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No, that's kinda a dead-end evolutionary pathway. 3dfx's "FSAA" was, essentially, render at 4x the resolution and down-sample at the DAC. Sure, that works, but about the only thing it does is FSAA or motion blur (but not both, selectively).

Register-programmed T&L on the other hand was the first programmable SIMD shader pathway. After Stanford showed[1] somewhat remarkably in 2000-2001 that it was powerful enough to be the target of a RenderMan-like shader language, it pushed architectures towards full programmability.

Now we think of the "GPU" as a vector processing unit able to run arbitrary kernels across massively parallel data sets, with high bandwidth connections to its own high-speed RAM. The fact this is useful for real time graphics rendering is almost incidental, as TFA demonstrates. That whole revolution, and the impact it had on scientific compute, machine learning, and much else, began with the first register-programmable GeForce (the GeForce 2 I believe? But Wikipedia says the GeForce 256 supported the same architectural feature, but was just not user accessible).

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/shading/ Although pursuing the website it looks like it was a general OpenGL 1.1 pipeline, rather than using the NVIDIA extensions as I remember. However these were translated by NVIDIA's driver into register presets for the hardware T&L engine.
Had a room visit. The two security guys were friendly in that weird way where they're all smiley and talkative, but completely ignore anything you say. Weird stuff.

Oh, and they made fun of how much I paid for room service, which is weird because it's overpriced to help pay their salaries... shrug

I get the why of what they're doing, but they didn't look through anything, so if I was planning something I could have had it all just in my dresser.

Defcon is moving to Paris, Bally's, and Planet Hollywood next year, but those are all Caesar owned properties, so it doesn't address anything. Although the room service may be cheaper.
No, it does. Manufactured goods are not "resources". Those are made for selling, and in modern world markets for goods are considered more of a gift than goods themselves.

Are they not? Does USA drain resources from China?
> Anyone ambitious who lives to be old or even _old_ endures the inevitable loss of ambition’s fulfillment.

I needed the whole sentence to parse that phrase. Here is what I understood: Ambitious persons who live to be old will struggle with the realization that although they remain ambitious (a certain type of stretching into the future this characteristic of _youth_), they lose the ability (energy, focus, commitment) to fulfil those ambitions. Matching those two conditions found inside one's self as the reality of one's self is a terrible struggle and out of that follows an inevitable sense of loss.
Or that such tools aren't shipped and part of the standard Go experience.

Fortunately that's changing.
Prepair on theoretical level as well, O notations, and such.
Some languages already have perfectly fine smileys as part of their alphabet.

Case in point: Ü (works better with sans-serif fonts but doesn't it look happy?)
Not a chance. By the time you get there, GPUs would do it (much) faster. Not to mention that GPUs are likely going to get specialized cores for raytracing (see RTX).
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You have used some numbers to substantiate an idea. Then made a fleeting mention the numbers don't mean anything. Then decided that you also do other stuff and "you guess" it cancels each other.
I'll recommend Odoo. Easy to deploy, configure, and it is fairly simple to make modifications or extensions you need in python.

Demo here: https://demo3.odoo.com/web
> some will even go as far as basing it off of the demographics of the driver

My experience as a young lad with a high powered Nissan Skyline certainly reflected this many years ago. I had almost-daily "random vehicle and license checks"...
This seems like a major source of security issues. How can i protect myself from it?

Am i supposed to normalize ALL untrusted user input or will that break normal text in some language i'm not familiar with? Or only normalize things that are supposed to be unique, like urls, usernames and other identifiers?
The Apple Lisa was kind of half way in this direction. The Lisa ROM contained the matrix layout for each keyboard language, but it was the keyboard itself that would return both the scancode and the fixed language of the keyboard being used. And IIRC plugging in a keyboard of a different language would automatically change the system software the use that language.
Looking past these "issues" with Zuckerberg & Facebook, Jack whatever & Twitter, and the whole "social media" space in general, I find it totally hilarious (in a deeply tragic sense) that we as the "enlightened west" have been collectively blowing our trumpets about "free speech" ever since the start of the Cold War - free speech always having been rolled out as one of the arguments of our social and moral superiority over the "enemy".

That was all great for exactly as long as the People in Power had the direct and indirect means to control this "free speech". Now we have the technical means to allow anybody anywhere to exercise their free speech in a manner that is actually meaningful, we are all freaking out and looking for ways to shut them the fuck up, as soon as fucking possible.

Appears to me that free speech is fine, as long as you are sticking to the rules about what is acceptable speech, which is deeply hypocritical, if you ask me.
> influence and good will from the locals

No good deed goes unpunished. And in this case, the deeds often aren't even good. Locals from Ghana to Bangladesh complain about how China brings in their own workers rather than employ locals, and how the end result is shoddy work and more money in the pocket of corrupt officials.

Now it may buy influence from the goverment, but as I mentioned, governments are fickle things and power changes hands frequently.

All the same, I don't think this is irrational behavior from China -- they need to win friends and influence people.

> And when did a Blue Water Navy become cheap?

You'd have to compare the payback period for investing in slum upgrades in Indonesia vs investing in one's own Navy. In many cases it's never vs some intangible number of years.
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Yeah, eating plants is just so crazy, like a religion! Do you have any pets? How would you feel if I chainsawed a dog's head off right in front of you? You wouldn't start throwing out "moral epithets" about how I shouldn't be doing that, would you?

> Higher calorie density and better nutrient profile

Higher and better than what? I am a high level athlete and have no trouble meeting my nutritional requirements.
Wow. I’m in tears. Haven’t read anything so beautiful in a long time
https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/ieee-top-programming-langua...
Putting educational information behind a paywall is unethical classism. Any business who depends on this should be put out of business.
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WASM, I'm guessing.

Which would make this survey a really terrible survey.
Probably good to know git
https://www.educative.io/d/InterviewPrep has courses to brush up on DS/Algorithms and problems to practice coding interviews.
Maybe you're right; but attacking someone personally is not an ok way to express how right you are on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

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The alternatives offered are: 1) the orca felt hope, 2) the orca was confused.

This article does not give any insight why and when animals would or would not grieve.

Functional homology is a method. If we assume that the caudate nucleus responds in canines similarly to the one in humans, we can say things about emotions in animals. In the end you will need more hypotheses to still keep the human up a pedestal. For example, if the owner enters the fMRI room, the caudate can supposed to activate because the human is recognized while in humans itself it fulfills an emotional role. In this way you can explain differences only be denying functional homology.

It would somehow "degrade the human experience" is philosophical argument that I don't get. My feelings are not somehow less if another sentient being can feel the same. Is my pain less if someone else can feel it too? Do I need to feel it "better" to be able to deserve the term?
Back then, the USSR was largely a rural backwater. After WWII, there was rapid industrialization, mechanization of agriculture etc.

Of course, during the entire cold war the USSR "overspent" on the military compared to the Western economies. But, during the WWII the economy was understandably 100% focused on the war. So even if the kept "overspending" on the military after the war, there was still a lot of industrial capacity left over that could be used for rebuilding and industrialization.
I'm not sure I follow this one but if you meant it rudely, that's a violation of the site guidelines and not ok here.

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People start hating their jobs at 35
You don't need to marry, right? I mean, what is your reason to do so? In your case, I don't see a whole lot of pros and a number of cons.
> aggressively litigate people using your trademark for unlocked devices.

This requires enormous amounts of time and money that the XBMC foundation doesn't have.
For busses, the B stop on the way out may be in another zone as the B stop on the way back because they're geographically displaced. For busses and trains, depending on your type of ticket (2-8 zones, 8+ zones, commuter card) and whether the zone intersection is on or between stops/stations, you may have to pay for that zone one way but not the other. Those are edge cases.

But the most confusing part is the ring topology (here shown with the zone-ring center being the actual city center):

https://passagerpulsen.taenk.dk/sites/default/files/styles/f...

When buying 2-8 zones you don't pay for individual zones, but rather rings from your origin zone. Going one way, the zone rings look one way. Going back they look different, because the origin zone is different.

A practical example of this peculiarity:

You go from Hellerup (zone 2) to Friheden (zone 33) via the central station (zone 1). Your ring 0 is zone 2, and zone 1 and 33 are both in ring 1, so you only pay for two zone(-ring)s: https://dinoffentligetransport.dk/media/1413/svanemollen-fri...

You go back from Friheden to Hellerup via the central station: Your ring 0 is zone 33, zone 2 is in ring 1, but zone 1 is in ring 2 this time, so you pay for three zone(-ring)s: https://dinoffentligetransport.dk/media/1411/friheden-svanem...

Your origin zone on the way out was adjacent to both other zones needed (needing only 1 ring), but your origin zone on the way back was not (needing 2 rings).

So they're not just different prices: The graph that spans train stations via zones in the ring topology is not metric. So getting a return ticket is not the inverse of getting the ticket out. And while you have a ticket that's valid for the timespan of your return, it may not be valid for your return path.
Both settings are under Settings - Location on Android phones. Hardly hidden.

Can someone answer me why some Apple fans have this strange compulsion to lie and mislead about non-Apple products? I get that they love your Apple device (I do too!), but why lie about products you're not using?
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This is really awesome. Can this be made available in India?
Please don't be rude, even if someone got a detail wrong.

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That is a little too reductionist. It can hold a lot of things. Millions of people get all of their facts and information from live video. A lot of it is delivered by cable tv right now, but in the same way that TV news overtook newspapers, Facebook will overtake cable. People have watched moon landings, walls falling, and the birth and death of democracies, all live--and there were always advertisers paying the bills.

I know that we're in the middle of an awakening of sorts about personal data, but that doesn't negate the value that services like Facebook can offer. I may be naive, but I think this is a step in the right direction.
In practice, you can sometimes switch to contracting for the same company (vs being an employee). The limits for contracting rates are usually much higher than limits for salaries, so there's plenty of room for a raise. I don't know if it's legal in the US, but I've seen it happen in Europe (Poland, Sweden).
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What, work to reduce their revenue?
I haven't kept up with GPUs since a long time ago. I remember reading that even though Quadro GPUs were for heavy workstation loads, it still didn't compare to consumer GPUs when used for playing games.

How would this Quadro RTX compare to a Titan GTX 1080 Ti for games with standard rendering techniques?
The real gems are in the linked set of academic publications (links with a 'J'), a further dive into the oral history of horsemanship. And the process of accessing it as an outsider.
چاه یعقوب خطرناک ترین و زیباترین چاه در جهان
Free sync support yet?
Or perhaps HN should fix some properties formatting after all these years? Code gets posted here pretty regularly after all...
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Man, what hubris. I have to say that the most enticing thing to a human is to find a pattern, even where there is none. You cant make predictions purely on prices, because that is the information itself of what predictions were.

Crypto money has some big red-alerts. Billions poured in. Potentially billions in money laundry. Extreme concertation between high-stake players. And you want to guess what the future holds by looking at the historical price?
I always find a captcha on the second attempt and onwards a fine compromise
With all due respect, the comparison between the relations of USA/China and Russia/Poland for example does pass the sniff test. The USA did not appoint the Chinese government, the USA does not have its military across China. USSR/satellite state relationships were nothing like a normal economic relationship. They were more like colonial era relations such as England/India prior to Indian independence.
Great write up !

I am working in medical devices but I am more familiar with the FDA regulations.

What I wonder regarding risk management is how you justify the safety of QT /iOS / Android. In its risk management, the FDA asks you to list of your SW dependencies you are using "off the shelf", and you have to analyze how any failure of any of your dependencies could lead to a failure of your device/application (which is good sense really).

So usually for a simple library it is easy to justify and identify the failure mode, but you look at the OS or big frameworks, it is always harder to find a clear mitigation. Especially at the OS level where potentially any part of memory could be corrupted, your thread not being scheduled, etc.

For example, in your case imagine you have a driver or QT rendering bug that makes the red overlay layer becoming transparent on some HW. That would lead to the user not identifying the correct area and in the end lead to a wrong computation. (I can see on some screenshots you have the percentage displayed so that could be a mitigation in itself)

I am working in the embedded space so generally we have less dependencies and a simpler code base, but we are always reluctant to use off the shelf SW because of the added risk management required. This is counter intuitive for safety but from a regulatory stand point it is sometimes easier to reimplement some features, than using a proven library, because this is less a hassle to justify or maintain.

So was it something raised by the regulator ? Can you give us some example of how you addressed it?
Which of those gives you observables like a very nearly isotropic 2.725 K (and slowly cooling) blackbody spectrum, for example ?

The universe gives virtually everything in it some observables it seems silly to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_factor_(cosmology)

just because the vast majority of observers aren't strictly Eulerian and thus there are lots of little details, like a dipole anisotropy in the CMB, or small deviations from a perfect blackbody spectrum. For A and B separated by non-cosmological distances, there are plenty of other local clocks available; around here one might use the orbital period of the Hulse-Taylor binary, for instance.

Of course the Alcubierre metric doesn't use the scale factor, since it is an everywhere-flat spacetime (i.e., not expanding) except in the compact region of the warp bubble's walls, and the metric does not admit a varying scale factor, and it is a vacuum solution so there are no CMB photons, binary pulsars, or any other matter -- not even a spaceship.

Making the Alcubierre metric even slightly more realistic exposes problems [1] which don't vanish when you make a reasonable (or any) choice of frame of reference.

- --

[1] Lobo & Visser (2004) https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/21/24/011 https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406083 (note that the problems do not depend on superluminality)
also the people attracted to job security forever are rarely the best. and the best want to work with the best.
The special issue of the ACM Transactions on Graphics has several articles describing the inner workings of some current production renderers: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3243123&picked=prox
While the collapse was unavoidable, Soviet Union collapsed when it collapsed, ie. in the 198x instead of say 10 years later or 10 years earlier, because of confluence of 2 factors - cold weather of 198x resulting in bad harvests and low price of oil which didn't allow for enough import to cover the food shortage. Food is the key in support [or lack of it] of a regime by its populace. We have just again observed the same thing of food issues leading to great political upheaval - Arab Spring. Wrt. China - so far there is no food (or any other basic quality of life) issues on the horizon.
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> Which is so stupid because so many people have no idea at all what they pay in taxes because of employer withholding.

Which makes me think that it's not so much about people being informed as people being annoyed. I don't dread tax season because of what I owe, I dread it because of all the nonsense hoop jumping I know I have to go through on pain of massive fines and audit nightmares.

I'd be willing to be that a good many folks would shrug at their tax bill if it was laid out in simple terms with a sane user interface. Nobody can possibly shrug at the status quo form dance that they're subjected to year after year. It's practically guaranteed to cause discomfort and engender disdain.
It's an educational blog post.
> Ask someone smarter and more educated, thoughtful, and civic-minded to decide on the future of your companies.

This would basically mean admitting failure. I can't imagine any of the guys mentioned in the article to be ready for that. They are looking for answers and solutions, but they want to be the ones solving the problem, and won't hand their power over to anyone else.
I would be very surprised if the waste heat had any significant impact more than a few meters/yards from the container. Water has a really high heat capacity and the oceans are large.

Almost all the energy that is heating up the ocean is coming from the sun - we've just put a thicker blanket round the earth to trap more heat. Waste heat from human activity is a tiny part of the global energy balance.
Most cars don't tell you how many gallons are left in the car, just approx how much of a full tank. So mpg doesn't help much in your example, miles per full tank is a useful number though and from there you can calculate that if you have half tank you only have 300/2=150 miles left. Though most cars will tell you the exact remaining distance to empty in the instrument cluster already so there is no need to do this mental arithmetic anyway.
That is a pretty amazing site! Can't download anything right now which makes me think It would make it a lot easier if instead of a downloadable software it was being offered as a saas site.
How is that relevant for professional hardware?
Is it just me or does that website load insanely slowly?
The point of my example is that just one river system out of several in the US is many times bigger than all the rivers in Australia.

What I mean is that the problem is not the distance, but that sufficient water just isn't available anywhere in the continent.
You're absolutely right.

I personally think we should have both systems: The current "position dependent" system we have now, and a system for sending Unicode.
Aquaponics could be the solution to that.
So many fish visible on the live cameras. I suppose the container surface has become a source of food for the local ecosystem now.
They are ray tracing everything. They use an ML-based filter to reduce sampling noise.
Just you.
I read this in the Subway (NYC) the other day:

" I remember my mother toward the end,

folding the tablecloth after dinner

so carefully,

as if it were the flag

of a country that no longer existed,

but once had ruled the world. "

- Jim Moore

Edit - Typo.