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by gmueckl 4y ago
This reminds me of a story about a restaurant seating single guests with cute stuffed animals to counter loneliness: https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2014/04/anti-forever-alone-cafe...
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by gmueckl 4y ago
GIF is lossess iff the input has at most 256 different colors. That is the maximum color palette size and not sufficient for most cases.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Was this pen on an arm later commercialized as the Phantom Omni?
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I don't think PowerShell is able to use Native AOT compilation. The blog explicitly states that loading extra code at runtime is not possible, but AFAIK this is required for PowerShell commandlets.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
The Qt Company itself isn't bound by licenses on the code/documentation, but by a separate contract with the KDE Free Qt Foundation [1]. This document is publicly available and treats the documentation pretty much equal to the cod
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Isn't that where the randomness of the trading interval comes in? How do you optimally fill out a time interval with a length that is unknown to you?
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by gmueckl 4y ago
JavaScript VMs are inherently hampered by language design choices in JS. The dynamic typing and prototype based objects limit JIT based optimization for the full JS massively. Java and .NET have fully static typing which allows their JITs t
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I am guessing here, but these boards seem to be geared towards accelerated data transfers to feed GPUs. Some GPU cluster workloads are limited by node to node data transfers that need to go through several slow bus transfers between GPUs in
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Your rant is focused so much on the actual implementation details of Flash that it misses the point that the abstract concept of a VM based application container/sandbox could have been a great thing. In fact, it was such a great ide
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by gmueckl 4y ago
The distinction can be maintained easily by limiting the application client in its ability to display fancy text. In fact, it should have very little support for styling and layouting should be restricted to some nested grid like dynamic sy
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by gmueckl 4y ago
This post makes me wonder what I do differently. I've some cables wired up here that are easily 5+ years old and I've had micro USB charging ports survive daily plug/unplug cycles for 4 years. My number one cause for cable-re
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by gmueckl 4y ago
That's why good database wrappers support referencing columns in result sets by column name. It's good practice.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
It's probably a combination of 1. retaining backwards compatibility with applications that don't interact well with these features and 2. exposing users to behaviors that are hard to understand and undo once they are activated by
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I was going to write that these machines are easy to use and the interface is logical. But then I looked at the instructions and realized that the operator requires that the license plate should be entered as a first step. The rest of the i
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I would assume that Eve Online has expanded and evolved so much since development started in the late 90s that migrating any significant part of the existing code base to a different language is risky. Not only would you lose the existing,
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by gmueckl 4y ago
If you're going with software eurorack emulations as a didactic tool, VCV rack should be pointed out, too. The standalone version is open source: https://vcvrack.com The basic modules that are included let you form the core
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by gmueckl 4y ago
That particular peak is so big that it will stay dominant for about another 15 years at least. You can go to https://service.destatis.de/bevoelkerungspyramide/index.html... to see the data and projections on this.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
But back then the age pyramid wasn't yet inverted. Right now it actually is literally upside down in some countries, e.g. in Germany. In the next ~5 years the biggest age group within the German population will retire . That inver
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by gmueckl 4y ago
It depends on the size of the sprites in this case. Small sprites will benefit from being drawn as single triangles. These "shadow" pixel shader invocations are a very real pain when it comes to rendering highly detailed models. T
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by gmueckl 4y ago
This demo program is obviously FPS limited in some other way - it's locked at 200fps from the start. The true limits are higher than what is shown.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You usually get appropriate usage licenses in the fine print of the legalese. Otherwise, the whole thing would be pretty useless.
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by gmueckl 5y ago
I would expect that any modern insulin pump is required to be protected very thoroughly against random malfunctions. Some certification authorities seem to require IEC 61508 (functional safety) as a prerequisite for IEC 60601 (safety of med
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You're not wrong about whims of governments. But that doesn't mean that companies are more predictable or controllable. Both types of organizations have their own ways in which they can screw you. Anyway, I think this is getting t
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You have to consider who the collected data is available to. CCTV in public spaces is usually the domain of law enforcement and thus the related data is available to law enforcement and potentially other government agencies, but not normall
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Combine this with a webcam pointed at a busy street, some pose estimation and an auto rigger and you can steal people's identities with this in an automated way. Example? A fashion billboard that doesn't use model photos but rende
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by gmueckl 5y ago
No, I don't think so. The TMS34010 is nothing like the 3D accelerators that these slides are about. The TI chip is a 2D graphics accelerator at heart, like a lot of the graphics hardware of the 80s. The SGI RealityEngine is noteworthy
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by gmueckl 5y ago
The slides mention that the SGI RealityEngine had a programmable geometry engine. That geometry engine board alone held multiple (six or so?) Intel i860XP processors. Now I'm curious how much that whole thing must have cost new. The am
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Keeping dangling references for too long is a problem that is common to all automated memory management schemes. You would have had the same issue with the work issue lifetime with a GC, except that the destruction of the work item would ha
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by gmueckl 5y ago
Determinism in ARC vs. GC discussions is probably more of a reproducability thing. With ARC, a program will always free memory in the same spots in the same way whem running on the same input. In most GCs, this is not the case. Their behavi
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by gmueckl 5y ago
You can do > hg commit --amend to change the topmost commit. Marking commits as public is mostly a safeguard against accidentally altering history that others may already depend upon. This is just there to provide awareness of the giant

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