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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Yes, they are Nintendo's private keys. I believe the comment is referring to the early factory programming stage of the console, though I'm not 100% sure. PCGamer.com also confirmed the DMCA notice says it's about encryption
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
The DMCA was for the private encryption keys included directly inside Dolphin source code [0]. I am not defending the DMCA at all, I think it's a shit law, but let's be clear, I can't think of a clearer example of a valid DMC
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
lmao
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
"They laughed at Gallileo, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown"
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
With the push for ARM in the datacenter, ACPI adoption is on the upswing. In theory, ACPI could be used on consumer devices as well, there's just little incentive to do that right now.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Yeah, ARM's big advantage is that they are willing to make absolutely zero margin on chips, which allows them to play both ends of the spectrum. They can make Celeron-tier chips that don't take any power and practically given away
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
It was common to see viruses spread by someone sending an executable attachment called "amazon.com" or similar and have people click the link to open it. Most email providers now flat out strip attachments with .com extensions.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
If it finds itself not in the simple case it specialized for, it reverts back to the unspecialized case. In JIT compiler terms, this is called a "guard"
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
JavaScript engines have been using inline caches and specialization for over 10 years now. It's Python that's catching up to JavaScriptCore from 2007.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Hearing K8s described as "boring" made me chuckle.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
> don't know if Apple/WebKit also has open-sourced theirs https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/main/Source/WebGPU
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Client-side buffers are not a great idea. Pixel buffer objects and MSAA framebuffers exist in WebGL 2.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
BindGroups should not be that heavyweight, and there's murmors of a proposal to recycle BindGroups by updating resources in it after the fact.
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
eh, I think the game is given away when kvark self-admits in that post that he's never written a compiler before, or done parsing before. Yes, SPIR-V is weird and confusing... if you've never worked on a compiler. A lot of it is r
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
I am, yes! Thank you! I'm actually been a spec contributor to WebGPU, and can vouch for quite a bit of it, I think it's a pretty great API overall, and I think it strikes a nice balance between the apparent-simplicity-hidden-compl
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Hi, I'm a graphics programmer. Sorry for our confusing and pretty awful terminology, it's mostly an accident of history. I don't think we're the only field to have that problem, though. > why must it be so complicated
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
Apple sells ads. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin... They track the stories you read on News & Stocks, and track your location to give you personalized ads. This integrate
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
At one point I hand-wrote a simple Brainfuck interpreter in both WAT (called WAST at the time...) and asm.js. Both are extremely tedious, but it seems WAT has improved a bit ergonomically since... https://github.com/magcius&
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
I help answer questions on a few IRC channels. ChatGPT has made our life considerably and noticeably harder, as the knowledge that comes out of it is often blatantly wrong, yet extremely confident. We spend a lot of time untangling it. I wo
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by Jasper_ 3y ago
If it's backwards-compatible with standard JPEG decompressors, then you've just made a better JPEG encoder. And that's great, and people are still doing that all the time, but we don't need a whole new ISO spec to do it.
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
What value does this provide over serving a .jpg file?
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
The specification of AVIF is also publicly available, while you would have to pay a little under $500 to purchase all five of the ISO/IEC 18181 specifications for JPEG-XL. Not a monumental cost, but something prohibitive for a hobbyist
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
The kernel page cache already exists, and is used on read() too. The distinction is that instead of read() copying from the kernel page cache, mmap will map that page cache page directly into the user's memory address space. It saves
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
LLAMA maps a single read-only file at startup. The only caveat that applies here is the virtual filesystems one, and it's a fair assessment, so a fallback might be warranted, but mmap seems fine by default.
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
Draco is just a bad algorithm. It's just an implementation overcomplicated paper from the 90s (Edgebreaker), basically compressing the index buffer but nothing else. And it also reorders the index buffer to fit topology, meaning your p
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
This contributor doesn't appear to know how mmap works if they're claiming the only benefit is sharing data between processes (what? MAP_PRIVATE mappings aren't shared), and that memory is leaked after the process exits. Ther
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
Returns are capped at 100x their initial investment, which, you know, is not that big of a cap. VCs would go crazy for a 100x return. Most companies, even unicorns, don't get there. They're justifying it by saying AGI is so stupid
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
APL predates Unicode! You used to have to use special APL keyboards to write it. The symbols were included in Unicode as a way to try and make APL more palatable.
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
... who do you think pays the salaries and union dues of the SJPD?
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by Jasper_ 4y ago
I mean, I agree with that, sure, but I can't imagine it changing any time soon. Ultimately, the JPEG-XL team made the choice was made to standardize the format within the JPEG WG of ISO, and for better or worse, this has had a pretty s

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