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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/zwiaK
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by gary_0 2y ago
The explanation of how it works sounds like hand-wavy technobabble from a bad sci-fi thriller. Micro-radar metasurfaces? Amazing that it's actually a real thing.
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by gary_0 2y ago
That's an interesting point, although wire(ish) mediums have pretty strict limitations until you introduce a packet-switched peer-to-peer architecture, at which point you arguably get a very different situation (and different market dy
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by gary_0 2y ago
You're both right: - The FCC's founding mission is to safeguard telecommunications mediums as a commons, to the benefit of the public -- a good fit for the Internet. - The FCC is functionally a bureaucracy that grants licenses to
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yep. A good chunk of desktop Linux is thanks to paid Red Hat developers contributing to projects like GNOME. Valve pays for a good deal of Linux's graphics-related userspace code. And another chunk of paid work is handled by non-profit
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by gary_0 2y ago
> a bulwark against enshittification and all computing freedom being taken away from individuals I'd like to believe that, but I can't help but think that if Microsoft really wanted to lock all PC hardware so that it could only
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by gary_0 2y ago
Android apps are the same way; most of the apps I use each have somewhat different look and feel. And people are also used to web apps, which vary widely. The web has no standard UI toolkit.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> I don’t think this article is written very charitably It definitely isn't, but honestly Linux could use more of a drill-sergeant treatment. It's either that or we keep doting on our little pet OS and give up on the idea of de
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by gary_0 2y ago
Specifically, Carmack exploited the fact that on the Pentium, integer instructions could run in parallel with floating-point division[0]. This goes to show that an optimization that usually gets you ~10% might get you 200% depending on what
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by gary_0 2y ago
The keyboard might add quite a bit to the cost, I'm seeing around $25 minimum for a set of MX compatible switches.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I believe they offered Elon shares in return for the initial donation, and he turned them down because he didn't want a few billion worth of OpenAI, he wanted total executive control. But we're all kind of arguing over which demon
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by gary_0 2y ago
> the mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity Formerly known as "do no evil". I'm not buying it at all this time around.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I was curious if instead of a dedicated lossless codec you could just encode with Opus plus the (compressed) bit difference from the original data. Google sent me to this informative HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by gary_0 2y ago
Depending on who you ask, binning is segmentation. Generally demand isn't going to exactly match how the yields work out, so companies often take a bunch of perfectly good high-end chips, nerf them, and throw them in the cheapo versi
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by gary_0 2y ago
So many devs are too young to remember a time before you would expect to just download some open source and compile it for x86/amd64/arm/emscripten/etc and be good to go. In the old days, if you didn't want to write
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by gary_0 2y ago
Here's the video he's referencing of the 20-year-old computer where Visual Studio is instantaneous: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U?t=2163
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by gary_0 2y ago
The lab-leak issue is missing the bigger picture. The question we should be contemplating is if, the next time a country like China becomes ground zero for the spread of a novel pathogen, they will be fully cooperative and transparent with
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by gary_0 2y ago
Gamma correction is pretty commonly understood in computer graphics these days. If you want to know the details, here are some links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction https://learnopengl.com&#x
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/xZdK7
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Texas's Battery Storage [video](youtube.com)
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/eGQHa
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by gary_0 2y ago
My impression was just that it was the cleanest way for her to map things on top of the existing kernel structures (which are probably tree-ish). And I highly doubt that there are any actual issues with this aspect of her design; it was jus
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by gary_0 2y ago
In addition to that, I feel like pointing out that destructors generally compile down to nothing. I have mostly only seen issues with "heavy destructors" in old-school C++ code where you have lots of small allocations and complica
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by gary_0 2y ago
Clicking the Reader Mode icon in the Firefox URL bar worked perfectly for me, the page was fully boring-ified while leaving the main content intact.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> I'm going for a 90's theme You succeeded. I was transported back to better times. I'll take that genuine Old Web energy over a Substack or Reddit post any day. Thanks for being yourself and not just another drone. <3
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by gary_0 2y ago
That page doesn't work on mobile, the code is covered up by the menu.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn’t comply, it faces fines of $43,000 per day. That's 0.016% of their income, if anyone was curious.
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by gary_0 2y ago
"Accident" is hyperbole, but IIRC Go evolved out of Google's internal high-performance HTTP server tooling, so they didn't initially set out to create a general-purpose programming language.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I was just about to suggest doctest, you beat me to it! I'm all about faster compile times, and it was mostly a drop-in replacement for catch2 in my case. Also, IMO, both doctest and catch2 are far superior to Google Test.
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by gary_0 2y ago
The last time I was forced to deal with such a proprietary SDK (that required an ancient Windows C++ runtime, and segfaulted like crazy, natch), rather than waste months reverse-engineering it, I wrapped it in a separate process and talked

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