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by phire 2y ago
It would be nice. Though, as a life-long Android user, I've been jealously looking at how long apple have actually been supporting their iPhones (at least since the iPhone 6) and I'm seriously considering switching. The 6S, 7, 8 a
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by phire 2y ago
It can't exist. Presume this compressor guarantees the output will always be at least one byte smaller (with the exception of the impossible to find input) So just keep running your data in a loop through the compressor. If you start w
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by phire 2y ago
There is reasonably strong evidence that writing actually evolved out of accounting. These early agricultural city-states needed to track the seasonal collection of harvests from the farmers, and continual distribution of food back to every
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by phire 2y ago
Trumpet Winsock works on a 286, but apparently NCSA Mosaic version 2.0 needed Win32s. So I guess there would have been a time in 1994 where many people were forced to retire their 286es. Though Mosaic was quickly replaced by Netscape Naviga
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by phire 2y ago
One of the major motivations for windows, is that the driver situation for DOS really sucked. Every single office suite had to talk directly to printers. Text mode was reasonably uniform, but printing graphics required the application to kn
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by phire 2y ago
A good anti-cheat solution needs both client side and server side components, they complement each other. You also need active human involvement, both as moderators and evolving the anti-cheat technology over time.
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by phire 2y ago
The same rules apply to the steam ID and IP address. As far as I'm aware, you can get away with disclosing the fact that you are tracking "unique identifiers for the purpose of anti-cheating" in the terms and conditions, with
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by phire 2y ago
Noise cancelling headphones are probably the wrong analogy here. The better example is the differential signalling used in professional audio and many digital signaling protocols like Ethernet, HDMI and USB. Instead of using one wire, refer
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by phire 2y ago
More importantly, this deal allows them to avoid bankruptcy proceedings. In the worst case, a bankruptcy could end up clawing back any "tidy profits" that were previously paid out to company owners.
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by phire 2y ago
We are only talking about "fast" relative to normal planetary timescales. My understanding is that it would still take hundreds of years for the solar wind to strip away the atmosphere. If a civilisation had the technology to quic
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by phire 2y ago
> max 64 chars “should” requirement? vs. no truncation?* There kind of needs to be a truncation at some point. Otherwise there is a risk of an attacker triggering a denial-of-service attack by sending multi-gigabyte passwords.
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by phire 2y ago
> Hitachi developed 4 generations of SuperH. Technically it's only three generations, as the SH-1 and SH-2 were launched at the same time. The SH-1 was a stripped down basic model, missing a few instructions like 32-bit multiplica
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by phire 2y ago
The capture mechanic was introduced all the way back in the first Pokemon game, which was released in 1996. As patents only last 20 years, it should have expired years ago. My understanding is that the patent must be filed before public dem
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by phire 2y ago
It lists languages designed by commercial companies too. The main reason it avoids showing languages created by individuals is that it can be hard to narrow down their location. Also, it would count as doxing.
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by phire 2y ago
Two main reasons: 1. Self custody is hard. You need to understand how to setup a wallet. If you lose the keys to that wallet, your money is gone. Opening an account on an exchange is so much easier, and there is usually a way to reset your
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by phire 2y ago
1 instruction per cycle? No, that's only possible with pipelining. We are talking about instructions which took 8-12 cycles to complete.
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by phire 2y ago
> I think the App Store resonated a lot more with people back then rather than the iPhone as a device You are forgetting, there was no App Store when the iPhone launched. Apple was originally against the idea of Apps. The App Store lau
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by phire 2y ago
Yeah, I agree. This ruling is a natural consequence of the NetChoice ruling. Social media companies can't have it both ways. > If that were the case, then their algorithms would enjoy no 1A protection from government regulation. W
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by phire 2y ago
It's worth noting that personalisation isn't moderation, An app like TikTok needs both. Personalisation simply matches users with the content the algorithm thinks they want to see. Moderation (which is typically also an algorithm)
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by phire 2y ago
And none of the fatalities were the fault of the aircraft. One crashed on the runway after pilot error, killing three people (two of them weren't wearing seatbelts) One was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile, killing all on b
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by phire 2y ago
Yes, it's true. Direct3D had a retained mode up until version 3.0, but the only examples of it ever being used in a commercially successful game was LEGO Island and LEGO Rock Raiders. Instead of supplying all the draw commands every fr
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by phire 2y ago
Aircraft carriers have two systems. The Instrument Carrier Landing System (ICLS) is basically just an upgraded version of the civilian ILS which they squashed down onto a ship. It broadcasts a beam of radio waves into the air and any aircra
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by phire 2y ago
In theory, you can broadcast different signals on different frequencies, one per aircraft.
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by phire 2y ago
Oh... yes. I had a total brainfart there and started thinking about the time for a pixel (which is 10 bits).
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by phire 2y ago
HSTX has a built in TMDS encoder, and as far as I can tell, it has all the functionality of the SIO TMDS encoder. You can configure it to directly consume any line buffer with any pixel format, from 1 to 8 bits per color channel. It even su
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by phire 2y ago
And HSTX is actually pretty flexible. Nowhere near as flexible as PIO, but it can repeat pixels by itself (though, it uses the shift, so you can either pack multiple pixels per 32-bit word, or repeat pixels, not both). Scanline doubling&#x2
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by phire 2y ago
Probably. Especially with the HSTX block which can apparently output at double the system clock (while the rp2040 was limited to 1/10th of the system) If my rough math is correct, it should be possible to do output 720p 60hz video with
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by phire 2y ago
The main advantage of the SIO TMDS encoder, is that it allows you to output TMDS on any GPIO, instead of the eight that the HSTX is restricted to. And they allow an easy upgrade path for projects that were already bit-banging DVI on the rp2
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by phire 2y ago
If it's meant to be a breath mint, why is it available in flavours other than mint, like Orange, Strawberry & cream and Tropical Adventure?
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by phire 2y ago
It does in sane countries where nutrition labels are required to also include the per-100g stats. But in North America, they only need to show the per-serving column. Combine that with the <0.5g rule and the fact they are allowed to pick

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