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by 323 5y ago
Even conceptually using Vulkan is much more complicated. In old GL it's basically glClear, glBegin, glVertex, glVertex, glVertex, glEnd and a bit of window setup. In Vulkan you need to know what these things are: queues, command buffer
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by 323 5y ago
If you look at professional cameras (Sony Alpha for example), the sensors improved in the last 10 years from taking shitty pictures at night to being able to take pictures in almost total darkness. All this with little improvements in optic
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by 323 5y ago
> As for sensitivity, installed instruments are state of the art, finding any improvements would necessitate multi-year research programs. That was exactly my question. Did they use the 8 years from 2013 to 2021 to improve the instrume
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by 323 5y ago
Delphi still exists: > Build Native Apps 5x Faster With One Codebase. For Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi And it's free if you don't make a lot of mone
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by 323 5y ago
Given the many years of launch delay, did they use the opportunity to upgrade some components, like CPU or camera sensor?
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by 323 5y ago
Rose tinted glasses? Visual Basic (classic) that you mentioned, discontinued in 2008, was not free, unless you pirated it. > ‘just drawing things’ For that you have much more amazing things today, like Shadertoy, or various artistic pr
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by 323 5y ago
I remember when TSLA stock was 4 dollars. The next time it hits that price, I won't hesitate.
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by 323 5y ago
It's explained in the article. You update your BIOS to get better DDR5 compatibility, but the new BIOS will also include a microcode update.
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by 323 5y ago
> This means Microsoft owns my computer. Yes, that's what Operating Systems tend to do. Why are you running an OS from a company you don't trust?
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by 323 5y ago
> mortality rate is 7.5% in Mexico That is probably the CFR (case fatality rate). This depends on actually testing. If you don't test mild or asymptomatic cases, the mortality will look way larger. But we know the actual global mo
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by 323 5y ago
Times have changed, we are more sensitive now to death. In the past it was considered normal to lose 50k soldiers in a war, have 3 of your kids die as infants, ...
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by 323 5y ago
Actually we are designed to eat cooked food: > Human beings evolved to eat cooked food. It is literally possible to starve to death even while filling one’s stomach with raw food. In the wild, people typically survive only a few months
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by 323 5y ago
There is plenty of space in USA too. Except that no one wants to be in the middle of nowhere. So it's not surprising at all that some digital locations will be much more desirable than others. In the metaverse people will want to live
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by 323 5y ago
The winning one, the phantom queen, it's not what I would call an optical illusion. It's more of a magic trick, like when they cut a person in a box in two.
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by 323 5y ago
Right, but just the constructor. Everything else is a method of Set/Temporal.
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by 323 5y ago
One good reason is to avoid polluting the global namespace. Otherwise you end up like Mathematica, which has ten thousand or so functions in a single namespace. Or PHP which had (has?) a similar problem (but on a smaller scale).
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by 323 5y ago
> In my country (Romania), even barber shops that store user accounts for longer periods than necessary are fined Those most be some fancy barber shops that you need online accounts for.
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by 323 5y ago
People trusted media. But then media was exposed as partisan, and then as outright liers. So fact checkers were invented. Now fact-checkers are exposed as being partisan, and sometimes outright lying (see BMJ vs FB fact-checking fiasco). So
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by 323 5y ago
> The problem with Spotify is that the artists (for the most part) get so little while providing the content. That's because there is too much supply of music. Attention is the scarce thing today.
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Australia’s far right uses cryptocurrencies to monetise hate online(theguardian.com)
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by 323 5y ago
Am I correct that homomorphic encryption will solve the DRM problem, in the sense that it will be mathematically proven (in the cryptographic sense) to be impossible to bypass? Of course, you'll still be able to cam-record the actual o
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by 323 5y ago
It depends. Today there are APIs which allow the actual decryption to be done directly on the GPU, while requesting the GPU to not allow the sharing/capturing of those decrypted images.
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by 323 5y ago
> Imagine being able to use a modern Windows system (officially) that had no bloatware One's feature is another's bloatware. As Joel Spolsky used to say, 80% of the people use only 20% of the features, the problem is that eac
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by 323 5y ago
You seriously underestimate the continuous growth of computer power. And quantum computers after, which are perfect for simulating chemical reactions. What was unthinkable 50 years ago, playing chess better than a human, it's now trivi
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by 323 5y ago
Someone who is unable to lie is classified by psychiatrists as "cognitively impaired".
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by 323 5y ago
So you called that artist a "vandal". Would you also call Bansky a "vandal"? Some people find unapproved grafitti objectionable. How do you feel about that?
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by 323 5y ago
A lot of times people who loudly yell "fuck the system" are also quietly using the system when it suits them, that's my point. Bansky is no "dismantle the capitalism" hero or whatever pedestal people have him on.
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by 323 5y ago
So it should be illegal for me to wear a t-shirt with Adidas written on it? Or shoes with the Nike swoosh on it?
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by 323 5y ago
> Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone jus
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by 323 5y ago
NASA, like most US companies, outsourced flying things to space to other entities, since flying things to space it's not it's core competency anymore.

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