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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Maybe they got to $2 trillion because of worker-unfriendly policies like this one.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
If it was an X11 app, there are several things that can cause that that are just unfixable, unfortunately (e.g. XLockDisplay). If it was a Wayland app, that sounds like a bug in the compositor. If you still have a repro case, please file it
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> There is nothing in there about union busting or making sure employees don't organize. Literally from your own link: > Analysts must be capable of engaging and informing L7+ ER Principals (attorney stakeholders) on sensitive to
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
You seem to misunderstand the conversation; the OP was not looking for advice about their canceled app. They were relaying their experiences with Apple's bizarre policies. To switch topics from Apple to target the OP specifically is in
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
There's a bit more subtlety than that. If I press down on a button, then move my mouse off of it, it will be deselected. This is normal and not too hard to implement your model. But, if I keep my mouse button held down, and drag back o
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Correct. In order to tell if a button is clicked, you need to know whether it was clicked last frame, which means keeping around state. One difficulty with immediate-style GUIs is that it's difficult to tell whether two widgets are &qu
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
So the thing that made Gimbal Lock click is a combination of two things: rotations are ordered, and euler angles (and fixed angles, its counterpart) are a combination of three different rotation motions. Effectively, since you have X Y Z, o
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> Ethereum is switching to proof of stake, which uses a normal amount of electricity and forever solves this issue This has been said for a few years now. The originally deadline for this was January 2020. Suffice to say, it didn't
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> On modern Linux, it’s possible, and not even terribly hard, to implement hardware-accelerated video playback without any libraries or frameworks, by directly consuming V4L2 API exposed by the kernel Do you mean V4L2 M2M decoding? That&
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> for example there is no concept of a camera, the whole world moves around you instead to simulate the camera effect Wait until you learn what a camera is :)
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I wouldn't consider myself an advanced Word user and all of my documents have needed more functionality than that.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
In this analogy, you are throwing away the instrumentation, like whether it was played on a piano or a tuba, but the raw melody is still there. This is the advantage of working in the frequency space. If we were in the time space, throwing
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Right. The DCT, in theory, is completely lossless. But the reason that the "other space" is helpful for us for compression is because our eyes and ears are more interested in comparing relatively than absolutely. So you don&#x27
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Uber Pool functions so that drivers automatically getting more and more riders added to their trip, without any way for them to reject passengers. I've been told stories of drivers getting 20+ pool rider chains in a row, without any op
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I've written quite a number of emulators and file format parses in JavaScript. What was missing for you?
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
This article is basically complaining "employees are using Slack to organize and try to push for a union", and then claiming that's a bad thing. Fun!
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The problem with pharma development is not the lack of ideas. The majority of those are solely popular because they're free, or heavily subsidized. That's not a viable economic model for doing lots of intense, focused development,
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The first article (X Window System Basics) was written in 2013. The last article (Basic 2D Rasterization) was written in 2017. Take your pick.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I'm saying that "a local protocol that can function as a networked protocol" isn't always an ideal design decision. We should consider designs that allow different local and remote protocols, and consider the tradeoffs i
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Linux graphics is mostly driven by volunteer work. There is ongoing work to try and get color management done properly (though color management is an extraordinary difficult topic and you could make the argument no display system gets it
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I wrote the linked article explaining X11's internals and design goals in a neutral manner. I've worked on X11 and Xorg ecosystem, worked on the server, I worked on the window managers, the toolkits, applications, compositors, you
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
SDL2 sets this on windows by default, which is likely what's doing it: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-lates... Compositing is required for any sort of antialiasing, especially including win
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Nothing I can do about old GPUs... I need a working WebGL implementation. You can try a simpler game like Mario Kart DS to see if that works.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's possible I'm a bit jaded because I spent a long time working on things like Wayland and next-generation graphics technology, where people would suddenly show up and name-drop the terminology "network transparency" a
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I have no desire to continue the Explanations series. The videos are where I'm spending my focus now.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I didn't write the article, and I'm not much of an expert on DS graphics (it's too surreal for me). But you can copy 3D content to 2D images and then display it using the 2D engine, I believe, and then use 3D on the other scr
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
OK, if I really want one meme about X11 to die, it's this "network transparency" one. Nobody has ever explained to me what it means, what its goals are, what constraints it has on the system or the protocol. I can't find
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Author here. I haven't updated this project in a few years. I burned out on it almost immediately. I wrote a little retrospective for it on here before, the last time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's probably most notable in Mario Kart DS's bassline. I'll see about getting a comparison with what it should sound like later today.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> To begin with, antialiasing is applied to polygon edges based on their slopes, in order to make the edges look smoother. There is no antialiasing applied inside polygons or at intersections between two polygons Oh my. You really can te

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