sol_hsa

sol_hsa, 6 days ago to random

I've seen this kind of stovetop design in some (primarily american?) media, and I wonder..

Why are the controls that control the hot things on top of the hot things?

Sounds like a really unsafe design to me.

@TechConnectify might be able to comment?

sol_hsa, 11 days ago to random

400 followers, does that make me an e-class celebrity yet?

sol_hsa, 11 days ago to random

In today's news:

Unity exec quits
OpenAI co-founder quits
AWS CEO quits

Nobody wants to work anymore

sol_hsa, 24 days ago to random

There's way more shoes in stores these days where you don't need to tie the laces.

My first reaction to this was negative, but then I figured, why?

The first generation of people who never had to have shoes that have laces are now old enough to make decisions about shoe designs.

And they don't like tying laces.

And that is perfectly fine.

sol_hsa, 1 month ago to random

Do people have specific laundry days?

I just do laundry whenever we have accumulated enough dirty clothes (and/or are running out of clean ones)

sol_hsa, 1 month ago to random

I wonder if the target demographic for the rentable electric scooters is assholes. At least if I consider where people leave the things. Such as sideways parked in the middle of a bicycle lane on a steep hill. Right after a curve.

sol_hsa, 2 months ago to random

Stumbled upon an "experienced game programmer's" resume. Three pages of super detailed listings of work tasks, 9 years of experience. Zero mention of any released games.

sol_hsa, 2 months ago to random

"digitally remastered"

Like, okay. Fine. But what else could it be? Analogically? Manually? Optically? With crayons?

sol_hsa, 3 months ago to random

Headlines then:
Fact happened, read all of it here

Headlines now:
You'll never guess what happened, we'll reveal it in the fourth paragraph if you're lucky

sol_hsa, 3 months ago to random

Had an interesting discussion while walking with my son yesterday.

How do you define indoors vs outdoors?

If you're in a tunnel, is it indoors?

Is it about the amount of ventilation?

If it's about the ventilation, are you indoors on a plane?

Is it the amount of recycled air?

If you're in a big hall, you're clearly indoors, right?

If you're in an airtight artificial biome, is it indoors?

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing some significant part of the human existence by not drinking alcohol.

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

I've been tracking the prices people are willing to pay for #SpecNext on ebay.

The auction prices hover around 600€, and some people with more money than sense have gone with 1200€ buy it nows.

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

When vulkan was introduced, Khronos stated that OpenGL wasn't going away.

Latest ARB extension to OpenGL is dated 2019. No extension (vendor specific or otherwise) mention ray tracing in any way.

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

<joke>
As a person with literally two hours of experience in the #Polish language, I feel I'm expert enough to state this opinion:

The language could use a reform.

They don't use v. W is their v. There's no reason for this.

Some sounds can be written in two ways, either with accented characters or two letters. There's probably some logic behind this.

In some two letter combinations the first letter is omitted when speaking.

While at it, the accented l could be changed to the (now unused) w.

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

So I'm inserting 50 million (precalculated) primes to <unordered_set>.

Takes 21.6 seconds.

I replaced the hash function with a trivial one, drops time to 7.8s.

Replaced allocator with a stack allocator, down to 3.6 seconds.

That's still a pretty long time. Ideas?

sol_hsa, 4 months ago to random

Got my first reading glasses (yes, I'm old) and I've read two books in the past week. Clearly missed reading books. Yet to check if the glasses help with the steam deck =)

sol_hsa, 5 months ago to random

A discussion today caused me to dig up this page, which I recommend any programmer to read (it's related to visualizing algorithms). It has some mind-blowing animations.
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

sol_hsa, 5 months ago to random

For all my whining about the more complex aoc puzzles (dfs, lcm, tree pruning, inverse mod), if I was running the show, I'd probably require stuff obvious to me that would be "overly difficult" from other people's perspective.

sol_hsa, 5 months ago to random

So my 10+ year old Acer laptop I use mostly for AoC had 8 gigs of memory. Manual for said PC is crap ("how to surf the web"), but luckily the model was popular enough that Crucial had a page listing compatible parts. Bought a 16 gig stick. Opened laptop, found out it has two slots. Further googling showed the PC was also sold in a 8+4 memory config, so I opened it up again and tried 16+8. And it worked! I'm honestly surprised.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

Actual lyrics of a jolly Finnish Christmas song:

Vain hetken kestää elämä,
Sekin synkkää ja ikävää

Translates roughly to "life lasts only a moment, and the moment is gloomy and sad"

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

Here's my "hello triangle" comparison, opengl/vulkan/directx. Mostly for humour but also kinda scary.
Full res: https://solhsa.com/temp/hellotriangle_ogl_dx.png

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

steam hardware survey says AVX is now 97.28% meaning it's safe to use, and AVX2 is 93.74% which is pretty safe. (AVS512 is just 9% or less so that hasn't taken off)

So in short, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX and AVX2 are usable now.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to unity

#Unity stock progress (install fee announcement was about 12th sept or thereabouts.

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

First of my AoC animation compilation youtube vids is up (these will be popping up once a week)

https://youtu.be/Fur7DPmgmAY

sol_hsa, 6 months ago to random

Google introduced .ing domain names, which is surprising in that they didn't think of it earlier.

Another surprise is that the most obvious, f-word .ing domain hasn't been taken.

Then I checked the price.. 12k at the cheapest. Per year.