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piterdevries

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piterdevries··on Being fatter than Homer Simpson
Just wondering what he finds so delicious to eat that he couldn't stop. I find the food in UK absolutlety disgusting, fast food, desserts, breakfast, all of it.
piterdevries··on Prusti: Static Analyzer for Rust
Why would you need a static analyzer for a language that promotes itself as safe out of the box.
piterdevries··on Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
What about a head?
piterdevries··on Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
Can't automate meetings, can we?
piterdevries··on [dead]
"Dark data" almost as catchy as "Dark Matter"
piterdevries··on Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
Isn't car subscription called leasing?
piterdevries··on Spaghetti Sort (2018)
Simple optimization sleep $int / $maxIntInList
piterdevries··on Fully Automated Luxury Communism
lim bookPrice(x) -> 0. Mind blown.
piterdevries··on High-Tech can’t last: there are limited essential elements
Space mining?
piterdevries··on Solving Programming Puzzles Without Using Your Brain
Do that in a face to face interview. Good luck with that.
piterdevries··on How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
I don't think the hindrance when starting to learn graphics programming is the math or the lack of ideas of what to build. The biggest problem is that the most known APIs (DirectX, OpenGL and especially DirectX 12 and Vulkan) are so badly designed and so poorly documented that it deters anyone trying to start doing anything. All these API are like magic invocation you have to make the calls in just the right order or it doesn't work at all. There is no real specification of what goes underneath and it can't be because the actual implementation is written by different vendors (Nvidia or AMD) which only slightly abides to the specification.
piterdevries··on Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
God bless coldtea, I almost went batshit crazy when I read the article. Do not be fooled, we are in the worst growth period in recorded history. Just think about it, the WW1 and WW2 periods were better. Bullshit article.