Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
Anecdotes are generally worse than meaningless. Still, in the spirit of things, I don't think I know a single MacBook user; sampling biases clearly exist. Tangentally: One is inclined to wonder, if dual display support is such a big deal, w
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by Ralith 14y ago
Or use something other than a MacBook. That's an option too.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Very cool. Can arbitrary assembly programs (having well-defined behavior) be represented with this?
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Instead of the usual Kalman filtering, I've devised my own IMU sensor fusion algorithm which is super easy to visualize and doesn't require a PHD in mathematics. Further, it works as well as the complex filters you'd find in the conve
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by Ralith 14y ago
Rather presumptuous to imply that developers in general care about MacBook design tweaks, isn't it?
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by Ralith 14y ago
> "Discrimination. Racially profiled. He didn't have any business asking me what country I was from," Sabet said. Sounds like she's trying to make it about racism to me. The only other interpretation I can come up with is that she's com
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by Ralith 14y ago
Awesome! I wasn't aware that had become optional.
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by Ralith 14y ago
If he's reimplemented the OpenGL 1 API, then he must be retransmitting geometry every frame, because the API is not sufficiently expressive to allow for retained state of that nature. He describes glBegin and glEnd as accumulating an array
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by Ralith 14y ago
The thing that particularly bothers me about this post: > People defend this decision by saying that they "had" to do it, because the fixed function pipeline is terribly inefficient on modern GPUs or some such nonsense. These people don
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by Ralith 14y ago
This is an interesting privacy question, and symptomatic of the larger issues that are facing us as technology continues to ease information-gathering. A hard moral, not to mention legal and technical, problem if there ever was one. > T
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by Ralith 14y ago
But OpenGL ES does not enable OpenGL on mobile devices; that's the entire point of its existence. It enables OpenGL ES, which is intentionally designed to be a simplified subset. If mobile device manufacturers feel that full-on OpenGL is ap
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by Ralith 14y ago
I've heard that since OpenGL 3.2 most of the issues that caused that drama got resolved. Does anyone know details? Edit: Reading parent's link, it looks like there were two complaints: First, OpenGL 1 era features haven't been completely re
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by Ralith 14y ago
This indicates a fundemental misunderstanding of OpenGL ES. It cannot break working code by not having OpenGL 1.0 features, because OpenGL ES is not a revision to or successor of OpenGL 1.0. Note that OpenGL 4, which is a (distant) succes
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by Ralith 14y ago
Was there ever any question over whether an iPhone could run a full OpenGL implementation? Perhaps the people JWZ should be complaining about are those who decided to provide OpenGL ES instead of OpenGL proper on the iPhone in the first pla
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by Ralith 14y ago
You're comparing completely incomparable tasks. JWZ did nothing but write a thin wrapper. The committee didn't omit such a wrapper because they couldn't accomplish it, they ommitted it as a deliberate design decision .
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by Ralith 14y ago
Nothing is untrue about it. Obviously, there was a miscommunication, and the woman decided to go scream "Racism!" to the presses instead of clearing it up. Edit: Oh, I see, you thought I was asserting that she was of Iranian citizenship. I
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by Ralith 14y ago
It wasn't even incorrect: her own words were "I'm from Iran." It's obvious that the Apple employee made the perfectly reasonable interpretation that this described her citizenship.
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by Ralith 14y ago
However, it seems pretty clear that the Apple employee interpreted Sabet's words "I'm from Iran" as meaning "I am an Iranian citizen." This is a perfectly reasonable interpretation, and there's no indication that Sabet made any effort to co
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by Ralith 14y ago
One of my favorites, encountered in the wild: Your system will never need to handle a time before 1970.
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by Ralith 14y ago
I believe he's talking about configuring your desktop environment such that it will launch .jar files with java (perhaps through a script intermediary), which is indeed not nearly as cool as what you're describing.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Yes, you said that already, and even though you haven't provided a shred of evidence I'll let it go, because even then there still must be a payoff for them to do it. Someone went to the engineers and said "Do this differently," and they
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by Ralith 14y ago
That depends how you define meaningful. It obviously required more resources than simply using standard parts and tools, so there must be some payoff.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> POP based on linux kernel (currently 2.6.32) and GNU userland utilities. So, not actually a "pure python OS," but rather a desktop environment containing a large amount of python?
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by Ralith 14y ago
It sounds like what you really want is a lisp machine. Everything old is new again...
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by Ralith 14y ago
An interesting point. What's the marginal manufacturing cost of a macbook battery cell?
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by Ralith 14y ago
I see you're using a computer. Did you happen to steal that computer from someone? Maybe a neighbor? Perhaps the local consumer electronics retailer?
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by Ralith 14y ago
But the cost to Apple is much less.
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by Ralith 14y ago
What? Both the 420s and its successor, the 430s, are available directly from Lenovo's site--it took me only seconds to find them: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/
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by Ralith 14y ago
We're already most of the way there with iOS. The Windows 8 ARM UEFI stuff is pretty foreboding too.
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by Ralith 14y ago
It would almost certainly be cheaper, so they must stand to profit somehow by making it harder to open the devices.

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