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by m3at 6y ago
Oh but there was a metric time! Or at least a decimal one. After the French revolution, some attempts were made to rationalize existing systems of time, the republican calendar [1] being probably the most famous, but hours and minutes were
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by m3at 6y ago
Here is how to do it with a few lines of bash: function matrix () { echo -e "\e[1;40m" clear while :; do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(( $RANDOM % $COLUMNS)) $(( $RANDOM % 72 )) sleep 0.05
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by m3at 6y ago
> Just look at the ridiculous state of the JSF A bit tangential but I'm curious. Can you enlighten me, or point me to where can I read more about it?
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by m3at 6y ago
> It can happen for instance when someone pays money to another individual under the mistaken belief he is liable to pay the amount. And in the event, such a transaction does transpire, the law imposes an obligation upon the recipient to
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Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive(anandtech.com)
50 points by m3at 6y ago|17 comments
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by m3at 6y ago
Note that the enforcement of a lot of regulations and rights _in general_ have been under-enforced under Trump. This Patriot Act episode is an entertaining take on a topic that is very little comical[1]. [1] https://youtu.be&#x2
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by m3at 6y ago
My understanding is that the FCC is very partial towards existing ISP. If I'm correct, how likely are they to negatively impact starlink accessibility to end user? Do they even have such power? I would very much appreciate if someone m
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by m3at 6y ago
Regarding donations that the author mention, it is always tricky to balance between getting a stable revenue stream (monthly patronage) and simplicity for the user (one time payment so I don't have one more expense to keep track of). A
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A Desktop Developer Trying to Make Sense of the Web Ecosystem(medium.com)
1 points by m3at 6y ago|0 comments
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by m3at 6y ago
Not the author (but I read the previous papers and the code), the simple answer is that it's still very costly in processing power. Think a few hours on good hardware for a set of pictures. Note that the results are still very impressi
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by m3at 6y ago
Very interesting! I will give it a go.
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by m3at 6y ago
Here, that will let you greatly expand where you can use vim: > Sometimes, you edit text outside of Vim. These are sad times. Enter vim-anywhere! https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere
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GTA V graphics study (2015)(adriancourreges.com)
2 points by m3at 6y ago|0 comments
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by m3at 6y ago
As mentioned in the article Godot has a low processor usage mode: > If true, the engine optimizes for low processor usage by only refreshing the screen if needed https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes&#x
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by m3at 6y ago
I think you misread the parent, you're in agreement over UBI being beneficial: > UBI covers a way larger group of people and gives them opportunities and flexibility, I only see that as win.
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by m3at 6y ago
That's a good complement, thank you for the links
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by m3at 6y ago
Being worried about new potentially disruptive tech is legitimate, it's hard to see our place in an environment we can't predict. However, particularly as a full stack dev, I think that it will create more opportunities for jobs
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by m3at 6y ago
I agree that in this case the animated parts of the graphics were not needed, it's an easy pitfall to be distracted by the beautiful aspects of visualisations when crafting them. I feel the need to defend the author though, it's h
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by m3at 6y ago
I don't think that it's the right thing to do, but just to share what's being done elsewhere, for 1 it's absolutely the case in Japan. As an anecdote from first hand experience, if your parents live close enough to your
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by m3at 6y ago
Not as impressive as going fully wind or solar powerered, but there are some initiatives to improve fuel economy by using kite, for example airseas [1] claim to get a 20% improvement with an autonomous kite, and what seem to be limited fitt
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by m3at 6y ago
You're right, however one advantage of water cooling your cpu –especially for multi gpu builds that are common in ML setup– is that it moves the heat dissipation away from a crowded area.
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by m3at 6y ago
Key excerpt: "That covid-19 has exposed the fragility of globalisation is particularly apparent in the case of aviation. [...] historians will write that it was not radical environmental movements such as Extinction Rebellion that kill
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by m3at 6y ago
I am not versed into fashion or thrift stores, but the author managed to make it interesting. I appreciate the attention to details, the quality of visualisations and transparency about data acquisition (isn't scrapping 50% of data sci
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by m3at 6y ago
This tend not the generate debate at all, see for example the proposal to replace master/slave with leader/follower in django: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
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by m3at 6y ago
If you're interested in getting started with paper crafts like this, PePaKuRa [1] is a great software that takes care of all the 2D shapes arrangements and addition of padding for gluing pieces together. [1] https://tamasof
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by m3at 6y ago
Tangentially related but that might interest fellow readers, you have multiple ways to make a valid image crash a device, one example being making a png bomb [1]. This is similar to a zip bomb, the file will by expanded to order of magnitud
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by m3at 6y ago
Late on the thread but you might be interested in this: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift
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Subvocalization(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by m3at 6y ago|0 comments
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by m3at 6y ago
As you can buy a one ray lidar sensor for about a $100 for drones, with about 50m of range, I wonder why it can't be used in full scale airplanes? It could be used to point down at the ground, and when the lidar is confident of the ran
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by m3at 6y ago
Earth View indeed has some stunning aerial pictures! Thanks for leaving the link, I would have missed it otherwise :)

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