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by kderbe 3y ago
John Romero wants you to feel okay about the term "boomer shooter". [1] Pull quote: "The funny thing about boomers, it doesn’t even matter because for people who made up the term boomer shooter, anyone who’s old as a boomer,
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by kderbe 3y ago
On my 2019 MBP, the thank-you frame transition is choppy in Firefox and very choppy in Safari. In my brief attempt to use the browsers' performance profilers, it looks like 40ms per paint in Firefox and 300ms per paint in Safari. Chrom
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by kderbe 3y ago
I can confirm this. I tested with 3.100.1 and the following encodes of hihat.wav: -q0 -b128 (b128) -q0 -b160 (b160) --preset cbr 128 (pc128) --preset cbr 160 (pc160) --preset 128 (pa128) --preset 160 (pa160) Usi
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by kderbe 3y ago
I thought this might be interesting to the programmers who, like me, got their first introduction to "big" programming projects by modding the Quake games. See also the Tech Rundown blog post which talks about how they back-ported
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Quake II returns: play the enhanced release today(bethesda.net)
4 points by kderbe 3y ago|3 comments
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by kderbe 3y ago
Some of the sound effects from GOLD TAPE: 32 Electricity sound familiar to me. The notes accompanying the effects say the effects come "From Flash Gordon's Spaceship". But compare G32-01-Giant Electrical Discharge [1] with th
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by kderbe 3y ago
This blog post is mostly a rephrasing of NHTSA's press release (from January 2023): https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crashes-cost-am... The press release has a link to the full report.
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by kderbe 4y ago
> you have to log in to an account for the “GeForce Experience”. Just to keep your graphics card drivers automatically updated. TechPowerUp's NVCleanstall makes it easy to automatically update Nvidia drivers without any login, and a
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by kderbe 4y ago
The 8TB 7200 RPM Toshiba drive has decent sustained write performance. But if the author had tested a cheaper hard disk, such as a 8TB Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Seagate drive, they'd have seen sustained writes even worse than t
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by kderbe 4y ago
I follow the Analytics Engineering Roundup weekly email. It's published by dbt Labs but isn't overtly promotional. https://roundup.getdbt.com/
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by kderbe 5y ago
There are mobile speed cameras installed near several schools in my US neighborhood.
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A Final Goodbye for Chowhound(chowhound.com)
2 points by kderbe 5y ago|1 comments
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by kderbe 5y ago
The 2014 paper "Pounds that Kill" by Michael L. Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer looked briefly at pedestrian deaths from vehicles, but focused more on multi vehicle collisions and estimated driver and passenger deaths in relati
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by kderbe 5y ago
The introduction to various timing techniques and their caveats is really good: I have no experience with Rust or tracing, but the explanations were easy to understand. Time Stamp Counter (TSC) was new to me.
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by kderbe 6y ago
This contradicts one of the claimed principles of Taler, "Protect the privacy of buyers". Can you please explain how the example you gave would be possible with Taler, in a way that wouldn't be with crypto currency? (off-topi
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by kderbe 7y ago
What interested me about this report is slide 11, which estimates that the transmission rate R was still 1.25 with the lockdown in effect. See slide 32 for more explanation: "Traffic ban, mitigation (social distance) and home quarantin
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Analysis of 25,000 Lab-Confirmed Covid-19 Cases in Wuhan(drive.google.com)
3 points by kderbe 7y ago|2 comments
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by kderbe 7y ago
An example of a south-is-up map: http://mapdesign.icaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MapCar...
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by kderbe 7y ago
That quote is from 2003. This quote is from 2019: Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it. Through personal conversations in recent years, I've lea
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by kderbe 7y ago
I use the add-on "Disable Ctrl-Q and Cmd-Q" because of this. To actually quit with the add-on enabled, you must click the Quit Firefox menu item.
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Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production(nytimes.com)
100 points by kderbe 7y ago|91 comments
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by kderbe 7y ago
Before using custom molded IEMs I used Etymotics with foam tips, which had much thicker foam than what I see on the Tinaudio product page. The isolation with foam is just as good, if properly inserted (same technique as with foam earplugs:
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by kderbe 7y ago
Yes, I went to an unlisted nearby audiologist who had never heard of IEMs (this was many years ago) and he did my impressions for $25, plus he shipped the impressions to the IEM manufacturer for me. Based on that experience I would definite
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by kderbe 7y ago
I submitted this for discussion because of the "Opinion about bug bounties" section at the bottom of the post. It was interesting to read about the wide variety in quality of responses to an open source bug bounty.
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VLC 3.0.7 and security(jbkempf.com)
196 points by kderbe 7y ago|69 comments
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by kderbe 8y ago
15 reputation on Stack Overflow seems easy enough. I got it with a single answer on a low-traffic topic. 500 reputation for full Hacker News privileges, on the other hand, seems like quite the undertaking! I say this as a decade-long reader
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Misconceptions, Battle Scars, and Growth(medium.com)
3 points by kderbe 8y ago|0 comments
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by kderbe 8y ago
And then there's "doomsday prepping for less crazy folk": http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/ It's a guide written by the author of american fuzzy lop (afl), and while it touches on end-of-civilization
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by kderbe 8y ago
I read a story about someone who used a step-to-talk setup for their game comms: the motion was so ingrained that, one day while driving in traffic, they inadvertently floored the gas pedal while having a conversation with a passenger. I do
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by kderbe 9y ago
The Opus codec has an impressive amount of testing behind it as well: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/slides/codec-4.pdf

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