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by hedgehog 4y ago
"Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem" https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/ Hah. Yes. I appreciate people doing all of this because from a preservati
842.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Fascinating, and still an impressive technical lift especially for hobby projects without full time funding.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
I hadn't seen this before and I was curious what approach Ryujinx and Yuzu (mentioned here) take to emulate the GPU. Both appear to emulate the actual hardware rather than patch the guest to intercept graphics calls in some way. This i
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by hedgehog 4y ago
What kind of apps? I used Intercooler (sort of a predecessor to HTMX) for a personal project and it worked well but I didn't get a good feel for what it would be like to build more complicated UI.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
In the long run the approach Svelte takes seems very promising so I've kept an eye on it for a while now. I took umbrage at the snooty messaging towards a browser in a tool pitched as a way to "build production-grade websites&quot
846.
by hedgehog 4y ago
"This app requires modern web platform features. Please use a browser other than Safari." Looks cool but not production ready.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Your critique makes sense, it reminds me of an electric truck startup called Edison that was started by a former truck driver: https://www.edisonmotors.ca Basically the exact opposite approach, they started by bolting together m
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by hedgehog 4y ago
There's an approach called "displacement ventilation" that could help. The basic idea is if your contaminants are mostly warmer or more humid than room air then convection will move them to the top of the room where they pool
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Several people have recommended GL iNet routers (OpenWRT) but I haven't tried their gear myself yet.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
One less well known feature is the ability to query dimensions and render subsets of the SVG by element ID. That makes it possible to assemble say a drawing of some UI elements all together on one sheet that illustrates use and then program
851.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Apple may have been a factor but I think the bigger issue is FB's growth narrative got weak and their valuation was based on expectations of growth. The new story is that they are no longer attracting young, affluent users that as a co
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by hedgehog 4y ago
This simplistic model sounds nice but (and he notes this in the article) doesn't pass the test of explaining the dynamics of weight/gain loss in live humans. Lots of people have pet theories ("just eat meat" or whatever)
853.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Some developers used user mode Linux for driver development, and I think some development has happened on the NetBSD rump kernel more recently. I find the work that goes into building this kind of tooling all pretty impressive.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Interestingly a RAV4 Hybrid with about 2500 lb total cargo including trailer gets around 28-30 mpg. The newer hybrid transaxles (P710 etc) are mechanically surprisingly simple and I could see a future where they become the preferred replace
855.
by hedgehog 4y ago
I've been reading bits and pieces from the people doing Linux for Apple SoCs for a while and it sounds like the evolution has been mostly incremental going way back (like A7 era).
856.
by hedgehog 4y ago
I looked for a quantitative comparison. If the numbers in [1] are accurate Apple App store gaming revenue was around $11B in 2021. Meanwhile Microsoft was around $15B [2]. That's way closer than I thought, big enough that they could re
857.
by hedgehog 4y ago
It's not so much technical as business focus. There's a big issue with their app store cut on in-app purchases and whether they want to set a precedent on lowering/changing the rules to be compatible with games like Fortnite
858.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Except for brief blips here and there Apple seems to not put any priority on gaming. It's a bit disappointing because they could have a really strong showing if they cared.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Later on there was Hotline, some similar design ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications#Hotline... https://web.archive.org/web/20130401082142/http://www.macwor...
860.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Or the durability of the value proposition and ability to keep a sufficient number of people interested in keeping the establishment open. Maybe something about the economics of commercial real estate and tax policy in England help survival
861.
by hedgehog 4y ago
Wikipedia has a list (of course), it's pretty interesting to read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Yes, it's a unique opportunity to watch well-built infrastructure fail under load and any success at keeping the product going will be a real achievement. I like what I'm doing now and I don't trust the guy though so comp wou
863.
by hedgehog 4y ago
In defense of the original emulation strategy it shipped on time, fit in the ROM, and worked reliably with good compatibility. The first round of PowerPC Macs were so much faster than the 68k Macs than even emulated apps worked better. I do
864.
by hedgehog 4y ago
There was another company called S2 Systems doing something similar to Mighty a bit earlier, they ended up selling to Cloudflare and I think the technology became the browser isolation product: https://www.cloudflare.com/pro
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Not that I've seen, though I expect it'll be like phones where they err on the side of more compute not less. If you look around on the software side there are pieces of a headset collaboration experience all over though, even bey
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Very possible. I think of their approach as "experiment and remix," that is they test a lot of the technical and supply chain ingredients for new products years in advance, then combine at the last moment to create a widget for th
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by hedgehog 4y ago
It's useful to think of the transition as starting close to 15 years ago with Apple buying PA Semi and Intrinsity, shaping ARMv8, doing test ports of macOS, etc. Of course deep analysis too, but some pretty empirical evaluation of mult
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Key-as-identity has a lot of problems and I don't think that model really works for most use cases. On the other hand I'm optimistic about being able to rework identity in the spirit what poster above describes. I've been aro
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by hedgehog 4y ago
I've used Swift for iOS development and generally like it. There's no technical reason why it couldn't be great for server-side development but there are two major reasons I wouldn't expect it. First, there's no pai
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by hedgehog 4y ago
The scaling requirements are also unevenly distributed. Servers hosting celebrities are going to have very different load vs servers hosting 99% of people who are mostly interacting with friends/family/interest groups. The overall

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