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by berkut 5y ago
As someone with 20 years of C++ experience, in industries from everything from real-time systems through to low-level HPC graphics on CPU/GPU (currently in VFX), I really don't understand the hatred for OO programming, and I must
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by berkut 5y ago
A reddit comment I saw last week mentioned it could be just the flock/murmuration were trying to get away from a predator and flew lower, and the ones at the bottom didn't have much luck and hit the ground. Would at least make sen
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by berkut 5y ago
Possible things like documents, larger key files (4Kb). I'm using KeePassX currently and yes, it does store files technically, but the user-friendly-ness of it leaves a lot to be desired. I know there are likely better options, but I&#
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by berkut 5y ago
Much as I'm trying to use Linux on a Thinkpad, I much prefer MacOS on a MacBook Pro unfortunately (battery life, things "just work"), but I use Linux on my main desktop workstation. So unfortunately I need fairly native and e
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by berkut 5y ago
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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Ask HN: "Best” cross-platform disk encryption software to use?
16 points by berkut 5y ago|13 comments
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by berkut 5y ago
It's a noun in CG/VFX. "Can we change the Fresnel to get less reflection?" "No, it's a physically-based renderer - change the IOR" "but, that'll change the refraction angle..." "Yep, sp
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by berkut 5y ago
I seem to remember dang saying that flagged items were anonymous? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, as clearly they can't be if they're stored somewhere on a per-user basis...
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by berkut 5y ago
Very likely... Unless they're South African :)
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by berkut 5y ago
Given the low resolution and thus lack of detail, it's as close to an F16 Cranked Arrow shape as it is to a Draken IMO... And the size of an F-16 and Draken are very similar, so if the size estimates are wrong, it could as easily be an
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by berkut 5y ago
Assuming the size estimates are accurate in the article, the Draken is smaller than the mystery aircraft... Draken: 15.35 metres long, 9.42 metres wide. Mystery aircraft: 19.8 metres long, 15.2 metres wide.
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by berkut 5y ago
Whilst there is some SEO repetition in the article, there's also a lot more information in there than your "summary", including some of the pros and cons of each and actual descriptions of the different designs.
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by berkut 5y ago
Do you mean "github.com" or Atom their editor? Yeah, sure Rich Editors support the "basics" of diffing, but for complex (i.e. 3-way) merges, I find them pretty limiting: stuff like Beyond Compare, p4diff are more useful
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by berkut 5y ago
It's not just editors/IDEs though... Which diff/merge tools support language servers currently? i.e. how do you thoroughly code-review changes without switching between a decent diff program and an IDE continually?
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by berkut 5y ago
Yep, and read-ability: it's more obvious at a glance where early-exits are.
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by berkut 5y ago
Out of interest, is there actually any evidence that patents are preventing developments in this area?
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by berkut 5y ago
I've read it's multiple concerns: https://www.faa.gov/5g https://www.airlines.org/5g-frequently-asked-questions/ In Europe, the power output seems to be ~2.5 time lower, there's a bigger
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by berkut 5y ago
Battery life when using the EVF (vs viewfinder in SLR) seems to be the only downside currently with Canon (I think Sony's is better). Hopefully over time this will improve.
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by berkut 5y ago
Not undefined behaviour, but you can get "false sharing" where data from structs/member variables ends up in particular cache lines depending on their address (and the -way of the caches of the processors). Depending on the a
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, quite often in HPC you very much do want to be able to control the alignment and packing (even though it's annoying to do), because you'll get caching issues otherwise, depending on the access patterns and size of the data
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by berkut 5y ago
Even on set for static reference images (i.e. to capture lighting for light extraction, and colourchart and grey/reflect ball for matching set to the shot footage and colour correction) it mostly seems to have been Canon EOS 5Ds (II -&
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by berkut 5y ago
I personally wouldn't want to put possible key disclosure laws to the test in this situation. With post mail I'd imagine that scenario is somewhat timing-critical, whereas I'm not sure how feasible it is to delete things if t
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, it may just be me, but I was looking into WebDriver crates yesterday to try and control browser engines, and there are non-async ones, but async ones seem more common (at least in terms of blog posts talking about them). The example
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by berkut 5y ago
Anandtech had a review of it here (and a 2-socket system) against Xeons and EPYCs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-re...
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by berkut 5y ago
Can be closer to 40% in my experience with Intel when things are memory/cache bound (i.e. one thread is regularly stalled waiting for data), and I've seen above 55% in some cases with AMD's Zen microarch's SMT (Zen3).
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by berkut 5y ago
Wait, what? Pretty much everything for indices (at least in the stdlib) seems to be 'usize' in my experience (i.e. Vec), which is unsigned. Am I missing something?
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by berkut 5y ago
I'm not talking about code performance, I'm talking about human time of having to step through extra things while using a debugger to work out what's going on.
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by berkut 5y ago
I've hit the 2147483647 limit of indices occasionally in VFX/Graphics with large datasets: memory efficiency was also important, so 32-bit was a necessity (random access is required, so can't dynamically pack), so I tend to u
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by berkut 5y ago
Yeah, in Firefox, I can't seem to drag anything leftwards to the first two columns (third and onwards does work), I have to move those first two columns out to the right instead and shuffle them around...
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by berkut 5y ago
Quite often (at least in HPC) you equally care about correctness AND complexity/memory-usage and performance: there's no point being fast if the result's wrong, but equally, there's often no point being correct if the re

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