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by giobox 3y ago
It was pretty crazy how long IBM's OS/2 survived as an OS on tons of ATMs throughout the world, there will probably still be an ATM somewhere running XP in the 2050s.
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by giobox 3y ago
> What about generating foliage or varied ground textures? What about generating buildings? Or NPCs? This isn't how NVidia DLSS or AMD FSR works at all. DLSS/FSR can't create new buildings or foliage, or NPCs, so hard to f
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by giobox 3y ago
DLSS requires no training on your own game to use - you just use the pre-trained system NVidia provides, IIRC. So it has been trained on game data, but not necessarily yours.
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by giobox 3y ago
There is very clearly a line most people will understand between what DLSS does, and generating completely new art that mimic existing intellectual property. No one is ever going to accuse DLSS of creating new art works containing some ot
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by giobox 3y ago
"docker exec -it" debugging/troubleshooting. It's generally harder to debug/troubleshoot random issues if there is no shell in the container, and you can get a working shell in a 10mb container image so not like it
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by giobox 3y ago
These articles where someone uses Linux kernel level features to replicate Docker isolation are as old as Docker itself, and in my experience they always miss one of the most critical parts of the Docker ecosystem - the easily hackable and
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by giobox 3y ago
Sunak regularly has called on UK private sector leaders to show "restraint" when deciding pay awards. One such example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/uk-s-suna...
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by giobox 3y ago
Its widely assumed China, Russia and the US have "kinetic kill" abilities on satellites in space too, its just capabilities are not as widely known. Projects Like the US/Boeing X-37 space drone etc, whose purposes still haven
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by giobox 3y ago
> But it's still nothing compared to the biggest attempt at a fully open platform for games (OUYA; and long before them, Atari). That went well... and so, even the App Store, you can find bad apps and scams, but every time we have a
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by giobox 3y ago
Kids who like games often do know about the Apple App store stance on emulation - they find out immediately when their Android using friends have access to a massive library of emulation easily that they don't. I've never owned an
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by giobox 3y ago
This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer. We know because this exact strategy works just fine on Apple'
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by giobox 3y ago
Sequence diagrams aside (they are useful!), I also felt far too much time was wasted on UML in my university course. The only small argument I can see in favor is perhaps to encourage some thinking and discussion around software design amon
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by giobox 3y ago
> Putting copyrighted stuff on the IA wasn't as common back then. I'm still amazed the IA is getting away with hosting some of the stuff it is right now, honestly. I love it, but I am mentally preparing myself for it changing
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by giobox 3y ago
OpenAI are already attempting, they have a free classifier you can try, but results aren't all that great: "Our classifier is not fully reliable. In our evaluations on a “challenge set” of English texts, our classifier correctly i
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by giobox 3y ago
I'm not fully familiar with the facts of the cases in each jurisdiction, but wasn't there a great deal of crowing in Europe when the UK did the opposite of their EU counterparts and blocked the merger several weeks back? If the US
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by giobox 3y ago
I'm also finding this really sad. Its painfully obvious to anyone who has used either system recently the majority of commenters have no idea what they are talking about either, the amount of nonsense in this thread about both Tesla an
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by giobox 3y ago
Twitter had Mastadon; is there a service these users will migrate to en masse, or will the results be more fragmented? Personally, the 2nd choices aren't as clear to me as they were in the Twitter case, which makes me wonder if we will
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by giobox 3y ago
Assuming you are in the US, 2020 saw the start of one of the most ridiculous hiring markets in the industry's history, so it should perhaps not come as a surprise - Meta alone added 13,000 employees in 2020, increasing headcount 30%. M
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by giobox 3y ago
This is arguably too narrow a way to think about this, as where you traffic egresses can directly affect what sites or services will work - this isn't hypothetical. Both are important! If you need access to regional services, a common
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by giobox 3y ago
> This is almost always not true. If you read my statement, "they can give you a residential IP in the target country" - I never said this was universal. Some private VPN companies will offer you a residential IP or dedicated
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by giobox 3y ago
I've long given up hosting my own VPN on VPC/cloud providers as means of cheap and quick "browser in another country" hack - so many things block access to known VPC/cloud IP address ranges, especially AWS, and I wa
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by giobox 3y ago
While Apple likely gets the first production batches, there are several major vendors lined up as customers for TSMC's latest N3 (used on M2 etc) process: > https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/tsmc-has-secured-sev
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by giobox 3y ago
11.5m per eye is still far short of what would be needed to approximate pixel pitch of many of Apple's "retina displays" at typical desk viewing distance display well, FWIW. This a really hard problem with tech we have today.
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by giobox 3y ago
Thats still enormously less than the dot pitch of a good 4/5/6k monitor in meatspace/real life today - remember, a virtual monitor only ever uses a subset of the total pixels in a VR headset, which is why the pixel count ha
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by giobox 3y ago
Even at 4k per eye, if you imagine a screen at a typical viewing distance, the "dot pitch" of the display is going to just be massively less than a good quality high end monitor sitting on your desk. We've been waiting like 1
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by giobox 3y ago
> Do you have examples? Have you paid rent, your mortgage, your car, for a laptop, etc, with cryptocurrency? Of course they don't, if they live in a vaguely developed nation. I can't speak to the stories some tell of using it c
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by giobox 3y ago
4080 is still a 16gb part, and still the 2nd fastest part Nvidia sell at consumer level (its a 1200 dollar part). The 3090 (for however long it remains on sale) and the 4090 are outliers. The obvious counter point is an M2 MacBook in 14&#x2
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by giobox 3y ago
That unified memory architecture makes them well suited in many cases - that's the one bit current x86 desktop platforms don't have a good answer for, where the system design generally keeps GPU and system memory as entirely separ
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by giobox 3y ago
> There are hinged laptop-style cases for the iPad Mini This still makes for a very different form factor to the original Psion devices, which are much more letterbox shaped than most small tablets, more akin to phones. Doing this you en
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by giobox 3y ago
Exactly the same here. Stole my fathers Psion 3a and wrote a lottery number picker in OPL. IIRC, it even had pretty great syntax to easily draw the various default OS UI elements. The ability to write the application and then run it on the

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