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by davvid 6y ago
Curious, where did you read the backwards compatibility disclaimer? I couldn't find it, but did find this note: > The different versions are completely compatible, PCF files are exchangeable between Windows/Linux/*nix&#x2
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by davvid 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763593 was discussed recently regarding improving Bluetooth audio quality on Linux. Hopefully someone here finds it helpful.
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by davvid 6y ago
If you have a clone of the dmca repo, run: git config --add remote.origin.fetch 'refs/pull/*:refs/remotes/pull/*' git fetch origin You'll now have all of the PR refs in "remote"
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by davvid 6y ago
The Applied Mathematics program at UCLA (and others I'm sure) have produced many CG researchers under the direction of Joseph Teran. I'm sure there are many other great programs and professors; this is just one that I know about
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by davvid 6y ago
Here's a somewhat related talk from CppCon '19: "The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogqOscJYvk
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by davvid 6y ago
The sharness[1] project originated from the Git project and is a really great and easy way to write tests using shell. Its output is TAP-compatible, so you can use `prove` to verify sharness tests. [1] https://github.com/ch
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by davvid 6y ago
Google threw money at the problem and that didn't help. Lookup the history behind the "Unladen Swallow" project.
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A Project Skeleton for Python Projects(blog.jaraco.com)
2 points by davvid 7y ago|0 comments
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Hubble's New Portrait of Jupiter(nasa.gov)
2 points by davvid 7y ago|0 comments
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by davvid 7y ago
For media files, git-annex [1] is really great. It makes it easy to create redundant backups by cloning the repo on additional devices and using annex to sync the content across all of them from a single worktree. [1] https://gi
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“Problems” with git format-patch(public-inbox.org)
134 points by davvid 8y ago|49 comments
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by davvid 8y ago
It's unfortunate that the solution for an inadequate toolchain is a brand new workflow instead of improving the existing tools/workflows. Python packaging is still a mess in 2019, and Python 2.7 is still alive and dominating. Pyp
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by davvid 8y ago
The part that caught my eye: The teen [...] used VPNs and other tools to try to avoid being traced, but Apple’s systems logged the serial numbers of the MacBooks used to carry out the attacks
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High school student hacks into Apple servers and downloads 90GB of secure files(9to5mac.com)
3 points by davvid 8y ago|1 comments
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by davvid 8y ago
ILM is involved, as is Pixar. Just a guess ~ the press release may have been edited for brevity (like this comment).
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Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’(theverge.com)
442 points by davvid 8y ago|286 comments
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by davvid 9y ago
Gitolite has a fine implementation of locking in Git. http://gitolite.com/gitolite/locking/#locking-binary-files Locking is implemented centrally by gitolite. It would be nice if other services implemented the sa
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by davvid 9y ago
If you're looking for a package manager on Windows, you might be interested in Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/
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by davvid 9y ago
This is the untold story about Nothing Real (the original Shake developers), Apple, Steve Jobs, Disney, and the shake[1] source code... NR developed shake, and when bigger studios started using it, they wanted access to the source code. Di
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by davvid 9y ago
Walt Disney Animation Studios | Interns and Full-time Engineers | Burbank, CA | Onsite | https://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/open-positions If you're still in school and planning your summer, we have some paid
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'iPhone X' confirmed in alleged leak(zdnet.com)
1 points by davvid 9y ago|0 comments
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by davvid 9y ago
These days we have SSE (especially on x64) and its inverse square root (intrinsic: _mm_rsqrt_ss/ps) is faster and more precise.
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These are the technology firms lining up to build the “Extreme Vetting” program(theintercept.com)
2 points by davvid 9y ago|0 comments
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How the creators of Git do branches(medium.com)
3 points by davvid 9y ago|0 comments
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by davvid 10y ago
If you need a version number then a very pragmatic thing to do is to just tag the repo something short and memorable once, e.g. "v1", and then use the output of "git describe --first-parent" as your version number from t
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by davvid 10y ago
One use case I don't see covered is grouping by python versions. Sometimes "soft" dependencies are only available/supported/not-broken on certain python versions. It'd be nice to be able to mark a dependency a
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Schismtracker: an oldschool sample-based music composition tool(github.com)
2 points by davvid 10y ago|1 comments
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Animation Workers Antitrust Litigation(animationlawsuit.com)
2 points by davvid 10y ago|0 comments
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Git Merge 2016 Conference Report(theguardian.com)
2 points by davvid 10y ago|0 comments
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by davvid 10y ago
That does seem simpler. I've run into variants of this problem where each thread/process can potentially produce GBs of data. For that use case performance would suffer if combining were done as a separate step.

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