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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> Not sure about legalities, but might be cool if Cloudflare or Amazon could help in keeping the resources themselves up Definitely not happening. All of the commercial games in the collection are still copyrighted; some are still being
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> zstd does everything in frames and everything in those frames can be decompressed separately (so you can seek and decompress parts). Bzip2 doesn’t do that. This isn't accurate. 1) Most zstd streams consist of a single frame. The c
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
The biggest savings for a service like GMail are going to be based around deduplication - e.g. if you can recognize that a newsletter went out to a thousand subscribers and store those all as deltas from a "canonical" copy - congr
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Also potentially relevant: in the 00s, the performance gap between gzip and bzip2 wasn't quite as wide - gzip has benefited far more from modern CPU optimizations - and slow networks / small disks made a higher compression ratio m
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
One other redeeming quality that gzip/deflate does have is that its low memory requirements (~32 KB per stream). If you're running on an embedded device, or if you're serving a ton of compressed streams at the same time, this
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
bzip2 is particularly slow because the transform it depends on (BWT2) is "intrinsically slow" - it depends on cache-unfriendly operations with long dependency chains, preventing the CPU from extracting any parallelism: https:&#x2
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> "Gatcha" type games Typically spelled "gacha", although I have to admit that "gotcha" seems apt.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> Do Mac users check and report their SSD wear anywhere? As a data point: I got a 14" MacBook Pro with a 512 GB SSD the first day it was available in 2021, and I've used it daily since then. According to the SMART data ("s
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
I mean, in principle you already can: https://getutm.app/ It doesn't work well - probably not at all for a modern version of Windows - but the tools exist.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
You mean the "candles that drop metal pins every hour" mentioned in the subtitle?
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
I suspect you've never actually tried that. A torch isn't just a bundle of sticks that provides light. It needs to be soaked in liquid fuel to work - like kerosene or wax - and it's a messy, smoky thing even then. It's c
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
In the year 2000, a M1 MacBook Air would have been the world's fastest supercomputer (or second fastest if you had the base model with the 7-core GPU). https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2000/06&#x
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> i can't help but wonder why apple appears to be fully singular in their arm dominance I have to imagine that a big part of it is the company can plan and act as a single unit. The teams building the CPU, the computers which house
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
The early aluminum MacBook systems used a hinged trackpad. The "click" was a physical button under the trackpad, and you couldn't click on the top of the trackpad (because the hinge was on that side). The MacBook Neo is a ret
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Mine as well (well, not in Texas). I have fond memories of building a bunch of simple adventure games with my classmates - it was incredibly easy to learn how to use the authoring tools.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Not quite AppleScript, but its own similar language, HyperTalk. (Some later versions of HyperCard also supported AppleScript, but it was rarely used.)
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
The source code to Chromatron was made available on the game's forum at one point. Here's a copy I saved: https://gist.github.com/duskwuff/513e2b4f38b3db2e060c8611ebf... A couple of helper functions are missi
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
That's definitely a pattern which I've seen in some LLM output, especially when users let a LLM "run away" with an idea and write a lot of text without supervision. The drive to coin names for things feels almost charact
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
This seems like a huge risk factor for users who are at risk for schizophrenia - if someone is using the LLM as an "AI companion", the model is likely to reinforce, or even suggest, illusory connections between events or experienc
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
IIRC, it's well documented that negative instructions tend to be ineffective - possibly through some sort of LLM analogue to the "pink elephant paradox", or simply because the language models are unable to recognize clichés u
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
And that was an extremely common repair on the system - possibly the most common one. Early-2000s laptop hard disks were pretty fragile; one bad fall could easily crash the drive. I think iFixit might also be wrong about the Airport card. I
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
That's from the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky . (Which is also excellent.)
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
It's well understood that external stimuli can trigger mental health issues; for instance, the defining characteristic of PTSD is that it's caused by exposure to a traumatic event or environment. It shouldn't be at all unre
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
"Imperfect" is when your AI model tells the user that there are two Rs in "strawberry", or that they should use glue to keep the cheese from falling off their pizza. Repeatedly encouraging the user to kill themself so th
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Also: they're advertising the degree of improvement ("4x faster"), not an absolute level of performance.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
That's hard to reconcile with actions like issuing DMCA takedowns on videos of the game (or even Discord messages which mention it). If fewer people know a game exists, there's less of a market for copies of it.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
It's part DSP, part thermal modeling. The speakers can be driven pretty hard, but will overheat and fail if too much energy is put into them in too short a time. macOS has a thermal model to keep the speakers within safe limits; a majo
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> I'm struggling to think what it's for then? Placating some users - mainly shared web hosting providers - who still think that disabling functions like system() and exec() is an effective security measure.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
The markings on the part are even more ambiguous. I don't have any great comparison photos, but you can probably find some online.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
I don't know about Pentium, but there's definitely some homebrew 486 projects out there, e.g.: https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php

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