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by Aardwolf 2y ago
The combination of green glow and strontium somehow sounds very radioactive, even though I assume it's not a radioactive isotope they're using here
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Ugh, I just listed things from the top of my head, no rigorous correct physics! I'd be interested to know where those so many other people who feel that would be an optimization are, because I don't often see opinions like this at
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I do wonder if you'd want to implement a sort of 3D game engine that simulates the entire universe, if somehow the weird stuff quantum physics and general relativity do (like the planck limit, the lightspeed limit, discretization, the
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> I slowly and methodically improved my sleep, and I feel like a different person. How do you do that? The smartwatch may give some info, but what do you do with it that allows falling and staying asleep, while all kinds of random variab
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> that doesn't need lzcnt Is it a big advantage to not need it, or can we safely assume CPU's have fast instructions for this today?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
This is amazing, I assume the sections lighting on/off are getting electrically activated, but what is this yellow orb slowly moving from left to right near the top?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Why does 8K gaming require more VRAM? I think the textures and geometry would have the same resolution (or is that not the case? but in 4K if you walk closer to the wall you'd want higher texture resolution as well anyway, if the graph
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> Yeah, this one sucks a lot. But, email is dead, so... Really? These days, can't even login to some services (like Steam) without them sending you an email to confirm the login (some services even do this even if you already have o
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Now I really wonder: what did the company and the equipment used look like 400 years ago. And what music style were cymbals used for 400 years ago?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
The hp-50g is pretty nice (I know I know, unpopular enter key location), its USB power and SD card make it quite convenient. Of course the screen is the same as before, but the CPU is faster afaik And then of course there are many HP calcul
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
It is possible!
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Thanks, on an actual computer it's easy to check :)
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
This opens a download dialog for me rather that render the html (in firefox on android)
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Modern games work for me in steam on archlinux with nvidia drivers, like cyberpunk, satisfactory, rdr2, ... I do play single player games mostly though (so I don't know if any anticheat mechanisms may break). Then again the recent age
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
By using engine simulation sounds
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I like the brown instead of olive drab in the EGA palette, though imho they could have also made one of the two magentas orange instead: orange is missing and how many magentas does one really need?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I'm also patiently awaiting smell-o-vision for games, even though it'll probably be a whole bunch of bad smells for most shooting games given the scenes in which they're set
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Or if you can get your hands on magnetic core memory, that might be neat
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I'm talking about a hub dynamo in a bike in Europe. This is not uncommon at all. Maybe these are not common in other locales but I don't understand why that seems to have offended some :/ I'm talking about rapidly flashi
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Bike LED lights tend to strobe when pushing the bike manually, which is very annoying. This is due to technical reasons with the dynamo and LED rather that programmed behavior afaik. But do LED bike lights that attempt to fix this issue (ei
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> They can switch several hundred million times a second, and in the 1950s they were combined with germanium diodes as the basis for many incredible computer designs. Whoa, I didn't know they could switch that fast! Because afaik va
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> and results published Wednesday show it worked nearly as well in men. So not as well? Is there a biological reason for this? Also, is it typical to do such studies on single genders rather than on a mix of humans?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Neither handwriting nor typewriting existed while the brain evolved. Why does the more modern method have to be the bad one again?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> I have written more code than most people and I still will be judged for not being able to solve a coding question Why would you fail it though if you have written more code than most people (assuming most people means most people in t
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Why do surrogates even exist? UTF-8 is a code to represent roughly 21-bit integers, and UTF-16 is another code that represents roughly 21-bit integers. Somehow UTF-16 reserves some of those decoded integer values (instead of solving its wha
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I wonder which car is the 99% one
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
But wouldn't allowing plain addition of 1-byte pointer offsets and 2-byte pointer offsets to a current address (just integer addition, no involvement of segments) have been simpler to design and for CPU usage? Rather than this non-line
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Many things in computing are elegant and beautiful, but this is not one if them imho (the overlapping segments, the multiple pointer types, the usage of 32 bits to only access 1MB, 'medium' having less data than 'compact&#x27
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Put a half-sphere reflective shield around a nuclear substance which will make the substance more reactive due to neutron reflections. Due to a slip-up with the screwdriver that was supposed to hold it up, accidentally fully drop down the s
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
While I don't know what these oats are a reference to, I can't help but think of the absolute classic Fresh Oats from this LGR video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxaUHT3yoI From back when LGR was still review

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