Arelius

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by Arelius 10y ago
But Chrome doesn't use bitblt afaik. It's GPU composited, which does support a number of tile-level compression formats.
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by Arelius 10y ago
I know they are designed for the niche of gaming, but Razer has a line of laptops that are very well designed, and if you can handle the black-and-green, almost as nice looking as macbooks. And Linux should run fine on them. http:/&#x
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by Arelius 10y ago
Very cool! I had thrown together something very similar using s7 for a super small self-contained preprocessor. I'm using `@` as the symbol to consume the next-sexp and process it, otherwise it's mostly the same. I'll try to
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by Arelius 10y ago
Are you implying that a long call stack is better than a long function? At least you don't have to have a debugger to read the long function.
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by Arelius 10y ago
Can you elaborate on why you don't think it's well suited for more frequently accessed resources?
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by Arelius 10y ago
The problem with DynamoDB is it has minimum provisioned throughput requirements that would make this rather expensive for a blog that was not free-tier eligible even if it got no traffic at all. In contrast, SimpleDB seems to only charge fo
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by Arelius 11y ago
It may still not be an apples-to-apples comparison, but since it was running on the 486, it was by definition, doing programmable vertex transformation and shading.
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by Arelius 11y ago
There is a lot of emphasis on non-realistic graphics. But the consensus is that it must run at 90FPS+ with two views so that bumps the specs back up again. Especially considering that most contemporary game engines aren't build with th
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by Arelius 11y ago
I agree, the new oculus touch controllers have very nice ergonomics in comparison. But otherwise won't be coming with. I didn't notice a huge difference in visual fidelity. And the Lighthouse tracking system is just so much better
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by Arelius 11y ago
The hardware requirements are based on the 90 FPS requirement for good feeling VR. That extra 5ms of savings is quite difficult in a lot of experiences. And even without all the "good" looking graphics requires quite a serious amo
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by Arelius 11y ago
Perhaps then you should just use the Boehm GC library then.
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by Arelius 11y ago
> it sacrifices one of the biggest advantages to writing code in C++: the ability to compile for multiple platforms. Is that really one of the biggest advantages to C++? Both of the other languages that you mention, can target a huge a
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by Arelius 11y ago
You thought this because it was basically true 10ish years ago. But they slowly gained functionality until we got to where we are now.
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by Arelius 11y ago
Yes, but in some places the local laws can make up for most of the protections of a lease. At which point it mostly just protects the landlord.
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by Arelius 11y ago
> Here's a thing I always wanted to see but am too busy to do myself: an explorable map of the world with different overlays you could toggle and a separate temporal scrollbar. Something I could use to see e.g. how the borders chang
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by Arelius 11y ago
It's a brilliant concept, and a timeline is a great way to be able to get a better understanding of disparate events. And while the UI is beautiful, and beautifully animated, I'd argue that it could use a bit of improvement, it&#x
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by Arelius 11y ago
not to mention the obvious ones - Cat - Cat.
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by Arelius 11y ago
Most CPU's these days already have a GPUs worth of core's onboard. So, about 5 years ago to answer your question? The other answer to the rest of your question is probably about when the majority of software starts running entirel
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by Arelius 11y ago
While these are all potential solutions that also are the same as in shadow buffers, you have the additional ability to play tricks such as, skipping intersection with the casting triangle, and similar tricks that solve the problem much mor
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by Arelius 11y ago
With shadow buffers this will not work, since you are not in fact rendering a shadow mask, but instead a depth buffer with distance-to-occluder, which cannot be blended as it'd be entirely incorrect. Even if you could, the penumbra siz
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by Arelius 11y ago
Awesome, I'm very (very) interested.
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by Arelius 11y ago
Looks like there are some references to the "Caustic Series2" boards. But these look discontinued. It's hard to invest in the technology if it's unsure that there will be continued hardware support. I mean after all, it
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by Arelius 11y ago
Any chance Imagination is considering a Workstation-level product? I understand that mobile is your money maker, but if the hardware is as fast as it sounds, there are some roles that might be really nice to be able to offload onto this sor
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by Arelius 11y ago
Something that I'm a bit worried about, I used to try to run performance sensitive game servers on a Xen based virtual machine, was that no matter how many resources I tried to dedicate to the virtual machine. The xen scheduler would g
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by Arelius 11y ago
It's undoubtedly a very custom implementation. And it seems very likely that at least with video, it's vulnerable in the same way that QR codes are to remote pairing. It seems that fundamentally trying to limit pairing to devices
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by Arelius 11y ago
IANAL, but I get the impression that it may actually be in our contract because in many industries, it's much less contentious and has become standard that way. Take for instance, if I were a nuclear engineer. The equipment so expensiv
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by Arelius 11y ago
> What I'd dread is writing the garbage collector in assembly. Then don't. If you're just building a lisp just so you can bootstrap your lisp compiler in lisp, the free-everything-and-quit should be a good enough GC strate
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by Arelius 11y ago
> I mean, the HoloLens is additive. That means if you want to show a dark object in a room with white walls, you cant. You sure? Do you have a source you can cite?
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by Arelius 11y ago
It's neat, but really just looks like a pretty primitive version of Houdini to me: http://www.sidefx.com/ Perhaps the emphasis on CAD instead of computer graphics is the primary differentiating factor, but it's re
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by Arelius 11y ago
While that's a pretty significant range, it seems that we could store the entire commit-log in the same amount of DNA that 100 cells normally store.. 10,000,000 cells on the high-end. Which is still only a few milligrams of cells. Impr

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