amaranth

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by amaranth 9y ago
Everyday people commute from all over England to London, via train.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Nothing to do with DRM, the old model let extensions modify every part of the browser that could be touched via JavaScript (and since the browser UI itself is made with XUL and JS that's quite a lot of it) and even allowed using C++ to
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by amaranth 9y ago
Your application renders a frame then the compositor gets it and does its transformations, if any. The composited result is then rendered to the screen thus adding one frame of latency. That's why the article says one solution would be
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by amaranth 9y ago
The board Intel shows for their example of space savings is from a MacBook Pro so... yeah, this is for Apple.
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by amaranth 9y ago
They didn't make Radeon into its own company, in fact there are rumors Raja Koduri was butting heads with leadership over a desire to do just that. They split it into a separate group within the company just that's just playing wi
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by amaranth 9y ago
> hybrid graphics support This works with open source drivers, it's only nvidia that is gumming up the works here. With recent drivers it should even be automatically setup, although you still need to set DRI_PRIME=1 when running so
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by amaranth 9y ago
Flood insurance is a government run program that is pretty "socialist" in the sense you seem to be implying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...
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by amaranth 9y ago
A lot of what has changed is more development happening. Pavement doesn't absorb water all that well. When the flood mitigation talked about in this article was put in place the area they chose to flood to handle overflow was undevelop
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by amaranth 9y ago
We had net neutrality from the creation of the internet until 2002, from 2010 until 2014, and from 2015 until now. DSL started out regulated under Title II as a common carrier as an extension of the regulation for the phone network. Common
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by amaranth 9y ago
I don't remember the FOSS world _ever_ working like you seem to think it should. The CADT Model[1] isn't exactly new and it wasn't really new when jwz coined the term either. Only the kernel, POSIX-y things, and enterprise so
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by amaranth 9y ago
Diablo started out as a turn-based game and to change it to real time it seems like they basically just made the turns advance automatically via a game state tick call (20 times a second or whatever) and tweaked how long actions took so it
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by amaranth 9y ago
The major downside of fail2ban is actually that it punishes you for using keys. If you have different keys for different machines and haven't configured your SSH client to pair them up you might attempt to login several times with the
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by amaranth 9y ago
There are people in college or entering the workforce who weren't even alive during the "Java is slow" period. The HotSpot JIT has been around since 1999. I wonder if we'll ever be able to let this go.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Not quite, it's expanded to a 32-bit integer, one codepoint at a time.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Most of those benchmarks are (directly or indirectly) benchmarks of the JavaScript engine. The few that aren't are instead benchmarking the <canvas> implementation or the compositor. The main speedups in Firefox 57 are in styling
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by amaranth 9y ago
Developers were to blame last time too, IE6 was better than everything else and had all the market share so developers didn't target anything else.
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by amaranth 9y ago
I believe those products prohibit doing public benchmarking so even if I had I couldn't tell you the results. :)
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by amaranth 9y ago
No ether, no magic, no extra dimensions, just radiation. Check out http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae175.cfm for an explanation of how it can pass through walls and https://en.wikipedia.org
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by amaranth 9y ago
OpenJDK's AOT compiler, when you also allow it to include the JIT and still recompile hotspots, is about 5% slower than just using the JIT. The only reasons to use it are startup times, ease of distribution (no JVM to ship, sort of), a
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by amaranth 9y ago
Even aside from the argument about production never actually leaving developed countries (only the non-automatable stuff left, the rest is growing faster than ever) this won't really have much benefit. If people in your country are buy
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by amaranth 9y ago
They just patch those out.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Google was a search engine that made money via ads then pivoted into an ad platform that also has a search engine. Android and Chrome are about ensuring they have a seat at the table and don't get pushed out by Apple or Microsoft. The
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by amaranth 9y ago
For now you can use userchrome.css to hide it, can't you?
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by amaranth 9y ago
The internal combustion engine in a car is around 20% efficiency while a coal power plant is around 55%. Gasoline powered drivetrains are also fairly inefficient leading to around 16% "tank to wheel" efficiency. Electric motors ar
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by amaranth 9y ago
You could say the same thing about applying the ADA to a physical store.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Google's answer to this is to (currently) support VP9 and H264. iOS and Safari users just get the inferior quality video.
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by amaranth 9y ago
Rust doesn't have a good persistent collections library, they're hard to do without a GC. On the other hand, the borrow checker makes it easier to deal with shared mutable data so there is less of a need for it.
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by amaranth 10y ago
The libFuzzer website doesn't cite any supported platforms or platform requirements so I think this might just be a matter of someone putting in the effort. The Chromium documentation (where libFuzzer comes from originally) does make i
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by amaranth 10y ago
If they have a stable driver ABI Google can be responsible for the upgrading. They just have to require the OEMs allow them to do so.
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by amaranth 10y ago
htop is nice, sure, but not ctop levels of nice. Aside from the general pretty display and having network details ctop also has a really nice looking expanded view[1] that shows these over time with graphs. [1] https://github.com

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