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by sprash 6y ago
Still China controls the borders very well and allows only products to enter when it serves the interest of China. This is the definition of nationalism and one of the reasons why the quality of life in China is rising so fast. Nationalism
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by sprash 6y ago
> On the other hand wages in China have shot up and the huge pool of cheap rural labour is mostly tapped out. I would have no problem with that if it didn't happen at the cost of American worker which it clearly did. > Employment
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by sprash 6y ago
But china is pretty nationalistic. They allow other global companies to produce within their borders, sure. But if you try to export something from another country to china you are going to have a bad time. So the reason why Chinese masses
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by sprash 6y ago
> and in general the world is richer. My bank account tells a different story. Only very few people got richer. General purchasing power fell off like cliff in the US after the 70s when all the outsourcing happened. There is nothing posi
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by sprash 6y ago
The content of the article does not really make a technical argument. It just says "XUL can not be fast, because I said so". The code of Firefox has always been a historical grown mess with a lot of loose ends that need to be enta
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by sprash 6y ago
Just as a tip if you experience bad performance of SQLite once the size reaches a triple GB range: Understand how the BEGIN/END TRANSACTION and transaction control in general works, learn about journaling why and when you need it and h
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by sprash 6y ago
It does not even pass the ACID2 test. It is however the best independently developed browser engine out there. If you want an alternative to Webkit and whatever Firefox uses, Netsurf is the only viable option at the moment.
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by sprash 6y ago
I have the TKL version of same keyboard and it is a great value for the price but it has several flaws. The Kailh Blue switches can click and not trigger if you don't press hard enough. So the audio feedback is basically worth nothing.
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by sprash 6y ago
The glTF material model is essentially all you need for realistic rendering. I always wondered how much performance you could gain by implementing that model directly in silicon and ditch GPU shaders instead. The great problem of modern GPU
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by sprash 6y ago
SPIR-V looks like a promising standardization. It can not be translated directly into silicon but it doesn't have to. Intel also essentially emulates x86 and runs RISC internally.
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by sprash 6y ago
This article is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. Firstly for the last 40+ years the growth of wages stagnated when at the same time productivity per hour was rising at roughly the same levels like it was before
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by sprash 6y ago
Static linking allows LTO with aggressive inlining and is therefore able to achieve far superior performance beyond just the startup time. Arguing that dynamic vs. static has better RAM utilization or not is pointless because nowadays we ha
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by sprash 6y ago
P.A. Semi built a powerful and power-efficient Power ISA processor which solved all the problems Apple had with the Power architecture at the time. What did Jobs do? He bought the company and closed it immediately so that nobody noticed tha
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by sprash 6y ago
Turkey has a unique geographic location of immense strategic value. There is a reason NATO bends over backwards to include a country that is culturally completely incompatible with the rest of the mostly European members and even openly att
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by sprash 6y ago
You have always the option to put programs that you don't trust into a jail. It just shouldn't be mandatory. Besides, the only good way to solve that problem is namespaces as they are used in Plan9. Sadly Unix/Linux took the
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by sprash 6y ago
And what do you want to do about it? Do you want to sandbox Bash? That would make Bash completely useless.
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by sprash 6y ago
It is not a hassle because it is rare to run untrusted software on FOSS systems. Also spinning up a Xephyr window is trivial and not at all like "running it on a separate computer". Setting permissions for each and every installed
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by sprash 6y ago
Yes, I run those programs in a separate Xorg session. If I need it on the same session I simply spin up a Xephyr window.
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by sprash 6y ago
Xorg already provides a full suite of security protocols that allow fine grained control over every aspect of any application down to the single pixmap via access control hooks. The fact that nobody really uses them should tell you that the
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by sprash 6y ago
People rarely run untrusted software on FOSS systems. If you can't trust your package manager and your distrobution you have all kinds of problems the least of which is sandboxing applications. The only untrusted programs I run are Ste
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by sprash 6y ago
xD failed because it was a proprietary standard used exclusively by FujiFilm and Olympus and were generally more expensive to the consumers than the completely open and free SD-format. The lack of a flash translation layer was a major advan
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by sprash 6y ago
The margins on flash media are razor thin already. This is a high volume operation where subcents per unit count. If you can shave off a little more by using a dumb controller that does not contain any IP that needs to be licensed it is ver
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by sprash 6y ago
Could you make money by producing a cheap "dumb" flash memory where you have raw access and leave all the wear leveling to software by using one of the many available log structured file systems? Some people would rather have full
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by sprash 6y ago
I forgot to tell that you have to enable 256 colors as well. Put this into your .Xresources: XTerm.*.decTerminalID: vt340 XTerm.*.numColorRegisters: 256 And refresh with xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources It should wor
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by sprash 6y ago
I took the reduced color depth into consideration. However on second glance it seems like Imagemagick does not compress PNG very efficiently with default settings. After recompressing with zopflipng PNG was easily able to beat bzip2 packed
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by sprash 6y ago
I recently found out that XTerm supports sixels natively if started with the "-ti 340" option. For example gnuplot can make use of that feature using the command "set terminal sixlegd". It turns out because of the way si
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by sprash 6y ago
Micro is more suited for people that are used to the Windows/Notepad-CUA workflow (Use Ctrl-C for copy Ctrl-V to paste, Shift-Arrow to select, etc.) and want to use that workflow inside the terminal instead of a full blown GUI applicat
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by sprash 6y ago
This! X11 "synaptics" driver seems to be very high quality already. Personally I really like the great amount parameters that can be tuned. Why do we need jet another duplicated effort like libinput?
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by sprash 6y ago
> The material can easily be more expensive than the SDF. But you still don't have to calculate the SDF in the first place. Which means one step less computation for your material. Also geometries with high object counts are not as
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by sprash 6y ago
The most expensive step in ray marching is to find the distance which you will get for free after one rasterization pass via the z-buffer. With the z-buffer already present every effect used in this demo can be applied in the same way to pu

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