rasz

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by rasz 6d ago
TLDR: "It wasn't CRT technology itself that made pixel art look better - it was the blatant artefacts of cheap, low dot pitch PAL and NTSC consumer electronics that coincided to create just the right amount of fuzz."
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by rasz 7d ago
>Normally when I'm troubleshooting broken device This is not a broken device. It didnt break. This is a batch of new devices that never worked to begin with straight from CM, and is being tested in standardized controlled rig all ot
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by rasz 10d ago
>lesser known company Kioxia Kioxia is Toshiba, The most known company from the list, and it doesnt make any ram
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by rasz 11d ago
The only PC desktop accelerator that could be considered early depth testing would be tile based 1996 PowerVR. ATI introduced HyperZ in 2000 Radeon DDR (R100), Nvidia followed in 2001 with GeForce 3 LMA. From what I remember Radeon compress
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by rasz 11d ago
Not require, just recommends Pentium 60 minimum. Like Quake Tomb Raider loves pipelined FPU, 30 fps on Pentium 60 vs 15 fps on 486DX2@66 and 20 on DX4@100.
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by rasz 11d ago
and lose 30% of revenue and 40% of gross profit (services)?
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by rasz 11d ago
>smartphone camera maker - doesnt make ANY cameras - its tech (AI slop over taken picture) is used by one lonely Chinese vendor
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by rasz 11d ago
and another ru drone washed ashore in Poland https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-finds-suspected-russian...
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by rasz 11d ago
Last week we had four train-truck collisions at Polish level crossings resulting in derailment and passenger death, and afaik 2 or 3 involved foreign truck drivers.
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by rasz 14d ago
Liability. Those auctions dont sell "cars", they sell _item X as is_. Forklift workers are certified and operation is insured for forklifting.
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by rasz 15d ago
Its W123. Build like a tank, things that break are easy to repair by hand in the driveway.
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by rasz 15d ago
Fedora is legally owned by Red Hat, Red Hat is owned by IBM, IBM loves patents and will always have most pro patent view possible.
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by rasz 16d ago
>simply didn't go to settings page and turn off the thing companies famously always honor those settings! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/14/google-lo... https://techhq
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by rasz 16d ago
I would suspect that since they leverage VA-API (and NVDEC/NVENC thu shim) all patent stuff is pushed on to hardware vendors?
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by rasz 17d ago
Linux Vivaldi builds use libffmpeg.so from chromium-ffmpeg, which includes decoders for most codecs used on the web (no h265/mpeg2 tho), and VA-API which will handle all hardware accelerated codecs on particular platform. This looks si
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by rasz 18d ago
Someone was posting recently how it cost him tens of dollars of LLM Agent time to reverse engineer Linux Davinci and add codec he wanted back in.
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The Vacuum Tube That Almost Beat the Transistor – TubeTimeUS [video](youtube.com)
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by rasz 20d ago
> creating Breakout and Jobs in turn brought Woz to do the actual work and scammed his best friend out of full payment >Home Computer Crash of 1983 "North American video game console crash of 1983" to be exact, nobody else o
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by rasz 20d ago
>80MB WTF happened? I have some old versions. 1.9 from 2024 1.8MB 1.3 from 2016 480KB Did they start bunding web browser with debloat scripts?
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by rasz 21d ago
C128 was pretty much a scam. The computer itself was a trash can of disjointed parts put together from failed projects leftovers, and then Commodore decided to market it as an upgraded C64.
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by rasz 21d ago
Good UI makes it easier to be selective. social media owners dont want you to be selective, they are selling you to advertisers and influencers after all.
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by rasz 26d ago
>Millennium no textures, alpha blending, transparency, bilinear filtering >Mystique ... transparency lookup table no alpha blending, transparency, bilinear filtering. "Transparency Lookup Table" was a corpo speak code for co
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by rasz 27d ago
>OpenGL first real Matrox OpenGL driver shipped with G400 in 2000
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by rasz 27d ago
>super-solid drivers maybe because they had limited support for many features? >Millennium no textures, alpha blending, transparency, bilinear filtering >G400 slow but ok, but its predecessor G200 only got OpenGL driver 2 years lat
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by rasz 28d ago
Romance chatbots say what?
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by rasz 28d ago
Pointless and harmful to flash storage. SSD sector numbers are virtual anyway. Its like defragging emails in your inbox.
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by rasz 29d ago
>loud internal combustion engines and emotional appeal. VW ran the numbers and realized they cant compete with Chinese $100K 2000HP EVs accelerating in 2.5 second and beating any supercar.
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by rasz 1mo ago
Just battery alone is worth it for scrappers.
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by rasz 1mo ago
>asking the model to demonstrate the value it created through benchmarks, workload-generators, and e2e tests. LLMs are fantastic at faking those
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by rasz 1mo ago
>Making up plausible function names and branch labels was pretty quick for LLMs. there was official source code release for 6502 port, why not match names from that one?

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