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ashleysmithgpuon uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

Thank-you so much! It's been a disease on my browser for too long

ashleysmithgpuon Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?

Reminds me of gradient descent. Trying to find the minima of a function by exploring random points that are outside of known minimums.

ashleysmithgpuon BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

"Open source" with nvidia hardware? Good luck with that

ashleysmithgpuon Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

Octopus energy in the UK has something like this https://twitter.com/energystatsuk would be great if you could push energy back to the grid and get paid for it too

ashleysmithgpuon The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched

I wonder if there are any binary blobs required to boot? I guess the WiFi/Bluetooth modules would be the main problem but those are removable

ashleysmithgpuon ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

$399 when I set my country to US, £399 when set to the UK? That's not how currency works :/

ashleysmithgpuon Temporary National Emergency Library to close 2 weeks early

On a related note (Yes crypto, sorry) Filecoin is encouraging people to help backup certain large data sets: https://filecoin.io/blog/intro-filecoin-discover/

ashleysmithgpuon Spatio-Temporal Handwriting Imitation

Does anyone write their S's from the bottom up?

ashleysmithgpuon P2P Matrix

I was interested in a server, but the website does not mention how much storage or any details at all really. Anyone happen to know where to find that info?

ashleysmithgpuon Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer

Just to add a dissenting voice to the conversation, I recently attempted to transfer some money with transferwise and they refused just after I had uploaded all of my ID etc. In the end I went with worldremit and they were much easier to deal with. Slightly more expensive but I'd choose that over the hassle of tw.

ashleysmithgpuon Ways to surf some of the decentralized web

Freenet, i2p, tor, hyperboria

ashleysmithgpuon Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?

I live in Japan. "Washing hands is common" this is incorrect. Most bathrooms do not have soap and many people do not wash their hands.

"People listen and obey to their government" This is also not true, many hanami events have been cancelled but there were actually more people out viewing yesterday than last year. I am relatively sure the turnout will be higher than last year to many of the parks.

ashleysmithgpuon Fooling surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

Example video from the pdf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIbFvK2S9g8 Looks like it would work well on a tshirt

ashleysmithgpuon China to have 626M surveillance cameras within 3 years

10 for each person in the UK? ... I wouldn't put it past this government

ashleysmithgpuon W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

Is the EFF a big enough presence to "fork" the W3C standards? I hope so.

ashleysmithgpuon Ask HN: I'm late to the crypto currencies boom, what are my options?

https://www.iconomi.net/dashboard/#/INDEX Might be what you are looking for

ashleysmithgpuon Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop

Looks like Qubes make you pay to get certified: https://puri.sm/posts/ "The costs involved, requiring a supplementary technical consulting contract with Qubes/ITL (as per their new Commercial Hardware Goals proposal document), are not financially justifiable for us."

ashleysmithgpuon Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

I'd just like to say thank-you for writing about what happened to you. I am going to be much more careful about my contacts from now on. I also use dailies, never for > 24hrs. But I didn't dry my hands and used them in the shower occasionally. Not any more.

ashleysmithgpuon The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway

The csiro logo they have looks very familiar:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2012/10/08/cisco.jpg

https://www.csiro.au/~/media/Web-team/Images/CSIRO_Logo/logo...

ashleysmithgpuon Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM

Artists at my work still use 3ds max. Despite it crashing every 5 minutes, being slow, having less features, costing infinitely more, having zero support, terrible documentation, compatibility issues... I could go on. I show them blender and they immediately don't like it because the shortcuts are different.

ashleysmithgpuon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2016)

Location: London, UK

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: possibly short term

Technologies: Vulkan, C++, OpenGL, real-time graphics, GPU/CPU optimisations, embedded Linux, research, ray tracing

Résumé/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/cv/ashleysmithgpu or https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleysmithgpu

Email: contact through PM on any site

I'm looking for a contracting position in London or remote. I have 8+ years of c/c++ experience and 6+ years experience of graphics programming/optimisation/research. Recently I have been involved in Vulkan, OpenGL ES and in-development extensions for drivers on Android. I also have games industry console experience as-well as exoteric embedded devices.

Maybe you need help porting your game to Vulkan or are looking for someone to help profile/optimise your rendering on mobile?

ashleysmithgpuon Gnomes per second in Vulkan and OpenGL ES

Check the blog post after Wednesday, there are some things we cannot say yet.

The demos is slightly unrealistic yes and you could use multi draw indirect. But you would not be able to use multiple cores with that. As for moving objects, you would really just need to handle the objects moving between tiles and pass the animation matricies in the right places. It was thought about, but we didn't have time to implement.