BearOso

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541.
by BearOso 7y ago
> My background is in computer engineering, but I've always been fascinated with the design of user interfaces. Forgive me if I’m being too critical, but I strongly doubt your background or enthusiasm are that extensive. The real IR
542.
by BearOso 7y ago
I’m wondering why his dynamic glibc C executable is so big.
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by BearOso 7y ago
Health care in the US is expensive because the bad players are the insurance industry. It’s just a huge middleman that doesn’t need to exist, and yet it consistently makes record profits. You’ll run into hurdles when you try to bypass this
544.
by BearOso 7y ago
That’s also an interesting point. People have an aversion to those innards, or “by-products,” being included in food, but our disgust isn’t rational, and cats don’t share it. Just because a cat food includes meat by-products doesn’t make it
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by BearOso 7y ago
> "This may be why cats are getting diabetes," Brand offers. "Cat food today has around 20 percent carbohydrates. The cats are not used to that, they can't handle it." It's worse than that, usually 35-50% ca
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by BearOso 7y ago
And we can count 99.999% of used implementations on one hand. If you’re on a strange platform, there’s a reason for that, and chances are you’re uniquely aware of any differences or will be writing assembly.
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by BearOso 7y ago
People don’t write games in GC languages, so GC language developers don’t optimize for games, so people don’t write games in GC languages. It’s just a vicious cycle. It never breaks because for big projects there is too much financial risk.
548.
by BearOso 7y ago
Brightness doesn’t correlate linearly to voltage level. sRGB is representative of the final output, so the brightness would correspond to 0, 33, 66, 100, and the voltages would be the inverse application of the gamma to those values.
549.
by BearOso 7y ago
Exactly. We think in terms of what's important to humans. Maybe a tree thinks what's important is to sit still and grow forever. Also, if we can't perceive or measure any sort of higher order being, we're going to think
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by BearOso 7y ago
I read a while ago that Samsung’s TLC erase unit size was 3MB, so I like aligning to multiples of 12MB. This covers 1.5, 2, 3, and 4MB. No one will miss a few megabytes, and you’re pretty much guaranteed that things are aligned, no matter w
551.
by BearOso 7y ago
I’ve never seen the phrase “microgui” used besides with QNX and this. With “photon” it’s so unique that there’s a 0% chance they hadn’t heard the name before. I’d like to know their reasoning.
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by BearOso 7y ago
The alternate suggestion would work like EGLStreams. The current Nvidia driver can’t handle any more. EGLStreams works by having children pass ownership of the surface they want to display to their parent for compositing. This invalidates s
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by BearOso 7y ago
It’s still not ready, especially the KDE and GNOME situations. Things just aren’t very reliable. Mouse events are dropped and things like menus respond inconsistently. The XWayland layer doesn’t work smoothly, so X11 games and browsers aren
554.
by BearOso 7y ago
Exactly—people need to know that there’s a spectrum of farmers, and they’re all very different. For instance, big commercial grain farmers like to convolute themselves with the family farmer when protesting laws that affect their bottom lin
555.
by BearOso 7y ago
SNES games do have an intrinsic header that describes the cartridge content. What’s missing has to be guessed through heuristics. bsnes has a file format for describing this stuff in detail, but it’s so far not been very popular because use
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by BearOso 8y ago
And he did a good thing with that. Calvin and Hobbes never wanted for quality. We wouldn’t still consider it great literature if it had gone the way of Peanuts or, God forbid, Garfield. It shows he was smart on another level than being just
557.
by BearOso 8y ago
There’s not enough resolution at 96dpi to render fonts correctly. You have to make compromises one way or another. Windows snaps to pixel boundaries more strongly, while Mac does no hinting to keep shapes correct. The author, while his opin
558.
by BearOso 8y ago
Inverting means inverting the sort order. The easy answer is to encapsulate the tree in a new structure and add a Boolean flag called “inverted,” since you’re just reinterpreting the meaning of left and right children. What you describe is
559.
by BearOso 8y ago
I’m always annoyed by the arrow length trick. This article calls it the “Müller-Lyer” illusion. The problem is inconsistent line caps and the joints overlapping means that the size of the line actually is changing a little. As a result, I’m
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by BearOso 8y ago
The Xeon E5620 mentioned is also from 2010, 8 years ago, not 11. Of course a Nehalem-Sandy Bridge era processor is still relevant. Many people are still using those today, given the Moore’s law slowdown.
561.
by BearOso 8y ago
The LCD one won’t be able to have a bent backplane like the OLED one, either, so it’ll need to have a “chin” on the bottom.
562.
by BearOso 8y ago
OS X has never done gamma correction properly with subpixel antialiasing. Instead, it “dilates” the shapes slightly, but this is actually wrong. I suppose half the problem is getting used to the new, correct, line weights. This is more prob
563.
by BearOso 8y ago
It’s most likely that given BFQ low latency’s generally low performance that the link isn’t saturated by those background processes, and that lets the foreground application that’s starting up have more bandwidth than it would otherwise hav
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by BearOso 8y ago
He knew how to stay on message, and he knew that saying "our SDK will probably be released in alpha form in a year and be somewhat stable in two years" was off message. Reminds me of “we couldn’t get the fingerprint sensor under
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by BearOso 8y ago
I highly doubt it. That’s 1:1 test eax, 1 ; use result
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by BearOso 9y ago
for i in {1..1000000}; do echo -n i >> file; done; vim file
567.
by BearOso 9y ago
I've used LD_PRELOAD to thunk calls to glXSwapBuffers, adding a call to glFinish right afterwards. This keeps the OpenGL driver from getting too far ahead in rendering, since both the buffer swap and command queue are asynchronous, and
568.
by BearOso 9y ago
How do you measure handwriting? Is the teacher grading by taking a caliper and measuring the exact form of each letter mechanically, or is he/she just comparing based on what “looks good” to the eye. Some people might not have very ste
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by BearOso 9y ago
It’ll also reduce worst-case latency on vblank waits by 8ms, making the screen more responsive.
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by BearOso 9y ago
Given the year, that sounds suspiciously like the IBM 75gxp Deathstar fiasco. It probably wasn’t your fault at all.

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