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Comment · 1 year ago
Definitely not in the CS campus.
Comment · 1 year ago
From your own link:

> There’s no proof that ejaculating more actually lowers the chances of prostate cancer. For now, doctors just know they’re connected. It may be that men who do it more tend to have other healthy habits that are lowering their odds.

> Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.

I'm not the expert but, like all things, exercise, sleep and diet probably goes a long way.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think for media/assets, CC-BY is the equivalent of MIT/BSD for source, and CC-BY-SA similar to a GPL. Anything more restrictive than that (e.g., "NC") wouldn't really qualify as "free". The licensing in this case seems to have too many strings attached.
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't this one of the stupidest versions of capitalism?
Comment · 1 year ago
Phones should be banned in school. Really that simple. No serious school/parent that cares about the kids' education would allow phones.
Comment · 1 year ago
Someone's not grounded in reality.

I'm ready to be grounded for this comment.

Comment · 1 year ago
liber/a/um is Latin.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This doesn't hold at all. Path tracing doesn't "just work", it is computational infeasible. It needs acceleration structures, ray traversal scheduling, denoisers, upscalers, and a million other hacks to work any close to real-time.
Comment · 1 year ago
Except that it isn't like that at all. All you get from the driver in terms of ray tracing is the acceleration structure and ray traversal. Then you have denoisers and upscalers provided as third-party software. But games still ship with thousands of materials, and it is up to the developer to manage lights, shaders, etc, and use the hardware and driver primitives intelligently to get the best bang for the buck. Plus, given that primary rays are a waste of time/compute, you're still stuck with G-buffer passes and rasterization anyway. So now you have two problems instead of one.
Comment · 1 year ago
I thought this was sarcasm, but it isn't. Seems like a very weird choice to me to build network infra on top of Python. C/Rust would have been the more obvious choice since you can then bind to that from any language (at least with C).
Comment · 1 year ago
Investment disclosure?

Forcing Chrome to display a search engine choice doesn't even begin to solve the issue. Chrome spies on you regardless, and it also banned UBO and other ad-blocking extensions. It is a product made to deliberately spy on and harvest more data from you.

Comment · 1 year ago
It advertises that it runs locally and that it is "extensible" but then requires you to set up a remote/external provider as the first step of installation? That's a rather weird use of "local" and "extensible". Do words mean anything anymore?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that comment is a copy-paste mistake. If you look at the next code snippet, the comment actually makes sense there.

That being said, I've also given up on C++ and learn it mostly to keep up with the job, if that's where you are coming from. I don't find Rust to be a satisfying replacement, though. No language scratches the itch for me right now.

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