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by SloopJon 6y ago
I saw this on Daring Fireball the other day, and was reminded of it by "The Reshaped Mac Experience" post today. See also Gruber's response to this survey: https://daringfireball.net/2021/01/my_2020
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Apple in 2020: The Six Colors report card(sixcolors.com)
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> It's dead, Jim. I wonder how many folks would miss this reference. If I'm not mistaken, it's only in the original series. On the other hand, I guess Itanium is even more obscure than Star Trek at this point. I tend to
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by SloopJon 6y ago
He touched on JSON parsers in a previous post about fast_double_parser: "People who write fast parsers tend to roll their own number parsers (e.g., RapidJSON, sajson), and so we did. However, we sacrifice some standard compliance.&quot
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The first thing I notice is the chain. Ars Technica had a story earlier this week about the Sondors Metacycle: similar power, similar weight, but no chain. Also, $25,000 cheaper. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021&#x2F
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by SloopJon 6y ago
It may be too sparse to answer your question, but there is a related paper on the author's web site: http://marekcel.pl/docs/mscsim_doc.pdf
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I pulled this up in Stellarium, and the only real difference is that you can see Phobos, Deimos, and Earth. It doesn't seem to simulate the atmosphere. I also tried this in Gaia Sky, but I would need to tweak the settings. The faint
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I haven't noticed Firefox for Enterprise before. At first I thought it was a new name for extended support release, but Enterprise is available in both ESR and the regular releases. I can't tell from the landing page what the di
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I've had a lot of problems with USB DACs as well. I frequently find that audio degrades into a kind of stuttering or static that doesn't go away until a reboot. I've experienced this with multiple DACs (Aune, Centrance, O2,
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The advice about the order of includes is interesting, as it's the exact opposite of my usual habit. I see the point, and I'll definitely consider adopting it. One thing I've been bitten by in the past is that Clang / l
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I had the exact same thought. I almost didn't bother following the link, because Rust for Windows is already a thing, but this is essentially a Rust equivalent to C++/WinRT.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I had to scroll down the page to see if Ultraleap is a product, a company, or some kind of open source project, and whether it has anything to do with the Leap Motion Controller. For those who were as confused as me, Ultrahaptics bought Le
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Could be. I suspect that's a factor in the fonts available for download or document support in Catalina and Big Sur: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210192 https://support.apple.com/en-us/H
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I don't remember this game at all, but it sounds like it would have been a fun follow up to The Halley Project , which was kind of a scavenger hunt through the solar system.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Just for fun, I added pdqsort to the benchmark: https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort Here are some of the results on an Ivy Bridge hackintosh: size, qsort, inline, sort, stable, pdqsort, radix7 1000, 88.0,
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The first graph includes "Apple Intel", which is not mentioned anywhere else in the post. Any idea what hardware that was, and whether it used the accelerated TensorFlow?
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by SloopJon 6y ago
In order to compile the ratpak library from Microsoft's calculator using Clang, I ported part of it from C++ to C. It's written in C++17 with some C features that only Visual C++ accepts. Off the top of my head, some of the chan
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by SloopJon 6y ago
That caught my eye too. I looked for benchmarks of re2, but couldn't find anything more recent than this: https://rust-leipzig.github.io/regex/2017/03/28/comparison-o... burntsushi criticized it at
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Yes, that's correct. Apart from the fact that the programs are apparently written in Java, Oracle Corporation has nothing to do with this. There's a section of the web site on licensing NIST technologies, and links to patent lice
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The page says that the software uses a patented oracle-free testing method, but that it doesn't apply to the public domain (Java?) programs that you can request by email. Although I hope the Department of Commerce wouldn't sue me
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by SloopJon 6y ago
On the coastal side of the enormous Eastern Time Zone, I like the idea of permanent EDT or the proposed AST. Permanent DST (nationwide) is slightly better for New England than AST, because it avoids the hassle of being in a different time
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> it’s actually “design compromises”. That's a good way to put it. I've seen several posts like this, and the tendency is to assume a set of requirements (e.g., a generator must be stateless), then fault a scheme for not satis
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I had gotten used to that site showing what is not entering the public domain, thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. (What a horrible thing to have your name on.) It's good to have something to celebrate again. It
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> boost the frequencies as necessary The trick is figuring out what's necessary. The first half of the post made me nervous, because it simply applied a gain of threshold - basedB. As he discovered, that's too loud. What you
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by SloopJon 6y ago
That's a slick cluster in a box. I'm not sure which modules I'd put on it, though. Unless you harvest them from the 2 GB dev kits, the total price pushes up against a single Jetson Xavier AGX, which is a better value (and h
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I ported some null-heavy Java code to C++. The source frequently returns an object, or null in case of error; e.g., BigInteger bi = rational.asBigInteger(); if (bi != null) { ... } One of the classes is essentially
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I don't know that I'd call it a "strange obsession," but it's a popular topic, right up there with intermittent fasting. Here are some active posts just from the last two or three months: https://news.yc
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by SloopJon 6y ago
For those who have glossed over the recent CentOS posts, because you don't really know what Stream is, or maybe didn't realize that Red Hat effectively owns CentOS now, this article is an accessible survey. My question for the Roc
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I somehow missed that Red Hat started sponsoring CentOS a while back, and owns the trademarks. I mean, money and cooperation is great and all, but how could anyone have expected CentOS Linux to continue for long when Red Hat has such a
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I totally agree. Code Complete was my road map to a new field, full of recommendations for other books to read. I gave away my first two copies of the first edition, and eventually bought the second edition. It didn't have the sam

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