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by quincunx 7y ago
Love this, love the write up.. but on the amiga... the A500 had 6 bitplanes, not 5, also, with PAL being the most popular region, I'd say 320x256 was the more popular resolution over 320x200. 6 bitplanes are used for Hold and Modify (H
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by quincunx 7y ago
From the article: "we can't help but feel that Apple can do better—especially after seeing Microsoft perform some real engineering magic to make its latest laptops more repairable" Which leads to this link: https:/&#x2F
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by quincunx 7y ago
You're very kind to offer help like this, but from the article: "... the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best" quote seems apt.
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by quincunx 7y ago
Have you considered just adopting a faster cruising speed? Would this not solve all your problems by giving more room for error should someone behind you have to hit the brakes if you misjudge? Almost all cars can comfortably run 170 kph an
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by quincunx 8y ago
MS has had a tendency to do things differently for the sake of doing things differently (eg. for instance clip-space range/w from 0..1 instead of -1..1) but I love the candor in this document: "D3D9 and prior had a terrible Pixel
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by quincunx 8y ago
... and maximizing entropy makes for a terrible read. Good code, like child poetry, should be allowed to rhyme.
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by quincunx 9y ago
In this sense gene therapy is "disruptive innovation" in the Clayton M Christensen sense of the word: the incumbents cannot pursue the strategy as doing so eats into their profits. Does it take smaller, independent, outfits to pur
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by quincunx 9y ago
If they were being held back by the "legacy" parts of the OS, you might be right. But they're not being held back, rather, it's their unique selling point.. Arguably the legacy bits are the bits that work, the modern bit
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by quincunx 9y ago
Interference of a 193nm wave can only yield a 193nm wave, it being additive. I'm curious what is done to get to 7nm.
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by quincunx 9y ago
Really curious, how can - from a signal processing perspective - 100 applications of a 193 nm wave, come to define 7 nm features? This can't be additive, is there some form of modulation going on on the surface of the silicon? Anyone k
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by quincunx 9y ago
Just for completeness, AmigaBASIC, which came standard with the OS, is also one of these BASICs that were written by Microsoft.
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by quincunx 9y ago
ok, two other things that may be throwing you off, the input is a filesize, not a width, the result of filesize / 3 is always an integer (even if float representation,) and the result of sqrt(filesize/3) is also always an integer
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by quincunx 9y ago
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ Steam measures 98% Windows, 1.56% OSX.
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by quincunx 9y ago
toTest should be 128 * 128 * 3 to reflect 128 by 128 pixels of 3 bytes each, as would be the file size. edit: just to add, I think "width = sqrt(filesize/3)" would be a better version for newbies. Even better would be to repl
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by quincunx 9y ago
From the comments that precede it (3DPlatformer/platformer.c line 89-91), I think the idea is that the input is the size (in bytes) of the bitmap W * H * 3, where W == H and W is a power of two. So the input for a square bitmap as the
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by quincunx 9y ago
I don't know what jorgemf is referring to but I own the same laptop. It's bad at switching between the intel and nvidia GPUs, most notably in Chrome it even causes lockups. Pretty sad they haven't resolved it yet, out of the
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by quincunx 9y ago
There's this wonderful book, "Corporate Culture & Performance" by John P. Kotter - the biggest take-away for me was that companies under stress to perform will generally cargo-cult their behavior from successful times. IB
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by quincunx 9y ago
To just get it done? To win dirty? To just ship it? Why would a carpenter have to learn masonry to build a house? Because it makes for a better house? He might never make the house, better to build it out of wood.
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by quincunx 9y ago
While I understand the desire to have 2% inflation across the economy, wouldn't the individual parties prefer to hold their cash in a deflationary currency? Put differently and going fast forward; how can you have a mildly inflating cu
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by quincunx 9y ago
That would cover a replay attack, but not a man in the middle attack (as the mitm would just intercept the new port knock pattern.)
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by quincunx 9y ago
rocambolesque adj.: Suggestive of Rocambole, a character in the novels of the French author Ponson du Terrail (1829–71), renowned for his improbable and fanciful adventures; incredible, fantastic, bizarre. https://en.oxforddictio
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by quincunx 9y ago
I always wondered how they benefit from this... Balance sheet valuation of the property? Accepting a lower rent might require a write-down of the asset, perhaps even putting the real-estate investor under water if they're leveraged?
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by quincunx 10y ago
Re: brave publishing it like this I wonder if he could (potentially) be prosecuted for it; the exchange includes "information reasonably assumed confidential." Artikel 85 Wet op de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten 2002 http:&
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by quincunx 10y ago
I see what you're saying, however they don't seem to be "strangling" Gecko in the Strangler-pattern sense of the word. Rather it seems they're borrowing smaller pieces (Stylo) written in a foreign language and integ
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by quincunx 10y ago
Wasn't Mozilla the open source version of Netscape Communicator, rather than a rewrite?
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by quincunx 10y ago
This seems apt: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... Mozilla spending time on this suggests Mozilla doesn't know what to spend time on.
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by quincunx 10y ago
A lot of these reports are for "fob"s. Does anyone know what that means in this context?
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by quincunx 11y ago
Made me curious enough to find the price, perhaps I'm not looking right, are you calling the "Amiga Explorer" program of $9.95 "very expensive" (found here: http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/ ) or
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by quincunx 11y ago
Also, if you download the zip, there's yet another email address. This man clearly has no problem with being reached. So though I have to say I still feel sharing email should be the owner's choice, in this particular case, little
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by quincunx 11y ago
Correct me where I'm wrong and sorry to ask or be "that guy," but is it appropriate to post someone's email address without their consent? Googled around for a bit, it does not seem to be public information.

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