halomru

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by halomru 10y ago
Finding the core of an idea always takes more time than writing a wall of text. But in a world where a message is read much more often than it's written it makes no sense to offload this cost onto the reader.
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by halomru 10y ago
I assume the site is mostly aimed at people who have already read the rust book [1]. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
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by halomru 10y ago
"I never received an email, your honor. I don't know what they are taking about. By the way, look at this cool statistic of how many emails get lost on their way from one mail server to the next"
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by halomru 10y ago
Why would it be, it's not like fugitives will report to the police because of some law. But the better you avoid authorities the worse the prison you get sent to. High security prisons are typically much less pleasant than low security
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by halomru 10y ago
Apart from being able to hide from the OS a hypervisor is also safe from manipulation by the OS and can observe and manipulate anything the OS does. This opens a few doors: debugging or reverse engineering the OS or kernel modules, sandboxi
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by halomru 10y ago
From memory I think Germany is one of those countries. It's not what some people imagine, though: when you break out of jail you will still be wanted for your original crime, and when caught have to continue your sentence. And while th
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by halomru 10y ago
The real thing we care about is "wasted processor cycles", as well as their source. We measure some sources (branch mispredictions, instruction cache thrashing etc.) and some potential sources (e.g. cache misses). What we lack is
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by halomru 10y ago
I view SoA vs AoS (with SoA frequently being more performant) as a choice to maximise the efficiency of the cache, while this article is more about how reducing data dependency makes caches less important. Two different means to solve the s
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by halomru 10y ago
That's a nice demonstration. I would even go a bit further with the conclusion/lesson: Cache misses are not evil. When data isn't in a register and isn't in the L1 cache, it takes a lot of time to fetch it from other cac
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by halomru 10y ago
>Gamers are overwhelmingly MALE. This used to be true for decades, but by now the majority of people who play computer games are female. Social games and mobile games were a game changer in this regard. It will be interesting to see how
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by halomru 11y ago
Paywalls seem to mostly not work, but there are more options. There's the supporter model where a small percentage of viewers pays regularly because they like the content (works great for artists and YouTube rs) There's the previe
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by halomru 11y ago
>And the cold weather means walking wasn't always an option. Walking works great even when the roads are unusable for cars. The only relevant limit to walking in the winter is your clothing.
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by halomru 11y ago
Can you elaborate on the advantages of using WebTorrent instead of IPFS?
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by halomru 11y ago
But you can prove that you controll an address. To solve your concern you only transact with people who have proven in a publicly verifiable way that they control the address they provided you with.
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by halomru 11y ago
I should have been clearer, I was referring only to the last part of the last sentence >Seems loke you'd be able to overcome the perf issues and finally make that 3D version. Which I interpreted as "once GPU simulation makes th
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by halomru 11y ago
I have serious doubts a 3d version would be better. It would be hard (if possible at all) to make an equally simple interface that conveys the same information and is equally easy and fast to use while allowing free 3d interaction. Maybe th
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by halomru 11y ago
From a quick look at the code it seems to be coded as a fairly standard particle system. Modern processors are fast, if you have a million particles, a 2GHz processor, and do 20 simulation steps per second you can spend 100 clock cycles per
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by halomru 11y ago
It's somewhere around a 5 euro base charge plus about a euro per kilometer (rough approximation).
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by halomru 11y ago
From my experience most Germans don't own a credit card. Everybody owns a EC card (since it's your normal bank card) but most people only use them if circumstances prevented them from carrying sufficient cash (unplanned big purcha
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by halomru 11y ago
But those are only problems foreigners have with German taxis. Germans prefer paying with cash and don't care if the driver speaks good English. As a German the only bad experience I have ever had with a taxi was a driver taking the lo