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by kllrnohj 1y ago
It depends on what you consider "lots" of data. For >20tb yes absolutely obviously by a landslide. But if you just want self-hosted Google Drive or Dropbox you're in the 1-4TB range where mechanical drives are a very bad v
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Quick search says around $1,600 USD per ton for mineral oil? Taipei 101's damper is 660 tons. No idea how that compares to a fluid damper, but if we assume similar tonnage requirements that'd work out to somewhere in the range of
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Surely some biocide or glycol or whatever is going to be a lot cheaper than using mineral oil? This is solidly north of a hundred thousand gallons after all, right? Especially since they're already going to have plumbed water in the bu
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
The game Rimworld stores all its game configuration data in XML and uses XPath for modding and it's so incredibly good. It's a seriously underrated combination for enabling relatively stable local modifications of data. I don&#x27
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Access pattern is mitigated by texture swizzling which will happen regardless of how it's ultimately rendered. So even if drawn with an identity matrix you're still "paying" for it regardless just due to the underlying t
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
For anything GPU-rendered, applying a rotation matrix to a texture sample and/or frame-buffer write is trivially cheap (see also why Vulkan prerotation exists on Android). Even ignoring GPU-rendering, you always are doing a copy as par
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> What are the arguments for this? It would seem easier for everyone to rotate and then store exif for the original rotation if necessary. Performance. Rotation during rendering is often free, whereas the camera would need an intermediat
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
draw locally composite remotely is literally Wayland's philosophy and is one of the biggest contentious issues for the pro-X11 crowd.
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Nope, that's indirect rendering and is limited to OpenGL 1.4 more or less. This is using a much newer OpenGL than that. Also if you look at the source it's specifying direct rendering in glxCreateContext: https://humu
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
the approach used in this blog post requires rdp. It's not drawing using X, so there's no vector network transparency.
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
The whole point of Wayland is to not include all of X11. There's a lot of X11 that's just obsolete cruft, like the entire drawing model
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Yeah this is kinda the big elephant in the room here? They didn't prove what they set out to prove. Yes obviously OpenGL does scaling just fine, the entire point of Wayland is to get the compositor to just being a compositor. They didn
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
And yet every Android app does it just fine :) The real answer is just it's hard to bolt this on later, the UI toolkit needs to support it from the start
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
The support is still worse, but you're getting a big discount on the hardware by comparison. So it kinda evens out at this price point where you're deciding between either having every game run badly or most, but not all, games ru
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
That's Nvidia's marketing slide and if you note the fine print they are tested at different settings. The RTX 5050 is using 4x frame gen which the 3050 isn't. Techpowerup has the RTX 5050 as being 20% faster than the 3050 giv
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
because you can tell the difference, they have quite a few artifacts, and they make latency worse which is especially problematic in the scenarios where you need the "performance" offered by fake frames. At this price point it&#x2
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
YouTube Premium has existed for years now... You're absolutely able to pay for an ad-free experience, and it provides more financial support to creators than ads do
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> Every year or so, I try to use my Windows PC to convert a RAW photo taken with a high-end Nikon mirrorless camera to a proper HDR photo (in any format) and send it to my friends and family that use iDevices. > This has been literall
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> not sure about Android, AVIF? JPEG, or fancier jpeg: https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-forma...
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Isn't that literally Linux? You had a choice between the XPS Developer Edition or System76 and... that was about it for official support from anyone
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> The problem with Android is that it’s something of a bad compromise. That one can’t just drop whichver ROM on whatever device undermines the whole thing, You used to be able to do exactly that with Nexus & Pixel. That you still cho
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
And my android phone still has "back", "home", and "recents" buttons in the exact same place they've been since they were literal hardware buttons. Core navigation (aka, "steering") is unchanged,
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
They don't. GPU rendering only happens when something changes. Even composition only happens when something changes thanks to panel self refresh (this is independent of the more recent VRR that also lowers refresh rate when idle, this
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
C#'s runtime got generics in 2005 whereas Java still just has compiler-only sugar. It's a rather significant difference in the quality of the implementation. Not just for things like reflection but also means List<T> ToArr
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
1080 Ti -> 2080: 10% faster for same MSRP 2080 -> 3080: ~70% faster for the same MSRP 3080 -> 4080: 50% faster, but $700 vs. $1200 is *more than 50% more expensive* 4080 -> 5080: 10% faster, but $1200 (or $1000 fo
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> GPUs will keep getting cheaper. [...] but 2025-level performance, at least, shouldn't get more expensive. This generation of GPUs have worse performance for more $$$ than the previous generation. At best $/perf has been a fla
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
> It's sad that a phone running java on top of Linux isn't able to run Linux app It can. It just can't run something expecting glibc, X11, Wayland, or any of the other large number of userspace libraries that Android doesn
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Java itself has basically abandoned the idea, or at least the ecosystem at large has. Checked exceptions are a decent idea but Java's implementation sucks. It needs to be a lot more automatic or something
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
Personally I think C# is miles ahead of Java and in meaningful ways (like a drastically better implementation of generics, not to mention value types have existed for eons at this point and an FFI system that doesn't hate you for usi
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by kllrnohj 1y ago
What on earth are you running that has such a bad GPU driver that it can't handle chrome/firefox, yet also is so niche that they don't have driver workarounds for it?

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