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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Fun fact! The Nintendo DS audio chip has a distinctive buzz that's visible in all audio tips uploaded to YouTube, and you can even hear it on this page! It comes from.... a bug in the popular DeSMuMe emulator. Yes, it turns out that th
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> Real-life VMs don’t interpret, they JIT compile. Pretty much every real-life JavaScript VM is tiered, and has an interpreter, which gathers data about expected usage which the JIT will use to inform its optimizations when it goes to ge
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Apple is the primary contributor and maintainer of WebKit at this point since Google forked Blink off of it. There are consulting firms like Igalia that work on all three engines, and they're funded mostly from big clients like Bloombe
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I seem to keep running out of space on my relatively small SSD where my OS is installed, so, yeah, it totally is a concern.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> Ok, smartass, where and how do you locate the fonts installed in a system? Rabbit's nest but the commonly accepted community API for font discovery is fontconfig. > How do you know if the system is on battery? Again, rabbit&#x2
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
20% of vehicle crashes in the US are caused by motorcycles, and the 479kmi number includes those. The statistics have always been misleading for Tesla to use those numbers to compare vehicle safety. When comparing just luxury cars, Teslas h
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Just last year the US government decided the leader of another country should "be brought to justice", saying he's a drug trafficker after two failed US-linked attempts at causing an uprising. https://www.state.gov
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Android and ChromeOS are based on the Linux kernel. Arduino has no standard OS from what I'm aware.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The LGPL parts here are dynamically linked, which is exactly what the LGPL was supposed to let you do.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I've been running https://noclip.website for a few years now, which, while not a "real-world" workload, clearly approaches the amount of data that a game has to render. Check out e.g. https://noclip.web
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Note that WebGPU is not planning to use SPIR-V anymore, but their own shading language, WGSL. If that makes you confused or angry, well, I spent about a year trying to convince them out of it to no avail.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I have to test for SwiftShader in my web game. Whenever Chrome gets a bit upset with the GPU it will silently fall back and make the game 10x as slow and I get a bunch of support requests. Putting in a check and telling people to restart Ch
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The GPU isn't a "make code run fast" button, there are all sorts of algorithms that run poorly on a GPU because of its heavy SIMD structure and its programming model requires a programmer to cross their ts and dot their is, a
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I thought Bitcoin's biggest feature was No Chargebacks
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
> The glTF material model is essentially all you need for realistic rendering. If you assume the whole world is plastic, then yes! But the microfacet model is not the ultimate physical model, GGX-Smith and Epic/Disney PBR are compro
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
What you're missing is that libraries have always been a thorn in the side of big publishers, and capitalism in general. Long before IA, they pushed to strip the power that libraries have and kinds of things they can keep, lobbied to
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
How do you propose to adjust capitalism's core reliance on scarcity and supply and demand (supply of a digital good is infinite!) I have never seen any serious proposals, hence we're trying to uphold capitalistic structures by enf
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
They sold off most of their chemical company to Eastman Chemical about 25 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Chemical_Company
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
A big workflow in modern Photoshop is stuff like Layer Styles (non-destructive image editing). GIMP has no equivalent to that (most of its filters are still destructive, despite the 10+ year project to switch to GEGL). There's plenty o
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The helpful answer should mention that.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
If I spent a lot of time on a site, does that mean I am enjoying the site and rewarding it with time, or having trouble finding information and need to use it for longer? Data doesn't tell you everything.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
It's certainly not the same. In one case, the client had already paid for the feature but weren't aware, and a salesperson told them they needed to upgrade to unlock it (a lie). In the latter case, they simply didn't pay for
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
This is what Flutter was, originally. It was formed by a bunch of ex-Chrome people, including Ian Hixie, the former editor of the HTML spec.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Why is "Hire Slow, Fire Fast" considered good advice? You can't fire faster than you hire, obviously, and firing has a tremendous cost on team morale.
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
I'm not sure 0401 is still around, but here's 0420, which is the oldest I could find. Should be a similar corpus. https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/20200420/
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The goal of a video codec is to precisely recreate the input image, and measure error metrics against an uncompressed input. I don't even see basic error metrics listed, but the visual fidelity is so noticeably terrible it would likely
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Raph's technique relies on compute shaders as a core part of the processing technique. That wouldn't work on an overwhelming majority of phones these days. Pathfinder has a compute-less approach which moves the binning to the CPU,
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
Reminder, the "tech advantage" that Anthony Levandowski wanted was a complete lack of restraints and safety protocols, an attitude that would later get a pedestrian killed through Uber's self-driving project. > The car wen
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
WebP is a pretty terrible standard, all things considered, and I have very low technical confidence in JPEG XL from the same team. USDZ is also pretty different from glTF; the former is a scene description that includes things like lights a
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by Jasper_ 6y ago
The game revs ruined it for everyone else ;) The revisionist history: AAA game developers are used to console APIs. Which do exactly what you tell them to at the hardware, no sugar coating or drivers in the way. Having shipped a few games,

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