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by aa-jv 11mo ago
>Windows Energy-saving timer heuristics Another example of Windows' technical debt being there, low-hanging fruit-wise, to be cashed in by performance-oriented developers. Its interesting that Youtube changing the timer resolution
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by aa-jv 11mo ago
Beej has been a stable reference for me for decades, also. By applying the knowledge gained in his networking guide, I've won many contracts for work that others considered too difficult (or "impossible" in the budget constr
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by aa-jv 11mo ago
Once, back in the woolly days of the Internet and before crypto became a household name, Wired magazine published an article about Phil Zimmermans' work .. and included his phone number at the end of the article, for some strange reaso
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by aa-jv 11mo ago
> C/C++ .. a convenient package manager Every time I fire up "cmake" I chant a little spell that protects me from the goblins that live on the other side of FetchContent to promise to the Gods of the Repo that I will, even
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Does anyone know if the foveated rendering feature of the Steam Frame depends on eye-tracking? Is it tracking the iris to determine the center of foveation, or is there some other trick to doing this?
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I had a great stickered laptop for a few years, lots of valuable stickers I'd collected at various hackathons and such, but .. Apple stole it! I had to get the screen replaced, and no matter how hard I pleaded, Apple refused to give me
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by aa-jv 1y ago
They need to stay and fix their country, and the means by which they do that is simple: start prosecuting our own war criminals .
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by aa-jv 1y ago
People need to hold the UK government responsible for its crimes against humanity. Until the AUMF and similiar policies across the Wetsern hemisphere which resulted in the utterly reprehensible "War on Terror", are rescinded and
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The point is, you do not have control over your own device and need permission - after paying a fee - to do things freely with your own device.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>with a developer account Thanks, you missed the point.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Yeah, haha. This is not FUD: try to do the same on iOS.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I don't agree, it is absolutely dreadful , and we saw this coming and did nothing about it. Think about it: you need permission to run software on your own hardware. Every time you launch a Mac App, it checks in with its masters to
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Do you know what "your" CPU is doing? Do you really ?
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I think the more important maxim to follow is this: if you didn't manufacture your own sillicon, you are infinitely more hackable than if you did. Alas, no matter how hard we try to trust our compilers, we must also adopt methods to
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Its not. The Virus TI was the end of the Virus line .. if Kemper do something else related to synthesizers, its likely to be a brand new product. Lets see! An update for their synthesizer users is quite long overdue .. however, of course,
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Sure, the DAW is king in the 21st century .. but hardware synths have their time and place. Access was one of the first to get hardware/software integration working with the TI - but as we can see, its a difficult thing to support, go
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by aa-jv 1y ago
These guys are awesome .. their interaction with Kemper&co, about their amazing emulation work, not so much. There's a hard lesson for hardware manufacturers to be learned in this drama. If Kemper were supportive, they'd have
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Great work, ajxs, been following you for years. I hope you get a chance to work on some other synths in the future .. would be fun to see you apply your skills to, for example, the UNO synths, or the Arturia *Freaks' .. would be hilari
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The American government has already shown itself to be above international law. The ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Putin demonstrates its legitimacy. What it needs to do next is follow up with the long list of American war criminals, and
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I am not Russian, Chinese, nor Indian - I am a citizen of the 5-eyes criminal military junta, however. The notion that a citizen of a war-crime committing nation can only have justice if they also demand that other war-crime committing nati
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Your position amounts to "but ma' America Special". If the ICC is good enough for Laurent Gbagbo, its good enough for Obama, Bush, Biden, Trump and Clinton. The ICC delivers one thing Americans refuse to deliver: justice fo
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The American people need to start prosecuting their war criminals, plain and simple - and this has to begin with a willingness to comply with the mandates of the International Criminal Court. The notion that American exceptionalism inoculat
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Project Kamp would definitely benefit from opening up a new workshop on site with the sole purpose of building some of the Open Source Ecology tooling .. it'd help them immensely with tractor scams and .. especially of course .. defeat
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by aa-jv 1y ago
If you're new to Lua, be sure to check out TurboLua: https://turbo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Its a very flexible way to do realtime/embedded, performance-critical services (e.g., a game server or API gat
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I absolutely love Lua and I especially love when others discover Lua and are about to embark on the amazing journey. Here, you're gonna need this: https://www.lua.org/gems/
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I think its often overlooked: Software is a social experience, and a socially-derived product. It is only as valuable as other humans say it is. I think blamedriven.dev hits hard because of this fact - it uses human emotions to describe so
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I'm relieved, but also somewhat befuddled that someone would write such a shocking headline. It immediately had me reaching for the lkml archives to find out whats really going on.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Iraq lost 5% of its population to the US' illegal, criminal war, and Iraqi mothers are still losing children to the side effects of the DU that has been deposited all over its major cities. So the atrocity continues in Iraq, even to th
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Confirmed deaths are in the 60,000's. Estimated deaths are in the 300,000's. The international community must be allowed into Gaza to start counting skeletons.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
False. Microsoft knew very well they had contracts with the IDF, it was announced in flowery PR all over the place, and at the beginning of the genocide there were protests against Microsofts' overt involvement. This is just CYA. Tha

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