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kretash··on Pixel 10 Phones
This looks to me like something resembling a 65 mustang.

If you look at some 65 mustangs they only had a driver side wing mirror as that was the law back then. The wider rear tire also makes a lot of sense, as it's a RWD car that needs wider rear tires to support the traction.

If the car in the photo is a 65 mustang, I think the AI did pretty good.

kretash··on Why does pepperoni curl? (2019)
I love Kenji, he’s so methodical when it comes to testing food.
kretash··on The art of solving problems with Monte Carlo simulations
This was a great read, thanks for posting!
kretash··on It’s Game Time: Oculus Quest and Rift S Now Available
From what I could gather the resolution on the Rift S is 1,280 × 1,440 per-eye (2,560 × 1,440 total) and the Quest is 1,440 × 1,600 per-eye (2,880 × 1,600 total) [0], shouldn't the one rending on a desktop GPU have higher resolution? Maybe the source is nor right as it's slightly outdated, but I couldn't find actual numbers in the website.

Also, it would have been nice to get the snap855, but probably would have made the headset a bit too expensive for the target market. The only thing that is miles ahead of the Go is the tracking from what I can see. Not worth updating for how little I use it.

[0] https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-rift-s-vs-quest-specs-differ...

kretash··on Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable
GPU shortage has to do with eth and similar crypto, not bitcoin. Although I would imagine eth will run into the same problems.
kretash··on Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”
I don't understand how such a hacky piece of code made it to production. While water gun returns no results... water gu

https://i.imgur.com/3pV73rs.png

kretash··on Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector
Reading the comments I feel like there are 2 polarized sides that state that everyone they work with uses some sort of stimulant or that they have never encountered it during their career.

It's hard to get a sense of how common it is to encounter stimulants in the tech sector from reading this thread.

kretash··on The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda (2007)
I'm considering picking one up. Which one would you recommend out of all of them?
kretash··on How to Create a Neural Network in JavaScript [video]
Would really like to find something similar but that teaches how to implement the layers and the network too. I feel like I'm not going to become familiar with NN's until I understand how it's built underneath too.

Does anybody have any good resources for that?

kretash··on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
If you want to render at 2560x1440 inside of VR and not lose quality the VR resolution has to be bigger per eye than display resolution. You would need a VR headset that has 4k per eye rather than a better GPU.
kretash··on Microsoft lets you crash drones and robots in its new real world simulator
What depth camera are you guys using? and at what framerate and resolution?
kretash··on Master List of Data Broker Opt-Out Links
Just said that if feels counter intuitive, specially when they force you to fill everything in and don't allow you just to set your email address.
kretash··on Master List of Data Broker Opt-Out Links
Going to the website that is data mining you and putting your personal details such as phone, address, full name and email feels counter intuitive. Not sure I feel comfortable doing so.
kretash··on Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]
found an implementation here. http://fingswotidun.com/code/index.php/Eye

Don't know if it's the same one but it all it seems to do is scaling and clamping.