aeonfox

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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   By sandboxing: > We first discuss the implementation considerations of the input to the Wasm-side Init() API call. The isolated linear memory space of Wasm instance is referred to as guest, while the program’s address space running the W
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   > We live in a world where contempt for culture based on its level of sophistication or intellectual value is considered deeply passé, if not borderline evil. The derogatory labels – guilty pleasure, idiotbox, dumbed-down entertainment,
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   https://archive.md/hbMi9
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   I caught this on MeFi and was about to post it here. I hope it catches more interest
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   Doesn't gig work sidestep the mandated work week and other hard won employer obligations like holiday pay, health insurance, workers' safety, retirement benefits, etc? Or is your point that with adequate welfare there would be no
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   > Like maybe someone other than Hyundai that makes electric cars? Well this is specifically a battery plant. So any local competitors with battery products have a vested interest. Or makers of gasoline cars. Or oil refineries, or any
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   > Most of the people detained were South Korean nationals with the wrong kind of visas. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/09/10/the-ice-r... > I'm not particularly sympathetic to Hy
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   > and the display server will wait on the relevant fences (on the CPU side, which is responsible for most GPU scheduling tasks) before starting any render task that would texture that buffer or before attempting scanout from the buffer.
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   by aeonfox 1y ago

   So are they going to put blue LEDs in clothes dryers now?
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    > Note that in the iPhone cases, the glass blur is mostly an internal widget rendered by the app, what is emitted to the display server/hardware is opaque. This sounds wild to me, so I'm just going to ask. Do you work on these
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    I was under the impression that for GPU accelerated GUIs, all windows are rendered to a render target. It might be that windows underneath have gone to sleep and aren't updating, but they would have their last state rendered to a text
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    Are windowed GUIs still doing diffed screen updates? I would have assumed that GPUs make this kind of thing very unrewarding to implement as an optimisation. I'd imagine every window is being redrawn every frame as a 2D billboard wit
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    Sounds kind of cool. > The researchers used the technique on rabbit eyeballs in the lab, some of which were intended to represent myopia in humans. Special contact lenses made from platinum were placed over the extracted eyes. These lens
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    I was the second top-level comment. I had no idea it would turn out like this :)
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    by aeonfox 1y ago

    I've fallen for this trap a few times before. It's a collision of pareto principle and nirvana fallacy. Diminishing returns dominate the last 20%, causing burnout, and you're held in the tension between sunk cost fallacy an