alfanick

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1. 181.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   Can we get base64 cooking? Base-2? What is "based"!? /s
2. 182.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   Adobe Lightroom catalog - sqlite is used for lrcat, which can hold hundreds of thousands metadata of pictures and (non-destructive) edit sequences on those pictures. Some examples [0][1], or just play with it yourself. [0]: https:/&#x
3. 183.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   Let's have humans evolve instead of killing things that were here before us.
4. 184.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   s/compiles to/may or may not compile to/
5. 185.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   As an user I literally run into this usecase: Germany, local bus company, I've run out of cash, so I just bought online ticket via Deutsche Bahn app (it's a QR code). When you enter the bus, you need to scan this QR code, but for
6. 186.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   APM? /s
7. 187.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   I know what eBPF is, but what is Pixie? A single sentence describing Pixie wouid be useful. In general, academic rule applies: Never write an article without defining terms beforehand.
8. 188.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   Isn't your "that turned out to be too hard" one of the answers? People tend to think about machine vision in perfect conditions. This is the problem , me thinks. In practice, you will get a lens flare in most important cas
9. 189.▲
   by alfanick 6y ago

   That’s the simulation we’re living in!
10. 190.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    For sure now (or ever) is not a good time to take a random advice from random strangers in the Internet.
11. 191.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    Missing "References" section, the formatting of your paper could also be improved. /s
12. 192.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    This article is very biased: the author clearly loves high torque that move to electric motor gives by default. Mazda did something very smart here - emulate current days experience, so presumably ordinary people swap to ordinary EV, becaus
13. 193.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    All of them if any external party has access to that "only thing running".
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    by alfanick 7y ago

    Americans tend to call artificial structures with names usually associated with more natural structures: they have a lot of “parks” in their cities, which usually end up being just a concrete avenue with a few trees in it (still infinite pr
15. 195.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    Also to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros
16. 196.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    7x "How can I deliver a better user experience with asynchronous operations?" sign-up form, impressive!
17. 197.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    You cannot buy Afterburner for a PC, but solutions like this exist in PC world for ages - hardware video encoders/decoders [0], not enough? FPGAs on PCIe are also here for ages [1,2]. Apple is great at reinventing the idea (and providi
18. 198.▲
    by alfanick 7y ago

    Another inspiration: DNS for searching. What if we implement DNS-like protocol for searching. Think of recursive DNS. Do you have "articles about pistachio coloured usb-c chargers"? Home router says nope, ISP says nope, Cloudflare
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    by alfanick 7y ago

    I see a lot of good comments here, I got inspired to write this: What if this new Internet instead of using URI based on ownership (domains that belong to someone), would rely on topic? In examples: netv2://speakers/reviews&#
20. 200.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    -ENOSOURCE
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    by alfanick 8y ago

    > I never used MailChimp but if I did then I would assume that the mailing lists I built with their service would be 99.999% secure, and that I'd always be able to access it even if they went out of business. You're saying you
22. 202.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    -ENOACCESS [0], failure at implementing GDPR... [0]: https://geoscripts.meredith.services/public/html/no-access.h...
23. 203.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    > I'd be curious what type of business would be attractive to you . Businesses that create value in physical world with stuff customers can touch i.e.: architecture, civil engineering, car companies or even weapon industry for sake
24. 204.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    That's the context I was missing :) [my initial comment now also applies to LYV]
25. 205.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    Yeah, of course companies are for-profit. I struggle to see how selling tickets should cover return for investors, return for shareholders, employee salaries and fancy offices?
26. 206.▲
    by alfanick 8y ago

    I am pretty much sure linking [0] would be a better idea. Most of community has no idea what is Luna and why 1.4 version is anyhow important. [0]: https://www.luna-lang.org
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    by alfanick 8y ago

    > Java was going to be the universal systems language My heart stopped here for a while [0]. Are there any papers on Java as system language? I'd love to read more - as embedded developer, this really is out of my scope. [0]: don&#x
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    by alfanick 9y ago

    I simply may be wrong :) There is other AVX related thing [0] - CPU is underclocked in Turbo when AVX is used. [0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd...
29. 209.▲
    by alfanick 9y ago

    I always miss multithreaded benchmarks when using SSE/AVX instructions. AFAIK AVX processing units are oversubscribed, there are less of them than CPU cores. I can imagine that running AVX is_sorted (or any other AVX procedure) in mult
30. 210.▲
    by alfanick 9y ago

    Can we get asm/bytecode instead of C intrinsic? It's easier to reason about, without spawning actual compiler.