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by aappleby 1y ago
You certainly don't have to believe me, but that's what happened according to my mother. My mother was busy with my twin sister and didn't have time to read to me, so I would take all the Berenstain Bears books and sit down o
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by aappleby 1y ago
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by aappleby 1y ago
I was a profoundly gifted kid - taught myself to read just before I turned 2, was reading lord of the rings and the shannara books at 5, deathly bored in public school because my parents couldn't afford private. To claim that gifted ch
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by aappleby 1y ago
If that article isn't AI-massaged I'll eat my hat.
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by aappleby 1y ago
"there's no publicly available documentation of the signal routing configuration or the bitstream format" Both of things either have already been reverse-engineered, or are in the process of being reverse-engineered.
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by aappleby 1y ago
The simulations of knitted cloth modeled as individual yarn segments is crazy impressive.
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by aappleby 1y ago
Why even bother with the GPU at that point? CPU would be just as fast if you're bottlenecked on SSD bandwidth.
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by aappleby 1y ago
"The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit[4] conservative think tank" Thanks, I'll pass.
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by aappleby 1y ago
I've used the same easing function in my personal projects for decades now - move the variable 90% of the way to the goal every 80 milliseconds.
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by aappleby 1y ago
Lexing is almost never a bottleneck. I'd much rather see a "Strategies for Readable Lexers".
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by aappleby 1y ago
you had a functional and minimal deployment process (compile copy restart) and now you have...
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by aappleby 1y ago
Minor note for those wanting to try this at home - these cheap dummy plugs only have a 256 byte eeprom, which is not enough for storing the various extended EDID blocks needed to specify high-refresh high-resolution configs. If you just wan
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by aappleby 1y ago
The dummy plugs are literally just a 256-byte eeprom hooked to the I2C lines, there's nothing else inside the shell.
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by aappleby 1y ago
Take my money already. :D
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by aappleby 1y ago
TACO TACO TACO
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by aappleby 1y ago
I've seen dozens of AI generated scam ads for quilts, leather goods, backpacks, etcetera. All are of the form "After 40 years my poor business is closing" plus a link to a generic online shop selling drop shipped goods from C
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by aappleby 1y ago
I'll add another option from my toy language experiments: Names visible outside their scope begin with a dot. foo = { a = 3; .b = a + 1; }; print(foo.a) // error print(foo.b) // '4'
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by aappleby 1y ago
I'd add "Cheap prepaid smartphones are actually good now". $50 will get you a totally usable 6-ish-inch screen Android phone with an almost-up-to-date OS that can do all the internet things you need. You don't even have
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by aappleby 1y ago
To be a little less snarky - You can simplify this a bit from the construction in the article. Use the bottom sections of two cans, and you only need the pinholes in the rim and a larger hole in the middle of the top half to fill/drain
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by aappleby 1y ago
Soda can definitely stove.
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by aappleby 1y ago
I'm not sure that the claim "the mix function is injective" is sufficient to support the claim "The period is at least 2^128". If the mix is reversible then it forms a permutation on 2^192, but that does not imply t
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by aappleby 1y ago
MurmurHash/SMHasher author here. While I don't doubt this passes BigCrush etc, I do find it very surprising that it does. The state update function is effectively "a = rotate(a, constant) + b; b = rotate(b, constant) + consta
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by aappleby 1y ago
This is both hilarious and awesome. I think the Typescript devs are just showing off at this point. :D
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by aappleby 2y ago
Lol, it's literally affine texture mapping.
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by aappleby 2y ago
Tested this out again with Overwatch - latency is single-digit milliseconds even at 4k120. I can feel a _slight_ bit of lag at those settings, anything below that is as good as local.
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by aappleby 2y ago
I'm not exaggerating at all. I regularly play Overwatch over this setup and it's totally fine.
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by aappleby 2y ago
If you think RDP performance is good, you should try Sunshine+Moonlight. I regularly stream at 4k 120hz from my gaming PC to my laptop and it's basically indistinguishable from running locally. I've even run it over Tailscale from
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by aappleby 2y ago
It's not quite "just give me a mini PC with the PS5 SOC in it", but it'll do.
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by aappleby 2y ago
It's a shame they didn't test the Titan V, it was released in 2017 yet still has the best FP64 performance of all the NVidia GPUs by a longshot.
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by aappleby 2y ago
Hi, MurmurHash and SMHasher author here. The author of the linked article seems to be missing a _bafflingly_ _large_ amount of context from the last decade of people writing and testing hash functions. Hell, Murmur2 is deprecated - they sho

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