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by kg 7mo ago
We periodically see posts on HN about the 'loneliness epidemic' and simultaneously the solution for home prices is to live in a rural area where you have maybe two neighbors and it's a 30-minute drive to see your friends or c
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by kg 7mo ago
I'm personally a WebUSB, WebBT etc hater but I totally get why PWA developers want those features. For example, let's say you're manufacturing some sort of USB device and you need a way to flash drivers. The idea of being abl
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by kg 7mo ago
For gradients it definitely isn't unless you have the ability to do FRC dithering where the dither pattern changes every frame. The banding is very noticeable on a large enough screen.
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by kg 7mo ago
> Defer US taxes by reinvesting your taxable income into the economy as business expenses, depreciating assets, etc. Be really careful when doing this. Make sure you have a great accountant - if you go more than a few years without turni
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by kg 7mo ago
Most consumer GPUs have a limit on the number of video streams their hardware encoder can handle at once, and in some cases the limit is as low as 2.
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by kg 7mo ago
Does anyone know what this part means? > Require Social Security Numbers to authenticate preventing fraud. There's a ton of stuff piled into the agenda on this page but that one in particular stumped me. Is it proposing that people
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by kg 7mo ago
SDFs can be pretty fast if you do the work to optimize around them. Unreal Engine has lots of features based on SDFs that are used to great effect in games that run on consumer hardware. You don't need bleeding edge hardware or softwar
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by kg 7mo ago
Isn't case insensitivity a Win32 thing only? I would not expect it to impact stuff in Hyper-V or the windows kernel. AFAIK for example NTFS is case-sensitive.
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by kg 7mo ago
It sounds like you know this but what happened is that you didn't do 4 weeks of work over 2 days, you got started on 4 weeks of work over 2 days, and now you have to finish all 4 weeks worth of work and that might take an indetermina
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by kg 7mo ago
> The fact that a computer loads it into memory does not make it automatically a ‘copy’ in the copyright sense. IIRC this exact argument was made in the Blizzard vs bnetd case, wasn't it? Though I can't find confirmation on whe
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by kg 7mo ago
Most words don't have especially precise meanings, context is everything. So emojis being imprecise is not a unique problem. And emojis can be especially dense with information in a way that can be pretty convenient. You can scan a 96x
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Despite What You've Heard, AI Art Is Still Much Copyrightable(knifepoint.substack.com)
4 points by kg 7mo ago|0 comments
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by kg 7mo ago
It's a real shame that BYOB (bring your own buffer) reads are so complex and such a pain in the neck because for large reads they make a huge difference in terms of GC traffic (for allocating temporary buffers) and CPU time (for the co
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Offlining a Live Game with .NET Native AOT(sephnewman.substack.com)
2 points by kg 7mo ago|0 comments
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by kg 8mo ago
Unfortunately, browsers "solved" this by intentionally adding APIs that enable websites to do this to you. It wasn't possible to abuse users this way until the relevant APIs for detecting focus and occlusion were added. :(
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by kg 8mo ago
As someone who moved out of California a few years ago I assure you that it is exceedingly easy to move to a different state, assuming you have the money to move at all.
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by kg 8mo ago
You can see https://bsky.app/profile/nytdiff.bsky.social for some examples of how the NYT frequently revises titles and abstracts after publication. Most of them seem harmless at least.
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by kg 8mo ago
> etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store, and that consistency comes at a cost: it is extraordinarily sensitive to I/O latency. etcd uses a write-ahead log and relies on fsync calls completing within tight time w
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by kg 8mo ago
It's still used for job hunting and recruiting unfortunately. I got a real message from a real recruiter for a 5k+ employee software company on it just last week. My friends and colleagues dealing with layoffs have had to update their
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by kg 8mo ago
Increasingly widespread age restriction laws?
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by kg 8mo ago
Loyalty is earned. They don't owe me or you any loyalty if we mistreat them.
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by kg 8mo ago
Emulation is legal in the US
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by kg 8mo ago
There are always little gems hidden in his public statements, like: > He also said that a trade deal signed between Canada and China last month would "eat Canada alive". > Trump continued: "The first thing China will do
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by kg 8mo ago
Even if gaming goes to the cloud, how are they going to run the massive existing library of video games on the dedicated AI inference hardware that everyone is buying right now? Seems like that pivot would require even more spending.
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by kg 8mo ago
Sometimes it's both. I had some crazy data corruption problems that turned out to be a one-two punch of a buggy anti-cheat driver from a game I was playing and a defective M.2 SSD slot on my motherboard. Without the combination of bo
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by kg 8mo ago
I've been using Puget workstations for like 10 years now and the builds are really reliable. The one time I had issues with a build (not their fault - defective parts), they went the extra mile and rebuilt it after normal troubleshooti
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by kg 8mo ago
Payment processors are generally really wary of services like Patreon. Cohost tried to set one up and was unable to find someone willing to stick by a commitment to process payments for an equivalent service. I think it's reasonable to
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by kg 8mo ago
Game development has been seeing cuts on the order of 10k+ jobs/year for a couple years now and investment in studios/titles has dried up. It's extremely competitive now and the deals being signed are for smaller amounts of m
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by kg 8mo ago
It's even a bad deal for the rightsholder. There are lots of stories in video games of how a studio or publisher lost the original source code or assets for a game, then 5, 10 or 20 years later they want to remaster it and they can&#x2
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by kg 8mo ago
Apple generally frowns upon things like that. At one point they wouldn't even let you disclose in your UI that Apple was taking a 30% cut of transactions, it was against the rules to do so.

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