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by slimsag 3y ago
Vulkan requires a heavy-weight emulation layer on macOS. Consoles also don't really support it (some do, but not as a first class API) If you only care about Windows and Linux, you can also just use DirectX and require users make use o
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by slimsag 3y ago
I requested data be deleted from a data broker and live in Arizona: > We are in receipt of your request dated September 12, 2023. You are submitting a request from a jurisdiction that does not currently provide data rights.
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by slimsag 3y ago
It's not unfairly maligned, it's just that everyone remembers their college/university 'learning experience' which made no distinction between C/C++, they were told to use the Borland compiler, and when trying
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by slimsag 3y ago
They don't really have to compete against SpaceX, just against ViaSat, HughesNet and others. The US gov will use Starlink first, and as with all other private space company initiatives they buy services from will want a 2nd independent
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by slimsag 3y ago
Yep, I've posted more than a few 'Seller sent me a giftcard to bribe for a good review' - Amazon deletes them.
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by slimsag 3y ago
I selected Zig from the language dropdown and it suggests Unreal Engine. That doesn't seem right.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy
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by slimsag 3y ago
Two Unicode strings can be visually and semantically identical, but not byte-equal.
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by slimsag 3y ago
Just do what game consoles do: add hardware fuses that are expected to be blown depending on the version, and have the bootloader verify the number of fuses blown on boot. Then the device becomes a brick if it tries to boot an older firmwar
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by slimsag 3y ago
This seems verifiably false, too. Why else would it be called an 'ear' of corn?
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by slimsag 3y ago
I'm glad your communication with them in the aftermath was respectful. Good that came out of your behavior, though: I learned that the Bytecode Alliance is just really bad at communicating historically, but has been trying to improve t
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by slimsag 3y ago
> permissively licensed, open-source foundation LLM Sounds great > This license is, in part, based on the LLAMA 2 Community License Agreement, with a series of modifications. Use of DeciLM for hosted services may require a separate li
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by slimsag 3y ago
That is exactly the type of user interface I am advocating for, I love that. Give me that + fast/efficient GPU-animated keyframes of those curves, and I'm 100% sold.
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by slimsag 3y ago
https://bezier.method.ac/
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by slimsag 3y ago
Wow, I didn't know Knuth said that. I would've been 7 years old at the time - wild.
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by slimsag 3y ago
"Béziers can't represent circles" is not exactly wrong, but is not really the full picture. Often you don't need to _represent_ a circle. TrueType fonts (quadratics) and OpenType fonts (cubics) can't mathmatically _
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by slimsag 3y ago
Cool to see others working on this problem. I hope more people do. Funnily I've seen a lot of programmers and math folks who express how truly, genuinely beautiful Beziers and the math behind them are. But I've never met an artist
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by slimsag 3y ago
You can’t install non-WebKit browsers on iOS or iPadOS.
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by slimsag 3y ago
That wasn't my experience ~11 months ago [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32891879
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by slimsag 3y ago
"Collaborative filtering", "using past activity and stated preferences to guide us" I can't think of areas Amazon does worse in today than these two areas. Reviews are so untrustworthy they are just noise. Those cof
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by slimsag 3y ago
I believe Rancher desktop has more of an out-of-the-box focus on Kubernetes, it uses Rancher's k3s and whatnot. Podman desktop treats k8s as more of an optional thing, e.g. you use Kind to create a cluster. Of course there are also org
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by slimsag 3y ago
I didn't know Kris, but we had bumped into each-other at various times through open source work. I recall her being a very kind and also deeply technical. Once she was supposed to give a talk in Phoenix, and I was stoked to get to meet
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by slimsag 3y ago
It seems pretty cool, but also quite pricey ($1,789)
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by slimsag 3y ago
The design is very human[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnC3S-eIMlM
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by slimsag 3y ago
Unfortunately GPUs (and even CPUs' SIMD) floating point math is riddled with cross-platform determinism issues; hardware manufacturers intentionally trade that in order to get faster math operations in general, because although behavio
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Mach v0.2 released – Zig game engine and graphics toolkit(devlog.hexops.com)
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by slimsag 3y ago
Very interesting; is there anything similar for Vulkan? Does this also work with Vulkan?
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by slimsag 3y ago
Agreed, I doubt it's been a decade.. though maybe close-ish wasm-bindgen does something similar though, right?
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by slimsag 3y ago
If you’re going to make the claim it was an accident, it’s best you do that through a lawyer negotiating on your behalf, or in court - not in an interrogation room full of people who believe it was malice and will leap on any misspoken word
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by slimsag 3y ago
It's actually the hardware that enforces such guarantees. The OS could have bugs, like the WASM program - even if the entire stack is written in Rust from top to bottom. Really the only solution is memory safe hardware, which there is

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