flohofwoe

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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> we were sold on this dream that Europe would become like the United States Sorry but that's just made up bullshit. The EU is not a "United States of Europe", and thinking along that line will ineviatably lead to tons of
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
There's a clearly defined border between the continents Europe and Asia. I guess the confusion comes from thinking of "European" as some sort of cultural identity (which frankly doesn't exist, unless you only look at the
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> USA got the cream of the crop of the managers of the German missile program, while the USSR got the workers That's a bit oversimplified. The Russians got quite a few important scientists and engineers in other areas (aircraft desi
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> Whether they are European is a matter of perspective What? Scandinavia isn't part of Europe now? The "EU" is an organization, "Europe" is a continent. "European" includes everybody living in Europe (a
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Europe is a continent, not a nation.
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
That was just because the Russian's didn't trust "their" Germans as much as the Americans trusted "theirs". Operation Osoaviakhim was mostly about knowledge extraction, not about cooperation. The other differen
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
When did you last encounter or use a linked list ? :) Linked lists fell out of fashion once the cpu/memory latency gap opened up towards the end of the 1990s. For most use cases it's simply better to use a tightly packed array, ev
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Regular linked lists were implicitly 'intrusive' long before C++ existed and introduced 'extrusive' lists in the stdlib.
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Hmm interesting, the doubly linked list presented here is missing the elegant 'overlapped list header' trick from AmigaOS (at least that's where I saw it first): E.g. an AmigaOS list node looks conventional, it has two pointe
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> When a game glitches because of a driver bug, its the game developer that gets the bug reports (and the heat) and often has to isolate the problem to convince the gpu driver-team to fix it. Exactly, and having a Vulkan-only codebase wo
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> There were official native MacOS builds and now there aren't They probably stopped supporting macOS when Apple introduced the notarization bullshit. Can't blame the DF team tbh, macOS is a royal PITA to support (even without
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
If game devs want to reuse their Vulkan code on Apple device, they can use MoltenVk or the more recent KosmicKrisp. > Optimization and bug hunting makes supporting multiple graphics api's a pain. The problems usually lurk in the gra
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
But Munich, Nuremberg, the Baltic Sea etc... are not shown with both their English vs local names either when setting the Google Maps language to English despite the German names being completely different (and the Baltic Sea would need at
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
The rest of the world seeing both names is such a stupid decision. Please spare us from Trumps childish temper tantrums.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Python is just a part of the tech stack, there's also a lot of C/C++ code. How much Python vs C/C++ is hard to say from the outside though, but the parts that have been open-sourced are pretty much all C/C++: https:&#x2
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> If Vulkan was designed to be vendor neutral I wouldn't call Vulkan 'vendor neutral', but instead a collection of more-or-less adhoc design decisions to make Vulkan 1.0 work on specific GPUs that didn't match the AMD
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
A non-native speaker most likely writes more 'understandable' English than the weird convoluted Claude style. FWIW though, you can ask an LLM to write in 'Simplified Technical English' (see: https://www.asd-st
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
You don't need to be a CEO to come to the conclusion that throttling to discourage excessive usage is probably a good idea.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
They could throttle git operations to a level which isn't noticeable by normal 'human' usage but seriously slows down automated usage. These are basically DDOS attacks.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> they're not limiting access to the site or (intentionally) throttling newcomers They can simply throttle access for everyone to a push/merge frequency which was normal for human-maintained projects. They should look at how M
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
It would probably be better to run projects with extremely high commit/merge frequency on a separate "slop infrastructure", basically like MMOs move cheaters to their own servers ;)
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> But hey, microservices and static linking are the future. /s Aren't those two things contradicting each other? ;) I think macOS getting more sluggish in each release (which is objectively true) is just plain old bad software
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
A high refresh rate is only a crutch/workaround to reduce latency caused by too many pipeline stages until an input action shows up on the screen. A better fix is too reduce complexity in the involved software layers.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Tbh, Ubuntu/Kubuntu is fine if you're not a Linux die hard and just need a balanced OS that either feels more like macOS (in that case go for vanilla Ubuntu) or like Windows (in that case go for Kubuntu).
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Plain Kubuntu on an Asus Zenbook OLED 14 laptop looks and feels pretty great compared to both Win11 on the same machine (ok that's not really surprising) or current macOS on an M1 Pro MBP (hardware is pretty old by now ofc). Once you s
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
In German, 10^9 is a 'Milliarde', and a 'Billion' is 10^12. The Wikipedia article has a nice map what countries use which convention (search for "Current Usage"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Apparently it's different between Portugal and Brazil? (e.g. Portugal => long-scale, Brazil => short-scale - but that's just what ChatGPT is telling me). E.g. maybe it's more of a 'Europe-except-UK vs Americas&#x27
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Most likely a typo (fixed by now), but in some (most?) non-English languages billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9, usually the error happens when translating from English though, not into English.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> I don't know why it is not allowing me to reply to you. There's a 10 minute timer on HN to avoid discussions becoming too heated (at least AFAIK that's the reason). > You are essentially asking them to adopt an open-s
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Site is partially broken in Chrome, tons of errors like this: Loading the script 'https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v4513226cdae34746b4dedf0b4dfa099e1781791509496' violates the following

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