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by anyfoo 4y ago
It's worth nothing though, that that likely wasn't much of a consideration at all at the time. Networks for one were barely a thing, at least on systems so tiny that they'd use an 8086. And even when they were, they tended to
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by anyfoo 4y ago
> TLS does a good job at this, and I'm not assuming it's compromised. But it's complex to setup correctly TLS has nothing to do with it. TLS is transport security, which is relatively useless for preventing the service pro
933.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Meh, I obviously can't say anything definitively without hard proofs, but to me it feels similar to how P != NP is assumed to be true. As in, one can dream, but don't get your hopes up that we will even ever find out if the boring
934.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> I was specifically talking about _online_ password managers [...] considering the clients are web browsers Is that an actual thing?! I'm only familiar with password managers that use the Internet to synchronize, i.e. it's sti
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by anyfoo 4y ago
Yeah, and I also have to say that my "looks better" likely only applies to seeing a small part of the image magnified to an intense amount, not when viewing the image the part comes from itself. Still, I thought it was a neat demo
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by anyfoo 4y ago
Definitely! I was explicitly talking about things like "AI upscaling". Not simple interpolation (which keeps the image spectrum the same and is effectively just anti-aliasing), for example. To be honest though, the method you link
937.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> Don't gamble with money you can't do without, is what I was trying to convey. That's fair, but my point was that retirements saving are money one "cannot miss" (as in the original comment) or "can't
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by anyfoo 4y ago
Before anyone asks, I do think there is some value to upscaling of old photos and videos, like the popular HD/4k 60fps upscaling of videos from the 1800s: It gives even casual viewers a better sense of what the actual scene, and the
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by anyfoo 4y ago
I thought it was interesting how in the crop comparison, the effective low pass filtering on the worse scan makes it look better to my eyes. Don't get me wrong, the better scan is still much better. The correct way if you want to go fo
940.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That's just making up stuff, though. I don't think only "film purists" scoff at this. Anything that even remotely has the chance to be used for archival purposes must not be upscaled that way. Not only do you effectively
941.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Fair enough. I think anyone who wants to port DOOM to new/old hardware (or old and/or exotic OSs) would not see this as much of a barrier, but maybe thorough documentation would help easy ports to who knows what outside of that.
942.
by anyfoo 4y ago
This is one of those things where if you actually plan to port DOOM, you will figure it out pretty quickly on your own, by just glancing at the actual code. It's pretty common at that level to "just read the source", or to at
943.
by anyfoo 4y ago
But then what? Put it into a money market account where it gets eaten up by inflation?
944.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Ah well. I went to the store page on my iPhone and it just would not add it to the cart, nothing happened. Tried again on my MacBook, and it now says it's out of stock upfront. Guess when I tried to add it previously, it was already fr
945.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I'm tempted to get that. Heavens know I've got enough microcontroller dev boards, FPGAs, and Arduino-like gizmos lying around, but the entirely "self contained" aspect of it kind of speaks to me. Very recently I just wan
946.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Good point, but in audio applications for example, for cross-over filters, bipolar electrolytic caps are common. The “calibration”, if any, may be very simple, though.
947.
by anyfoo 4y ago
For one, electrolytic capacitors can have pretty large tolerance for their initial value. The question then is also whether a fresh cap’s value is closer or further away from the value the old cap initially had compared to what it drifted t
948.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I corrected my text above to read "unreasonably short lifetime" now. In my experience, plenty of products from the 90s and older still seem to work absolutely fine despite their use of electrolytic caps. Yes, some of their paramet
949.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Because of that drama, I remember some people (maybe me included, not sure anymore) actually thinking that electrolytic caps just generally had a pretty bad lifetime, and the need for replacement was just reality for products that were expe
950.
by anyfoo 4y ago
One thing about his videos is that they just contain so many truths put into words. In this video it's, for example: "I know there are many people who know everything about bytes, and then there are people watching this that don
951.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That's a beautiful form of art, somehow. Far away from the only form of art, but it's the kind of art where a) it's very obvious that you have to be extremely proficient in what you are doing (and so the stupid modern art spe
952.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Do you maybe want to tell us how exactly "not compile correctly" manifested?
953.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Wow, I deeply remember seeing these patterns in my relatively early computing days. I think it primarily was in Windows 3.x, back when graphics modes with 16 colors were still normal. It definitely was not Floyd-Steinberg or anything else u
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by anyfoo 4y ago
I don't think rote memorization applies very much here. When I ask the question, we start out open, let the candidate drive, but ask lots of questions along the way, and at certain points get very detailed on aspects that we care about
955.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I have asked this question in interviews before, with focus on low level OS aspects. It depends on whether your made-up OS includes the things we care about. I usually ask the question in an open way, but guide the candidate to "fast
956.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> instead of the 6502 that has shorter instructions and a lower clock frequency. The 6502 is a simpler CPU, 8 bit wide with less registers and less instructions. It uses a PLA instead of microcode, presumably because it still could get a
957.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That's not my experience. Granted, I've only relatively recently reached staff level, but I've been working with other staff engineers (and higher) for a rather long time, including through some re-structuring. Their role see
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by anyfoo 4y ago
True. There were the "passive" icons the article means in Program Manager, but there were also the "active" icons you mean on the Windows desktop itself. They may be easy to overlook however, because the desktop was much
959.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I'm afraid of asking, does that actually exist like that? I'm so used to quickly hitting the shiny centered hazard lights button in my car when e.g. the freeway situation suddenly changes, e.g. as a signal that I had too slow down
960.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I'm glad this testing is happening, even if my (like apparently a lot of people's) initial reaction was along the lines of "duh, no shit sherlock, way to state the obvious". Tests that confirm in general what people were

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