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by faragon 10y ago
"Hey Alexa, compute my weekly food/things purchase with optimized cost alternatives"... In my opinion, Amazon will be huge, and it is just starting. What worries me the most is that they will have no competition. Amazon is &q
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. I bought back in the day a G4 Mac Mini just for that purpose (running both Linux and OSX) :-)
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by faragon 10y ago
That guy is always doing mindblowing cool stuff. I propose renaming him from Linus Åkesson to Linus Awesome :-)
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by faragon 10y ago
I don't know about the Amiga stuff, but as PowerPC board for running Linux looks great: "The e5500 is a superscalar, dual-issue core with out-of-order execution and in-order completion. It maintains the seven-stage, four-issue p
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by faragon 10y ago
>>"The author's intention is not to create a new library, but ..." I don't know author's intention. Do you? :-) My point was a warning about how bad idea is using platform-specific non-standard APIs. As exerci
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by faragon 10y ago
As curiosity it is great. BTW, if POSIX thread implementation is not good enough in the default C library, it should be revised instead of everyone rewriting stuff for each specific Unix-like flavour. Rationale: Platform-specific goodies ar
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by faragon 10y ago
I've found a video of Overdrive 2 demo running on an emulator [1]. It is curious/interesting how different/broken is in the emulation vs the real hardware. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3AsZp-yTA
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by faragon 10y ago
C is OK: it is not your friend, it is a tool.
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by faragon 10y ago
Gaming AI must be "beatable". "Good" AI is not good for having fun games.
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by faragon 10y ago
TL;DR: protectionism/nationalism 101: shortage because of not willing to import potatoes.
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by faragon 10y ago
In my opinion, it is great having people trying to "memorize" those questions. If they understand them, it would be like one half of formal computer science studies. What is a shame is people graduated from Computer Science univer
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by faragon 10y ago
30, or one Carmack.
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by faragon 10y ago
Why not? E.g. both Samsung and Intel already have that level of vertical integration.
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by faragon 10y ago
Opportunity cost.
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by faragon 10y ago
In my opinion, Apple should buy TSMC (~100 billion) and Qualcomm (~100 billion). It would be a hell of competition for Intel and AMD, now that Moore Law seems to reach its limits.
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by faragon 10y ago
Edge browser is very fast on low-end devices (e.g. Bay Trail Intel Atom), with super smooth scroll, and very responsive UI. Better experience than Chrome and Firefox, on devices with 1GB of RAM.
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by faragon 10y ago
RetroUSB AVS is not a full hardware implementation, but a cartridge reader + software emulation, i.e. you'll have over 30ms delay (16.6ms * 2), because of framebuffer synchronization.
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. Exactly that. If Nintendo puts that FPGA into an ASIC, in volume it could cost less than 20 USD per chip.
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by faragon 10y ago
In my opinion, Nintendo should release a FPGA-based NES/SNES, with low latency joypads, and perfect audio and video (including advanced filters for "clean" and "perfectly distorted" experience). That, plus a "m
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by faragon 10y ago
"New doubts", "people who claim"? That's FUD. Also, glyphosate patents are expired, and can be manufactured without Monsanto permission, e.g. [1]. [1] http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search&#x2
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by faragon 10y ago
Why is not open source?
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by faragon 10y ago
For "pure C" with high level string and dynamic memory handling (with data types in both heap and stack), consider checking https://github.com/faragon/libsrt (not production ready for "NASA-like" th
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by faragon 10y ago
Jean Michel Jarre is a genius.
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. If you require performance, C is the optimal fit, in my opinion.
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by faragon 10y ago
Ugly stuff. In my opinion, plain C is much better (the pain was to program microcontrollers in pure assembly). If you want higher/"safer" level, I would recommend you using Lua, Python, or even Node.js.
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by faragon 10y ago
Few can do real programming work over 30h a week. If you force people, you'll get fake work. Specific individuals can work more, by themselves (challenge, pride, try to show whatever, etc.), but are the exception. And of course, that e
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by faragon 10y ago
Any WikiLeaks leak in that regard about the Russian government? Anyone?
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by faragon 10y ago
Any WikiLeaks leak in that regard about the Russian government?
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by faragon 10y ago
Is this real? :-O
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by faragon 10y ago
Only for short-term. For things over a month of age: key words + web search is faster, at least for me.

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