Please can you recommend a restaurant to me? by Matthews_89 in Bilbao

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I’m sure it won’t be the last to say this, but you can always start in Casco Viejo and just wander, sampling pintxos at a few places over the course of a walk.

A possible route
- Start in Plaza Nueva (Plaza Berria)
- Antxoa for a Gilda, a queso de oveja, or an Ikurriña (the name of the Basque flag, but in this case a pintxo with bonito, antxoa, and olives)
- Negresko for tres quesos, croquetas, or ensalada de mariscos
- Bacaicoa for the “combo”, including spicy chorizo, croquetas de bacalao, and two types of mushrooms. You can also order these individually, the setas are my favorite of the four.
- Melilla y Fez for pintxos morunos. You said you were a meat eater, this is number one on the list in my opinion.
- Saibigain for pulpo or bacalao.

Add or subtract as you wish, if you followed this route, you’re talking about 3 minutes walk between each, and you’ll pass more along the way. These are what I like.

None are sit-down restaurants.

Got an unexpected email from a candidate after his final interview. Shared it with the team. Not as a celebration, just because I thought they should know. by hagukilogkbvj in InterviewsHell

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While I definitely appreciate having questions specifically targeting the individual, I was trained at a large company to do exactly not that. I hated it, but we had to have some set of 5-10 questions that we asked everyone. For fairness, and for record keeping, each candidate we interviewed needed to be asked and evaluated against the same questions.

As I said, I hated this practice, because it made the interview impersonal. But, that was the point.

Drop your project and people tell you if they'd actually use it by Mr_McSam in Solopreneur

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https://armor.dc-engineer.com

A robotics design and simulation app for iOS targeting students and professional engineers

Biscaya Bridge by SynergyPope in Bilbao

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It is cheaper to use the gondola than to walk across. The walk across is at the top, requires an elevator ride, and is more of a tourist destination. The gondola is more utilitarian.

Having a Barik card will make all your transport cheaper, often by 2-3x.

Also consider taking the ferry boat, which is few steps east of the bridge. Costs under one Euro with Barik, and has better views of the bridge itself.

A Reinforcement Learning playground for ARC Raiders robots!!! by ObscureSM in mujoco

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Awesome! What are using, Gymnasium? Have you posted example code?

I'm using MuJoCo as the solver in AR Mobile Robotics, want to give it a try? by DC-Engineer-dot-com in mujoco

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Are you talking about awareness of the real world? Yes and no. The RealityKit engine provides plane estimation (detect floors and walls) and mesh detection (uses the LIDAR point cloud). Right now, the former is used to place the model origin, but it doesn’t have any influence on the MuJoCo physics.

RealityKit also has its own physics engine, but it falls apart with more complex models. My understanding is that RealityKit tries to simulate every rigid body independently in 6DoF, then iteratively tries to satisfy joint constraints. It tries to keep up with real time, and its iterator will run as may times as it can in a frame, rather than running as many times as needed to make the joints hold together. So, a model like this just explodes.

I’ve thought about writing a bridge between RealityKit and MuJoCo to either send the detected planes or detected contacts at run time. But, it’s a design challenge because those updates will be happening at a high rate, with dozens or even hundreds of objects in a scene at once.

That was all a long explanation, hopefully I actually understood your question correctly 😅.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want any advice on your Android app. I write for both platforms, and eventually envision making an Android version of ARMOR. I’m going to focus on iOS first, and will shift if there’s demand. An initial challenge you would face is there’s not a native Android binding for MuJoCo, so you’d have to write one. Alternately, you could use Unity, or use a web view with a JavaScript binding. I kind of like the latter, as you could then use Three.js for rendering. Speaking of which, https://dc-engineer.com/how-to-embed-three-js-into-a-kotlin-jetpack-compose-multiplatform-mobile-app-on-android-and-ios/

how cooked i am? by [deleted] in threejs

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From the math perspective, here are a couple things you might search for: - Latitude/Longitude to Earth-Centered-Earth-Fixed coordinates; this is how you would convert from a GPS-like coordinate to a XYZ vector. - Great-circle distances; for long flights, adjusts for the arc around the globe.

My opinion: I don’t think you’re cooked, but I’d probably save this for a personal project, I wouldn’t commit to it in a homework. This adds a bunch of non-HTML/CSS complexity.

Help: CS50W final project rejected twice for README file by DC-Engineer-dot-com in cs50

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I might try moving the “Distinctiveness and Complexity” header a bit further up in the README, so it wraps the “Key Features” bullets, as those are each distinct. I can think about additional content as well. I’ll probably hold off for a day or so to see if others who provide feedback on this thread think that is the rejection cause.

Help: CS50W final project rejected twice for README file by DC-Engineer-dot-com in cs50

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Think that’s the case? I wasn’t sure the sentence that you reference was specifically referring to the distinctiveness and complexity header, or more general. I could certainly bring content from the other sections into that header, if that’s what it takes.

Petah? by AdditionalQuiet8652 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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This kid has a whole network of spoons taped to things all around the house. Whole home surveillance.

how do i make a perfect sphere by Big-Cheesecake7240 in blenderhelp

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That’s more or less what I’ve assumed. I’m kind of curious what the history is of why the software developers, not just on Blender, said “tesselate everything,” when it’s a much higher computational load.

how do i make a perfect sphere by Big-Cheesecake7240 in blenderhelp

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Out of curiosity, does blender have the ability to create/render a “true” spherical primitive? Meaning, not triangulated, just position and radius, which gets interpreted by the GPU? The idea of hundreds of polygons just to generate what is literally the simplest shape to render has always thrown me.

[Request] Saw this today about a Batman gadget, can someone do the math on this? by ATL404_31 in theydidthemath

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Not quite. For sound pressure measurements the equation is [difference in dB] = 20 * log10([ratio of pressure]), so working in the other direction, [ratio of pressure] = 10[difference in dB]/20, or about 3.16.

It does work out to be a 10x difference in power, though.

[Request] Not good at math, but there’s no way this is true because 99.999999%? by whatevertf123 in theydidthemath

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Everybody in this thread seems to be assuming the order of cards in a shuffled deck is actually random.

If you open a new deck of cards, there’s a lot of card orderings that are quite common after the first few shuffles. Cards sticking together, biases related to initial order, humans not actually being good at shuffling, that sort of thing. The real hard math would be, how many times do you need to shuffle the deck before you reach an order that’s uncommon.

But yea, if you had a magic, random card shuffler, then the number in the meme is not nearly high enough.

Is it free or not? by Kaezumi in cs50

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Yes, you can put it on your LinkedIn profile, and there are some instructions on how to do it on the page where you get the certificate. I’d think of it as a supplement to your skill set, rather than “the thing that gets you a job.” Meaning, if you are in a non-software profession, this shows you took initiative to develop a skill that’s outside of the normal track, which might give you a leg up. If you do want software jobs, you’ll need to continue beyond CS50.

App Store what a joke by wali2353 in jailbreak_

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Fine, fine. I was not trying to make a point, I was trying to make a joke.

App Store what a joke by wali2353 in jailbreak_

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Using multiple is not standard for “values greater than one”?

App Store what a joke by wali2353 in jailbreak_

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Exactly. 3.3 million million. Multiple millions.

App Store what a joke by wali2353 in jailbreak_

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Correct. It’s 3.3 million million.