Dwedit

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by Dwedit 10mo ago
I can't switch to Linux because I am so dependent on Visual Studio.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
It wasn't some dummy "add numbers" loop, this was doing math (multiply-add) on large 336-bit integers. Performance sucked when I used native Javacsript BigInts. When I made my own BigInt by using an array of doubles, and pre
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
I actually compared WASM to Javascript for a particular integer-math-heavy task. For a single run, Javascript beat out WASM because WASM had a lot more setup time. After running both 1000 times, they were almost equal in runtime. Yes, eve
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
According to the page here: https://www.humus.name/index.php?page=News&ID=228 The best way to draw a circle on a GPU is to start with a large triangle, and keep adding additional triangles on the edges until you've
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
I looked at a CNN "lite" article, and it includes 560KB of stuff (lots and lots of CSS declarations) in addition to the actual 11KB of article content.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Did a double take when I saw Dilbert there, then checked the date on the article.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
I know that "draw call" is modern terminology, but it doesn't apply here at all. This is assigning three entries in sprite table memory, not carrying out any calls. There's no operating system here, and no graphics API
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 The "Thank you for playing Wing Commander" thing (workaround for memory management system crashing) never actually made it into the final release of the game. Th
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Did you see that recent YouTube video about it too?
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
The concern is whether the file is unaltered from its original 2001 release.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
The problem with building a secret profile on players based on undisclosed metrics is that could be flagging legitimate programming tools as "risk". What if a programmer who likes to hack and mod other games decides to play a V
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Client still needs to know coordinates of opponents and other objects that could be in their view within the next 200ms, and once the client knows those, a cheating client can reveal opponent positions. You can't enforce that server s
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Aren't all the smartphones IPV6?
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Saw the domain "ca.gov" and mistook it for Canada. Then wondered why it started mentioning California a lot.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
The illustration is an extremely AI-generated book image with all the usual AI image generation mistakes (especially read the book spine). If people stop reading the article because they expect the text to be AI slop as well, I can underst
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Is there anything that can be done about F-Droid downloading very big files (over 50MB) every time it needs to update the repository? I'd expect at the very least regular checkpoint files, then difference files that get you from one c
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
In before AI companies buy up all the Z80s and raise the prices to new heights.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Nobody tell them about how much stuff can go into SVG. That can even be inlined within HTML source code.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
"Subpixel offsets break glyph caches" I once resolved that by keeping a vertically shrunken but really wide glyph around in a cache. Just resample it for a different horizontal offset.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1181/
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Saying that a 20x20 image of a Twitter logo is 4000 bytes is just so wrong. The image is of a monochrome logo with anti-aliased edges. Due to being a simple filled geometric shape, it could compress well with RLE, ZIP compression, or even
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
"Helix" also happens to be the name of an open-source project created by RealPlayer.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Back in high school, I often ran into toilets with missing stall doors, and would need to search for another bathroom which had them.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
You mean that channel that plays nothing but "Teen Titans Go"?
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Rufus will let you install with a local account even on PCs that don't support TPM, but would you really want to?
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Opus is already the name of an audio codec.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
When you talk about maximizing compression, you usually move from simple binary data to predictors. A predictor is where you look at pixel above, and pixel to the left, and instead of coding a raw pixel value, you sort the values by how lik
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
If you have registers, it's not "no memory".
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
I don't like how translation is only unavailable when the browser "thinks" the whole site is in a particular language. What if there's a single sentence that's not? Or if it guesses the site's language incorr

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