BearOso

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by BearOso 2y ago
Yeah, the sub-1GHz Athlon and Durons were 1999, so this article is a little late.
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by BearOso 2y ago
I believe the unar tool creates a containing directory by default.
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by BearOso 2y ago
I don't understand how the author goes from 3.8 WAF(Write Amplication Factor) to 2.0 WAF and gets a 30x increase in endurance. I'd expect about 2x from that. From what I can see, he seems to be taking the 120TBW that the OEM warra
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by BearOso 2y ago
I've never seen anything that complex in my experience, and it would be considered bad code pretty much everywhere. Rule #1 of programming is to make code easy to understand and self-documenting. This should be a sequence of typedefs w
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by BearOso 2y ago
Jamulator was unsuccessful because so much extra hardware was on the cartridges. Recompilation complicates things and doesn't provide many benefits in that situation. The N64 is fixed hardware, so it's a little bit easier. Even so
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by BearOso 2y ago
Pascal's wager doesn't require much effort on behalf of the user, though. The idea is the benefits far outweigh the downsides. So should we just try to have a cleaner earth with the benefit of subverting this dangerous thing if it
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by BearOso 2y ago
We know the observable universe was part of the big bang and is expanding, maybe even because we're observing it. We have no concept of whether that dense spot was all there was, and there are a whole slew of other caveats, so it cou
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by BearOso 2y ago
You can static-link in all of Qt. Just build Qt yourself. It can strip out all the things you don't need, even symbols from the libraries you do use, so your binary isn't going to be that big.
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by BearOso 3y ago
There's guides online for using Microsoft's DISM tool to install the Group Policy stuff on Windows Home. There's also some surreptitious tools to change the edition of Windows, but that's more of a gray area.
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by BearOso 3y ago
Undetected only in the tongue-in-cheek sense. AARD was obviously intentional.
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by BearOso 3y ago
The article's screenshots are using scalable fonts without hinting bytecode instructions built in. Many modern fonts don't have those because of anti aliasing and auto-hinting. You can see the terminal font is fine because it&#x27
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by BearOso 3y ago
Xcursor doesn't predate PNG. Heck, it came alongside a tool, xcursorgen, that could be used to process pngs and generate the binary cursor files. Xcursor appeared somewhere around 2002-2003 as an extension of Xrender. Before that X had
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by BearOso 3y ago
Not "free speech" as part of the US Bill of Rights, free speech as in "the EU ethics would never have such language in the DMA to forbid it or allow such a violation to stand."
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by BearOso 3y ago
You could, but few people are going to fall for that. Are you offering something that would entice people away, something huge like Fortnite? Most non-technical people will stick with the App store.
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by BearOso 3y ago
Security through obscurity has been the game forever. It's cheap and a normal person wouldn't go through the effort to subvert it. Cost vs benefits, plus delegation of responsibility, i.e. they can say the police should handle sto
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by BearOso 3y ago
There's no chance the DMA includes a non disparagement clause. That's totally against free speech.
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by BearOso 3y ago
LEO satellites would be too inconsistent, and further orbits have way too much latency.
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by BearOso 3y ago
I had the same thought. bc would have been a lighter choice. And tryauuum, I think the author only needed powers of two to emulate floating point in the first place. So they could just divide said number by 2 a number of times.
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by BearOso 3y ago
A negative power, i.e. 2^(-n) is just 1/(2^n). I'm surprised the author didn't remember that with their own 2^-1 = 0.5 example and eventually reached out to awk for it.
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by BearOso 3y ago
LLMs can only reproduce what has been done before. For many tasks like web programming it can do a lot of what you need because it was trained on that data many times over. When you need to use a concept or knowledge that's fairly rare
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by BearOso 3y ago
Companies don't see AI as a technology to help improve things, they see it as another way to cut employees and raise profit margins. It's just a part of the greater issue in publicly traded companies of quarterly profits above all
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by BearOso 3y ago
It doesn't implement the original hardware. It's not copy of the original chip. Reverse engineering is used to get the behavior of the hardware. They reproduce the inputs and outputs with Verilog and write it to an FPGA. If it w
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by BearOso 3y ago
There's no circuit-level reproduction happening anywhere yet, it's basically emulation with a hardware clock. Analogue and kevtris know that FPGA isn't magic. Rather than contribute to the knowledge pool, like the MiSTer proj
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by BearOso 3y ago
A market where Nvidia chips are all bought out, so what's left?
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by BearOso 3y ago
I'm sure the extra cost of color printing makes it less economical.
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by BearOso 3y ago
> Jobs was in the business of selling computers that looked (and worked) good to people who would otherwise hate computers. Dealing with geeks was always (and still is) a necessary evil, so he'd have enough of an ecosystem to sell t
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by BearOso 3y ago
The term scrum comes from rugby, and it has nothing to do with organization. It's literally when something goes wrong, pack everyone together and get the ball moving again. Symbolically, obviously, ball=project. The problem, like every
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by BearOso 3y ago
The higher end M2s just run more chips in parallel. The bandwidth is there to support the GPU. The latency of LPDDR is higher than desktop RAM, so it relies on the cache to get around that, and the cache is about the same as most x86 CPUs.
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by BearOso 3y ago
The knowledge how to program on old systems like the NES is located sparsely on the Internet and there aren't many coding examples. A LLM would have a very difficult time producing a cartridge ROM with no single-byte errors. Even multi
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by BearOso 3y ago
Thank you. This *ception misuse is annoying. Conception is the act of creating an idea. Inception is the point at which something is conceived. The movie created a fake verb form that means "to induce a conception." None of this i

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