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811.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Strong agreement. xorshift or even a basic LCG work far better than Mersenne Twister. The only reason MT has persisted in the public consciousness for so long is because it has a memorable and cool name.
812.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's the reason they renamed it YouTube Premium after a year or two.
813.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
The Japanese site I use most frequently, which is a high quality store that sells FLAC downloads, has a relatively modern design. https://ototoy.jp/
814.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
As far as I can tell, this is a new tab, that only works on the app, not on the website or on third-party clients. So now my followers can only see see my Fleets if they're using the official app? The idea is not a terrible one, but th
815.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Sheet music has far less structure than you think it does.
816.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
tbh, I just assume my computer already has about six dozen NSA rootkits in it already, so what's a couple more? :)
817.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
https://ghidra-sre.org/releaseNotes_9.2.html#9_2
818.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Note that this has been practically unmaintained since Kevin Rogovin (fastuidraw's principal author) left Intel. It's also very suspect, my recollection from testing it before is that it was not up to the quality and fidelity stan
819.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's accountsservice: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservi... It's an API and associated service daemon to add/remove/modify users, since Linux does not have one of those. (e
820.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
To be honest, before the modern machine learning approach, this was known as a decision tree and was thought to be a valid way to approach "artificial intelligence". Lots of "AI" hype in the 80s was based around "Ex
821.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Given how most actual AI solutions work under the hood, this might not even be a lie!
822.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Correct. SteamOS is a passion project by Gabe because of a grudge with Microsoft, and it's basically all contractors. Nobody at Valve internal gives a shit, in fact they're more worried about Epic Games than MS.
823.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's more because it's a fairly niche technique that requires either dual-source blending or constant blend colors, things that game rendering engineers don't think about often. It's also tricky to make work with transpa
824.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
I have been planning to write one based around 2D canvas that uses pixel scanning and alignment properties to compute the metrics information that has been missing from the native APIs. Would allow a basic glyph atlas and layout, but I do w
825.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Abusing the framebuffer contents to do convincing-unless-you-stare-closely-at-them reflections is a time-honored tradition stretching back to the early 2000s. Nintendo pulls off this effect a couple of times in this shot: https:/&#x2F
826.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
> WebGPU is (more or less) around the corner. You know that I know that you know that this isn't really true, lol. > Yet the linked document has been updated just a few weeks ago. But that's just because they come from the s
827.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
So the hard part of this isn't computing the reflection color (that can be done with an environment cubemap and some math expressions), but sorting the transparency. This demo uses "depth peeling", which is a fancy term to ju
828.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
I remember when Skype was trying out a similar feature for P2P video, where user devices would be used to help forward other connections and calls. My phone left a scorch mark on my (admittedly cheap) countertop because the battery was runn
829.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Fusion is hard. At least, unconstrained fusion is hard. If you have a couple instructions pairs to fuse together, that's fine, but fusing any possible compiler output together is going to make decode even more complicated in practice
830.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
From a software perspective, changes in flow are identical. But from a hardware standpoint, local jumps, indirect calls and returns are all predicted differently. The spec actually has suggested forms for each kind (the author points them o
831.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
If you have released a work under GPL, that work stays under GPL. The term "relicensing" here means that going forward, new new works will be released under new licenses. So version 1 can be GPL, but version 2 can have other terms
832.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
That is absolutely not how the AGPL nor (US) copyright law works. If I license someone else to make copies, they do not become a "copyright owner". You are allowed to make copies of the versions of the work released under AGPL, bu
833.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Converting from 44.1k to 48k is lossless, and has always been. Converting from 48k to 44.1k is practically lossless: You lose frequencies above 28KHz, but that's about the range at which human hearing drops off anyway. > Recall that
834.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Unix time says nothing about which timezone you're in.
835.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's a shame how the core maintainers see CPython as a "reference implementation", rather than an opportunity to make a world-class programming language implementation. That the CPython maintainers have, time and time again,
836.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
DaVinci Resolve feels more like a Nuke clone; it's production film compositing, not the compositing-and-animation mix that After Effects is.
837.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
Going from "a few megabytes I'd rather not include, for a simple use case" to "let's design our own shading language, derail the project for three years, and discover from first principles all the reasons that this
838.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
I believe part of this is because Dolby is suing Adobe, saying they mandate certain pricing requirements in the license agreements, and so Adobe has responded by pulling old versions of their software with support for Dolby file formats. [0
839.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
> SPIR-V by itself does not have the needed safety or interoperability properties for the web Safety, maybe not 100%, but this could be fixed with extensions, and transformations. The same transformations that WGSL compilers will apply.
840.
by Jasper_ 6y ago
This specific component is a SPIR-V backend for Rust. In practice, how you use this is you use a native API (Vulkan), give it your generated SPIR-V program, and it "runs it" using its own semantics. This is a combination of a user

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