BearOso

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by BearOso 1y ago
I noticed this: 320×200×256 Colors: Mode 13h - the famous "Mode X" used by many DOS games Mode 13h and Mode X are very different things. Glancing at the code, I see lots of stuff apparently cobbled together from various p
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by BearOso 1y ago
Layoffs are one of the only ways way to cut spending before quarterly reports when the market is already saturated. The other way is to make the products cheaper (enshittification). As far as more employable candidates go, I don't thin
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by BearOso 1y ago
I've tried making snap packages, but I discovered they're very tightly tied to Ubuntu's base packages. They're not portable at all. In essence they're effectively just a secondary Ubuntu-specific package format for
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by BearOso 1y ago
Not quite. The article says hundreds of nanoseconds, which would be in the 10 millionths range. Or if you take the title literally, 143ns per image. That's in line with the fastest CCDs, so not unimaginable.
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by BearOso 1y ago
In the article, the picture shows the peltier cooler is on top and the compressor is separate on the bottom. The "AI" is an adjective for the compressor only. There is little to no discrete logic in a compressor, so calling it tha
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by BearOso 1y ago
AI has literally nothing to do with this. Why do they feel the need to sprinkle the phrase everywhere? AI inverter/compressor? Come on, have some sense of shame, please.
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by BearOso 1y ago
Chrome is in the main repos as chromium. VS Code is the "code" package. I don't know what vpn clients you're referring to, but networkmanager is built-in and has support for openvpn and wireguard. Yes, proprietary softwa
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by BearOso 1y ago
And yay warns you before anything happens and prompts you to review the PKGBUILD files and any patches for this very reason. So there are at least two "are you sure?" confirmations needed before even building anything. This is a s
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by BearOso 1y ago
Early console APIs were more similar to Direct3D 1, with very rudimentary immediate mode commands. Modern console APIs still have a less stateful, easy API layer, like D3D10/11, but also expose more low-level stuff, too. OpenGL didn&#x
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by BearOso 1y ago
I looked up a couple. They're cloudflare regional servers.
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by BearOso 1y ago
Of course, that's necessary. Many USB ports "designated" for keyboard and mice are still only USB 1.1, and my post should have said unless on USB 2. You need USB 2 in both the mouse/adaptor and port to get full perform
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by BearOso 1y ago
That's a recent invention. Only the latest gaming mice can poll at that rate, and not particularly well on USB2. They're usually limited to 1000. Neat tool, though. I'm also very sensitive towards latency.
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by BearOso 1y ago
The CPU has shown some variation, but yes, it's the APU that has a ceramic clock source that isn't even close to the same among units. Apparently those ceramic resonators have a pretty high variation, even when new. When byuu&#x2F
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by BearOso 1y ago
There's actually some issues with clock drift, and speculation whether or not original units had an accurate crystal or varied significantly in timing. The only way to figure that out is to go back and ask the designers what the origin
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by BearOso 1y ago
Except that's not what's happening. expression.Mul isnt multiplying itself against something, it's adding a Mul instruction to its list. Maybe it would have been more obvious if the method name was insertMul instead.
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by BearOso 1y ago
I don't think this is very much about modern projects. Developers want to use 64-bit. It's more that removing the libraries breaks legacy 32-bit stuff that simply can't be updated. The steam client should be upgraded, though.
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by BearOso 1y ago
Read the discussion. They plan to remove those libraries, too. Their current automated build system apparently requires they build i686 for every x86-64 package. They don't want to spend the effort to adjust the build system to just bu
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by BearOso 1y ago
This wouldn't work well with Mesa, either. On Windows, this is like telling game developers that they need to ship all the graphics drivers for their games. Let's skip the hassle for the developers' side. For the users, not o
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by BearOso 1y ago
Yeah, I'm aware it always used font units for sizing. I'm referring to the actual drawing code. Classic used single pixel lines. XP through 7 used 8-way sliced bitmaps. Windows 8 and above's simple flat theme renders everythi
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by BearOso 1y ago
I think having any kind of "scaling" preferences focuses too much on the technical aspect. It could be narrowed down to one setting like "zoom level" or just "size." This would mean that all UI elements change
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by BearOso 1y ago
It has a peak brightness of 400cd/m^2 and no local dimming. It's only possibly HDR-compatible by virtue of accepting an HDR signal. It can't display HDR at all. The closest thing it can do would be content-adaptive fullscreen
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by BearOso 1y ago
I'd qualify that as "most" LCD panels can't do HDR properly. I'm likely grossly overestimating, but maybe 10% have enough local dimming zones and high enough peak brightness that they can demonstrate a passable effe
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by BearOso 1y ago
When doing a fullscreen game without a visible mouse cursor, it's common to continuously warp the hidden pointer to the center and use the pointer position deltas. You could probably go lower level and use the raw device, but you end u
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by BearOso 1y ago
It's also commonly known that Quake only did a perspective divide every 16 pixels. It's funny that, in today's CPUs, floating point divide is so much faster than integer divide.
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by BearOso 1y ago
You refer to it as Wolverine syndrome, but I also remember it with TMNT and Leonardo. With the cartoon version, they made all the foot clan robots to get around it. It's also quite the shock to read the original comics and find out the
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by BearOso 1y ago
And I read a study a while back that researched this, and analyzed several fatberg deposits. They concluded that there was no trace of biodegradable wipes. And that follows purchasing patterns--99.9% of those bought aren't the biodegra
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by BearOso 1y ago
That situation is such a mess. Those dissolving wipes actually exist, and actually dissolve. So what do people do? They buy the cheap, non-dissolving ones and flush them anyway. Then when they inevitably clog, they call the plumber and insi
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by BearOso 1y ago
> They’re also not saying how much actual message content they have because the 410GB of heap dumps makes for a bigger headline number. That's very important to say. I went through one of these massive data dumps recently and it was
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by BearOso 1y ago
At a US university, I had an large elective class where the professor refused to start until things had "settled down", and he said he was going to add that time to the end to ensure he got his full 50 minutes. I had a major-relat
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by BearOso 1y ago
> However, Wayland's intention to explicitly avoid baking specific desktop concepts onto its core protocols make this somewhat of a conflicting design req. I would say it's slightly worse. Wayland's intention was to explic

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