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by slavik81 6y ago
I look forward to reading about Christopher Robin's adventures in the 19 Kilowatt Wood.
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by slavik81 6y ago
I'm not sure that's a useful comparison. Without treatment, HIV takes an average of 8–10 years to kill a person, but it has a >90% fatality rate. You are comparing a sprinter to a marathon runner. It's hard to do the compa
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by slavik81 6y ago
Traditional small wood stoves are absolutely atrocious for the environment. Compared to an industrial-scale power plant, small wood fires don't burn as cleanly, have fewer scrubbers on their exhaust, and are much less efficient. Their
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by slavik81 6y ago
I would have expected that for a 2-drive system, a RAID rebuild would only be writing to the replacement drive. What data would be written to the old one? Under that assumption, my strategy is to isolate these drives in their own 2-drive RA
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by slavik81 6y ago
I put together a NAS a few months ago, apparently with two of the SMR 4TB WD Red drives configured in SHR-1. Does anybody know if that's going to be a problem? Or am I fine as long as the next drive I add is CMR?
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The Last Will and Testament of Cecil George Harris (2009)(ocnarchives.usask.ca)
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The impact of the raw number of people we have now should not be overlooked, either. Today, there are more people in the United States than there were in the entire world during Roman times. We have efficiencies of scale that they could nev
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by slavik81 6y ago
The fraudster profits regardless of whether the key is revoked or not, because they sell the key to some sucker before the fraud is discovered. The fraud is discovered when somebody looks at their credit card statement and notices the unexp
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by slavik81 6y ago
After a little more spelunking, it seems that this particular case was possible to optimize. While you can set the thousands separator for integers in C++ via locales, it only applies to iostreams and not to sprintf. You can also set it for
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by slavik81 6y ago
The result of std::to_string is defined to be the same as sprintf, so it depends on the current locale, which is global, mutable state, and initialized to the user's chosen value at runtime. That makes the optimization impossible to do
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by slavik81 6y ago
Half-Life 2 was remastered with updated graphics in 2007 when it was re-released as part of The Orange Box. I pulled the original box from 2004 out of my closet and it states 256MB was the minimum required: https://slerp.xyz&#x2F
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by slavik81 6y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I think Wiktionary is where I first heard the word, and I hadn't seen it was removed. So, wer did mean male/husband and man did mean everyone. It's just that they weren't used together. I sh
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by slavik81 6y ago
As with many things that don't make much sense, it started from something more reasonable. Long, long ago the word 'man' unambiguously referred to all human beings, while 'woman' was used for females and 'werm
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by slavik81 6y ago
That depends on who controls the sandbox. I certainly would like to limit what apps can do. The sandbox should give me control of the software on my device.
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I asked a friend about this stat last year. He was a graduate student at Stanford, and was surprised. A few days later, he came back saying that it appears that a big chunk of the non-faculty staff are researchers. I'm not sure I belie
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by slavik81 6y ago
Yeah, that's the best solution I've found for truly lossless conversions, but for wide compatibility the only real choices seem to be animated image formats like GIF or APNG. I started looking for lossless because my screen captur
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by slavik81 6y ago
I had excellent knowledge of Chemistry theory, but I could not for the life of me get the expected results in lab. Like, I know that you should not be able to make a battery out of a lead anode and a lead cathode in distilled water, but I d
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by slavik81 6y ago
How do you create a lossless video from a GIF (or a series of images)? I think I've figured out how to do it for H.264 with ffmpeg, but I don't know how to do it for H.265 or AV1. The main problem I've been encountering is
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by slavik81 6y ago
Expanding the original quote for more context: Jack: This exchange was nice to read. But why couldn't it have been initiated and had via the official channels? After a couple back and forwards with the automated responses the system sh
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by slavik81 6y ago
As Hip continues to implement more of CUDA, I think we'll see more developers doing it themselves when the barrier to porting is smaller. AMD has a lot of work to do, and I don't know whether they'll succeed or not, but IMO t
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by slavik81 6y ago
Our video technology is designed to capture and reproduce what humans can see. If all humans were red-green colourblind, we would only have designed our videos to capture green-blue images, and our TVs would only output green-blue images. T
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by slavik81 6y ago
How might they lead you astray? It almost sounds like you have an example in mind.
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The patent (expired in 2005): https://patents.google.com/patent/US4668523A/en A New York Times interview about it: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/garden/where-no-candy-has..
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by slavik81 6y ago
Warren Buffett's stance on technology companies has historically been that he doesn't understand them, and thus he doesn't invest in them. Where are you getting this idea that he thinks he knows them better than other people?
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For comparison, my Canadian high school offered a "Teach Yourself C++ in 30 Days" book that you could study for up to 10 hours in the optional Computers course. If you chose that module, by the end of the first class, you would be
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by slavik81 6y ago
I'm actually rather bad at this, but my understanding is that the horizontal operations are relatively slow. The easiest way to get throughput out of SIMD is to have a structure representing 4 points, with a vec4 of your X values, a ve
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One of the reasons why I think Zig looks appealing is that you can set the policy for these sorts of things on a per-block basis: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#setFloatMode
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You could also add -ffast-math, which loosens the rules for floating point optimizations. For example, it would allow the compiler to turn floating point divisions into multiplications by an inverse, and to group operations more efficiently
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Looking at it on Godbolt, it doesn't really leverage SSE on -O3, either. You can get a reasonable grasp of whether it's using SSE effectively or not just by looking at the instruction names. mulss: multiplication of a single singl
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by slavik81 6y ago
I wish I could click on a symbol in an equation and have it either pop up a full name / definition for standard symbols, or scroll to where the variable was defined for paper-specific symbols. When studying papers, I spend way too much

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