Aeolos

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by Aeolos 10y ago
Nvidia drivers do fail quite regularly, especially on laptops. Brightness control randomly stops working, suspend/resume is extremely unreliable, there are login issues on systems with both Intel and Nvidia graphics (supposedly solved
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by Aeolos 10y ago
On the other hand, for anyone who grew up in a PAL region, these screenshots look appalling. They look nothing at all like my SNES (which I still keep connected to an old CRT TV.)
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by Aeolos 10y ago
> Starfox for example used to run something like 20% faster than on hardware/ Make that 200%. I own the original and it's indeed unplayable on zsnes. Zsnes is a horrible SNES emulator all around. It was decent when it came out
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by Aeolos 10y ago
How many years does it take for a human toddler to be able to form sentences to describe an object he is seeing? We can train a CNN to do that in a few days.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
Does bittorrent provide a measure of security against such attempts? Provided you can trust the magnet link or torrent file?
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by Aeolos 10y ago
It would be beautiful if you could post this on github. Such a piece of history deserves to remain available for posterity.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
But why would you want to sweeten your yoghurt? Milk has enough sugars on its own.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
The UK was paying 0.3% of their budget for control of 9% of the European Parliament. Following the Norway model, they will keep paying a similar amount of money but control 0% of the parliament. Excellent choice, my dear Britons, excellent
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by Aeolos 10y ago
Free movement of workers is a prerequisite for access to the single market. The refugee situation is unlikely to change from the current status quo. Britain is already hosting fewer refugees than almost any other country in central or south
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by Aeolos 10y ago
The original Unreal Tournament was not using megatextures. There was simply no hardware support for that.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
You have to convince n-layers of management, who often don't even know what open-source software is and think that "if we give it away for free then our competitors can also use it." You have to pass legal review, which can t
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by Aeolos 10y ago
Fiber[1] is another term for coroutines. They are essentially an implementation of cooperative multithreading. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_%28computer_science%29
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by Aeolos 10y ago
It makes servicing impossible. The telescope will eventually run out of fuel and stop working. Still, the quality of the images it expected to be so much better than Hubble that the limited lifespan will be a worthwhile trade-off.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
AMD GPUs have consistenly had higher compute performance than Nvidia. The Fury X, for example, consistently outperforms the Titan X for half the price.[1] That's why AMD has completely dominated the bitcoin / cryptohashing scene:
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by Aeolos 10y ago
Perceived brightness after pupil dilation is what matters. If you can easily read a book then it's already too bright to sleep.
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by Aeolos 10y ago
And who do you think voted for Boaty McBoatface? College students or 5 year olds?
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by Aeolos 10y ago
"Sir David Attenborough lost with all hands." Boaty McBoatface was an awesome name. Such a missed opportunity...
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by Aeolos 11y ago
> Why would this be a good thing in an economy at full employment? This is a strawman argument. Apart from (arguably) Switzerland, what other economy is at full employment? > You understand that "stimulate" in the Keynesian
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Which means that BI would stimulate the economy in a way that trickle-down economics cannot.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Colour me surprised! I did an interview with those guys and it was a breath of fresh air.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
> credit card companies are forced to combat fraud or they lose money. Sounds pretty reasonable.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
We heard the same things about Obama 7 years ago. Sanders is still part of the Democratic party and, like Obama, there's only so much he can stray from general party policies. Remember, this is the party that favors Hillary as a presid
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Self-replying because I cannot edit: see [1] for a link. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360290
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Thanks, this was what I was referring to!
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by Aeolos 11y ago
Interesting. Two years ago, Texas Instruments was still (barely) C++98 compliant. Glad to hear the world has progressed since then.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I'd have to dig up a reference to the study, but I won't be able to do that for the next few days. Google scholar returns various results for "school and creativity decline" if you have access to the relevant journals.
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by Aeolos 11y ago
There are people who derive pleasure from destroying things. On the internet you may call them trolls (from the harmless garden variety, to the people swatting, making death/rape threats) - depending on the variant, you may eject them
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by Aeolos 11y ago
In what universe is electing Trump or Sanders a way to reclaim power?
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by Aeolos 11y ago
I recall reading a study about how school destroys creativity. IIRC, they found that 70% of children entering school exhibited some form of creativity. By the time they finished 6 years of primary school, that number had fallen to 1%. We tr
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by Aeolos 11y ago
That is very true in my experience.

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