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by deaddodo 2y ago
> Different x86 micro-architectures benefit from writing the machine code in slightly different ways. Games are highly optimized to the specific micro-architecture of the console, so keeping that stable helps game developers optimize for
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by deaddodo 2y ago
That's not a counterpoint, that's a list of examples of exactly what they're saying. They're not saying make the best product possible, they're saying make the product that sells the most despite quality.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
The web app doesn't do 60% of what the app does, which is already barely anything.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Instagram's web app drains my computer's battery / knocks it into performance mode. It's obscene for a basic messaging and photo gallery site.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> Been using Windows since 3.1, my dude. I know Windows like the back of my hands. As have I. Congrats, your anecdote is now useless as a point of authority.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Then you shouldn't be discussing, with authority, a topic you have no understanding/knowledge of. Pretty simple.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> Fallback drivers existed, because how else would Safe Mode drive the video card so you can see something to operate the borked computer? If you use "fallback" in a colloquial sense, yes the VESA/VGA driver that Windows &
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Safe Mode existed in Win9x. User space drivers that could restart without kernel panicking didn't exist until Windows Vista (well, on the home user side of Windows). Fallback drivers were never a thing on Win9x, you would have to go in
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Well, by "immediate" they mean: "was user space through Win2k, went to kernel space in XP to match 9x performance, reversed in Vista". So...one generation, and about 7 years later.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I wouldn't bother with this one. Typical wannabe Facebook/Google/etc interview process without actually understanding the point of those companies' interview processes. You'll get a leetcode/coderbyte question.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Is there a 30% improvement in Time-to-Degradation from bad voltage management?
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Not to mention the whole "record a video of you begging us for a job". I have no doubt that the first email (if they've deigned you worthy of their attention) will be "do this technical challenge and, if you pass, we&#x2
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Ok
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by deaddodo 2y ago
"Commodity" meaning "something that could be bought at the store".
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> However, the PS2's GS RAM clocked in at 48GB/s, more than the external memory bandwidth of the Cell (~25GB/s), which meant that PS3 emulation of PS2 games was actually done with embedded PS2 hardware. That's kinda o
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> the name simply originates with Nigeria Maybe ingest the entire comment you're replying to first. Especially if you're simply going to agree with me in the very next point: > though the term has become more general with
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by deaddodo 2y ago
.net Core doesn't supply WinForms, but WPF is the far more common paradigm for Windows apps now. WPF is supported by projects like Avalonia on Linux. There are also a few other major alternative UI toolkits, more commonly used by cross
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> I did some looking at freebsd-update, and it's quite the shell script, which makes it daunting to consider changing. All the forking and whatever doesn't seem great; using data structures should be a lot simpler! It doesn&#x2
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Newer models, the case will make a ping sound when you tap on it.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> Much like how "419" or "Nigerian prince" refers to scams coming out of a specific region. 419 refers more to a type of scam than a region. In some ways, it's almost synonymous with "online scam" these
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> It's called sovereignty. What NZ is doing here is saying that it's the US's bitch. Oh, gotcha. You're a child. You could have just lead with that.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> What, the US now has jurisdiction over every living person? Anyone can be accused and tried in the US despite never having set foot there? If they choose to operate in/through that country, yes. If he never illegally hosted anythi
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Facebook wasn't created with the primary intention of hosting illicit material (Kim Dotcom actively made statements along those lines) and doesn't facilitate + protect the hosting of such materials. You can be damn sure that if
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> I may be misremembering, but I think it was because megaupload.com was registered as a .COM, and the .COM top level domain is owned by Verisign, an American company, and therefore the US has jurisdiction over it. You are definitely mi
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by deaddodo 2y ago
The "IBM PC" was a category of machines, not a model. Many of which had advanced processors with MMUs and 16-bit support: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_Personal_Compute... If what you're
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> and Microsoft (ironically) seems to put some effort into ensuring their tools works across all the 3 major browser engines I don't know why that's ironic. The Microsoft web teams have always had a focus on being fairly standa
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> which due to trademark conflicts got renamed to Firefox that we all know today. There wasn't a trademark issue, the Mozilla team opted to change the name out of respect for the other OSS project (Firebird SQL).
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by deaddodo 2y ago
No, I said it had consistent behavior to the compiler . You seem to think I'm saying "undefined behavior means nothing, ignore it"; when what I'm actually saying is "undefined behavior doesn't mean the comp
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> This is dead wrong, and a very dangerous mindset. It's "dead wrong" that compilers independently choose to define undefined behavior? Oh, ok; I guess I must just be a stellar programmer to never have received the dreaded
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by deaddodo 2y ago
That has zero effect on how that data gets to said gun. Doing so at 15khz/480i maximum is intrinsically less fidelity than up to 31khz/480p. In other words: you can send me literal ASCII characters at 1ch/s. 60ch/s via t

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