mrob

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by mrob 3y ago
And it's still broken, because the "Paste and Go" feature doesn't work. Common sense suggests "Paste and Go" would be equivalent to using "Paste" (which correctly inserts text from the clipboard at th
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by mrob 3y ago
Bring back theming. It used to be that most applications would respect user color preferences. I like the old "Hot Dog Stand"[0] theme from Windows 3.1, because it's an implicit acknowledgement that it's not the OS'
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by mrob 3y ago
I tested that ECC was working on my Zen 3 + ASRock B550 setup by gradually undervolting the RAM more and more, and running Memtester[0] each time until Linux reported corrected errors. [0] https://pyropus.ca./software/m
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by mrob 3y ago
Agreed. Reliability is the most important part of "reliability, availability and serviceability"[0]. Error correction is nice to have, but even simple parity checking is much better than nothing. I'd rather halt with a kernel
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by mrob 3y ago
You don't need "quasi-open-source" to solve the coordination problem you describe. It can be solved with a threshold pledge system[0]. People agree to donate money, and the developer agrees to release the code once sufficient
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by mrob 3y ago
>The filesystem where my files reside should already be a fully-distributed filesystem covering all the devices I own I'd rather not set up the possibility for a single software bug to destroy all my data at once. Even if you have g
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by mrob 3y ago
I'm not convinced that 8-bit computers are the ideal starting point for education. My reasoning is that Dijkstra had a point when he wrote: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior
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by mrob 3y ago
The maximum safe temperature for PTFE is uncertain, with many conflicting sources. Depending on your risk tolerance, you might accept anywhere from 200C to 250C. The former is easy to exceed by accident (personally tested using an IR thermo
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by mrob 3y ago
Magnetic amplifiers existed before triodes, dating back to at least 1885: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier However, these have the major drawback that they can only control the amplitude of an AC signal
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by mrob 3y ago
William Sethares developed a model of consonance and dissonance based around alignment of harmonics (or partials; it generalizes to inharmonic sounds). Original paper: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance
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by mrob 3y ago
They're small enough that I can imagine people holding onto them. The hollow construction also reduces the quantity of metal used. And it's possible that we find other training pieces but don't recognize them as such, because
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by mrob 3y ago
I like the theory that it's an examination piece to qualify as a master metalworker. Casting a flawless dodecahedron could have been a way to demonstrate your skill. The shape is somewhat arbitrary: anything that's both difficult
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by mrob 3y ago
JAMMA connectors used RGB video, not composite.
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by mrob 3y ago
>The fact they’re commemorated in the Wiltshire chalk makes it even more Pratchettian. To explain, Pratchett lived in Broad Chalke, only a few miles from Fovant. As somebody curious about many things, and living so close to them, I think
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by mrob 3y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
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by mrob 3y ago
If you're interested in this, Colin Pykett has a web site containing many detailed articles about the physics and history of pipe organs: https://www.colinpykett.org.uk/completed_work.htm
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by mrob 3y ago
I don't think a pipe organ is a particularly close approximation of a human voice, because there's no musically controlled dynamic expression within the note. By this I mean each pipe can only produce the sound of the note turning
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by mrob 3y ago
Which is strange, considering that Psalm 150 specifically encourages drums and dance in religious worship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_150
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by mrob 3y ago
It's possible to buffer whole frames, but there's no technical requirement to do so. Gaming LCDs update line by line.
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by mrob 3y ago
CRTs have better refresh characteristics at the same refresh rate, which is relevant to NES Tetris because it runs at a fixed 60.1Hz (slightly faster than NTSC). But LCDs are available with higher refresh rate than CRTs, so if the software
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by mrob 3y ago
This applies only to small molecule PFAS, not PFAS polymers, which are about as inert as you can get. You need the small molecules to make the polymers, but there's no reason you need to release them into the environment. Strong regula
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by mrob 3y ago
KLH audio hosts an article explaining Hofmann's Iron Law: https://klhaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/loudspeaker-... Also, even if efficiency was not a concern (maybe you don't pay for you
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by mrob 3y ago
True, but I don't really see the point. They're better than before, but the laws of physics dictate they'll never be good. If I can't use good speakers I'd rather use headphones. Sacrificing efficiency doesn't
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by mrob 3y ago
You occasionally see remasters going against the trend and increasing dynamic range. Earache Records has several high dynamic range versions of classic metal albums on Bandcamp.
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by mrob 3y ago
You can only have decent sound with small speakers if you don't care about bass. Intentionally adding bass distortion to trick unsophisticated listeners into thinking there's more bass than there really is won't fool anybody
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by mrob 3y ago
The obvious solution is to permit corporations the same free speech as natural persons, but revoke their limited liability protections if they tell lies. AFAIK there's no constitutional requirement to let natural persons escape the har
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by mrob 3y ago
>> RAM speed does not matter. The processing time is identical with DDR-6000 and DDR-4000 RAM. That's referring specifically to prompt processing, which uses a batch processing optimization not used in normal inference. The proce
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by mrob 3y ago
LLM inference is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth. You'll probably get identical speed with cheaper CPUs.
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by mrob 3y ago
According to the Free Software Definition: "Source code is defined as the preferred form of the program for making changes in. Thus, whatever form a developer changes to develop the program is the source code of that developer's v
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by mrob 3y ago
Doom used fixed point math, not floating point math. It didn't run well on a 386 SX simply because 386 SXs were slow, but it would run without FPU emulation, and at better than 1 FPS.

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