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by slabity 3y ago
> Is Python so annoying to use that when a compelling non-Python solution appears, everyone will love it? Less hassle? Or did it take off for a different reason? Interested in hearing thoughts. For me it's less about the language an
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by slabity 3y ago
> Everything in a Nix-based system must be derived strictly from (lockfiled) inputs, making the reproducibility guarantees incredibly strong (barring any network errors or resources being taken down) Or multithreaded compilation :P
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by slabity 3y ago
> I can do (almost) all of these things with a traditional Linux distribution, git, and a few scripts written in my language of choice, and I can do it faster. Is this hypothetical? Or do you have a link you can share? Many distros have
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by slabity 3y ago
Isn't Manjaro the distro that constantly fails to renew their SSL certificates, pushes security updates way too late, and distributed software that brought down the AUR a couple of times? I have never used it myself, but from everythin
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by slabity 3y ago
Not a dentist, but I think it's the acid that causes tooth decay. Microbes create the acid from dissolved sugar in your mouth. The question is whether coffee is acidic enough to do damage even without the sugar.
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by slabity 3y ago
It's possible to bring something like `ccache` into your system's Nix sandbox. However, that change in the sandbox means all your packages have different hashes and you lose the ability to pull from upstream caches. The result wou
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by slabity 3y ago
Guix's graft system is a hack specifically made to get security updates out ASAP. They should really only be seen as a last resort because it circumvents the primary benefit of using Guix as a functional build system (pure, reproducibl
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by slabity 3y ago
It does. Nix has an extremely powerful (and flexible) caching system. Not to mention popular caching systems like cachix that are easy to integrate into your system. Unlike most other packaging systems though, Nix packages are rebuilt when
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by slabity 3y ago
I've been looking for a new Kanban system ever since Restyaboard has slowed down. Does anyone know how this compares against Taiga or WeKan?
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by slabity 3y ago
What exactly does "open-source" mean to you? Because it sounds like there's absolutely nothing open about this other than a small scraping of LinkedIn data (which you should probably ask your lawyers if you're even allow
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by slabity 3y ago
How about a version that can keep your coffee or tea warm using the power from the USB-C port?
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by slabity 3y ago
Does anyone know if there are any similar lists for the huge number of `ioctls` that are available across different devices? I would absolutely love to have a table of those, including the device types and the structures that get passed alo
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by slabity 4y ago
Why are you responding to only parts of comments and ignoring the context around it? It just makes it look like strawmen arguments. > Can learn arbitrary functions says nothing about efficiency or any practical considerations. This is
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by slabity 4y ago
So this train was carrying all of these various chemicals, but it wasn't classified as a High-Hazard Flammable Train?
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by slabity 4y ago
Can anyone explain to me the performance difference between having a native OpenGL or DX9/10/11 userspace driver vs having a Vulkan/DX12 userspace driver and using Zink or DXVK to implement the older APIs? From my understandi
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by slabity 4y ago
> From a technical aspect, x11 is not sufficient for a modern multitouch display interface (much less anything running at 60hz or higher). Can you expand on this part? I'm familiar with the arguments on why Wayland is an improvement
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by slabity 4y ago
I agree, but that only reinforces the point that there doesn't even seem to be much of a difference between the older graphical pipeline and a 100% compute pipeline. If graphics drivers could just allow compute shaders to manually call
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by slabity 4y ago
I'm able to encode using av1an (which I believe still uses ffmpeg as its backend) at 3440x1440@30Hz with 10bit color using a mid/high-range AMD 3800X processor. I'm not sure what might be wrong on your end, but it sounds like
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by slabity 4y ago
> There is a great deal of space between 'fixed function pipeline' (which no one is using) and 'all compute all the time' (which pretty much no one is using for real-time graphics). Assuming "fixed function pipel
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by slabity 4y ago
Do you have a source on that breakdown?
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by slabity 4y ago
No, this is not true at all. "The extra cycles" is the exact thing you want to avoid in HFT. It doesn't matter how much throughput of processing you can put through a single core if you enable SMT, because somewhere in the
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by slabity 4y ago
In terms of throughput , technically yes, you are leaving performance on the table. However, in HFT the throughput is greatly limited by IO anyways, so you don't get much benefit with it enabled. What you want is to minimize latency
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by slabity 4y ago
SMT is usually disabled in these situations to prevent it from being a concern.
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by slabity 4y ago
> This isn't implied. A particle pair collapsing from a superposition of to one of its eigenstates upon measurement, is a change in the particle in one location that instantaneously affects the other for all intents and purposes. If
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by slabity 4y ago
I'm not really experienced when it comes to GPU programming, so forgive me if I'm wrong with this, but some of the things you say don't make a lot of sense to me: > 2d vector graphics include things like "bones"
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by slabity 4y ago
I don't want to be the guy that doesn't read the entire article, but the first sentence surprised me quite a bit: > Despite vector graphics being used in every computer with a screen connected to it, rendering of vector shapes
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by slabity 4y ago
That's completely incorrect. Where did you get that information from? A regular POSIX shell will simply call the `exec` syscall on the path provided. It may set up some environment variables or parse some arguments, but it will not act
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by slabity 4y ago
I use FreeCAD relatively often (once or twice a month) over the past 3 years and I can say with certainty that it is nowhere close to Blender in terms of quality or stability. I've been keeping up with the latest versions, but even wit
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by slabity 4y ago
This is completely anecdotal, but when I was looking for something like this ~10 years ago (and was just beginning to learn about the wider Linux ecosystem outside of libc), I stumbled upon GObject and completely ignored it because of its a
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by slabity 4y ago
If the 2x2 cell is moving horizontally and vertically by 1 block, then wouldn't that mean you miss the 2 corners you don't pass over for the cell you're currently calculating? Unfortunately the demo video in the link you post

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