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by pedrocr 7y ago
> The fact that these have not been widely adopted by the community over the past several decades of their existence says all that needs saying about the community at large. The fact that someone hasn't adopted your favorite solut
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The community says no such thing, that's the insult. The community even has multiple options current and past to reduce frictions on using things that aren't packaged, or make packaging easier and updates faster. Your characteriza
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I could argue the other side, as there's definitely value in a well assembled distro. But I won't because you're essentially complaining about what other people do with their own time. If you don't like it don't use
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by pedrocr 7y ago
This is a bit annoying. Just collapsing the subthread would be a better option. Context is not lost and the same objective is served.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
>Also I don't really understand why anyone on Linux would want this. The fact that I can recompile all of the software I use, is a really important feature to me and not a distribution problem. I can see why Apple wanted this to si
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by pedrocr 7y ago
>Then you could publish a binary containing native versions for all existing architectures and be assured that it would also work for all future ports of the OS to other architectures without the need for recompilation. This may be a c
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by pedrocr 7y ago
It would make for good Sci-Fi premise as an explanation for the Great Filter[1]. Some advanced civilization keeps destroying planets that have life or are ideal for it but the first heuristic they use to do it fast doesn't catch all ca
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> 10-30ms is a bit optimistic, depending on how large you define a geography. Just checked my fiber connection and it has 2ms of latency. google.com is 18ms away. I'm in Portugal and seem to be routed to a Google server 400+ km aw
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by pedrocr 7y ago
>200ms latencies are not uncommon Those numbers match my experience a long time ago with Quake3 based games where you'd pick servers that are local to you and get 10-40ms latencies. > He designed for <200ms which by the fra
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by pedrocr 7y ago
By your numbers then the OP is right. Carmack says: the bottom line is that I was working with the wrong basic assumptions for doing a good internet game. My original design was targeted at <200ms connection latencies. People that have
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Unfortunately that has happened, but it's not for space or weight really. The T4x0s line has a very similar form factor to the X1 Carbon and used to have only half the RAM soldered. My ideal laptop would use that same form factor and h
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The specs look great except for a maximum of 16GB of RAM. Unfortunately higher-RAM options have been going away, particularly as manufacturers have moved to soldered RAM. The same has been happening with Thinkpads. I have a T460s with 20GB
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> By "conflating" I mean that Rust's memory management technology provides just one kind of multi-threading safety (i.e. "multiple readers/single-writer" model), but to implement other kinds of multi-thread
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by pedrocr 7y ago
You start your response with "No" but don't actually argue against anything I've said. > Rust is conflating memory safery and multithreading safety. Rust doesn't conflate anything. It just gets some multi-threa
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> Like Rust but without the need for Rc and Arc boxes. Rust gets us 80% of the way there. I think you're qualifying Rc/Arc as kludges to get around the type system. They may end up being used like that sometimes but when well
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by pedrocr 7y ago
>Rust features a lot of "cheating" - pointers that allow mutation from multiple threads You're confounding GC and synchronization of multi-threaded access here. What rust does with things like Arc other languages will ne
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by pedrocr 8y ago
This is a piece of code downloaded from Mozilla servers to re-enable extensions, which are other pieces of code you download from Mozilla servers. If your threat model includes not trusting Mozilla servers then you've presumably disabl
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>If I disable a security hole that you can drive a semi-truck through, I remain foobar'd. If I run my "secure" firefox configuration, with the security hole enabled, then they un-foobar me first. Before anyone else. So I
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The "fix" in the second link is amusing. The user had the clock wrong so the bug hit sooner. Adjusting the clock to the correct time "fixed" it but the issue is probably now back. Too bad there wasn't a root cause a
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>I’m a decent stick shift driver and I can’t imagine dealing with four pedals. Seems easy actually. These cars don't really have four pedals. Coulthard's had a clutch pedal but by this point (and to this day) F1 cars only use
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> want the result of that hard work to be retained in the framebuffer unless it absolutely needs to change I think immediate mode GUI libraries can get around this issue by still caching and reusing between frames. Conrod does this by st
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Conrod is an immediate mode GUI library for rust[1]. I've been using it for an image processing app[2] and have enjoyed the way the code turns out. Everything is much more straightforward as you don't have to reason about callback
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Thanks! Do you know what the equivalent latency number is for cable TV? The Twitter effect only applies for the difference between the two numbers.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You're giving an example that validates my point. Existing technologies already have widely variable delays (radio vs broadcast TV vs cable TV vs sattelite TV) and yet they're all in wide use. And you can't compare directly t
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The chord you're not cutting already has a large delay from live. If you're in the US even larger because besides the delay from the technology there's also intentional broadcast delay for censorship reasons.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
That's already an issue with radio vs TV which is where I'm getting the ~10 to 30 second value. Normal cable TV already has a bunch of delay and someone listening on the radio is often 15+ seconds ahead of you. This can be disrupt
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by pedrocr 8y ago
How low is ultra-low-latency that it's relevant for sports? Does anyone really care if their broadcast is 30 seconds delayed from live? I subscribe to both Formula 1 and MotoGP online streaming services and couldn't care less if t
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by pedrocr 8y ago
If you want to see how consumer cameras can take night video much better than your eyes look up Sony A7S video. Modern cameras have such clean output at high ISO that you can turn night into day with great quality. Modern consumer cameras h
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> I don't know of any 24-32-bit per channel sensors, and that's what you'd need. Dynamic range doesn't require bit depth. You can have an 8 bit sensor with 20 stops of dynamic range. You'll lose color/lumina
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by pedrocr 8y ago
You're swapping dynamic range and exposure control. Your examples of dark rooms and bright light sources are examples of great exposure control, not dynamic range. Dynamic range is the difference in light intensity from pure black to p

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