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by Strom 4y ago
> but I really wonder just who is going to these lengths to pirate things for other people? The people breaking the systems and the people doing most of the pirating are different. DRM breaking is a fun challange to some people. You ca
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by Strom 4y ago
> thinking about how to scale Having a good plan for scaling is absolutely a great move. Changing fundamental architecture later isn't easy. Implementing it all immediately however ..
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by Strom 4y ago
Because competing code editors support it and thus lacking this capability would make your code editor seem unusually incompetent.
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by Strom 4y ago
> That's the kind of results Google should be surfacing Indeed and when I try it, it does surface it when I search for Does Nvidia Shield require an Android account? [1] For comparison, ChatGPT also gets it right. [2] -- [1] http
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by Strom 4y ago
> The problem is that Windows 11 and above require a Microsoft account It is not quite a requirement, I have my Windows 11 Pro running just fine with no Microsoft account. They do attempt really hard to make it look like it's requ
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by Strom 4y ago
An example of a feature I use very frequently would be find in files . Sublime does sort of have this, but the ergonomics are worlds apart. In VSCode the search gets refined as I type, the results are in a sidepanel and clicking on a resul
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by Strom 4y ago
> most people just don’t care about at all as long as it’s fast enough People care about speed. Even non-technical people. Every non-technical person I know that has bought a new computer even though they already had one was because of
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by Strom 4y ago
It's possible you and your acquaintances can't tell. Similarly some people claim they can't tell a difference between a 720p video and higher. Or that they can't tell a difference between 128 kbps CBR MP3 and higher. How
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by Strom 4y ago
Why stop at five? What about six days a week? Also I doubt the amount of time worked is anywhere near as good of a predictor for success as willingness to work.
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by Strom 4y ago
Deep Blue wouldn't beat you in chess? Computers being good at chess has been true for 30 years.
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by Strom 4y ago
You can manually copy over the game files even with Steam. That has always worked. Steam even offers an export option in case you don't know how to find the directory yourself. The problem isn't the copying part itself, it's
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by Strom 4y ago
Maybe not new ones, but more time with existing ones. Could also just be a firing.
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Wētā FX has solved VFX water simulation(youtube.com)
3 points by Strom 4y ago|0 comments
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by Strom 4y ago
Modern GPUs and CPUs are both Turing complete. They both are capable of supporting and indeed do support Unicode software.
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by Strom 4y ago
You’re in the minority with that. Even Americans love emoji.
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by Strom 4y ago
> most UIs are hardware accelerated directly or indirectly. To widely varying degrees. Some do a lot of work on the GPU, others use only the rasterization features, some only accelerate the compositing. This unfortunately means that us
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by Strom 4y ago
Your point is correct and there is another changing thing beyond the clock that's common - the blinking caret in a textbox. Firefox used to have really bad battery usage on macOS for a long time because in order to only change the care
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by Strom 4y ago
Windows 95 doesn't even support Unicode. The level of UI you can draw there is a very small subset of what you can do in say Chrome. Indeed correct unicode text rendering is one of the difficult problems. It's the same thing that
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by Strom 4y ago
JPEG-XL is better for images, no doubt. However it lacks the political backing that AV1 and hence AVIF has. It’s sad from a technical standpoint but also just a reality of this world - politics decide things, not merit.
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by Strom 4y ago
Mozilla's arguments against JPEG-XL seem even worse than the Google ones. Although there is widespread support they behave as if it doesn't exist. They're so neutral about this that they're locking and limiting conversat
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Mozilla concludes that JPEG-XL is not for them(github.com)
36 points by Strom 4y ago|16 comments
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by Strom 4y ago
Not just cropped, the perspective and colors can be wrong. That is, you can take a photo of a poster on a wall from an angle, and it will give you the original image. It's impressive.
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by Strom 4y ago
Massive? This is 6% of their workforce.
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by Strom 4y ago
Your indentured slavery comment is a classic strawman and doesn't even apply. It's not a voluntary situation that someone signs up for.
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by Strom 4y ago
> Denmark intentionally avoiding the switch to Euro Only in name as a PR move. Take a look at the 10 year EUR/DKK conversion chart. [1] The Danish national bank keeps the currency fixed to euro anyway. -- [1] https://ww
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by Strom 4y ago
Do you have a source of this being calculated before the Babylonians or why do you think so?
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by Strom 4y ago
> why is a company doing a secure password saver not employing anyone who knows the very basics of how to use cryptography? Because that isn't important for success. Perception is reality. Very few people can tell the difference b
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by Strom 4y ago
It's an area of active research. One very promising project is vello [1] which is essentially a software renderer on the GPU (requires GPU compute support). Preliminary results are looking good. Better than anything else out there good
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by Strom 4y ago
Tesla is the market leader in electric vehicles. Tesla sells more EVs in the US than all the other manufacturers combined. https://electrek.co/2022/10/18/us-electric-vehicle-sales-by-... https://cl
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by Strom 4y ago
I'm curious why do you think SpaceX and Tesla are market leaders in their niches? Is Elon the only person who hires product managers?

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