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Re:My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking on Monday January 06, 2025 @01:56PM (#42613978)

If she was using it to check 24 + 7, then yes.

Re:Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–Jewish sci.... on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:41PM (#39773755)

> Muslims in europe had white people (and black people too) as slaves, way, way, way before europeans started trading slaves

Rome? Greece? What are you even talking about?

> FWIW slavery is still ongoing, today, in some muslim countries

Also in the USA [1] and EU [2].

Spare us the "europeans are peaceful / muslims evil" angle please.

[1] https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie... [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00130...

Re:How do I become a graphics programmer? – A guide from AMD Game Engi... on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:46AM (#38394671)

Do you know how one can get a job as a graphics developer if they know most of these? I do Graphics programming as a hobby, and I learned a lot of what you mentioned here. But since I don't have any job experience, I never really get any interviews.

Re:Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:14AM (#38129071)

Streams can tend to be more readable and easier to write for the right problem set. This is because it is super easy to compose basic functions together which are then invoked by the Stream API. It also makes it really easy to parallelize operations.

Ask HN: How to get over my constant fear of inadequacy

Posted by SomeDaysBe on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN, I have constant fear whenever I start a project. Recently, I started to try to code a game from scratch. This was because I believed I wasn't improving at work, since the projects are very similar every release.Every time I make progress on any side project, self-doubt and fear creep in. It demotivates me from working. Usually it starts when I hit a snag in development, either a bug I...

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Re:L-System Simulations on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:42PM (#36750701)

Wow never heard of space filling curves. Yet another rabit hole to go into.

Re:L-System Simulations on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:08PM (#36750402)

I was able to get it working, I think:

axiom: a

rules:

a = +b|-a|a-|b+

b = -a|+b|b+|a-

initial angle: 90

angle change: 90

scale: 1

simulation depth: 4

Ask HN: How to switch software engineering domains

Posted by SomeDaysBe on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi!I've been a Software Engineer at a medium sized Canadian company for almost 4 years now. It was my first job out of university. The work is backend application development for the company's platform. While the work can be interesting at times, I feel like I don't enjoy it anymore. I want to switch into a new software engineering domain that isn't as high-level. I'm fine with switching to any...

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