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by q-big 4y ago
> Is that any faster than modern versions of Photoshop today? I seriously doubt that. Consider that Velocity Engine is another marketing term for AltiVec, PowerPC's SIMD instruction set. The Pentium III only supported SSE, which wa
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by q-big 4y ago
> but the features 99% of users need are all here. I cannot believe this, in particular for the comparison Excel vs. LibreOfice Calc: the latter is used insanely actively in the finance and insurance industries, thus any proper user samp
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by q-big 4y ago
> It's a contentious issue in AppSec where most vendors want you to upload source code to their cloud for anything other than the most basic of scans. Write the source code in some Assembler language (or even binary code ;-) ). Or u
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On the other hand: "Garbage collection vs. ARC" https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#gc (Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139610 ) This (sub)headline only makes
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by q-big 4y ago
> Isn’t reference counting a type of garbage collection? Reference counting leads to memory leaks if cycles occur. Garbage collection algorithms don't have this problem.
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Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”(blog.adacore.com)
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by q-big 4y ago
> never going to really be available for a hobbyist to learn That's not true: here is the pricing for the Home and Hobby licenses: > https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/home-hobby/ These pr
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by q-big 4y ago
That's not true: here is the pricing for the Home and Hobby licenses: > https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/home-hobby/ These prices are not cheap, but affordable if you are serious about your
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by q-big 4y ago
> Doesn't the baseband processor exclusively handle the mobile communications? Formerly, yes. But from 4G phones on, they rather communicate via DMA, i.e. the baseband part of the SoC has full access to the device's memory. Als
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by q-big 4y ago
> a cell phone that is under the control of the user (and no, a "global single-sign on" sounds absolutely worse than "web3" <- whatever that is). The FCC does not allow this because of their certification requireme
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Why?
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by q-big 4y ago
> are there any non-crypto examples? Cryptography is the basis of Web 3.0, so in a formal sense there is none. But I think that you rather want an example that is a little farther away from finance markets. Consider, for example, the (in
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by q-big 4y ago
> We’ve had it for years: tor’s .onion sites. And look how popular they are… when was the last time you visited one? Don't ask this kind of rhetorical question on HN - HN is exactly where you can find a lot of audience that can hone
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by q-big 4y ago
According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/2884200 map and dictionary are just terms for the same data structure concept. On the other hand: there exist other backings for this data structure than hashing the key, such a
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by q-big 4y ago
> but if the DS course is your first exposure to a hash map, it's a detail that can easily get lost in the huge forest of other brand new things to learn. My experience differs: It is the common situation that the theory is taught i
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by q-big 4y ago
> someone who had done pretty well in our DS > Him: “I can’t. I need to be able to get both the key and the value and hash tables don’t store the key” How could he do well in the data structures class? This is the definition of a hash
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by q-big 4y ago
For me, it is the other way round. Thus: YMMV
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by q-big 4y ago
> I am done with the whole "If not happy, move" and want to figure out what we can do to educate/force these banks to do the correct way. Start a coordinated shitstorm against these banks because of this. Banks (as many co
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by q-big 4y ago
> This trend of browsers to increasingly lie to me about what I'm looking at is infuriating. The browser does not lie to you, it just does not show the MIME type of the content. I do agree that it would make sense that the browser s
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by q-big 4y ago
This program can be simplified further: MOV AH, 9 MOV DX, str INT 21 RET str: DB 'hello, world', d, A, '$' Why can MOV AH, 0 INT 21 be replaced by RET? Here is the answer: https://sta
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by q-big 4y ago
> Only if the company is able to execute on something useful with those people. First: finding useful projects to do with the employees is what managers are for. Second: if you read into HN threads for the past few years, you know that
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by q-big 4y ago
> Generally markets expect during a down turn, slimming of staff, focusing on the core fundamentals, and improving net operations. Why? In particular when the general market of the sector is in a downturn, quite some great people are typ
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by q-big 4y ago
Don't forget that the likely reason why the capability to change the CPUID was introduced by AMD in its processors is that Intel (mis)used the CPUID feature via its compiler making the compiled program run faster if it runs on an Intel
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by q-big 4y ago
> People need empathy for the customer. One possible way to do that is mix up roles but like many other commenters have pointed out, that may not always be the best use of their time. Rather: if you want your developers to become deeply
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by q-big 4y ago
> I believe the thinking is: "This is a great filter to ensure we only get great and passionate people!" Assume this were true. Even if this were the case, this might backfire: "passionate" easily works against a c
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> It's kind of shocking a few solo developers can make a better mobile experience than anyone at Reddit. Don't you rather believe that the reason why Reddit's user experience is worse is that Reddit has economic incentives
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by q-big 4y ago
> and there has to be an incentive for devs to make the switch Why make the devs switch ? It would be much more in the spirit of Microsoft (opposed to the common spirit of Apple and GNU/Linux) to encourage to develop parallelly f
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by q-big 4y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... for a list of estimated development and marketing costs for various AAA games.
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by q-big 4y ago
> It is astonishing to me that people are out there buying Intel PC laptops when the M1 MBA can be had for <$1000 Can the M1 MBA run Windows? EDIT: Or can it run GNU/Linux natively (see https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by q-big 4y ago
> On a AAA game, you can afford to hire a couple of medievalists and get these details correct. The financing of AAA titles is actually rather tight; the fact that AAA titles hardly ever do experiments in gameplay and the fact that in ma

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