MayeulC

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by MayeulC 5y ago
Typing this on Midori Android, it feels faast! I was using Firefox until a few days ago, but I feel I should change. That's on a Galaxy S4, mind you. Dillo is blazing fast on desktop, but doesn't support https very well. It also d
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> On Windows, Firefox gets a notification from the operating system (setup using CreateMemoryResourceNotification) indicating that the available physical memory is running low. I've longed for such a mechanism in Linux, but I don&#x
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You seem to assume it comes from the browser. That is not necessarily the case: the user might have launched a demanding game that suddenly increases memory pressure, making Firefox OOM. FF will now more gradually release memory to the OS.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Looks like they fixed the mistake, and improved the description a lot. The description could still be improved, and I started commenting on how it could, but I realize this would warrant its own blog post.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Ah, yes. Gallium is itself a bit like Vulkan IIRC, though a bit higher level. There are state trackers for OpenGL, D3D9-10, OpenCL, and probably others. I guess one could make a Vulkan "state tracker", but it might not be efficien
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Valve is contributing quite a bit, with their ACO compiler for instance, but the RADV driver did not in fact originate with them. We owe a great deal to David Airlie for that. He wrote a complete vulkan driver years before AMD released th
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Not to mention that there is much more to Mesa than RADV. Gallium3D and state trackers, RadeonSI and a few other drivers (Apple M1, Qualcomm Adreno, Broadcom, Mali) to only name these. The status of some drivers is tracked here: https:&#
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This has an historical precedent: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190... posted multiple times on HN, last time 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27264816
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With the IPv4 internet, that is. You don't need IPv4 to connect to most GitHub pages anymore. Admittedly, IPv4 internet is a good chunk of the Internet, but maybe not the part of interest to you at a given point in time. http:/&#
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by MayeulC 5y ago
IPv6-only hosts will be able to connect to github pages now, if configured properly. There are a couple use-cases for that, but it should allow cheaper VPSes, or less complicated network configuration by eliminating NAT. If a host only need
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I recently discovered that there was such a plan for TER ("slow" regional trains) in France. https://www.ter.sncf.com/nouvelle-aquitaine/offres/cartes-ab... 29€/month, for july and august. Not sure
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I spent one year (gap internship) in Vorarlberg, the yearly price was about €400. They had a 50% discount if you were under 26 And a (cumulable) 50% first-time only discount if you already had a driver license I ended up paying €100 for a c
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by MayeulC 5y ago
> not to blindly just give customers what they ask for, but to figure out what they really need Classically called an xy problem: https://xyproblem.info/
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> Artificial hearts already work since quite a while Frankly I wouldn't want one for $1B. IIRC the longest recorded survival with an artificial rate was about 3 months for a continuous flow 'pulse-less' device https:&#x2F
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https://publiccode.eu/
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They're pretty cheap second hand. I recently got one for €200, including base stations (forward-compatible to a point) and "pro" audio strap. It's my first VR headset though, I understand not wanting to spend too much on
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Your eyes do move, and they point at other stuff, but the focal length afforded by the lenses is fixed (it makes as if everything was at a few meters IIRC). I also wonder what could happen if the ciliary muscle isn't used enough. Does
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I think you missed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041 from a few days ago... To each their own. You might not be on the left of the S curve for that technology, that's all :) https://en.wikipedia.
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by MayeulC 5y ago
I have suggested integrating with Mumble before, it would be a great way to interact. Add a "info.mumble.servers" or "info.mumble.channels" state event, some magic on murmur's side to authenticate using Matrix, and
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by MayeulC 5y ago
That's quite interesting, thanks for the insight! I hadn't thought about the possibility for spaces to replace the room directory, although it will always be needed to some extent. Spaces could also be useful for moderation/r
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by MayeulC 5y ago
Ah, sorry. I guess it took some time for me to grasp that, and I am now subject to the curse of knowledge. I maintain that for technical-minded people like me, knowing a bit of behind-the-scenes can help a lot with understanding (it did wit
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I dislike that distinction a bit. Spaces are just like rooms. You can just create one (that's a personal space), invite some people in (private space), and make it public with a public link (public space). The distinction is artificial
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by MayeulC 5y ago
A de-googled Galaxy S4 with LineageOS is my daily driver, and has been for more than two years. Signal runs rather nicely on it.
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> Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight That's the thing I'm discussing here. You are mostly right, but I wanted to point out that depending on a range of factors, local time can be offset by ~3 hours compared t
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Not exact. You'd need to look up what time they get to work, and what time they eat at, instead of looking what time it is there. If you can get used to the offsets (sometimes changing because of DST), surely you can remember to offset
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by MayeulC 5y ago
With EVs taking more time to charge for the time being, I can see the "convenience store" remaining if gas stations switch to electric, unless charge-at-home becomes more prevalent. Alternatively, these might be replaced by restau
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I'd just like to clarify that these blobs are never executed on the main CPU, and are instead running inside the GPU, or possibly "management engine"-like cores inside it. They also likely contain opaque data like DRM-related
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Thanks a lot for these pointers!
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Not out-of-the box, though, as recent GPUs need to have firmware loaded before being usable. IIRC, older AMD GPUs have firmware pre-loaded (and though they would be better performing with newer firmware, they can run as-is).
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Yeah, I commented before reading the article, I had missed "Guix" in the title. I now read it, and adjusted my comment a bit. Nice to know that firmware is easily available, though I am not sure nvidia's driver can install an

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