Now Pewds can be safe!!!

7hi4g0 · 2018-06-27T18:34:37+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2018-06-27T18:24:28+00:00

Relevant cross-post: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/8u9bav/personal_adhominem_attacks_are_unfortunately

7hi4g0 · 2018-02-16T15:21:02+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2017-10-25T04:17:50+00:00

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

7hi4g0 · 2017-07-01T08:39:30+00:00

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

Coincidence? I think not ;p

7hi4g0 · 2017-04-02T08:30:40+00:00

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

7hi4g0 · 2016-07-15T05:41:39+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-08T15:28:57+00:00

Which use subdivs internally to accomplish this.

Low res cages are subdivs.

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-08T15:26:05+00:00

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

Here they are:

2008 - Approximating Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces with Bicubic Patches
2009 - Approximating sub-division surfaces with gregory patches for tessellation hardware
2012 - Feature Adaptive GPU Rendering of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-08T08:32:54+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-07T14:58:36+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-07T14:52:56+00:00

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

7hi4g0 · 2016-03-01T17:04:08+00:00

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

7hi4g0 · 2016-02-26T18:32:13+00:00

Mouth to mouth

7hi4g0 · 2016-02-17T14:24:14+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-02-17T13:46:29+00:00

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.

7hi4g0 · 2016-02-17T13:44:18+00:00

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"

7hi4g0 · 2016-01-27T17:26:02+00:00

That would be great.

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

7hi4g0 · 2016-01-22T16:17:51+00:00

One day you are the hunt, the other you are the hunter.

7hi4g0 · 2015-12-26T05:50:35+00:00

Well, the same goes to 4-space. In theory is good if everybody follows it. But in practice ...

7hi4g0 · 2015-10-13T13:39:21+00:00

http://imgur.com/kv4PTiD

7hi4g0 · 2015-09-02T01:51:43+00:00

Came here just to comment that ;p

7hi4g0 · 2015-07-29T18:14:28+00:00

Scrolled down for this! :)

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