skywal_l

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by skywal_l 1y ago
Can't you improve a compression algorithm and still produce a still valid decompression input? PNG is based on zip, there's certainly ways to improve zip without breaking backwards compatibility. That being said, they also can do
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by skywal_l 1y ago
What will it be about? (please say Quake Black Book)
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Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet [video](youtube.com)
6 points by skywal_l 1y ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 1y ago
It seems to me that the windows UI interface change also very often. Between the excel of win95 and today's there is a big difference. So it can't be the reason.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
The video from the youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOXc
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Maybe with the new x86 backend we might see some performance differences between C and Zig that could definitely be attributed solely to the Zig project.
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but isn't it what SBI[0] is for? [0] Supervisor Binary Interface
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I love his videos on computerphile. One was just dropped a few hours ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1su3lAh-k4o
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Audio capture support apparently available on all desktop browsers except Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
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by skywal_l 1y ago
Flooooh's code is also very easy to read so it's a pretty good documentation for these old systems especially as the (some?) emulators are cycle accurate[0] [0]: https://floooh.github.io/2019/12/13/c
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by skywal_l 1y ago
I am a complete noob in GPU but is AMDGCN the older generation with the new one being RDNA? If you generate a binary for AMDGCN, will it run on the newest cards? Also, I though that these GPU ISAs were "proprietary". I wonder how
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by skywal_l 1y ago
It's probably because Paris, officially, is the very small hypercenter of the Parisian metropolitan area. Whereas Tokyo is the actual total metropolis. Just look up the population of both. Paris is 2 millions whereas Tokyo is 14 millio
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by skywal_l 1y ago
When you post on HN it becomes public data. Are you going to sue antirez too about his post earlier today on word similarity analysis?
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by skywal_l 2y ago
You have to pass the field name too ("node").
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by skywal_l 2y ago
> "If you want something done, do it yourself" That's how Sublime Text does it and it works great. Same UI on all platform, pretty fast and they control their destiny. Moreover, the ST binary will probably continue to work
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by skywal_l 2y ago
You are probably thinking of Louis the XIV[0] (not Louis the XVI) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_mercantilism
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by skywal_l 2y ago
They were able to in the 50s/60s/70s. So why not now?
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by skywal_l 2y ago
Right there in the abstract: "Our approach works by predicting a dense motion flow field and a monocular depth map directly from a single motion-blurred image"
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The Algorithm Running Up French Fry Prices [video](youtube.com)
2 points by skywal_l 2y ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 2y ago
The impression I have, but I may be wrong, is that investors in Europe want a return on every investment. Failure is not an option. Which kind of choke innovation.
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by skywal_l 2y ago
just use a spoon
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by skywal_l 2y ago
Are those anomalies change over time? Do you have to continuously update those devices with the latest maps?
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Tearing down a Xerox MemoryWriter 6040 word processor [video](youtube.com)
2 points by skywal_l 2y ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 2y ago
Linus Torvalds agrees with you: https://youtu.be/Pzl1B7nB9Kc?feature=shared&t=65
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by skywal_l 2y ago
They were because sega was, at the time, an arcade manufacturer first. The Megadrive is the console version of the system 16 after all.
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by skywal_l 2y ago
I hoped Sean would open source Circle. It seemed promising, but it's been years and don't see any tangible progress. Maybe I am not looking hard enough?
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by skywal_l 2y ago
They really start from scratch. They mine the ore then use it to make steel to make axes to chop wood. This ensure that the know-how is genuine. They've been able to "rediscover" how things were actually made. It's a sor
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by skywal_l 2y ago
As long as you're healthy.
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The Flying Maestro: A Top Conductor Moonlights as an Air France Pilot(nytimes.com)
3 points by skywal_l 2y ago|1 comments
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by skywal_l 2y ago
Tractor beam!

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