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SIGGRAPH 2024: Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games(advances.realtimerendering.com)
1 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
On the subject of prioritizing EDA: I need to look this up, but I recall in the 90s a social psychology journal briefly had a policy of "if you show us you're handling your data ethically, you can just show us a self-explanatory p
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by nxobject 1y ago
A small thing, but I found the author's project-organization practices useful – creating individual .prompt files for system prompt, background information, and auxiliary instructions [1], and then running it through `llm`. It reveals
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by nxobject 1y ago
One reason why the TFA might have chosen the Plus: the SE and SE/30 consolidate a lot of glue logic that are on PALs that can be cracked into not-so-easy to crack ASICs. The SE/30 has a notorious “GLUE” chip that has 80 pins, and
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Tour of the MIT AI Lab (1993) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
I always have Windows on Parallels on a Mac, too – unfortunately VirtualBox for arm64 Mac isn't quite there yet.
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by nxobject 1y ago
For what it’s worth, this wasn’t the first Japanese-localized Mac with Kanji fonts - Canon modified a 512k Mac by adding an extra ROM board and called ugh the Dynamac. http://g00nejp.fc2web.com/Macintosh_CM/index.html
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by nxobject 1y ago
In an ideal world, this would require us as programmers to lean into our codebase reading and augmentation skills – currently underappreciated anyway as a skill to build. But when the incentives lean towards write-only code, I'm not op
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by nxobject 1y ago
> The elephant in the room is of course ZGC, which has been delivering great improvements in lowering the Stop-the-world GC pauses. I've seen it consistently deliver sub-millisecond pauses whereas other algorithms would usually do 4
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by nxobject 1y ago
Third best consistently used over 3 decades adds up to a great, great deal. Although, to be fair, a great deal has been invested in cutting edge GCs for the JVM – some fresh out of research.
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by nxobject 1y ago
One way to get around non-deterministic behavior: run $ODD_NUMBER different implementations of a function at the same time, and take a majority vote, taking a leaf from aerospace. After all, we can always trust the wisdom of the crowds, rig
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by nxobject 1y ago
> You don't even know why you want the US mail to continue, but you're scared that if it stopped bad things would happen. They have virtually no value whatsoever, and whatever infinitesimal value remains is sabotaged by their o
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Human-as-datapath is a fantastic idea for learning the basics of not just programming, but of microarchitecture. Once you start thinking, "hey, I could make a machine/circuit/etc. to do all of this stuff that I'm do
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Delivery of what? A host of niche but useful services like election mail, delivery of official documents, and prescriptions. They'll never add up to the volume or economic profitability of junk mail, but they have inherent value –
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Oklahoma Draft Standards Ask Students to Find 2020 Election 'Discrepancies'(edweek.org)
2 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Don't we all believe that! I think the challenge to do it politically without ending up getting entangled into culture warring over urbanisation (e.g. "15 minute city" conspiracy theories [1]). The best we can do is endless s
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by nxobject 1y ago
I wonder whether any interesting HTML injection tricks could be done by exploiting autocorrect in the same way.
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by nxobject 1y ago
More charitably, it's a cost-sharing scheme for last-mile delivery to rural communities and deep suburban sprawl – as, to be fair, is often true for other rural services with significant federal funding like healthcare and higher educa
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by nxobject 1y ago
I'd argue that its passport services are a success – at this point, delivering random services at POs would have few downsides.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Not quite - the VAX-11/780 relied on what was essentially a LSI PDP-11/03 as a general purpose glue processor (the “console interface board”) for the CPU initialization sequence, console and floppy I/O, and other assorted tas
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by nxobject 1y ago
The author’s a little bit too optimistic about the longevity of old consumer market computers: having collected vintage compact Macs, you become keenly aware of all of the possible points of failure like CRT displays, storage devices, and e
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On Pope Leo's Desk: Fixing Vatican Finances(pillarcatholic.com)
8 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk's Boring Company Is in Talks with Government over Amtrak Project(nytimes.com)
8 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Most importantly, title is in Spanish!
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by nxobject 1y ago
Strange to realize that that's cost of a modern top-end workstation - a reminder that even after correcting for inflation, the absolute cost of technology has decreased significantly.
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How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope(nytimes.com)
28 points by nxobject 1y ago|9 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
As opposed to governments currently trying to lure Tesla in with subsidies, preferential tariff policy, etc.? (And, FWIW, an early source of revenue for Tesla _was_ subsidies. https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/blogs&#
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by nxobject 1y ago
Having been awarded a grant from DMS for an undergrad training program – the "broader impacts statement" was more obnoxious, and forced. There are other issues that affect our ability to do good science, and the "broadening p
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by nxobject 1y ago
It would be a cool tribute to redirect next.com to the Mac Studio product page, as the closet descendant of the NeXTcube. Similarly, Apple still has control of pasemi.com - if only Apple’s chip team had a similar webpage…
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by nxobject 1y ago
What does it mean for a movie to cross a border, if the IP ultimately belongs to an American production studio and for all effective purposes its final assembly happens in the US?

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