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by sigil 3y ago
Incredible reply, thanks! The Mandelbrot set is my Hello World when learning new graphics APIs, and I was learning WebGL with it recently. Immediately ran into the precision issues you describe in [2]!
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by sigil 3y ago
I had a CGA graphics card, and it’s quite possible I’m remembering the CGA-2y font!
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by sigil 3y ago
You’re right. Topaz is eerily familiar though, and I never used an Amiga. Wondering if a well-known MSDOS program used it. Turbo Pascal?
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by sigil 3y ago
Wait a second, is this the same font used by QBASIC.EXE and EDIT.EXE?
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by sigil 3y ago
Amazing, first I've heard of this. Here's footage of someone playing a Television Electronic Disc: https://youtu.be/XkP4ZJnMVOs?si=QbT4EXrE1dpq-Rtz
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by sigil 3y ago
Different but pretty cool idea!
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by sigil 3y ago
Right, I forgot this detail. Thanks for the correction.
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by sigil 3y ago
Many years ago, someone did a similar holographic hack with a spinning hard drive motor, a piece of reflective plexiglass mounted upright on it, and a small projector. As the plexiglass carved out a cylinder, the projector sent a series of
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by sigil 3y ago
You seem to be confusing “stakeholders” with “shareholders.”
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by sigil 3y ago
> On November 11, FTX fell apart and was revealed as a giant scam. Suddenly everyone hated effective altruists. Publications that had been feting us a few months before pivoted to saying they knew we were evil all along. I practiced rehe
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Monero Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) Wallet Hacked and Drained(github.com)
4 points by sigil 3y ago|3 comments
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by sigil 3y ago
Sounds cool! Did you publish code or a writeup somewhere?
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by sigil 3y ago
You might enjoy the In Our Time episode on Crocodile Evolution. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2v7Dil3bVNiir5BDXxGnTe?si=o... There were crocs with beaks, crocs with plant-grinding molars, crocs that ran around uprig
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by sigil 3y ago
I play from printed IMSLP scores, but I’ve never gotten good at page turns. What app do you use?
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by sigil 4y ago
As the resolver for a Manifold prediction market, I've been following this story closely for the last couple months. [0] Back in December, HN user JanSolo wondered if the three astronauts assigned to the leaking Soyuz MS-22 might be ev
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by sigil 4y ago
Agree that headlines are sometimes just discussion prompts, and that’s fine. I guess this means ChatGPT is prompting us now!
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A ChatGPT-authored article hit the front page of HN this morning(brandur.org)
15 points by sigil 4y ago|8 comments
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Discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2022(johnhawks.net)
3 points by sigil 4y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 4y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00241.pdf
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Adversarial Attack Beats Near-Superhuman AI Go Player(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by sigil 4y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 4y ago
Yeah, still tough. More like 5X - 10X. Definitely not the 200X disparity claimed by parent though. Apple had $1M profit per employee in 2021. What’s an achievable PPE for a business like New Twitter? If you say $500K, and if you subscribe t
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by sigil 4y ago
> So Elon paid $44B for a company now with 900-odd employees. For a 10-year ROI, that's $4.4B per year profit, or $440 million/per employee. Your math is off. $4.4B per year profit / 1000 employees = $4.4M per year profit
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by sigil 4y ago
> He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said. FTX owns Storybook Brawl. So: SBF managed to plant an ad in an NYT story supposedly cove
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by sigil 4y ago
The War on the Rocks podcast is good, in particular the regular analysis from Michael Kofman. https://open.spotify.com/show/5ec5TBvVh3w4aobgx0qgYj The Institute for the Study of War aggregates open source intel into da
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by sigil 4y ago
That’s why tail | head isn’t a reliable way to seek an fd — it will seek past the desired offset by reading and then failing to write up to PIPEBUF bytes.
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by sigil 4y ago
Can tail seek without then writing the rest of the file to stdout?
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by sigil 4y ago
Seeking a file descriptor is a basic, useful operation, and dd is the only POSIX tool that can seek an fd without actually paying the read / write costs. Suppose you have 2 hours of UHD RGBA32 video, and need 5 minutes of footage from
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AGI Is Sacred(overcomingbias.com)
4 points by sigil 4y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 4y ago
Wonderful, thanks for that. Wertmüller's “Swept Away” (also starring Giannini and Melato) is one of my favorite films. Wonder how much hand dialog I’ve been missing!
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by sigil 4y ago
It’s compelling in context. If the NSA influenced NIST standards 3x in the past — DES, DSA, Dual EC — then shouldn’t we be on high alert this 4th time around? That NSA is already recommending against hybrid, instead of waiting for the con

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