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The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb (2009)(skytopia.com)
2 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 5y ago
> You cannot really force the vendors to ship open source drivers for your OS. But currently, mobile SoC vendors _are_ shipping open source drivers. They must release the source code of kernel-mode drivers in compliance with the GPL. The
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by codewiz 5y ago
Multiple comments seem to imply the Millenium Bridge has some really egregious design flaw. So I'm curious: what is it?
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GTK 4.4(blog.gtk.org)
3 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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Freedesktop SDK(freedesktop-sdk.io)
2 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 5y ago
The IARC process is only necessary when Google might own copyright in the first place (those gray areas I mentioned earlier). I went through the IARC process 2 years ago for a startup I was about to found in Tokyo, and obtaining clearance w
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JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0(github.com)
134 points by codewiz 5y ago|101 comments
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How does Boston Dynamics' Atlas work? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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Boston Dynamics shows how bipedal Atlas robot flips, vaults, and falls over(theverge.com)
2 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 5y ago
This isn't correct: if a Googler writes some code from scratch, which is unrelated to their work, on their personal time, and using their personal laptop... then it's definitely not owned by Google. There could be gray areas where
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by codewiz 5y ago
If you like Gmail's thread view, try the Conversations add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail...
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by codewiz 5y ago
More importantly, why can't Thunderbird and Firefox just integrate with GNOME Keyring / KDE Wallet to retrieve the m...primary password without prompting the user on startup?
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by codewiz 5y ago
Scott Manley's explanation of the ISS accident also introduces quaternions as a coordinate system for objects in space that solves the gimbal lock problem and has other desirable algebraic properties: https://www.youtube.com
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by codewiz 5y ago
Release notes: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a094...
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Unhyped Comparison of Blockchain Platforms(medium.com)
2 points by codewiz 5y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 5y ago
> You vacation days are also reduced by 20%, a typical figure would amount to being deprived of another week of paid time off. When you need only 4 days of vacation to take one week off, 20 paid vacation days will let you go on vacation
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by codewiz 5y ago
This decision came from the GCC Steering Committee, which has nothing to do with the FSF. The history of GCC includes a dark period in which version control wasn't public, and the project was dumping release tarballs on the GNU ftp ser
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by codewiz 5y ago
Some rationale against ssize_t is given here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p122...
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by codewiz 5y ago
The efficiency of the hashing algorithm is irrelevant in Bitcoin, because the difficulty of finding a new block auto-adjusts to keep new blocks coming at a fixed 10-minutes interval. If hashing gets faster, miners will just hash more, until
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by codewiz 5y ago
Transaction volume might also increase slightly with a number of planned improvements: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/taproot-coming-what-it... The Taproot upgrade is already in the process of being rolled out t
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by codewiz 5y ago
I misspoke: transaction demand pushes fees up.
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X1 Carbon Gen 9: Lenovo has to be careful with the ThinkPad keyboard(notebookcheck.net)
22 points by codewiz 5y ago|4 comments
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by codewiz 5y ago
Transaction fees are also paid to miners, and transaction volume pushes fees up. This is entirely by design. Satoshi's original Bitcoin whitepaper reads: "Once a predetermined number of coins have entered circulation, the incentiv
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by codewiz 5y ago
window.botguard on google.com could very well be a way to detect bots running WebDriver to impersonate humans. Since WebDriver is headless, there would be detectable differences in WebGL support. This would also explain why the code is &quo
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by codewiz 5y ago
I found the source code: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic It's just an extension for gnome-shell 3.38. So not a fork, but it might still delay them in upgrading to GNOME40.
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by codewiz 5y ago
Is this yet another GNOME3 fork? Please don't contribute to the fragmentation of the Linux desktop, seriously. I'm primarily a KDE user, but I'd rather see all distros ship vanilla GNOME than the inconsistent mess we have tod
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by codewiz 6y ago
Project Treble is already fully supported by Qualcomm and other SoC vendors, that's not the issue. The issue is that Treble simply shifts the compatibility issues from on from one layer (kernel) to another (Android HAL). There's s
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by codewiz 6y ago
> It's not just Qualcomm it's closed source driver blobs in general. To be precise, Qualcomm's Linux drivers are GPL'd like the rest of the kernel. Drivers often come with firmware blobs and proprietary binaries in us
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Live: Starship SN11 Flight Test(youtube.com)
1 points by codewiz 6y ago|0 comments
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My Engineering Philosophy(west.io)
2 points by codewiz 6y ago|1 comments

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