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by derefr 11mo ago
I mean, to take that one step further, if the underlying process-node technology (e.g. EUV) were nationalized, then you an entire nation-state's budget (and ability to get cheap loans) could be thrown at the problem of rapid horizontal
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by derefr 11mo ago
Even better / potentially more surprising: unsigned mult(unsigned x, unsigned y) { unsigned y0 = y; while (x--) y = add_v1(y, y0); return y; } optimizes to: mult(unsigned int, unsigned int):
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by derefr 11mo ago
All of the things you listed are ops topics. But sockets are a programming concept. I would expect a person with 10+ years of Unix sysadmin experience — but who has never programmed directly against any OS APIs, “merely” scripting together
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by derefr 11mo ago
A horizontal-line artifact (not the one depicted in the shader) could totally happen, if you were over-driving a monitor with a higher pixel clock than it was happy with. With this kind of artifact, the two halves of the image would also
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by derefr 11mo ago
Most screens, no. But that one half-dead trash-picked screen that stands out in your memory as emblematic of that time in your life when you were building computers with your own two hands? Certainly.
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by derefr 11mo ago
Pretty sure that any software from after ~2005 that supports image rotation, isn’t doing so at decoding time, but rather is decoding the image into a GPU texture buffer and then rotating the quad that texture gets applied to. Which should a
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by derefr 11mo ago
And for some specific somebody, fixing the problem is their whole job. It’s definitely not my whole job. Maybe not even my job at all (if it’s something I just use as part of a personal hobby.)
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by derefr 11mo ago
I mean... I'm against short-form videos . I'm not against YT shorts, because they (mostly) aren't short-form videos. They're just vertical videos that trick people used to short-form videos into thinking they'l
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by derefr 11mo ago
I mean, it is how my own SO sees/understands this emoji (despite my insistence that that's not "what it means.") I just found out that she uses this emoji that way a few days ago, and then this article reminded me of t
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by derefr 11mo ago
I would suggest you make an exception for YouTube shorts from channels / creators that also put out YouTube long-form content. You'd think I'd be making a point here about "otherwise you'd be missing a lot of good
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by derefr 11mo ago
Interestingly, this seems to be a pattern — in cases where the other providers are depicting an emoji “per the spec” but one provider is doing something unusual, the unusual depiction almost always spreads to fixation among the other provid
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by derefr 11mo ago
Couldn't Apple spend their resources on that? Proton is open-source, and Apple's the one with the incentive to have more "prestige" AAA game devs to parade around during keynotes.
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by derefr 11mo ago
There was also a parallel effort to this end, targeting Android rather than plain Linux, resulting in an app called https://winlator.org/ — which also works quite well at this point. (See e.g. https://www.youtube
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by derefr 11mo ago
Huh, I had just been trying to look into whether there existed a "mini PC but with a GPU in it that's at least as good as the ones in game consoles." (Or, to put that another way: fundamentally, I want a game console — a piec
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by derefr 11mo ago
I have a hypothesis that it was AI, not COVID/sanctions/etc, that was mainly responsible for the 2020-to-ongoing "chip shortage." Ignoring companies with their own fabs (Intel) and companies with pre-existing reserved-ca
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by derefr 11mo ago
I don't think it's baffling; the original band was just Apple making the same kind of fumble that Coke made with New Coke: they assumed that because something is well-received in quick one-time demos, that means that people will a
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by derefr 11mo ago
> The value of what this emits is already handled by evaluating the diffs in the per-file history. I mean, for the initial development/contribution/PR workflow, I agree with you: any code reviewer should be reading the diffs an
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by derefr 1y ago
> This is true, but it's not clear where I'd use this in practice. e.g. if I need to run a complex ETL job, I probably wouldn't do it in pg_cron. Think "tiered storage." See the example under https://g
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by derefr 1y ago
I would think, if anything, it would be for creating a UI for a Godot-native game (after a prototype stage where the UI is Godot-native programmer art); and being able to break off the responsibility for that component to a UI team that can
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by derefr 1y ago
Keep in mind that this check+logic would only come into play within the call to `history.push` or the `window.location.href` setter. It's not "add a browser-default click event listener that shims in special behavior" (whic
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by derefr 1y ago
I wonder why browsers don't intercept JS-triggered navigation (or history.push) events that happen with a click handler on the stack — where it can be determined from the event data of that click handler that the user additionally used
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by derefr 1y ago
My friend, my writing isn't AI slop. It's Adderall slop. AI slop is far more structured. (Also, because I assume this is your issue: em-dash is option-shift-hyphen on US-English Mac keyboard. I've been using them in my writin
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by derefr 1y ago
The price ceiling has little relation to cost, sure. But COGS sets an effective price floor — you'll be revenue-negative unless you do the math to ensure you're charging customers ( especially your largest customers) at lea
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by derefr 1y ago
I didn't make any assertion about AI, only about "AI" (note the quotes in my GP comment) — i.e. the same old machine-learning-based features like super-resolution upscaling, patch-match, etc, that people have been adding to i
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by derefr 1y ago
That being said, my line of argument here would be a bit more compelling if Canva were still charging for the app. The fact that the apps are now free , suggests that they expect the subscriptions to pay not just for the backend-cluster Op
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by derefr 1y ago
To push back against this sentiment: “chasing AI money” isn’t necessarily their thought process here; i.e. it’s not the only reason they would “switch to a freemium model trying to get you to subscribe to AI.” Keeping in mind that: 1. “AI
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by derefr 1y ago
I don't think syntax highlighting is supposed to make any particular things stand out from "the rest" of the code. Every token of code is important at some part of the process; otherwise it wouldn't be there. So ther
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by derefr 1y ago
It sounds like you're describing idle-rich people. Which makes sense. Yeah, if you're "rich" as in "retired", your life is usually pretty mundane. Most such people don't even live in any kind of mansion th
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by derefr 1y ago
I mean, my point was that there are actually three different ways you can spend a lot of money on a fridge, and it's a lot like with PCs. You can buy: • a big ugly powerful repairable/durable industrial one (like a server); • an a
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by derefr 1y ago
> I'm guessing that most rich people do not want the inside of their mansions to appear on a YouTube channel, especially one about mansions. 1. He doesn't film these walk-throughs himself. Real-estate agents film walk-throughs

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