AHTERIX5000

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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
There is nothing really comparable for OpenGL and it shows, really. Awesome work.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Of course reasons matter. Apple actually got some extra time when there was a fundamental flaw in XNU's task structure handling since fixing it properly required some heavy refactoring in the kernel.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
While the current model has better keyboard than 2015 it's still unreliable design prone to gather dust between keys and the new protector. In contrast with the previous gen it was harder to actually make keys jam and even then you cou
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Depends, if the idea is to build something reliable that will be maintained for longer periods instead of just for learning the newest whatever.js I'd choose something boring. For example Python/Flask + Postgres for the backend an
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
I can't take any of that environmentalism seriously as long as they keep manufacturing simply badly designed charger/lightning cables.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Interesting! Are those low frame rates visible in graph constrained by energy savings/minimizing work or caused by performance issues?
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
OTOH the standard itself mentions implementing the function using shell in a subprocess [1]. POSIX is full of nastiness such as this, hopefully not too many maintained & used software actually needs wordexp. [1] https://pubs.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
...and you need tools and editors to make the content for the engine in proper format. That is the "boring part" OSS projects usually lack since writing renderers and job systems is much more fun than fighting with inconsistencies
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Looks nifty and simple. Last time I had to work with low mem environment (64k heap for Lua running on MIPS) I ended up implementing something close to TLSF [1] allowing to choose some trade-offs regarding perf/allocation efficiency. In
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah, make can be useful tool but it solves different set of problems than Autotools or CMake. Definitely not a fan of either of them but currently CMake seems to be the least bad choice for cross-platform development. Like the C++ language
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah TFA reminds a bit of passionate blog posts and articles about switching from Windows to Linux something like a decade or two ago. Something that would fit better in BSD community such as Lobste.rs than HN ;-)
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
What do you mean by games supporting it, I thought the idea was Steam Link acting transparently?
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
C solves different problems, there are cases where scripting languages can be extremely helpful yet running under heavy RAM constraints. Lua and JS can be adapted to quite low-mem situations (we were using on 128 k) and there are no compar
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah I agree, it's not the ideal situation but it is the real world. Simple makefiles do not work often and there are systems that can solve the problem. Not elegant, brilliantly designed tools but ones that work anyway.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah, CMake and autotools solve different problems than make. I'm definitely not a fan of either one but if I need to really distribute and compile something on more than one OS there isn't much of a choice. The posted makefile e
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Not trying to be mean but why submit something like this to HN? This snippet just launches a thread per every timer using standard library and sleeps. There is no way to really stop anything or knowing if timers are active etc. Sure, it&#x2
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Loving how they list Pentium II as a minimum requirement. I still have an old netbook with Intel Atom that I use when travelling to certain parts of the world and while it is clocked at 1.6 GHz and has 2 GB of RAM many of the modern Linux d
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Most game engines do have acceleration structure that can be used for raycasts such as one provided by physics system though. Of course it is not 1:1 compared to rendering but coarse bboxes are in many cases more useful than really accurate
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
> While admittedly a lot of the bloat likely comes from negative things like trackers, ads, etc there are also assets loaded on a typical page that genuinely enhance the user experience. Such as? (genuinely curious)
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
>They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped. I've been wondering about this for a while now. Slack feels more like "just good enough&quot
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Just microbenchmarking thread creation is different case, the issue is usually letting OS scheduler to decide what to run and when while coroutines give you explicit access. Coroutines are quite a different thing than OS-level schedulable e
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Well, Crytek's financial state isn't the most stable for one. Also Lumberyard's aim is to replace pretty much everything in the long run, some parts of the CryEngine are quite...interesting compared to other engines and the w
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
What exactly is the amazing new experience that "21st century app" can offer that something running on 512 MB RAM phone cannot?
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
I get sometimes scrambled image and sometimes normal desktop before login, it could be rendering something from uninitialized buffer.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Well, Spectre was already an exploit without "an easy fix" but a lot of nasty workarounds.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah I've spent my time looking at perf counters and I'm aware how cache access patterns affect. But the statement was drastic enough to make me suspect there is something more OpenBSD specific going on.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Wonder why, because of poor SMP scalability and coarse locking? I've encountered some cases where SMT made performance worse such as with very optimized HPC libs but in general SMT can really help. Compiling projects got a nice boost w
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
Yeah that is actually extremely slow unless the time goes into calculating buffer contents and in that case it isn't really a benchmark of an FB implementation but something else.
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
I've already disabled location history yet Google Maps continuosly keeps asking to review nearby places and take photos even when I haven't used the app in a long time. So it clearly polls location once in a while just to ask thos
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by AHTERIX5000 8y ago
It's ridiculous. I can launch a VM running Linux + X11 desktop environment from scratch faster than one of the most popular Electron apps launches & connects. Probably would run few apps in the VM well too with the same amount of

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