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New comment by irascible in "Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure"

irascible — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 01:00:48 +0000

Yeah it really is insane. I have folders where I will be looking at the file and no search expression will show it. It has been like that for a while. Stunningly bad.

New comment by irascible in "Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet"

irascible — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 23:11:19 +0000

This is the equivalent of putting on armor before going to war.

New comment by irascible in "Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash"

irascible — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:37:59 +0000

RIP fellow maker and dreamer.

New comment by irascible in "I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)"

irascible — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:34:22 +0000

Worked on a simulation game in the 80s.. boss coded the entire world simulator as an excel spreadsheet.. I then wrote a tool to compile that spreadsheet and its formulas into 68k assembly language that would run the sim for 1 tick. It worked Amazingly well. I have never doubted the power of spreadsheets since then, and whenever a problem in a similar domain comes up, it's one of my go to tools.

New comment by irascible in "Hello Android"

irascible — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 22:45:04 +0000

I just got a pixel 3 about 3 months ago.. They delivered it in about 48 hours, and it was ready to go w google fi. Have been using it like crazy, and it takes the best pictures of any camera I've ever owned. The voice recog is flawless to the point where I literally rely on it. I've never seen it download an update. Granted it cost me about 1g all together, which is more than I've ever paid for a phone.. but so far my experience has been fantastic.

New comment by irascible in "Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU"

irascible — Thu, 09 May 2019 02:18:35 +0000

yeah shaders really force you to invert your thinking in a good way.

Normally our brains spit out cluttered logic with a bunch of for loops and hash tables but shaders cleave all that away.

New comment by irascible in "PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine"

irascible — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:57:35 +0000

And Ammo.js! There are literally dozens of us using it!

New comment by irascible in "Filament: Physically-based rendering engine"

irascible — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 05:07:53 +0000

Gltf support skinning and morph targets. It also support vertex compression via DRACO.

New comment by irascible in "Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)"

irascible — Wed, 23 May 2018 08:26:46 +0000

He is truly an artist. Some of the user interfaces for his graphics tools he did on the early mac were beautiful in ways I had never seen before.

New comment by irascible in "Machine learning algorithms used to decode and enhance human memory"

irascible — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 23:13:12 +0000

I think you can chill out a little. These are volunteers and this is speculative research. And these people are already wired and receiving gross electric shocks to different nerve clusters in their brain to regulate epilepsy, so I doubt that more nuanced stimulation like this, is much worse, and may lead to new breakthroughs, and may turn what is a handicap, into a special abilility for these people. They are pioneers.

New comment by irascible in "Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game"

irascible — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 03:13:16 +0000

I think pixi.js and websocket + node backend.

New comment by irascible in "There's a mini RTOS in my language"

irascible — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:27:06 +0000

Saw this on reddit. Comments were full of "What's an RTOS?" ... which made me sad.

Real Time Operating System people.. cmon..

New comment by irascible in "I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for"

irascible — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:43:05 +0000

I disagree with a lot of the assertions in this blog. You have to suspend some of your expectations since this is all .js. you can't have a js loop feeding single samples to a buffer. Js isn't deterministic to that level of granularity, but overall it's fast enough to generate procedural audio in chunks if you manage the timing. If you check out some of the three.js 3d audio demos you can see some pretty cool stuff being done with all those crazy nodes the auThor is decrying. He'll I wrote a tron game and did the audio using audio node chains and managed to get something really close to the real tron cycle sounds, without resorting to sample level tweaking.. and with > 16 bikes emitting procedural audio.. I think more focus on the strengths than weaknesses is in order.. and if you really want to peg your cpu.. you can still use emscripten/webasm or similar to generate buffers, if that's your thing..

New comment by irascible in "Judge orders tech company to release Web user data from anti-Trump website"

irascible — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:08:37 +0000

I am spartacus@192.168.1.13

New comment by irascible in "Time to Dump Time Zones"

irascible — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 02:30:48 +0000

I vote a 256 day year, of 8 , 16 day months. Each month is 4, 4 day weeks, with odd weeks being mandatory global time off. New years is a one bMonth long global celebration, also time off.

This has a beneficial side effect of making date handling easier for 8 bit microcontrollers, so when the singularity happens, the superAI will take pity on us because we showed mercy to its ancestors.

New comment by irascible in "Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers"

irascible — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:50:55 +0000

IMO the majority of managers SUCK. Thankfully I've had some GREAT ones, so I can tell the difference now.

If they suck due to non-malicious ineptitude, it's usually pretty bearable, and you can self manage your way around them.. if they suck as a human being.. wooo buddy, time to bounce.

A good manager is both a buffer and a lubricant. They pave the runway, and get out of the way.. and then make you feel good about what you do, while understating their own contribution.. ( and hopefully get their fuzzies from the business stakeholders, who see the productivity and progress gains. )

Shout outs to all the good managers out there! :D

New comment by irascible in "Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US"

irascible — Sat, 21 May 2016 03:00:26 +0000

Damn its refreshing to hear this.

New comment by irascible in "What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity"

irascible — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:41:30 +0000

If they had taught me this in high school I'd have never dropped out.

New comment by irascible in "Street-Fighting Mathematics"

irascible — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:24:53 +0000

Read this in Master Pos' voice.

New comment by irascible in "How a Diode Changed My Life"

irascible — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:01:15 +0000

Just wanted to say, this was a beautiful story and was very moving. Thanks for posting it. :)