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Re:Show HN: Claude skill to do your taxes on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:40PM (#47370332)
How do you make sure it’s aware of the latest state/federal policies?
I wonder if ReLU fields could help reduce cache grid resolution while improving reconstruction precision? See https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10824
Potential similarities with Mitsuba's inverse rendering functionality?https://mitsuba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/src/inverse_renderi...
Too bad US-CAD transfers are not possible currently.
Re:Solar panels on cars make no sense on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:19PM (#34572872)
Author: who lives in an apartment anyway?
Re:Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:40PM (#24952844)
The line selection for turns seems to be quite poor still.
Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:36AM (#24887049)
Agreed, the parent comment is extremely defeatist.
Re:Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:33PM (#23749578)
Wise decision, but this renders the cost of education (in US universities) even more unjustifiable.
Pro tip: circular buffer it. First letter becomes the last every 3 months.
Re:Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#20706283)
Did you leverage this approach to optimize terrain rendering/add detail on devices where hardware tessellation is not supported? Lovely algorithm in any case. [Edit: Just remembered the limitation is with WebGL itself, doh.]
Re:Nannou: Creative Coding Toolkit for Rust on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:20AM (#20155621)
Is it likely that Rust will have support for hot reloading? I love the language, but having a fast iteration cycle is essential for this type of work.
3 miles short of Montreal-NYC!
Re:I’m leaving China on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:52PM (#17554543)
A comparison of the same order could be transposed to the USA and Germany.
Re:Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:57PM (#11070281)
I get "ERROR: gyp returned non-zero" while building. Missing dependencies? (Win10.)
Re:A Plague of Helicopters In New York on Sunday January 31, 2016 @05:08PM (#11008332)
A plague of helicopters is ruining Hawaii. We expect New York to be noisy.
Any implications for computational fluid dynamics methods?
Re:The Valley Is Fucked on Saturday December 28, 2013 @09:16PM (#6977884)
Go to Berlin. Bring your startup there. Hang out at Sankt Oberholz. Visit Soundcloud & Google. Attend CCC/C-Base events. Attend LEAP events and teach artists/designers to code at hackathons. Enjoy the fantastic & relatively cheap living environment. Techno. I miss Berlin.
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:14AM (#6893067)
> I'm much, much more at risk of getting mugged in Chicago [...] than getting held up by Customs.

That's not true if you work on something like the Tor Project.

Re:The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:25PM (#6355941)
This homebuilt dome might interest you: http://youtu.be/OQu_FaTKkiE?t=4m46s

This guy's a classic: "My name is Jamie, and I have decided to build a giant robot damnit!"

I also truly despise the phrasing "highly competitive". These kinds of classes, when you take a few in one semester, can eat your soul. They drown you in just enough material to kill that initial spark of interest. Gone is the pleasure of finding things out. And when these 'competitive' students succeed and graduate, they feel lost/void because their life is not dictated by the next exam anymore. (Yes, I learned a lot but I'm still resentful. Syllabi like these are not right.)
Re:Apple Developer Website Update on Sunday July 21, 2013 @07:40PM (#6080905)
I hope you were using good encryption Apple. This guy cracked 400,000 md5 hashed passwords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPny7wk960 He says even with password salts, it could be done.
And a better solution still is to get rid of the driving, not the distraction...
Re:Why People Hate the Google Bus on Sunday May 26, 2013 @02:54PM (#5772043)
I just went from Lower East Side, Manhattan to living in Mitte, Berlin. You should see what it's like around here. There's simply no comparison in terms of rent, public transport, safety, etc.
Re:It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:17AM (#5531164)
The NPR Planet Money podcast just released a podcast Tuesday on Bitcoins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/09/176688096/episode-...

It was the first time I had heard about Bitcoins, and so did many I think!

Re:Why fonts look awful in Chrome, and how to fix it on Friday December 21, 2012 @03:06PM (#4954283)
Using Chrome on the MBP retina, I can assure you that there is nothing to fix. Everything is crisp and clear.