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WAHa_06x36
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Comment #22212326
Isn't the only difference between rotors, as defined in this article, and quaternions the sign of the second 3d component? And this only happens because the planes are defined as "…
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Comment #22212297
Math on Wikipedia is just absolutely atrocious.
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Comment #22189698
I mean, no, they didn't actually occur, that is the good part. That doesn't let Ross off the hook for attempting to make them occur.
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Comment #22171590
Because there was no need to, the other charges were enough to put him away for life. There's really very little reason to doubt he did it, either.
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Comment #22171576
If Bezos tried to have six people killed, then yeah, he should be in jail.
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Comment #22161736
The cost is the countermeasure, by design.
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Comment #22161533
So: Short a large amount of bitcoins, 51% attack until value plunges, earn massive amounts of money. Of course, the problem with this is that there is no exchange that you can trus…
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Comment #22161507
There are many more ways to make money off a 51% attack than just altering transactions.
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Comment #22161492
> If a big crypto-community notices an attack, the cost of a 51% attack would rise Would it though, really? Why? On the contrary, someone performing a 51% attack can and will freez…
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Comment #22146037
WebGPU is a simpler API for doing modern rendering, with less tradeoff. OpenGL is not simple if you want to actually do useful things with it.
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Comment #22146036
I mean, that is exactly what WebGPU is, so I am not understanding why you are so determined to complain about it.
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Comment #22146033
And it became increasingly less of a good fit with each one. By now, it is ridiculously mismatched to the task it needs to perform. Just leave it to die.
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Comment #22146030
Why would that make things better, rather than the fairly obvious "worse"?
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Comment #22128954
What's so "surely" about it?
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Comment #22094120
That API is under development, it is WebGPU.
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Comment #22094115
OpenGL absolutely is a legacy API today. It has been an awful impedance mismatch to modern GPUs for about a decade now.
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Comment #22094104
That will most likely be the already mentioned WebGPU.
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Comment #22094100
OpenGL really is a legacy API in 2020. There is a massive mismatch between modern GPU design and the OpenGL API design. The only reason it wasn't left behind a decade ago is that t…
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Comment #22094078
This I/O device thing seems to be a feature of one specific wasm engine that just exposes a simple framebuffer, so, it has nothing to do with anything else.
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Comment #22068650
Got it the second time.
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Comment #22068628
It is definitely 100% gremlin: https://digg.com/2015/myers-briggs-secret-history Also, https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...
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Comment #22068583
Myers-Briggs is a proprietary test marketed by a commercial company. It is meant to extract money from corporate customers.
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Comment #22048435
> The first big leap is considering experience to be a continuum from humans down to inorganic matter. Why is that a leap, while considering it to be discontinuous is not?
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Comment #22036469
How does that make any sense?
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Comment #22029517
Sure, those that have their own culture do exists, but a lot of times, it's not even that. It's a weird mindset, and it's definitely tied in to the toxic streak of white supremacy …