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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
IIRC, GPM stored user uploads in MP3. If you uploaded a non-MP3 file, it was transcoded into a MP3 during upload. It is this file that GPM takeout is providing. Separate from that, GPM matched your uploaded MP3 file against the service musi
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
There was a third team from WebTV, that was based around the team that designed the 3DO M2. That team lost the original Xbox internal design contest, but went on to design the 360 and later Xbox consoles. The Dreamcast WinCE project did con
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
No, what happens is they eat the paint chips, because lead is sweet. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/health-matt...
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
The article title is not very accurate. The 4004 was an evolutionary dead-end. The later, unrelated, 8008 design was a much more important chip. But the 4004 was the first successful COTS microprocessor, which is why it is remembered.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
MIT also switched from Scheme to Python for undergraduate CS programming courses. They did it for the libraries and ease of use.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Surprisingly positive reviews.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
The game has been ported it to the original PlayStation: https://reddit.com/r/PlaystationClassic/comments/pesjua/i_po...
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Small-C was the best one with open source, but there were many others. This one was my favorite: https://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
From reading the two press releases, Perlmutter is 3.5 Exaflops vs Google TPUv4 at 1 Exaflop. Who knows how that compares in real life on real problems.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Yes, exactly. See this lwn article for more discussion of ossification: https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
I was told that Jazelle was not popular because it was complicated/expensive to license and slower than JITing. (Basically Jazelle was a hardware interpreter for a subset of Java byte code.)
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
The Microsoft contractors double-dipped. They got higher-than-employee wages during their contracts, and later got all the stock options they gave up by being contractors. Nice work if you can get it.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
Or they could not hire them at all. This is a version of a minimum wage, and runs into the same tradeoffs between economic growth and social fairness.
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by randomifcpfan 5y ago
This is all due to Microsoft contractors (who were treated like regular employees in the 80s and 90s) winning a lawsuit that retroactively forced Microsoft to give them a ton of stock. Companies now have to be rude to contractors to avoid a
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
The different case results had nothing to do with the relative size of Google vs Microsoft vs Sun. Microsoft lost because Microsoft had signed a contract with Sun, and was found to have broken the terms of the contract. Google never signed
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Ben Evans has thought about this: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/5/21/office-mes... I could quote at length but basically for most people there are now better ways of doing work than using
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Transputer (and later Cell) was a bet that SMP with cache coherency would be too difficult to implement. Here’s a long explanation from Linus Torvalds of why we’re not using architectures like Transputer any more: https://www.rea
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Raises the point that low end (and therefore extremely common in developing world) Android phones are about as powerful as iPhones from 2011. Developers testing by using high end Android phones (which are like iPhones from 2019) are acciden
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The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021(infrequently.org)
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
TvOS is 90% the same as iOS, and has almost no viable application market besides video streaming apps. Unfortunately that means there are almost no docs or classes on programming it. The occasional WWDC presentation is all there is.
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Oh, I see. The new news is that the course materials other than the videos have now been posted.
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Old news? These excellent videos have been posted on Stanford’s YouTube channel for 8 months: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpGHT1n4-mAtTj9oywMWoBx0d...
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
Apple is a member of the MPEG-LA patent pool, and receives a cut of the H.265 royalties. They support AV-1 only reluctantly, likely due to pressure from content providers like Netflix and YouTube.
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
There was a third party frame buffer. Apple had one and used it to prototype advanced UX on their Cray.
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by randomifcpfan 6y ago
If you have a facebook account, you could start with the link to what is supposedly the original Chinese text, and translate it yourself...
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by randomifcpfan 7y ago
Authoritative explanation Very sorry about that! We had a router failure in Atlanta, which affected traffic routed through that region. Things should be back to normal now. Just to make sure: this wasn't related to traffic levels or