rockdoe

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by rockdoe 10y ago
The same people who insisted on 192 kbps CBR non-joint stereo for years? Hahaha...
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Firefox used to do the infrequent large change thing, then moved to frequent small breakage. Specific to add-ons: every release has broken some and the XUL depreciation is to some extent to deal with that problem better. Note that users hat
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Apple's AAC encoder is still the best out there for high bitrates.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Which is not the default ffmpeg encoder, and due to licensing you can't distribute libfdk_aac and x264 in the same ffmpeg binary. There's a built-in ffmpeg AAC encoder too, but despite the author's claims it is not as good as
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by rockdoe 10y ago
H.265 only compresses twice as much as H.264 in marketing materials, or when not comparing to x264. It is trivial to change the defaults to give half the bitrate but you will not get the same quality.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Check about:support. i.e. Multiprocess Windows 1/1 (Enabled by default)
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Isn't this exactly what the article explains and clarifies?
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by rockdoe 10y ago
False. The official wrappers support C++ from OpenCL 1.0 on. Maybe this isn't obvious because the C++ bindings were introduced later, but they're backwards compatible and you can set the target API level. (And of course you use 1.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
The difference between the kernel languages is minimal, many kernels can be translated with basic search & replace. The difference is in the scaffolding (CUDA is easier but less flexible), and pre-existing libraries on offer. If you&#x2
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by rockdoe 10y ago
From the comments he didn't know either.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Did you factor in cost of living when doing the salary comparison?
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by rockdoe 10y ago
1) It's a request for comment. 2) This isn't really nodejs as it's wrapping the existing JS engine. They're not adding V8.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
What you say is only true for personal information, for which you do need to opt-in in Firefox. Broad stats about the users' system wouldn't fall under that. You already leak most of this information to every web site fwiw.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Some of this reminded me of the discussions about logic-less templates and proponents/opponents of that philosophy.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Despite the name it was actually the smaller company. The relevant articles and info are linked from Wikipedia and make for interesting reading. When Katz died people asked the ARC people what they thought about him: http://www.e
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by rockdoe 10y ago
And wouldn't most such people prefer a desktop anyway? Well yes in terms of specs and performance, but you can't take that with you. If you do GPU work you'll really want a discrete GPU with a complete featureset. Some peop
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Text (and general glyph) rendering is way sharper. Causes less eyestrain.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
I presume you're farsighted?
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Yeah, or doing builds in side a VM. Gets really slow if the linker / compiler starts swapping etc.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
You get stuff like not really being able to install qt4 and qt5 at the same time with Homebrew. Also the "just one target" thing is definitely the same with a Linux distro. Were you trying to install random .debs or something?
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by rockdoe 10y ago
SQLite is nice but using it blindly leads to suffering. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Avoid_SQLite_In_Your_Ne...
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by rockdoe 10y ago
And the prize for the worst analogy goes to... Linux doesn't have anything like foobar2000. Note even close. The feeble attempts to name alternatives in this thread are evidence of it. You need to compose several other tools to get the
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by rockdoe 10y ago
foobar2000 was written by a former Winamp/Nullsoft contractor and the initial version was jokingly called "notepad" to emphasize functionality over skinning. It's safe to say it has exactly nothing whatsoever to do with
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by rockdoe 10y ago
So you're saying the Mac "Pro" is OK for running things slowly.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Linking some amount of C++ code can get very painful very quickly on a constrained VM.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
The predecessor TIS100 is in the current Humble Bundle. Most of the stuff from the post applies, save maybe the story aspect.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Google is willing to headhunt key employees and put enough dough on the table to overcome the downsides.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
There's plenty of people with far, far worse experiences.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Misrenders on Firefox for Android.
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by rockdoe 10y ago
Aside from Firefox itself all the things you mentioned got either canned or significantly downsized. Note that Firefox is "owned" by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation which is using it to generate funding for the things it conside

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