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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Circumstantial evidence that they used to: https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ These days they use special hardware accelerators: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/hardware&#x2
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
For twins specifically, have them checked for congenital muscular torticollis. Ours suffered from that and we only caught it due to an observant mother at a playground. It’s easily correctable if caught young. Raised three kids, each had a
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Yeah, they should have been tables. Even better, just one table for all locations, to encourage comparisons. Because each area currently shows different statistics, the article could be giving a distorted view, by showing just the most nega
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Blame music publishers. They are the ones raising prices and paying artists pennies. Spotify has no power to change this. Spotify is/was spending heavily on podcasts to try to create a new revenue stream with better economics.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Google Play Music was designed in a pre-streaming world, when albums were much more popular. Unfortunately, very few people use streaming services to listen to albums. It is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, but given the minuscule u
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Some good history-related podcasts that I recommend: History of Rome Revolutions History of Japan And the podcast-like YouTube video series “Computer History Museum Oral Histories”.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
I think the trend started with iPhone. Probably due to a combination of skeuomorphic design and needing a control that was easier to activate using touch. See this page for Apple’s guidance on when to use toggle vs checkbox: https:/&#
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
I don’t think C++ and inheritance based OOP inherently doomed Pink. BeOS was also C++/OOP, and NextStep/macOS’s use of ObjectiveC/OOP is very similar to C++/OOP, since pre-ARC Objective C is similar to C++ with a slightl
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Linus Torvalds recently explained a deeper reason why stack architectures are unsuccessful/unpopular: they do not handle messy control flow well: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=207836&curpost...
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
That is a cool toy. The 70s had some great toys. But IMO the coolest 70s Christmas gifts were video game consoles and early home computers.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
I think the author was smarter than that. They used profiling tools to identify the bottlenecks, then used much smaller/faster test cases to fix the bottlenecks.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
I’m guessing the organization incentives are against investigating/fixing random crashes. It might be unscheduled, or seen as “test” or “qa” or “ops” work. Try working with management to set up a way to reward the behavior you want to
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Your heart is clearly invested in this project. But compare the wordiness of your doc to a primary source like https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc17... You should ask yourself “why am I
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
A labor of love that would benefit from reorganization and editing. It could also use a round of fact checking. Some of the info appears to be based on third-hand speculation.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling were in full swing during that era. The thing about exponential growth is that most of the gains come at the end. The Alto cost $100K in 1973, the price for equivalent hardware halved every 18 months. That’s
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Similar to a research university. Many PARC researchers left PARC to commercialize their inventions.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Given 1970 hardware CPU and RAM costs that doesn’t seem possible. Unless you count something like the telephone, where all the smarts are elsewhere.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Right time, right problem, good management, enormous funds, Bay Area hippie culture, access to Stanford, uninterrupted time, and luck. At PARC they were able to peer 10 years into the future. That was a big deal for 1969-1979. Looking 10 ye
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Jeff Dean has responded on the original Reddit thread. Clarified the experiment’s purpose, results, and pointed out that researchers could conduct the experiment at a much lower cost than the OP’s estimate.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Would want to look at how people use Power Shell on Windows and compare to how people use bash/tools/procfs/Python/C on *nix. I think that, on *nix, Power Shell loses to cli tools/bash/procfs for trivial proble
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Great work, but a significant fraction of the improvement comes from installing and using the 4MB RAM expansion pak, which isn’t really a fair comparison.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
All three runtimes are/were regularly compromised, so there’s no fundamental difference between them. Flash suffered from not having a spec other than its implementation. Made it hard to fix bugs while being backwards compatible
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
There was a strong pro-OpenGL faction at Microsoft. Their goal was to support ports of Unix OpenGl apps to Windows NT. That the resulting OpenGL driver also supported 3D games was mostly an unintended side effect.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
You’re in luck in that the development of Quake is pretty well documented. Both through a book and Carmack’s plan files https://github.com/oliverbenns/john-carmack-plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
In California, if an employment test is passed at different rates by different races or genders, that in itself is considered evidence of illegal discrimination. Employers use a college degree requirement as a proxy for competency that does
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Different family cultures. Some families value education more, plan ahead more, and sacrifice current consumption for their children’s future more than others. Small differences compound over time.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Not really. The “I guess we’re not shipping that phone” quote was about not shipping the Blackberry-clone Sooner device, but the full-screen touch-first “dream” prototype was already on the drawing board. Android source code is publicly ava
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
It’s the curse of cross platform development. Apple TV has a tiny user base. It’s not economical to do much custom development for it. So streaming apps tend to treat it as another “smart tv”, which means very limited features.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Lines up fairly well with the introduction and spread of substance agriculture, which is thought to produce less healthy individuals than hunter-gathering. Farmers won because they were more numerous than hunters, not because they were indi
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
I think the confusing example is assuming just distance estimation, not angles. If angles were used the estimate would be much more precise.

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