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Heck, my kids are theoretically engineers (at least their degree says so!), but even buying BackBlaze for them, I can't even get them to hit Ctrl-S from time-to-time. I think their…

Well, I don't know how old you were, but ECC has existed in college for a long time - but may not have been so useful to a lot of engineers building machines (for sure), at the tim…

Nicely written. For certain. Would it be cruel to suggest that you might want to advance a bit more before weighng in ? I'd say that semiconductor physics, real math, control syste…

Hell, I get more than that for child-support (while funding their ivy league schools)!

I prefer ray-tracers (or other rendering or physics engines), maybe because I'm old or have nothing to blog about.

I pay (personally) for the entire Jetbrains tool set. They are damn good. And I guess to be fair, I haven't given a lot of time to VSCode, but TBH: I find that Sublime and IntelliJ…

THEY cover at 10m. You get the low-rez version. Better than the 90m before, so who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Why? You can just copy the link, open a new tab, past it in the URL bar and see the material...

Edit- planet fall was also fun - these were a nice mix-up with Sirtech"s Wizardry... "A Kobold"

How about Hitchhiker's? There were a couple of frustrating bits there. Gosh - I must have played a dozen of those things - and now, being old, I probably couldn't remember what I d…

> There basically no amount of money that it would not have been worth it to spend. Maybe! But, while the transmission rate appears to be sort of high - the fatality rate seems to …

Photon mapping. I've never gotten radiosity debugged properly. I tend to like Reyes as something that works for NURB tersellation for me than the triangle interpolation thing. It c…

The way I implement REYES, it does. But no doubt- Kajiya was the man.

Well, the algorithm was developed in the 1600's, but I remember Turner Whitted's 1979 SIGGRAPH paper blowing me away. I mean, sure, they were slow, but before REYES, they were abou…

What's weird to me is how freaked out people are about this. I get that it is a higher risk than a lightening strike, but given that the absolute number of deaths in 2020 was lower…

What happened with CIGS? There was a privately funded CIGS company here in Austin TX that also didn't make it (even though the founders and investors were solid) and I've not gotte…

While I believe that most (?) of Europe uses DD/MM/YYYY, I am pretty sure that most of South East Asia (dunno about India and Nepal) use YYYY/MM/DD.

That's an extraordinary (and unsupported, here) claim.

> I don't see a future for Scala. Yeah. It was pretty clumsy before it got less clumsy - and it makes me sad because a lot of the graph-based databased technologies glomed onto it …

A long time ago I used to auto gen http and smtp servers and message queues (similar to RabbitMQ) from very compact descriptions. My in-house I infrastructure build-out productivit…

The ui is a little non-intuitive, but good for small teams. For repetitive process work or small distributed teams, I also like Azendoo or even Asana (which has the reports that ma…

As a counter, I have gotten 3 100+ person dev shops to adopt it.

> The culture that feels entitled to free support definitely needs to be rejected however. I have unpubished every open-source package I put out there (small as they were) because …

Great question, that I am going to answer badly, based on my environment. AV (Austin Ventures) was always known as the big fish in the little pond, ever since I moved here from Jap…

By Gawd - I certainly don't mind being down-voted, but since this is not Reddit, would people give the courtesy of telling me what they disagree with? Is that too much to ask?