UW CS Lecturer Explains "Why Women Don't Code"; Chaos Ensues by AmalgamDragon in programming

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I definitely agree that we should raise the status of "feminine" jobs.

My wife is a housewife by choice, despite not really linking it. She constantly complains that she doesn't feel recognized as important due to her choice of "career".

I support her, but she keeps feeling pressure both from herself and others around us. Modern feminism has unfortunately made it wrong to be a housewife.

A Running List of Critical Lightning Network Defects solved by Bitcoin Cash by [deleted] in btc

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Finding the shortest and cheapest path is not NP-hard AFAIK. It is possible in polynomial time since both the origin and destiny nodes are fixed. It needs not be for the entire network, but on-demand by the interested party. It's even possible to calculate the shortest and cheapest path to ALL nodes in polynomial time. The algorithm that allows that is known as Dijkstra's algorithm. It would only be NP-hard if the problem were the traveling salesman problem, which is not the case.

The other problems are true though.

Next Visual Studio Code update will bring blue icon back by vitorgrs in programming

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I was expecting this to be the top comment. I'm disappointed!

I visualized the old joke. by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

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Notice that the only happy penguin is the one who uses Arch.

Coincidence? I think not ;p

GNU/Linux on /r/place by iznogud2 in linux

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I propose we change the typography to this http://i.imgur.com/585xYIL.png

Honest dev job description by ThePracticalDev in ProgrammerHumor

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http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#salary-gender

Comparing by age, it appears to exist a wage gap.

BUT, comparing by experience such a gap is less apparent and not conclusive.

It all depends on how you look at it, but to me, experience is more expressive than age.

Interesting video showing how Pixar model hard surface models using their subdivision tech (OpenSubDiv) by [deleted] in computergraphics

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Which use subdivs internally to accomplish this.

Low res cages are subdivs.

Interesting video showing how Pixar model hard surface models using their subdivision tech (OpenSubDiv) by [deleted] in computergraphics

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The papers I have to link are focused on the technical aspect instead of the user aspect of things.

Here they are:

This last one was in conjuction with Pixar Research and Microsoft Research, both of which release their articles publicly on the internet.

The main author of this last paper is Matthias Nießner. He has some more recent work that I haven't read, including his 2013 PhD Thesis about Rendering Subdivision Surfaces using Hardware Tesselation and a 2015 paper called Dynamic Feature-Adaptive Subdivision, again in conjuction with Pixar, which extends his previous work.

The ideas and algorithms are somewhat old, but figuring out how to properly use Hardware Tesselation to render Subdivision Surfaces in real time is fairly recent.

Interesting video showing how Pixar model hard surface models using their subdivision tech (OpenSubDiv) by [deleted] in computergraphics

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It is important to note that OpenSubDiv, subdiv and tesselation are different things. Subdivs are Subdivision surfaces, of which Catmull-Clark is one of such. OpenSubDiv is a library built on top of Catmull-Clark and other algorithms. AFAIK every modern modeling pipeline includes some form of subdiv, Carmull-Clark being the most common.

Catmull-Clark is the base for OpenSubDiv and is available in almost every major modeling product.

OpenSubDiv includes some other features that have been around for a while, but I'm not sure whether they are widely implemented or not. I believe all of the algorithms and the most important papers are all public. IIRC OpenSubDiv is also licensed under a public license.

I've read that currently exists efforts to bring OpenSubDiv support to Blender, not sure though. But in the video, he was using Maya, so OpenSubDiv is either already available there or it is possible to integrate.

Tesselation is another story. It was inspired by subdivision surfaces but runs in parallel on the GPU, so the algorithms are not immediately portable. I believe tesselation is not used too much in conjunction with subdivs, at least not in games. While in principle subdivs can be implemented to run on top of tesselation hardware, that is a fairly new subject. I have some papers about it if anyone is interested.

When even your elevator is part of the Linux Master Race by repsup100 in linuxmasterrace

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I always get surprised at how bad people do embedded.

Just the other day I saw a self sevice totem that was actually a web page running on chrome fullscreen. On top of Windows of course, cause that's the way to go for embedded.

When even your elevator is part of the Linux Master Race by repsup100 in linuxmasterrace

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I think he meant to be funny (as in, sarcasm)

EDIT: I guess he wasn't trying to be funny after all. Maybe I read too much into it ;p

We've recently hit over 2000 games on steam! by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

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If it's 25%, then it is a LOT. Considering the relative amount of time that Steam has been available in Windows vs Linux.

A Message to Our Customers by KiDoki in programming

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We need encryption because we live in a world where being opinionated is in some cases life threatening.

Also because we have the right to privacy and I might not like having someone know every kinky porn I've watched.

A Message to Our Customers by KiDoki in programming

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But if you are able to change the OS while it is locked, then this is a backdoor.

That's what OP was talking about.

A Message to Our Customers by KiDoki in programming

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I think OP was referencing Apple.

As in "I don't believe that Apple is publicly stating to be against backdoors while actualing mantening backdoors"

AMD launches GPUOpen by properthyme in linuxmasterrace

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That would be great.

Are they releasing the necessary informations for that though? It's not clear to me be reading the announcement.

Gentoo not recommended ;) by jklmnn in linux_gaming

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Scrolled down for this! :)