblack 9mo ago
Am i mistaken or is there an error in the writing? > For example, if I have a &own T I can reborrow it into a &mut T but not a &pin own T. From the table can't you do both? Maybe they mean "not a &pin mut T&quot
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by trevortheblack 10mo ago
I used to have btop running in a stand-alone terminal, so that I could monitor my system for any weirdness, but I ended up ending the practice as btop leaks memory like crazy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/i
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How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap(nymag.com)
57 points by trevortheblack 11mo ago|46 comments
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Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio(bloomberg.com)
3 points by trevortheblack 1y ago|0 comments
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Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain(theregister.com)
2 points by trevortheblack 2y ago|3 comments
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Chatbots Have Thoroughly Inflitrated Scientific Publishing(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by trevortheblack 2y ago|0 comments
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Tirzepatide reduced sleep apnea severity in adults with sleep apnea and obesity(investor.lilly.com)
3 points by trevortheblack 2y ago|1 comments
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by trevortheblack 2y ago
I'm unfamiliar with the majority of these customization apps as I remain on Windows 10. Are the two apps mentioned (ExplorerPatch and StartAllBack) the most common user tweaking utilities atm?
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
DXIL is pronounced "dixel", like "pixel" but replace the p with a d
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Pre-Pooping Your Pants with Rust (2015)(cglab.ca)
1 points by trevortheblack 3y ago|1 comments
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
Since this is on the front page I guess I'll post the resource that the graphics programming industry actually uses (note, I'm an author): https://raytracing.github.io/ It's included in the "Useful Websi
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
Apologies to ask off topic question, but what is HENRY? I've never heard of this before.
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
Oh FFS. Writing code is like writing natural language. It's editing that counts. Not the first draft. Whether or not you should throw out your first draft is in proportion to its value at getting you to the final draft. Not some axiom
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
I imagine it's the same way they measure scoville units. It's sensitivity. How much of the substance is required for a group of people to consistently correctly guess which of two identical water glasses have been spiked with the
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by trevortheblack 3y ago
? This is mostly wrong? > The reason gamers want higher framerates is mostly for lower latency, "Gamers" are absolutely not a monolithic group, but in general, they mostly want higher frame rates because higher frame rates does
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Darktable is at Risk of Dropping Support for macOS(petapixel.com)
25 points by trevortheblack 4y ago|4 comments
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by trevortheblack 4y ago
Are you saying that the next age will be defined by new materials? Or will just be more broadly considered an age of new materials? Because, almost without exception, the former describes all human ages
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by trevortheblack 4y ago
Six percent annual turnover for non-compliance seems too low. Should be six percent for first offense, 12% for second, 25% for third, etc. Until the company fixes it's compliance or becomes insolvent.
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Very little. Correlation. Not causation. Apple shied away form Intel due to their failure at landing mobile chips. Intel failed at mobile due to their (then) sales-focused (rather than engineer-focused) regimen. Source: I worked at intel on
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Yining Karl Li has mentioned in previous posts their intention to write a blog post about modern lens optics, which should outline multiple things. Hopefully, a general overview of the 100s of lenses they've found/made the models
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AMD's Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go(anandtech.com)
1 points by trevortheblack 5y ago|0 comments
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Buying second-hand prices will always be variable, But the cheapest brand new are probably Panasonic BGH1 - $2k Panasonic S1H - $3.7k Canon C70 - $5.5k Blackmagic Ursa - $6k
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
> 21. In two dimensions, there are infinitely many regular polygons. In three dimensions, there are five Platonic solids. In four dimensions, there are six platonic polychora. In all higher dimensions than four, there are only ever three
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What Apple employee unrest over remote work says about the future of the office(vox.com)
6 points by trevortheblack 5y ago|1 comments
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
This article appears to have been originally written in 2002 and republished in 2016
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Correct. Source-available proprietary. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue4-on-github
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Yes to both. There was a time when Unity had momentum because it was free* and the documentation was (comparatively) better than Unreal for the average user. The learning curve for unity is arguably better for 3D and inarguably better for 2
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
Entire neighborhoods are set up in a grid formation with each "block" being a mile on the side with housing and parks in the middle. You'll almost always need to travel a "block" or two to get to anything of interes
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
I live 5 miles from the location and have visited the Tempe area many time for recreation. While there isn't much in the way of infrastructure at this part of Tempe at the moment, it's close enough to the main boulevard, called Mi
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by trevortheblack 5y ago
This was a significant part of the last year of my life. I'm super glad it's finally getting out to readers. I think that Adam, Ingo and Peter did a fantastic job bringing all of this together over the course of the last 18 months

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