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Lucky for you, the documentation is excellent 
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Super Lloyd wrote: 1.18Mb of C++ source code..
 For the record the text version of war and peace is less than 1 MB.
Compress em both then tell us which one is larger... 
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From a purely psychological point of view I find it interesting that one of the qualities required to be a good programmer is the habit of obsessing over problems.
I find it interesting because the question is - at what point does that become unhealthy?
I mention this because I am learning python and as part of learning I am creating a bouncy ball program where a ball bounces off objects and its trajectory needs to conform with the effect of gravity.
I find the problem solving even finds its way into my dreams.
Anyway - I am not much help here, just an observation on the tendency we have to obsess over a problem until we solve it 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The Last Bug
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That brings tears to my eyes! 
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I find that when I start dreaming about work, Then it is time to take some time off. Alittle Whiskey and little relaxing and then I start dreaming about things a guy should dream about(more whiskey, women and cars) and then the solution usually finds me
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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GuyThiebaut wrote: From a purely psychological point of view I find it interesting that one of the qualities required to be a good programmer is the habit of obsessing over problems.
There was an article on Ars a couple of weeks ago which describes programmers in a way that I find surprisingly accurate. Both from my personal experience and from watching some of my better developer coworkers.
... the pleasure that comes when you finally get things working is such a narcotic jolt. Coders will chase that thrill over and over again. It compensates for those brutal hours of frustration. So this is a class of people who are just amazingly good at pounding nails into the floorboard with their forehead.
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If the problem were really accuracy, you could probably solve it by using a type such as double-double (giving approximately 32 decimal digits). I suspect, however, that the problem is of a different order.
I suggest that you look at W. Kahan's article Miscalculating Area and Angles of a Needle-like Triangle and at S. Boldo's article How to Compute the Area of a Triangle: A Formal Revisit. These may give you some pointers regarding the numerical issues involved in this sort of calculation.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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To be fair, something that I haven't tried, is to change my custom epsilon (that I use to bound computation in bezier-bezier curve intersection, which could otherwise recurse like crazy) from 0.1 to a lower value.
But 0.1 should be enough, I think... (since Bezier curve are generated by hand, and if we omit the zoom, 1 pixel = 1 unit away = minimal relevant distance the user can draw, hence 0.1 should be pretty good. But I did zoom, that might have been the problem...)
Anyway, thanks for the links, gotta check them later....
modified 22-Apr-19 20:38pm.
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It's a graphics problem.
Jim Blinn probably has four solutions in his back pocket and just hasn't had time to publish them.
I'd ask him....
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It's a graphics problem.
Jim Blinn probably has four solutions in his back pocket and just hasn't had time to publish them.
I'd ask him....
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Point 7 from here seems to apply Seven Sins of the Eternal Dev | How to Make an RPG
Ask your self this: Is this a breaking issue that will completely stop the application from working?
No : release. get feedback. work on some other functionality. fix it in 2 years time.
(I write this before as a reflection to my self and getting over that first release hurdle.)
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Super Lloyd wrote: it would be like my.. mmm.. legacy? you know something, forgot the word, that shows your art and pride!
That's more or less one of the two the correct definitions of the word "Masterpiece".
The other correct definition is almost never used, so you can feel secure in knowing that 99.367 times you see the word, it's being used incorrectly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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96. Preposition X, frequently (5)
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Often
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ya 
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You know how one can link multiple account with Windows, like your home account and work account.
I linked my previous work account, which I believe use Azure Active Directory to my home account.
Since then I left and this previous work account was deactivated.
Now my home Window keep complaining I have "an account issue", unfortunately, somehow, I can't seem to unlink my previous work account, because I can't login into it....
Any idea what I am talking about? And how to solve it?
This other account appears on
Settings > Email & app accounts > Account used by other apps
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I'm sure, that formating the HD will remove the extra account...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I wouldn't bet on it!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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No you would need to get Microsoft to format their hard drives, good luck with that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Have you tried upgrading to windows 7?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If Jesus died for our sin, who died for our cos and tan?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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1 - the fat guy in the red suit and 2 - the rabbit?
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See "4." in The Lounge[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It's Mexican Maths, not religion! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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