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by gcp 10y ago
That statement is AFAIK now absent from the JPEG site. On the positive side, it's now old enough that some key patents (e.g. arithmetic coding) have actually expired.
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by gcp 10y ago
Historically browsers for distribution outside the USA were required to be limited to 40-bit crypto. "(About Netscape) The "International Edition" had its effective key lengths reduced to 512 bits and 40 bits respectively (RS
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by gcp 10y ago
Does Facebook have any binding commitment to not be an asshole with patents? (The patent license on things like React.js surely isn't)
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by gcp 10y ago
Aside from what the other reply said: heap allocations do incur management overhead and are prone to things like fragmentation. Stack allocation is literally a single add/sub micro-op.
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by gcp 10y ago
since it results in real-world download reduction and quality improvement for users This is AFAIK really only true for images that can be lossy but which have an alpha channel, so a very specific use case. The whole point of mozjpeg was t
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by gcp 10y ago
Their pricing looks insane? Like an order of magnitude less than DO, OVH, ... Edit: Looks like it's because they're using Atom and ARM based servers.
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by gcp 10y ago
Don't worry tomorrow it will be forgotten and we'll have another thread lamenting that the main problem of today's society is the evil tech giants that promote opinion bubbles.
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by gcp 10y ago
Take a look at the posting history of OP to get an idea.
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by gcp 10y ago
His dib at you is funny in the same way implying all women are gold diggers is funny.
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by gcp 10y ago
The top comment does a good job of explaining the reasoning. That said, since then more browsers (IIRC Safari) have announced that they are adding support, and the use case of lossy images with an alpha channel is important for games. This
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by gcp 10y ago
It's a factual statement, not baiting, to observe that her comment was [flagged] instantly for containing a passing "downvoting" remark, while the original comment is still one of the highest voted comments in this thread. Th
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by gcp 10y ago
I edited my post. You were, however unfortunately, completely right.
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by gcp 10y ago
I'm sure there's quite a few people who think the OP is terribly offensive, and are appalled at the insinuation it wouldn't be downvoted or moderated. Edit: The fact that your post got flagged faster than the OP on the other
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by gcp 10y ago
What do you mean with "scaling resolutions"?
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by gcp 10y ago
And it's still not easier to vectorize your x86 code rather than to just port it to CUDA. This a million times! The SIMT programming model that the GPUs (except Intel's) support so well is way easier to program and parallelize f
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by gcp 10y ago
Tegra2 was notoriously one of the few ARMv7 chips without NEON. I actually agree that Denver 1 in the K1 is really fast, but it's not scored many designs wins, perhaps exactly because of the thermal restraints. The A15 based design see
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by gcp 10y ago
Sure, they have their ARM core CPUs that have proven to be decent, but I don't see them blowing anyone out of the water with them What? Their first iterations were somewhat meh (Tegra K1 with Denver 1 in the Nexus 9), but the latter
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by gcp 10y ago
But they have links! Interesting links!
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by gcp 10y ago
Or build system pops up a desktop notification when the build finishes. Fairly easy to do on Linux with dbus.
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by gcp 10y ago
C is a smaller language to learn. There are engineers with 20 years of C programming experience that will still make security errors while handling basic strings. "Small" does not mean "good" and "learning" a
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by gcp 10y ago
Uh? There are definitely trimmed libc's (not GNU libc!) that run on bare metal. Such as the one used by avr-gcc for example...
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by gcp 10y ago
That's exactly what I mean by the lack of theoretical justification for their grading.
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by gcp 10y ago
Actually, the only real advantage that C has over rust there is the availability of trimmed libcs.
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by gcp 10y ago
What's the feeling on them preferring 256-bit AES over 128-bit AES? I was under the impression there is no theoretical nor practical justification for it.
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by gcp 10y ago
What would they explain though?
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by gcp 10y ago
https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a... The intention is to replace the parts where Servo > Gecko.
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by gcp 10y ago
The system programming is done in either C or C++ Rust is addressed to some of the shortcomings of those. This implies there would a competitive advantage of doing systems programming in Rust, if it succeeds in addressing them. So far, it
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by gcp 10y ago
Does the clang frontend for their backend not address that already?
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by gcp 10y ago
A project like Servo means that the proof will be in the pudding. Gecko and WebKit/Blink are C++ (though stuck at C++11 due to compiler and platform compatibility). So we'll see how they end up comparing.
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by gcp 10y ago
AFAIK yes but not in a "production ready" way.

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