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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Marvin Gaye's estate Not precisely (or at least not in this instance), from TFA: > The claim over Thinking Out Loud was originally lodged in 2018, not by Gaye’s family but by investment banker David Pullman and a company called
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> The upgraded model DTL-15000 with the Performance Analyzer is especially rare and was a more expensive unit so developers tended to only have a couple and used them for debugging performance issues with their games. I had a chance to w
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
... for startups: > Discussing about the importance of working from office for a startup, Altman noted, “The more unclear and early the product is, the more in-person time the team needs to grind together," he added.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Things that are central to C, bust the memory model of the JVM (e.g., pointer arithmetic). I did come across a C to JVM project which I used to try and port something slightly complex and it failed to work, thought it may have been sufficie
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
The other way around might have worked. If Amiga became a graphics card company they could have leveraged a market that was several orders of magnitude greater in size. Imagine a PC but with the sound and graphics of early Amigas, instead
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
I’d say that Apple was the exception not the rule. Like a modern Silicon Valley startup it was partnered by both a technical mind and a business savvy mind, who (unlike Tramiel) remained at the helm during the worldwide shift of business c
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> mostly true in the USA It didn't matter what part of the world, Apple simply had the superior graphic design and video editing tools. Amiga provided cut-price competition for 'non-linear' video editing, compositing, and
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Precisely. IBM PCs also had a software ecosystem and brand around delivering business value . Just like Mac did. They both survived because of this. Once those ecosystems are established, it's hard to supplant them.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
They also had an exceptional suite of 'multimedia tools'. The market for desktop publishing, video editing, graphics tools, etc. was cornered well before the Amiga did so. Amiga had some early inroads with broadcast media and CG
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Management culture of overruling architects was one of many reasons CBM went to hell. I used to be a massive fan of Amiga (still am) to the point where I'd still be waving the banner in the late 90s as my friends all were playing
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And I’m saying this wasn’t always the case for the majority. It’s worth understanding how that came to be
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> and enough that you don’t need to deal with other people (what hell is, to wit) This is actually a new phenomenon. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm older, but I've literally grown to see this shift in mindset.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
And he says as much on his own website: > I call my images “images”. They are synthetically produced, using “the photographic” as a visual language. They are not “photographs”. > Participating in open calls, I want to speed up the pro
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Can’t say I’ve ever seen them jank. In my experience, compute doesn’t seem to be the limiting factor for Spotify etc., it only ever seems to be waiting for API calls to return. There really isn’t a whole lot of compute going on in a typical
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Are you sure everything has been fetched and processed? Some times this happens dynamically. Compare jank to an electron app where all artifacts are preloaded and preprocessed. To balance that, I've also seen jank in native mobile ap
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Not by a long shot If I compare electron apps like Slack/Spotify/VS Code/etc, where all the assets are preloaded and processed, the app runs smooth. No FOUC or glitches as the page changes layout during loading. > Sl
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Eucalypt forests naturally limit bushfires if they're allowed to mature(twitter.com)
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Recently the Malicious Life podcast has been covering the Lawrence Berkeley hack in depth https://malicious.life/episode/episode-210/
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Most of what makes browsing slow is network latency. Each website is in essence a 'streamed' app.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Add to that GC implementation is different for each language, so having generic garbage collector might not be desirable. Consider Erlang which supports millions of processes per node: > Each Erlang process has its own stack and heap wh
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
It's hard to know how demographics compare with a secretive country like North Korea, but given the scale of population difference I'd wager that for every age band they have more people, and the munitions and provisions to supply
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
Yet SK has just shy of double the population. NK also has 10 years lower life expectancy, possibly owing to sanctions and constrained food supply
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> They're gonna need a steady supply of troops, and having low birthrates is gonna put them in a disadvantage when war breaks out. A cursory Googling shows that the population is ~52m in South Korea vs ~26m in North Korea
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> The rigid topology of textures can really hurt you. Technically you could distort the UV map if you need variable resolution across a model.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> but this is what you want a lot of the time Don't disagree with that, just the claim that the model is simpler. > Depth pass, culling, transforming between coordination systems, all care about the poly count At a guess a dynami
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> more detail with less processing power Unarguably it's also more processing power than its predecessor which appeared to be untextured. Far more FLOPs are executed at the fragment level than at the vertex level, and that will v
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
This is completely incorrect. The complexity has just been moved into fragment shaders and texture assets. I'm quite sure the cumulative size of the asset is much larger even though it has less polygons.
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> Would you get the same joy simply re-creating something that an AI can do in seconds? AI, as it stands, has no agency of thought^ All AI works requires instruction, and that instruction is given by a creative human. So artisans coul
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
+1 on Plausible > Even though the purpose of Plausible Analytics is to track the usage of a website, this can still be done without collecting any personal data or personally identifiable information (PII), without using cookies and wh
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by h0l0cube 4y ago
> I wouldn't say that networks trump demonstrated ability (I prefer that to "credentials" because that's what credentials are a proxy for) That's not what I said. To emphasize my own comment: > Whenever I&#x

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