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by phire 4y ago
Probably GIMP. Last time tried to use GIMP, I spend about an hour trying to work out how to remove an alpha channel without also applying it. I could clearly see the image I wanted in the red, green and blue channels. But because the alpha
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by phire 4y ago
Even for media focused websites, this 14KB rule is probably still worth following. Not for the whole web page, obviously. But you should still be aiming to maximize the impact of that first 14KB. Ideally you want to deliver enough for the f
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by phire 4y ago
Reading between the lines: It seems like one of the primary reasons why Blueprints are well-loved in Unreal Engine, is that the only mainstream alternative is full-on c++ (and it's not an easy c++ codebase to work with). But without th
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by phire 4y ago
I believe they use active cooling to keep the plug frozen. If the power fails, the cooling fails and the plug melts.
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by phire 4y ago
Keep in mind that Mesa actually implements most of OpenGL for you. Its not like you are implementing a whole OpenGL driver from scratch, you are mostly implementing a hardware abstraction layer. My understanding is that this hardware abstra
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by phire 4y ago
The complexity with the firmware split across the main CPU and a coprocessor seems to be a historical artefact. Seems the DCP driver was originally all on the main CPU, and when apple got these cheap coprocessor cores, they took a lazy appr
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by phire 4y ago
> It's a bit annoying to get the list of packages needed though, since there is not really any working dependency management. Sounds like someone should just create a wrapper that catches file opens of uninstalled dependencies and
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by phire 4y ago
People did actually start calling WW1 "The first world war" long before WW2 started. There is even few instances of that terminology going back to 1914. They were pessimistic there would be more.
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by phire 4y ago
On top of what danans calculates, they are currently researching solar reactors that convert biomass directly into biofuel with sunlight, skipping the losses and costs of converting sunlight to electricity with regular PV solar.
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by phire 4y ago
Interesting. That's actually very achievable. I'll point out you couldn't just park it at L1. If it's deflecting the solar wind, then it's acting as a solar sail. You would need active propulsion to keep it on sta
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by phire 4y ago
Are you saying that sustainable synthetic fuels can't exist? Or don't current exist? Because those are two very different statements.
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by phire 4y ago
It used afterburners for takeoff and accelerating through Mach 1.
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by phire 4y ago
Boom were previously targeted a cruising speed of Mach 2.2, I wonder why they lowered it to Mach 1.7 with the latest design update. Might be related selecting an engine. The previous version of the design had a fantasy engine that didn&#x27
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by phire 4y ago
Some teens buy old and cheap iphones that aren't really useable. And then they leave them plugged in at home and forward the messages to their Android device. Just so that they show up as a blue bubble on their friends phones.
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by phire 4y ago
You are probably right about meme/gifs (or xkcd comics) anywhere near the top indicating a low-quality post. Though they are fine if you can get a few pages in before finding memes/comics. Meme style gifs below the fold... probabl
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by phire 4y ago
Yes and no. The hardware obviously supports it, but the android SDK doesn't provide a way for userspace software to implement new devices, so you are stuck with the devices already there. And you really want this to work on any phone t
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by phire 4y ago
I don't think you can get much smaller than a USB C flash drive, and then might as well put the whole dataset on it. I think you want multiple APKs as part of the database (or databases, so each phone isn't required to contain the
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by phire 4y ago
Yes. And your commercial license can still offer the source code. Unreal engine is an example of such a licence. Anyone can access the source code for free (just need to jump though a hoop of signing up of an account and agreeing to the ter
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by phire 4y ago
A 2 watt CPU seems liker massive overkill, you really don't need that much CPU power. I'm reminded of PDAs from the 90s that could run for almost a month on a single set of AA batteries. If you were designing a devices from scratc
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by phire 4y ago
If you want to go down that rabbit hole, I think you are better-off just relying on the ubiquity of android phones. Instead of preloading an e-reader. Preload a usb-c flash drive with various databases, and an APK with the software to read&
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by phire 4y ago
The development of the Avro Manchester (and then Lancaster) was a bit of a mess. The first Manchester prototype flew just five weeks before WW2 started, and might have been rushed into production. But there were major flaws with the reliabi
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by phire 4y ago
It's complicated to call a c++ library from rust. You actually have to wrap all the c++ functions in c functions, and then call those c functions from rust. Which requires either making manual wrappers, or automated wrapping tools that
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by phire 4y ago
Carbon is probably Gamedev's best chance of moving beyond c++ But you are going to need some minimal buy-in from Microsoft first, if not Sony and Nintendo too. The great thing about carbon is that you can incrementally shift a codebase
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by phire 4y ago
I have been burned many times in the past by "the compiler is allowed to optimise something away". You write your code assuming such an optimisation will happen, and for some reason, the compiler decides not to apply the optimisat
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by phire 4y ago
No, they need to keep the CO2 gas pure, so they can pressurize it again. That's what the dome is for, storing the uncompressed gas. Presumably there is a much smaller metal pressure vessel for storing the liquid CO2.
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by phire 4y ago
So interesting, the actual edge servers work. But the Key/Value store that all cloudflare's configuration data lives on is giving 500 errors
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by phire 4y ago
Oh... this explains why discord is down.
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by phire 4y ago
Or the cores are much, much simpler than Intel's cores, and designed for higher clock speeds.
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by phire 4y ago
Stable-coins should be drifting slightly-high during mass-selloffs of the more volatile cryptocurrencies, as more people try to get onto stable ground. And if you check the "slightly" more reputable stable coins like USDC, TUSD an
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by phire 4y ago
That was something different and much, much simpler. The pay-tv channels would be broadcast unscrabled, unencrypted to the whole cable network. But they would install notch filters at every subscriber's house to prevent the frequencies

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