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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> Minecraft Raytracing and Quake Raytracing are rather low-specs and probably would run on an RX 6500 XT. [citation needed] Strictly speaking, it will "run", but if it run well that's another thing entirely. It was the rea
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
For a historical take - UNIX to Plan 9: > Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> Microformats2 Not only that, those metadata are basically enforced by the big closed garden internet players if you want to use any nice embedding; so you need those anyways.
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> How can you do _that_ with a HATEOAS response that is basically guaranteed to contain arbitrary HTML? https://pypi.org/project/mechanize/
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> AFAIK, there is a little database embedded in COBOL, known as ISAM. That is not a COBOL feature, it's a operating system level feature. IBM System/390 and newer store data in a indexed, record-based manner. > I don't
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> The car manufacturers would surely just buy their way into the front of the line, if it was just this. Those older nodes "chairs" that the automotive industry used are less profitable in general. One doesn't simply spin
817.
by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> dedicated hardware for sound decompression Do they? Most of "modern audio" is just software decoding/mixing to a pretty not-smart-Digital-to-Analog Converter. My educated guess is that most compressed audio formats are o
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> JPEGs are lossy and can't possibly be lossless. https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> non-concurrent database What does this even mean? Is this IPython backed history using Write-Ahead Logging? > I manage to corrupt it frequently, presumably due to segfaults in extensions A C-based program can't defend itself ag
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> arm at their core Most modern "CISC" processors internally are composed of RISC-like elements with instruction decoders in front. ARM is a specific almost-RISC instruction set architecture.
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> hardware Just Works under Windows > Microsoft essentially has stewardship over the entire PC platform [citation needed]
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
The advertising company doesn't need the built-in browser ads to get revenue; it just needs to make bad or impossible to get a working adblocker on it's browser.
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
Do they mean throw away almost all phones made in the last 10 years?
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> continue to function normally By definition, you are not functioning normally if you're OOM.
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> 200 in one place 200 players in one map instance. But not 200 visible player with interactions refreshing on real time. Most likely you see diminishing level of details, if anything besides complete fabrication or no data at all after
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by ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> Representing verification logic in the schema flawed The "verification" required is one of tamper proof, cryptographic safe certificate chain verification, something like the one done using Certificate Authorities, certificat