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by corysama 5y ago
How cheap does storage have to get before people stop bothering to use FLAC? By my calculations, $65 will buy you a 4TB hard drive which can hold over 6,000 hours of uncompressed CD quality PCM. With FLAC you might squeeze 9,000-12,000 hou
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by corysama 5y ago
https://www.livescience.com/beards-protect-face-punches.html
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by corysama 5y ago
My limited understanding is that the CPUs have two most-common interfaces to the rest of the system: 1) Reading and writing to memory addresses in such a way as to be interpreted by the memory controller to forward those actions to/fro
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by corysama 5y ago
This comes up over and over. It's great. But, the 75% of useful content comes after 25% of diving way too deep into the details of the electrical engineering. "Every programmer" should know the orders of magnitude of cache
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by corysama 5y ago
If you think Stacker was cool, check out the details of the compression algo that underlied SoftRAM95 ;) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
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by corysama 5y ago
If you like videos like this, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
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by corysama 5y ago
Microsoft Pix has been able to debug shaders for nearly twenty years.
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by corysama 5y ago
http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ has had ASCII-art-as-vector-image features for quite some time now. It's in need of a good editor, though.
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by corysama 5y ago
If you ever need a reminder, just watch this great video about V-Ray and bank heists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9rgG2vPAvQ
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by corysama 5y ago
They'd like this over in https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/
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by corysama 5y ago
Phil Tippett just finished a full-length, 100% stop-motion movie https://www.madgodmovie.com/
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by corysama 5y ago
They’re pretty widely available. If you are lucky you can even find them in the few remaining American book store chains. The publisher has an online store https://nostarch.com/ But, it looks like it’s getting hugged to dea
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by corysama 5y ago
I'll vouch for the Manga Guide to Databases. It's a solid first introduction wrapped up in a silly little story about a princess and a fairy. Read numerous 5-star Amazon reviews for more.
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by corysama 5y ago
Great article. The references at the bottom of the doc are all great as well!
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by corysama 5y ago
Hey spenczar5, https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ would like this a lot :)
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by corysama 5y ago
Does anyone know if using Dhall to generate JSON that is validated using Cue a sensical idea? I don't know enough about them to be sure.
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by corysama 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ would appreciate this.
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by corysama 5y ago
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/the-fourth-dimension/id5042017... https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2912766/the-fourth-dimens...
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by corysama 5y ago
I crossed paths with someone who joined ND around the time they were purchased by Sony. According to him, Sony told them "You will be working with other Sony companies. They will not be using GOAL. Switch to C++."
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by corysama 5y ago
OP also posted https://blog.jakspeedruns.com/opengoal-project-update-septem... a while back. It has a section on "How is this possible?"
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by corysama 5y ago
There was a paper a few years back that came down to "Given a large enough active address space and a random enough access pattern, randomly accessing N addresses becomes an O(N log N) operation in practice because of TLB cache hierarc
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by corysama 5y ago
Anyone who sucks at algebra and has a low grind tolerance should try https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-12 It’s very well made. And, it’s designed for 12 year olds. So, adults can usually manage to keep up.
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by corysama 5y ago
I've checked the code under the hood of SDL and it does pretty much the best you can do for fast uploads of an image from the CPU to the GPU. My CPU-based ray tracer uses the code I linked. SDL_LockTexture, go wide with threads writin
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by corysama 5y ago
“Minimal code to put pixels on the screen?” is a question I’ve seen often enough that I’ve made a little gist to link whenever it comes up. https://gist.github.com/CoryBloyd/6725bb78323bb1157ff8d4175d... It requires
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by corysama 5y ago
Saturn support is in progress for FPGA gaming. Not the real thing. But, a good second place fallback plan. https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/pmw6ld/saturn_m...
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by corysama 5y ago
I’ve been working on a tool to do this based on a simple Python file watcher, web server and https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ It just turns regular code into markdown code blocks and /** comment contents pass
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by corysama 5y ago
I think QOI inspired the creation of https://github.com/richgel999/fpng which creates standard PNGs and compares itself directly to QOI.
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by corysama 5y ago
The way it is promoted is a bunch of people in a room. But, I've done something similar using VSCode Live Share and Live Share Audio and it worked well.
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by corysama 5y ago
If you can do long stretches of solitary work without needing to ask questions of anyone else, do that! But, I often work on features that require the knowledge and input of many people. I lose a lot of time getting blocked on simple thing
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by corysama 5y ago
Two Minute Papers https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg

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