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by sly010 6y ago
He (Johnny Lee) also worked on the Kinect.
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by sly010 6y ago
Lots of interesting thoughts here. I wonder if news is not that different from education: Privileged people always had access to it, sometimes on a 1-1 basis (informants/tutors). Then came technology [writing|printing], but real scale
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by sly010 6y ago
Can't wait to read about Inception V4 being trained on adversarial.io for better noise resistance :)
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by sly010 6y ago
"may bring needed genetic diversity" Isn't the cloning the opposite of that?
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by sly010 6y ago
C++ doesn't have a stable ABI, so C++ interop is usually done by wrapping a C++ library with a C interface first. This is true for most compiled languages afaik. GUI libraries often rely on specific language features so they are hard t
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by sly010 6y ago
Well, what should we be more angry about? That Canonicals sales rep is using data in their CMS, or that Microsoft is selling data to third parties. The root cause seems to be Microsoft, not Canonical and (at least in my eye) the conclusion
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by sly010 6y ago
I only have ~1.5TB stuff that is really important which fits on a single LTO5 tape. (I said LTO6 before, I was mistaken) I archive every ~3 months, generally before I make bigger changes. I always do a full tar archive, it typically takes t
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by sly010 6y ago
I admit to have thought of that, but using a zfs stream for archival would make eventual restore that much more complicated. A single bit error at the beginning of the stream would make the rest of the archive un-accessible, whereas with ta
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by sly010 6y ago
The tool I ended up writing does essentially something very similar: - It uses a block size that matches the disk - It uses 50% of my RAM as a ring buffer - On start (and on buffer underrun) it waits for the buffer to fill before it starts
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by sly010 6y ago
I use LTO to archive my home NAS periodically (see my comment above). I admit the decision to purchase the (rather expensive) drive was influenced by curiosity, not cost or convenience. But now I can keep hard copies of my entire digital li
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by sly010 6y ago
I decided to invest in an LTE drive to periodically archive my ZFS based NAS. This relatively old drive support 50-150 MB/s with a small internal buffer. My biggest problem ended up being that the default tar util on ZFS on spinning ru
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by sly010 6y ago
Relatedly (and this is probably not surprising to anyone here) if you draw a black box on a PDF file to cover sensitive information, chances are a simple screen reader will still able to extract the information just fine.
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But it does :(
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Wouldn't device tree solve (or at least mitigate) this problem somewhat? e.g. most broadcom chips have the same I2C hardware block, just mapped to a different memory address.
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by sly010 6y ago
I think of this as a positive thing. The Growl project achieved it's goal to make macos better for everyone.
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by sly010 6y ago
Applications (at least on linux) could call setsockopt(fd, TCP_CORK, 0) // uncork setsockopt(fd, TCP_CORK, 1) // cork after every logical block (request/message/transaction/etc) to get the best of
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by sly010 6y ago
One beef: Moving files between datasets are an unnecessarily expensive operation.
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by sly010 6y ago
Right, the issue is not the tunnel, it's the essentially infinite buffer. Any large buffer will have a negative effect.
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by sly010 6y ago
Making batteries hard to replace by gluing them in is obviously a conscious decision, not some sort of cost saving.
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Other than smooth scrolling :)
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It's the acceleration curve. MacOS is slightly exponential.
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Perhaps it was a "locate lost device" situation?
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Revel Suspends Moped Service in New York City After 2 Deaths(nytimes.com)
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by sly010 6y ago
It's not clear to me either when exactly does the "cutting" start, but note that when he finally gives up the grinder wheel is an inch smaller.
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by sly010 6y ago
Mainly because the laptops I looked at (Dell XPS-es and Thinkpads) come with either intel or nvidia. It seems AMDs are more present in gaming laptops and I am looking for a daily driver. Or high-end macbooks but I am trying to get out of th
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by sly010 6y ago
I am looking for a new non-macbook and one of my primary criteria is that is should have Intel Integrated Graphics as the Linux drivers are open source and well integrated. It feels like nvidia as a whole is leaning more towards special app
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by sly010 6y ago
How is OCaml's multithreading story? Google says it's basically GIL-ed.
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second h265 was probably meant to be h266
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by sly010 6y ago
It's about the assumptions made during the standardization. Compared to 30 years ago, we now have better knowledge and statistics about what low level primitives are useful in a codec. E.g. jpeg operates on fixed 8×8 blocks independent
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by sly010 6y ago
You might be remembering this: https://xkcd.com/576/

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