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by smallstepforman 10mo ago
Dont forget that people also view Netflix on TV’s, and a large number of physical TV’s were made before AV1 was specced. So 30% overall may also mean 70% on modern devices.
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by smallstepforman 10mo ago
I once saw a C64 disk drive 1541 play the US national anthem by moving the floppy drive head across the disk in patterns to produce mechanical noise which vould be interpreted as a melody/tune. So a combination of a cheap built in spea
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
Why stop with only 2 OS’s? I triple boot with Haiku.
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
It already exists (any Open Source OS).
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem. Software is struggling to keep up.
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
There were snipers on all sides doing immoral things. The war in Sarajevo started when a Serbian wedding was shot up in April 1992, causing the Serbs to panic and want to secede from Bosnia & Herzegovina. Then you end up with "rig
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
My biggest beef with exceptions is invisible code flow. Add the attribute throws<t> to function signature (so that its visible) and enforce handling by generating compiler error if ignored. Bubbling up errors is OK. In essence, this i
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
When you say Linux, reliability depends on distro. I had tried to install Mint on an external harddrive, and the stupid installer modified the boot loader to search for Grub on the removable disk. No removable disk, no grub, no booting of a
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by smallstepforman 11mo ago
Any scenario where you have to atomically update 2 actors. To use a simple analogy for illustrative purposes, transferring money between 2 accounts, you need to lock both actors before incrementing/decrementing. Because in the real wor
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
I love Actors and have used them professionally for over 6 years (C++). However to solve real world problems I have had to introduce “locks” to the Actor framework to support various scenarios. With my home-grown actor library, this was tri
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
There are languages nobody uses, and languages people complain about. Computing is about change, otherwise there is nothing to compute. The mere fact that its called a “variable” makes it obvious that its supposed to change.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
I go one step deeper, a BSD or Haiku. No support calls ever …
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Ah yes, the infamous “klabing” feature. You open the manual and read “Press Kabling to kabling the whatchanathjng”.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
For scientific calculations with tables of data, I find LibreCalc better than Excel, so in my experience, Excel is the “good enough for simple tasks” tool, but LibreCalccis the tool when you actually do scientific big boy calculations. The
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
There are users (me included) that state the opposite, LibreCalc is better for my needs (complex formulas table driven) and that Excel is a toy for more “scientific” calculations.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
3 phase is 380V
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
This can be done with no tech at legit casinos. Just have a group of people with a predetermined “tell” system so that only the best hand in the group competes against the fish. In a 4 player game, with 3 teamplayers and 1 fish, thats 75% o
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Snow Leopard was peak OSX. Lion, Mountain Lion and everything since then has driven me away from OSX. I’m also stuck on an older iOS version 18). There may be certain fixes I would appretiate, but way more annoyances. I miss iOS 6 and that
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Does it have full sized cursor keys? PgUp/PdDown/HomeEnd keys? If not, its a fashion accessory, its definately not a PROductivity machine used by PROffessionals.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Rising energy costs and green policies make European manufacturing non-competitive. Politicians ruining their countries.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
No SSN in Australia, who are the bulk of Qantas customers.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
I’m getting old. I can understand the words, but not the content. At this point, show me dissassembly so that I can understand what actually happens on the fundamental byte/cpu instruction level, then I can figure out what you’re tryin
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
From your description, I cannot determine the difference. Engineers like exact things, whats this fuzzy concept called “hint”?
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Civ4-Beyond the Sword is IMHO the last good Civ game. 1 unit per tile ruins the game.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Its been missing touch input for over 6 years now, still cannot believe their dev teams do not have professional pride to fix such an embaressing flaw.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Also on 13 mini. But my next phone needs a better camera, and the cellular radio reception needs to be better (my 13 mini loses network connection in weak areas faster than my wifes 15 or sons 16 pro does - they stay online, I’m out). I lov
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
I’ve been using bc7 since 2012, and even have a video codec using bc7 keyframes (we needed alpha videos, even have a patent for it). Our emphasis is not file size, but playback speed. Bc7 renders 20-40% faster than raw rgba32, and we overla
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
Read kernel code to see how CPU utilisation is calculated. In essence, count scheduled threads to execute and divide by number of cores. Any latency (eg. wait for memory) is still calculated as busy core.
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
With the current silicon temperature dissipation limits, we’re in a 10 year cycle now (and growing)
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by smallstepforman 1y ago
I still haven’t seen a good comparison between Futex and Benaphore. Benaphores I understand, it predates Futexes by almost a decade, but what do Futexes add to the equation since hardly anyone talks about Benaphores (or is it a case of not

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