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by somat 1y ago
The Wii U and Xbox 360 were also triple core machines... both triple core powerpc processors with ATI graphics... Was IBM having a sale on 3 core ppc hardware that year? I never thought about it before but I actually had to look up die shot
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by somat 1y ago
It ends up being like sales tax in the US. It is the store that pays the sales tax(note 1), but I have never seen a store just include the tax in the price, they always pass it on as an extra charge to the end customer. And this may not be
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by somat 1y ago
I always found the embedded javascript weird in an ironic sort of way. There was postscript right, and postscript has a pretty great rendering engine. however the problem is that postscript is too powerful, as a Turing complete language it
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by somat 1y ago
"People like to tell you why they're not buying things that they never intended to buy in the first place" -- the techmoan yt channel
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by somat 1y ago
As a counter example I found this video essay about fixing a factorio bug fascinating. My main takeaway, I need better introspection hooks. I am not really programmer and I never really thought automated testing of user interactive parts wa
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by somat 1y ago
It is probably just me But I find it especially fun to play with a copy of the source code open, using it as a cryptic but thorough guide.
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by somat 1y ago
Right, both sort of suck at streaming, something about being closed form tree structures would be my guess(strictly speaking, you need to close the tree to serialize it, so no clean way to append data in real time, best you can do is to lea
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by somat 1y ago
I actually rather like XML(asterisk) But this is one of it's warts, It wants to be two things, A markup language, it's in the name and arguably where it should have stayed, and an object notation. This is where you start to questi
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by somat 1y ago
The whole idea of needing a "camera bump" is sort of a ridiculous design choice just use the extra two millimeters for more battery. It is almost as goofy as the "notch"
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by somat 1y ago
If i had to guess, the implicit access to all your vars feels gross to some, it's why I don't use them. I mean they are probably fine, like you said, puts the symbol right where you want it. It just never felt right to me. so I ke
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by somat 1y ago
So who makes the best ram? or is it largely interchangeable. Off the top of my head there is only like three manufacturers left. Micron being the only one not mentioned here.
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by somat 1y ago
disagree, I think paper ballots are just as easily hacked(printers are cheap). I think that while technical mechanisms are nice and should be used, they should not be depended on to secure the election. The only real solution is to have a p
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by somat 1y ago
Best guess, high altitude atomic oxygen. Based on the wikipedia aurora article it sounds like the lower atmosphere has a more mixed bag of gasses, so it glows white, while in the upper atmosphere atomic oxygen(note that oxygen lower down is
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by somat 1y ago
I have heard that circuits under construction are more susceptible to ESD damage than finished circuits. My understanding is that it has something to do with having all the grounding hooked up.
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by somat 1y ago
2^61 guids is... 36 exabytes, if my napkin math is correct. when storing them in binary format(16 bytes each) if doing the javascript thing and storing them as strings... (shudders) I don't even want to think about it. Anyhow that was
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by somat 1y ago
They are mainly window managers, that is their primary interface, but they also launch programs and show status, so I think of them as fat window managers and because they tend to be the only environment on the desktop, they are thin deskto
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by somat 1y ago
Gotta disagree with you on your minimalist verdict, out of the box openbsd tends to have everything and the kitchen sink, I am not complaining, it is good solid well written software. but I have never found a base linux distro that was as w
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by somat 1y ago
At one point probably 10 years ago I had linux vm guests refuse to generate gpg keys, gpg insisted it needed the stupid blocking random device, and because the vm guest was not getting any "entropy" the process went nowhere. As an
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by somat 1y ago
I recently found wordnet through an offline dictionary/thesaurus program and thought it was a pretty neat project. https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ For my use case I was more interested in the data than the application a
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by somat 1y ago
Yeah, that is the tricky part. The problem is that black holes are eldritch interstellar cryptids, and for the most part physics gives up and goes to cry in the corner the minute you start asking about "what's in a black hole?&quo
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by somat 1y ago
Yeah, I don't really know much about Wayland but.... That does not sound correct to me... Wayland has a copy/paste protocol, and my 5-minute web search indicates that it works much like the X11 copy paste protocol, each applicatio
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by somat 1y ago
I run an openbsd firewall and was able to setup queues to limit connection speed. I mainly use it to banish iot devices to the shadow realm. (connectivity detection appears to work but it is slow enough that nothing really gets done) If not
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by somat 1y ago
from which perspective? I have yet to wrap my head around it(this usually means I am wrong about something), but there may be no singularity because it takes matter an infinite amount of time to reach the center due to time dilation effects
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by somat 1y ago
For what it's worth in a fit of nostalgia I found that dungeon siege runs well under bare wine.
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by somat 1y ago
I am not much of a programmer so I was trying to figure out what generics are. And I am sure they are great, but my inner gremlin goes in sarcastic tone "we want these elaborate type systems, but we also want typeless because that is f
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by somat 1y ago
I am not sure, as a convert to the church of "focus follows mouse" I sort of want well... my focus to follow the mouse and the mouse to follow me. Now there may be a legitimate case to steal focus, but I am unable to think of one
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by somat 1y ago
You could split the difference, there is delta chat an IM client that uses smtp as it's transport layer. https://delta.chat
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by somat 1y ago
On the one hand I sort of understand it, by not having a stable ISA you don't get tied down in past mistakes and can have really clever hardware innovations. But on the other hand it leads to bullshit like this. where every hardware de
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by somat 1y ago
The Nintendo 64 RDP(graphics/memory controller) used 9 bit bytes. This was done for graphics reasons, native antialiasing if I understand it. The cpu can't use it. it still only sees 8-bit bytes. https://www.youtube.com
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by somat 1y ago
Eh, sounds about right to me, for example the US interstate highway system is more or less a military program. “amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.”

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