exDM69

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by exDM69 10y ago
> What remains is mostly regulatory hurdles, psychological hurdles, and fine tuning. I think this is too optimistic. Self-driving cars only work because they are in the minority. Can you imagine a city full of current state-of-the-art se
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by exDM69 10y ago
Further, the drivers have to be more permissive than necessary. It's not an option for a GPU vendor to ship a driver update that would break Doom/Quake/Dota/etc. Ideally games would ship only shaders that are strictly
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by exDM69 10y ago
Yes, some kind of meet in the middle solution would be nice. For example, Microsoft's official updater keeping the drivers up to date. And by up to date I mean the latest from the GPU vendor and not something a bit older but certified
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by exDM69 10y ago
I understand your opinion as a consumer but it's not a real problem (minor annoyance at most) compared to millions of consumer devices with outdated drivers (with possible security problems). The "experience" thing is option
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by exDM69 10y ago
Buggy shader compilers are no surprise to me but it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed by all GPU vendors. Vulkan and SPIR-V may help a little as the GLSL compiler frontend is moved out of the "driver" component a
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by exDM69 10y ago
The distro package managers like apt or pacman don't really fulfill the same task as development package managers like cargo or npm. The distro package managers try to supply you with a set of end user applications and then provide a c
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by exDM69 10y ago
Two big use cases are building your own compiler in Python and doing some JIT compilation (E.g. regex matcher or similar) to gain some perf. LLVM is fantastic but not everyone wants or can use C++ in their project. I've been doing prot
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by exDM69 10y ago
I was planning a trip too, but all the hotels I looked at were totally booked more than a year ago. Happens with every total solar eclipse. By the time the general public gets interested, all hotels have been booked by space geeks. I scrapp
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by exDM69 10y ago
Weather statistics are more important for choosing viewing locations. The duration of totality doesn't change that much with location. I looked into this, and Oregon has best chance of clear skies.
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by exDM69 10y ago
For actual compute apps, no. But for doing image post processing in games, most AAA games use compute shaders. This might even include (deferred) lighting. This might change with Vulkan since it doesn't need a windowing system (like Op
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by exDM69 10y ago
Measured in install base on desktop/laptop, Intel is much more popular than NVIDIA. Shader compiler bugs are pretty serious, but they should have exploit mitigation. It takes GLSL or SPIR-V as input and emits GPU machine code blobs, th
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by exDM69 10y ago
> Git is full of some of the worst design decisions in modern software history. It's also full of some of the best software design decisions. The internals of Git are simple and elegant and they work like a charm. There have been ve
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by exDM69 10y ago
It is, or at least had been on every distro I've used. I had to explicitly enable it to use gnuplottex. The article shows a default config file where it is enabled for a handful of commands.
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by exDM69 10y ago
> I agree, and I have a question. What do you tell people when you don't use Facebook? "I did not agree with the terms and conditions". Not that I need to be giving an explanation very often.
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by exDM69 10y ago
I don't have a midi controller so it would be nice to have a way to play the notes "live" with the keyboard. And perhaps turn the knobs using number keys or function keys.
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by exDM69 10y ago
Ryoba is the most common type, it's the two sided (rip/cross cut) backless kind. They're really widely available these days - I've seen them in my local big box hardware store. Dozuki is a back saw, with usually fine tee
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by exDM69 10y ago
Very nice. Sounds quite good and works very well. I tested it with Firefox 50 on Linux. No audio issues of any kind. Is there a way to use the keyboard to control the synth and the knobs? I grew up with trackers (and later Jeskola Buzz) and
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by exDM69 10y ago
Email sent! Thanks!
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by exDM69 10y ago
I'm going to be visiting SF/SV for 10 days in a few weeks' time and I'm an avid woodworker. Got any tips where to visit? Any stores where I could pick up some vintage tools or nice materials (like Japanese Shoji paper or
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by exDM69 10y ago
> Do you know about the Japanese saws and their benefits? Yes, I use both, Japanese pull saws and Western "push" saws and both have their good and bad sides. First: Japanese saws work on the pull stroke, Western saws with a pus
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by exDM69 10y ago
One aspect I enjoy about woodworking is that there's no "undo". Or "repeat". When you've spent 10 hours doing joinery on a work piece, you tend to be really careful before sticking your knife, saw or chisel i
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by exDM69 10y ago
A cheaper option would be using a benchtop thickness planer (about $600 for a good one) and use a jack plane to flatten the other side. Ie. flatten one side by hand (doesn't have to be perfect finish, just mostly flat with no twist or
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by exDM69 10y ago
An alternative path would be going with hand tools. Mathias Wandel is a very good wood worker but he tends to use a lot of power tools, not all of which are affordable and they require a ton of space. If you're interested in hand tool
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by exDM69 10y ago
You get a hang of these things by building stuff, as well as looking at works and designs of others. 3/4" (~19mm) plywood is thick enough for most furniture projects. You could use 1" dowel for the legs and attach them by mak
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by exDM69 10y ago
The OP mentions that the spark that caused the outrage they faced was an incident involving their pets. I'm not surprised at all. It's a very incendiary topic because people have very strong opinions about animal wellbeing and a
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by exDM69 10y ago
Yeah, it's not completely out of question that it would blip the throttle, but it's not a very common feature either. I drive an old piece of shit car with a very worn out synchromesh gear (it's a conical brass ring with groo
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by exDM69 10y ago
Are you sure it actually blips the throttle and it's not just the synchromesh gear in the gearbox? There's no need to blip with a synchronized gearbox, which has been the standard in road vehicles since the 1930s or so. Even if it
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by exDM69 10y ago
For this year, the regulations of Formula E were changed to be more flexible and there's more diversity in the drive train. Now there are cars with no transmission and cars with 4 or 5 forward gears. The engines are slightly different
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by exDM69 10y ago
Yes, 3-5x (peak performance) sounds quite reasonable. But 10x is not out of the question under high load for extended amounts of time (like compiling big software) when you take the form factor thermals into account. A laptop like that will
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by exDM69 10y ago
> I understand clockspeed is not something that can be directly compared, where MIPS might be more of an apples-to-apples comparison? There's a joke saying that MIPS is acronym for "Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen&

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