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by mackman 5y ago
More information in this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9814873/Scie...
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by mackman 5y ago
Wow. I worked on the upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 (I think). We had fewer than 100 patches at the time. 1700 sounds like a nightmare. I apologize for any and all of the patches I wrote.
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by mackman 5y ago
Huh, never heard of a manual one of those. I have some little widget that automatically refills the boiler when there's a pressure difference in the wrong direction I guess.
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by mackman 5y ago
This guy shards. This is the correct answer. "The social graph is tightly interconnected; it is not possible to group users so that cross-partition requests are rare. This means that each TAO follower must be local to a tier of databas
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by mackman 5y ago
Anyone have any recommendations for reading material for an experienced programmer that wants to learn how to start to write procedural music? My kid is both learning to program and learning to sequence music I would love to be able to teac
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by mackman 6y ago
If you’re a programmer and tired of being a cost center then work at a company where software is the product not a cost of doing business. Then you’ll find the company is focused on growing you and your team instead of trying to minimize yo
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by mackman 6y ago
That wasn't the one I was involved in but I suppose it's not surprising there's more examples.
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by mackman 6y ago
> in house engines are incredibly inflexible, they are made for one game only usually and it's a titanic amount of effort to use them for anything else Hah, one of the reasons I left the industry was I was frustrated that we were su
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by mackman 6y ago
I could see someone making a knockoff version of Gwent to sell on Google Play. In terms of the Red Engine code... the custom engine I'm familiar with was a nightmare in terms of the asset build pipeline and lack of documentation. If yo
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by mackman 6y ago
I don’t understand who would buy this. If you’re a game developer buying stolen code isn’t going to help you. Most of their titles are offline focused so I don’t see value in using the code to write cheats. I could see someone who hates the
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by mackman 6y ago
I'm not sure if FlightTracker completely replaced the need for the internal consistency inside Tao. You can read about that here: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-b...
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by mackman 6y ago
Close, IIRC we cached the fact you had just done a write, and a subsequent read request that arrived on the replica region was then proxied to the primary region instead of serviced locally.
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by mackman 6y ago
This article links to this more detailed post which I’d recommend: https://nod.ai/comparing-apple-m1-with-amx2-m1-with-neon/
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by mackman 6y ago
https://archive.is/eeksi
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by mackman 6y ago
My layman’s understanding is that doubling the payload quadruples the fuel requirement. So it is much more efficient to launch multiple rockets with a small amount of fuel than one big one with all the fuel you need. It’s the difference bet
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by mackman 6y ago
It’s one of my favorite games of all time. Unfortunately, like Myst, once you’ve played through, you know too much to truly appreciate it again. Wish there were more games like this.
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by mackman 6y ago
Wow interesting. I would have bet (and lost) that the seismic activity would have been at a such higher frequency that it wouldn’t have affected the 1Hz pendulum. I suppose either that is wrong or there’s also some much lower frequency ener
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by mackman 6y ago
IBM did this with the PowerPC chips used in the Playstation 3. It was a development headache but part of that was the low power cores were extremely limited... no shared memory so you had to DMA data over and double buffer. They ran mighty
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by mackman 6y ago
Is few years back I legit wanted to buy an AM/FM radio. I had A tiny one I loved to listen to while running that broke. I went into radio shack and asked if they, you know, sold radios. They did not. I was crestfallen.
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by mackman 7y ago
I have an MTV (manually triggered ventilator) in my O2 kit for a scuba diving emergencies. Of course my O2 supply is only good for about 15 minutes. Would this be of any assistance while waiting for an ENT to arrive?
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by mackman 7y ago
Anyone heard any rumblings about storage supply chain issues causing issues with cloud storage availability or pricing? I remember the floods in Thailand that caused a critical disk shortage in 2011. I’m worried that might happen again with
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by mackman 7y ago
> jpegtran can do some other things losslessly as well - flipping, cropping, rotating, transposing, converting to greyscale Ok so those are only lossless in specific situations when the image dimensions are a multiple of the dct block si
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by mackman 7y ago
I think this is kind of funny. Using floats and rounding at some fixed precision before rounding to penny precision is basically exactly the same as using integer multiples of whatever you're first rounding the float to. So you're
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by mackman 7y ago
Oh god this is a terrible idea when talking about identifying a suspect. You’re basically making an educated guess to construct evidence that could then be used to falsely accuse someone. Please don’t do this.
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by mackman 7y ago
They tried making a sequel. https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/bungie-s-cult-classi...
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by mackman 7y ago
I wonder if they are just trying to allow the exFat FUSE team to start working on the merge.
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by mackman 7y ago
I’ve been building SD card based Pi devices and the limiting factor in IO perf is the FUSE exFat implementation. There’s a leaked Samsung internal implementation that is over 2x as fast in my benchmarks. I can’t attest whether it’s the fact
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by mackman 7y ago
The Massachusetts RMV does the same thing and I was unable to find a way to opt out. You can’t drive a car without giving up your personal data to be sold to anyone who pays the RMV. So much junk mail.
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by mackman 8y ago
Can you pay for it through COBRA?
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by mackman 8y ago
I’m not sure you can make a membrane that does that? I get the sense there is a membrane that wicks the fluid around the surface of the tube so you always have to pull in liquid before the gas? Maybe that’s the same thing.

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