Scaevolus

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1441.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
When code runs slower in one JS implementation than another, why do people say that "real-world" code is slow? Just because the JIT missed an optimization-- in this case, repeatedly appending to a string-- doesn't mean that it's a bottlenec
1442.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
Could you add an option to make the y-axis have a logarithmic scale? Some results have hundreds of thousands of results for 2012, but only a few for other years, so it's harder to see a pattern.
1443.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
Does VP8 have any advantages over H264 other than claiming to be patent-free?
1444.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
From comments DarkShikari gave ( http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377 ), it looks like the format was frozen as soon as they released it, so that talk of "improving the format" is rather dubious.
1445.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
I strongly disagree. Enforcing an ISA would prevent a lot of the technological advances in graphics card design.
1446.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
The article mentions that he has successfully taught echolocation to someone that lost sight at 14 years old, so you seem to be underestimating the powers of the human brain.
1447.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
While DHT is indeed decentralized, a central tracker is still preferred since it can quickly give an authoritative list of peers (rather than a probabilistic one). Private sites tend to disable DHT anyways, since it's much harder to detect
1448.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
Calling this an x86 chip is misleading: "...the Godson-3 chips have instructions added to help the QEMU hypervisor (the one that's at the heart of Red Hat's KVM hypervisor) to translate instructions from x86 to MIPS format. According to ear
1449.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
Was LZO available at the time?
1450.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
I liked this quote: "For some reason they thought there was a connection between me and Sasser, which I denied. Sasser was big news back then and its author, Sven Jaschan, was raided the same day as me in a co-ordinated operation, because t
1451.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
I use compile/eval in an IRC bot I wrote ( http://github.com/rmmh/skybot ) for plugins. It lets me do hot-reloading of updated files, easily examine the namespace to find functions marked with various decorators, and not litter the plugin d
1452.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
It sounds like he didn't have enough time to accomplish all his duties as a professor.
1453.
by Scaevolus 16y ago
Is sex drive first?
1454.
by Scaevolus 17y ago
They're waiting for widespread availability of WebGL. Right now it's only available in Firefox or Safari nightlies and Chrome with command-line options.
1455.
by Scaevolus 17y ago
The problem that you see here is mostly that rand() gets the range in a way biased towards the lower-order bits, which in more LCGs are less random than the higher-order bits.