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961.
by djmips 2y ago
Nit to the author. Decimal point. Decimal digits. Actually binary point and binary digits.
962.
by djmips 2y ago
Here's a video that just dropped that's starting at very approachable first principles, coding as they go. It's is also entertaining and they promise to continue with the series which I look forward too. The code will be shar
963.
by djmips 2y ago
What about the simulated acceleration on the body by tipping the sim rig? That's going to be a tall ask in a real car sitting still.
964.
by djmips 2y ago
How can trial terms be enforced in perpetuity!? And the park and restaurant has nothing to do with Disney+ Streaming.
965.
by djmips 2y ago
This looks very much like someone adding performance instructions and only paying attention to performance at the expense of security. Likely an oversight rather than malicious intent.
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by djmips 2y ago
I don't really like the production values / content is these channels and don't watch them. I don't know but maybe they are at the mercy of the 'algorithm' and huge ambition. The channels I do watch seem more s
967.
by djmips 2y ago
I feel like you don't understand the word ethics the same way I do.
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by djmips 2y ago
Harry Daghlian dropped a neutron deflector in the first incident, Slotin allowed two halves to come together AFAIK.
969.
by djmips 2y ago
Does anyone know if there's a legitmate concern for mutating bacterium in this artificial way that could accidentally create a bacterium that is in some way dangerous for the environment?
970.
by djmips 2y ago
Yeah it was a bit annoying they didn't mention luck in the opening of this article. That being said, work ethic and a some inoculation against nihilism are necessary ingredients.
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by djmips 2y ago
I agree. It's also quite humbling which I think is a good thing.
972.
by djmips 2y ago
Dock with USB-C power input, x4 GCC controller ports, composite/component video output, & stereo audio output
973.
by djmips 2y ago
Everyone who read this 'mistake' knew what they meant. And it's not particularly crucial to the main story.
974.
by djmips 2y ago
In Canada where I live, public parks, which there are fairly numerous have public restrooms, however they started closing them after dark and in the city itself many of the places you used to be able to go without a problem like stores have
975.
by djmips 2y ago
So average people from the 2000s care about John Napier and his treaty on logarithms? Or even just logarithms?
976.
by djmips 2y ago
One thought I always had about reviving prehistoric animals is that I feel we've come to understand that animals live in a symbiotic relationship with microorganisms. Some even have specialized diets. Then there's the so called ep
977.
by djmips 2y ago
It's true - for example for Chrome built in Google image search gets used way more than the old way of copying and pasting an image to another tab.
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by djmips 2y ago
Competition should be a good thing right?
979.
by djmips 2y ago
Interestingly you can find a lot of good tips in the optimization section of 'Realtime Collision Detection ' https://realtimecollisiondetection.net/
980.
by djmips 2y ago
Jokes are funny.
981.
by djmips 2y ago
Well it's not funny so it's hard to read as a joke.
982.
by djmips 2y ago
Halted was like my Disneyland.
983.
by djmips 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of Boeing aquiring McDonnell Douglas.
984.
by djmips 2y ago
I use Nvidia's Broadcast tool to do it locally on my GPU in realtime. It works fairly well and has made some older videos, especially courses or presentations at conferences satisfactory to watch but I agree it would be great if YouTub
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by djmips 2y ago
"The Soul of a New Machine" is not so much a foundational book but a snapshot of the computer industry and might be more interesting to someone who had no idea of the industry as I did when it was published in 1981. For me it was
986.
by djmips 2y ago
Back in the nineties, 3DFX had a synthetic rendering benchmark that relied on keeping the entire benchmark in L1 but the secret was taking over the entire machine so that no interrupt or other mechanism could pollute the cache.
987.
by djmips 2y ago
The Mobile lead and gaining ground for higher end gaming are aligned in many areas so you have to do both.
988.
by djmips 2y ago
Same but for computers. As a child I got the engineering books for the 6502 from my father ( he was a power engineer).and they were like a foreign language. But I persisted and read them over and over like I was trying to decode an ancient
989.
by djmips 2y ago
If some of the optimization gain is from bad alignment of potentially fused operations that can't because they straddle a 64 byte cache boundary, it feels like this is something the compiler should be aware of and mitigating.
990.
by djmips 2y ago
And how do you know that?

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