Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Atari is before my time, but regarding SNES and gameboy, here the popular games went very much through word of mouth (and seeing) on the school playground. I'd imagine this also be the case for Atari if multiple kids had Atari 2600&#x2
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But review magazines, and word of mouth, would have helped identify the good games?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Which of the 7 geographical continents do you consider it to be part of then?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I had a calculator from the early 90s like that, the HP 48GX, 128K RAM, but it kept it storage when shutting it off and on again. Certainly very convenient!
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> That invariably means storing and verifying your govt issued ID. I get the verifying part, but why is storing after the verification needed?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
What's a good write once backup solution for long term storage _today_ though? I saw writable bluray disks recommended as they would last for decades, however 25GB for a standard disk is by far not enough for a photo collection, and ma
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But there's probably way more cells or cell-like things in the rest of the universe with quadrillions of planets than the one planet on which we happen to be (unproven, but simply very likely if you think about it given that ours manag
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> And since GPUs have single-cycle "popcnt", any symmetric bit-twiddling function can be built off of popcnt within a few cycles This sounds interesting, do you have a reference to this?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But why is C++ refusing to add "restrict" to its spec? C has restrict in its spec, C++ has not. Of course compilers inherit restrict from C, but it's not super portable due to C++ not officially supporting it. But why?!
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
-ffast-math is global though and can break other libraries. I mean local, vectorization compatible but portable syntax, without actually writing it (let compiler do the work)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Hence my suggestion for language support. Add some language syntax where you can say: "add these doubles, order doesn't matter", which allows the compiler to use SIMD
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
It is crazy sometimes how you try to program something the best you ever could with classical C++, and then someone comes along and makes a version using SIMD that is over 10x faster (but less portable code). I really wish compilers were be
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
It's strange the latest black mirror season kept away from tech so much, just while the real world tech is catching up with the original black mirror seasons
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But gravity is caused by the discrete particles (those with mass), so is it really continuous then? A discrete particle could only move in discrete steps, causing discrete jumps in gravity, would that be right? And if gravity is continuous,
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Then what does spacetime being a continuum mean? What's the point of being a continuum if nothing in it can have arbitrary values. If everything in the spacetime has discrete values, what's there still to be continuous?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But 1/3 counts as discrete in a sense, you can describe it with a finite amount of symbols. To move from one point to another, a particle has to move through all of them though, including the non computable ones
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
But the particles can move around, they won't always be exactly on values of pi, 1, etc... in any coordinate system. And pi and 1 happen to be examples that can be described with a finite amount of symbols. But a continuous particle ha
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> No. Please elaborate
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
As far as I know, just like matter and energy, information density can also contribute to a black hole. A real number has infinite precision, so even a single particle with a real number position or weight, would have infinite information a
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I've used mozilla/firefox for over 20 years (this includes mozilla browser before FF) on desktop and 10+ years on mobile, and don't have these problems. Multiple firefox windows per virtual desktop with dozens of tabs each, n
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I have a Brother printer, which supports plugging in a USB stick with a PDF to print the PDF. Its PDF parser doesn't seem to support all PDFs, and for some PDFs it will PRINT , on paper, an error message from the PDF parser. So not on
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Would love to visit that, but the cigarette smoke everywhere would probably ruin it
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I see this all over the news, not only on HN. But the signal was detected in May 2021. What makes this newsworthy now instead of then?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> Android's inferiority This must be personal preference. For me the #1 thing I do on my phone is browse the internet, and having choice of browser is a vital priority in this. Android allows you to choose browser, the other big mak
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Unlike biplanes, CPU's with more transistors are more powerful than those with less. And adding more CPU cores keeps increasing the amount of threads you can run at the same time. Why would LMM's be more like the biplanes analogy,
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
A GRBs is observed around daily according to Wikipedia. The one here was a one in a thousand year in brightness, but that might have been due to being closer to us?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
So could you say that when we see such a gamma ray burst in a distant galaxy (which apparently occurs daily from our point of view), that's witnessing all life in that galaxy being wiped out? This is pretty horrifying :/
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Amazingly, opening google.com in the internet explorer browser worked after running the "networking.bat" from the desktop Many other pages don't load, possibly non supported https standards
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
From reading the comments, seems like it would be useful for battery power storage in the home (since it's cheaper and safer, and weight doesn't matter), but not great for a car yet (since it weighs more)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Both for encoding and decoding the padding is not needed. Without ='s, you get a uniquely different base64 encoding for NULL, 2 NULLs and 3 NULLs. This shows the binary, base64 without padding and base64 with padding: NULL --> AA --

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