mtinkerhess

Joined 17 years ago

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Software Engineer at Meta, formerly Snap, Riot Games, Oculus, 343 Industries, Microsoft Studios
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Comment · 3 years ago
Or, you know, language shifts over time
Comment · 3 years ago
You don't always get to pick your tools. If you're using GitHub, ctrl+F should find what you're looking for.
Comment · 3 years ago
Jacob Collier is a legit next level musician. He does a lot of overdubbing of himself but he does other styles also. His recordings like Moon River and Flintstones are incredible both in terms of arrangement and performance. In a very different style, his Piano Ballads record is great, Let it Be is great on that one.

Totally understand if none if it is your style!

Comment · 4 years ago
If you’re in C major, the V chord is G7, which contains a tritone between its 3 and 7, B and F. You can say, what if instead of B being the 3 of the chord and F being the 7, F is the 3 and B is the 7? Then you discover that the root of this other chord is C# (or Db). Because the function of a chord is largely dictated by the 3 and 7 in it, this means you can substitute any dominant 7 chord with another dominant 7 chord a tritone away and it will still basically function the same (this can create some extra dissonance before the cadence which is nice and it creates some nice chromatic movement in the bass).
Comment · 4 years ago
I would be more than happy to give up almost everything if it would stop climate change, but unfortunately even if I make all those changes, everybody else will continue driving cars, so it seems my personal choices have nothing to do with whether global warming happens or not. The way around this is collective (government) action to guarantee everyone will participate, but for a variety of reasons we don't have the political will to make that happen. Besides, I'm not convinced individuals' actions are to blame for the majority of climate change -- I'm not an expert but I'm under the impression that corporate / industrial energy usage is the majority of the problem.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, the game industry is incredibly secretive. Any hint of any news from a game studio will make headlines, and studios want to control the marketing narrative, so part of the job is learning to keep those secrets.
Comment · 4 years ago
I found the same video it looks like all those dangers are preventable? Don't do acrobatics at low altitude, don't fly over water, don't start the engine on the ground, don't buzz trees or other obstacles, don't get close to other paramotors in flight.
Comment · 5 years ago
Vaccination greatly reduces transmission.
Comment · 5 years ago
A C++ pure abstract class is equivalent to a Java interface.
Comment · 5 years ago
Let's take it one step farther, and have each second be 99.999% of a second from December 20 and June 20, and be 100.001% of a second from June 20 to December 20. Problem solved!
Comment · 5 years ago
"What about..."

There are better solutions.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's problematic because the article isn't about their ethnicity, and your comment boils down to "hey guys just so you know, they're Jews." Who cares? Unless you're going to tie that back to the story somehow, what's the point of bringing it up? It's not explicitly antisemitic but it is a weird thing to highlight.
Comment · 7 years ago
This was submitted by a user that only submits articles from the same site, almost none of which are really on topic for HN. Flagged.
Comment · 7 years ago
">>" can be read as "is much greater / larger than"

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