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by rdw 6y ago
Dr. Hossenfelder has been on the beat of searching for mathematical ways of eliminating dark matter for some years. I hope she writes something about this paper. https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matt
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by rdw 6y ago
Here's one site that attempts to catalog this: https://displaylag.com/video-game-input-lag-database/ Found an article from a few years ago: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3725&#x2
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by rdw 6y ago
I got the chance to try something like this a few years ago at GDC. It was barely even detectable. But I still hope that the technology gets researched and built out as far as it can go, because _something_ is necessary for virtual interfa
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by rdw 6y ago
They don't really have great pay, though, do they? They can't afford to pay what qualified employees demand in California. So they move to a state where the average expected salary is lower. Oracle's reputation was of abysm
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by rdw 6y ago
This is gonna sound pedantic but I think it's not a coloring problem. Coloring is when syntactically a function has to change its own signature just because it started calling an inner function with the new color. That said, you'
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by rdw 6y ago
It solves the coloring problem by not having a coloring problem in the first place. Maybe I should have said "avoids the function-coloring problem".
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by rdw 6y ago
> all relevant standard library methods have been patched to yield to the scheduler whenever they encounter a situation where they will block the current fiber This is huge. They solved the function-coloring problem by deciding that all
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by rdw 6y ago
I was tangentially involved with VR as a game developer, in the 2015-2016 timeframe. Both Oculus and Valve really strongly believed that there was a "there" there, but didn't know what the actual killer app would be. They s
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by rdw 6y ago
Yes, this is what I came to see. It gradually increases the brightness over 5 seconds on my Catalina Macbook. It's very impressive that there are no visible brightness changes on the rest of the screen when the brightness of the back
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by rdw 6y ago
What's up with these iMacPro results with AMD Ryzen processors? https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4644694 Thought Apple was an Intel-only shop until Apple Silicon.
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by rdw 6y ago
The Macbooks that were for many years the smallest and lightest Apple laptops, would be imbalanced and knocked off your lap by placing your hands on it slightly asymmetrically.
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by rdw 6y ago
"Power off is achieved by holding down Fn+F10 for two seconds. This is a soft control that negotiates with Linux to shut down, so you don’t corrupt your memory card or your USB drive. Power can be restored by pressing F10 (or Fn+F10).&
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by rdw 6y ago
This is a good take. To add to it a bit, there's another perspective that makes no-code solutions useful: team decoupling. You know Conway's Law about how the software is structured like the organization that produces it? No-co
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by rdw 6y ago
The article says that Apple isn't making full use of the 5nm process node, and blames lack of SRAM scaling for it (presumably due to the large amount of L3 cache). Is this a problem that all processors are about to hit, or is this goi
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by rdw 6y ago
Even when they have the hardware LED, it doesn't help you if you're not looking at the device. I often leave my laptop and phone unattended and prefer to have the peace of mind knowing that they cannot possibly observe anything.
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by rdw 6y ago
I've used C++ since the 90s and it's only ever been presented as a Serious Language for Real Applications. I feel that until recently, C++ stood alone and there were almost no serious threats to its position, except maybe Java.
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by rdw 6y ago
Cool.
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by rdw 6y ago
I used PCG years ago for procedural content generation where random number generation was a bottleneck. It is very fast, so I was happy with it. Additionally the implementation I used[1] is comprehensible enough that I could modify it in v
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by rdw 6y ago
Yeah, the ads were pretty intrusive in this article. Still got us all to engage, though! Some content marketer is happy today.
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by rdw 6y ago
Many startups are on their deathbed before finally succeeding. A famous example is Fred Smith, FedEx founder, gambling the company's last $5k, in order to come up with $24k for a deadline[1]. Had the cards come up differently, or a p
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by rdw 6y ago
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf > Results indicate that corrections frequently fail to reduce misperceptions among the targeted ideological group. We also document several instances of a “backfire
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by rdw 6y ago
It being a plastic raises a few questions: - Is it petroleum-based? Looks like the answer is no. [1] - What's the durability? PVA seems to be very water-soluble [2] - How's the scratch resistance? I wasn't able to find a so
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by rdw 6y ago
The security implications of this software must be devastating. To prevent being defeated by the employee, it'll be essentially a rootkit already. Any black hat that finds a way to gain authorization will basically have a ready-made
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by rdw 6y ago
That $7 bn valuation came only a year after the disastrous 2018 crash which forced them to shut down the entire program for months, with months of of lurid news stories highlighting failure after failure. Probably a low point, actually. T
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by rdw 6y ago
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/uber-lyft-are-betting-that-dr... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/19/ubers-sel... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci
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by rdw 6y ago
I was privy to some of the development process of Duskers, and I would say that Tim worked pretty hard to create opportunities for happy accidents to befall him. There were several other prototypes that he was working on at the same time,
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Introducing the max6 standard for Python(github.com)
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by rdw 10y ago
Oh my god, it's literally the thesis from Idiocracy.
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by rdw 10y ago
Netflix is not a good example for one big reason: their cost of running servers is dwarfed by their other costs, possibly by two orders of magnitude. Netflix can and does waste money on servers.
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by rdw 10y ago
For folks seeing this for the first time, start with Drag mode instead of Draw mode. I think it feels much more playful and exploratory.

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