tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
I like the idea of ASCII diagram editors but... Mac only and doesn't actually use ASCII as it's format? However shiny it's interface may be that seems to defeat the purpose of the portability you are supposed to get. I'v
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Native reader mode This fixes most of the links on HN for me - I'm one of those people who doesn't like the browser to save anything, so every time I visit a site it's for the first time - so anyway reader mode just cuts
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations It's not possible, it doesn't have critical feature parity, resulting in some traffic simply not being routed through tor, and If it can't route all tra
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by tomxor 4y ago
> This confused me because trains go "clack clack clack" - I guess that's foley now. They still seem to go clack clack on some bits. > When a track is made up from short rails bolted together, we leave small gaps betwee
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by tomxor 4y ago
That's right I owned an Atari STFM with 4MB of RAM. As another example You could easily make RAM disks via a desktop menu, to facilitate the common setup of a single built in floppy drive. So you could copy files off into RAM via the G
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yup, even old computers that booted off floppy drives like the Atari ST and Amiga would often just load the entire data and program into memory, since their memory size was usually larger than the floppy disk. Same for the games, a lot of t
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by tomxor 4y ago
> VLB went from 0 to 100% on 486 motherboards pretty much overnight. [...] actual EGA cards were also fairly short lived in that little window before VGA was released so by the late 1980's weren't being sold with new machines I
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by tomxor 4y ago
I feel like the examples and description for "statements" fails to demonstrate their breadth. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... In fairness it's difficult to
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by tomxor 4y ago
Finally my Raspberry pi hoard will be useful for something! I knew buying them and almost immediately putting them in a draw would make sense eventually.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Maybe they are... alternatively maybe they aren't and it's simply easier and faster to tell troops to chuck washing machines onto trucks rather than spend time dismantling them and learning how to identify the relevant parts and r
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by tomxor 4y ago
Don't forget the rent for the parking space, they don't come cheap these days.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I'm supposed to believe that it's impossible to avoid... When I avoided it? Being possible isn't the same as being scalable, for the vast majority of people debt is extremely difficult to get out of, and it's in the
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by tomxor 4y ago
Are you able to shed some light on where the entitlement is coming from? Asking as someone who has honestly never held such assumptions, I remember quite clearly my initial instinct towards various FOSS projects as "their castle their
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by tomxor 4y ago
True, my point is only that it's far from free and therefore has limited purpose... You gain highly reliable interception signalling at the cost of significantly increasing the probability of interception. As you suggest, if your use c
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by tomxor 4y ago
I was expecting more stealthy techniques, like the old sticking a hair and tape on a door or carbon shoe prints under the carpet type tricks. I was imagining people spraying invisible coatings on USB sockets or something. The problem with d
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by tomxor 4y ago
Chairs are given large safety margins, and designed to accommodate a wide range of people. Chips also have safety margins, but chips are not chairs, and there are other forces causing overpowered ARMs to be put into simple electronics, name
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by tomxor 4y ago
Many criminals can't get a job just like many homeless can't afford rent (the sad thing is that the latter sometimes do have a job). How does it make sense to dissuade those people from doing something they don't have a choic
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Regulatory mandates about engine choice will take more than a year to come into force, giving Apple plenty of time to respond ! Has some activity in this area happened recently? I found this but it's UK only: https://w
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by tomxor 4y ago
> which would redirect all relevant operations to the hardware. That might be more than you think.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> The directors have a legal responsibility to the company and to boost the share price, not for the betterment of humanity. I think this is true for large organisations, the larger they are the more their behaviour seems to become dicta
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by tomxor 4y ago
I've ended up writing a number of things in an equivalent iterative way due to this... which in retrospect feels like a positive thing because I find it far clearer.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Ah I must have misheard, that sounds more realistic.
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by tomxor 4y ago
In 2k lines of assembly apparently. Which sounds like a bit of a golf too for a ~quake compatible engine!
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by tomxor 4y ago
> you can’t tell the future This is so true. It's tricky because some things are worth thinking ahead a little - but on average, I've learned that it's far better to focus on making things easy to change than make them d
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by tomxor 4y ago
> in Markdown Author said plaintext not markdown.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> human and AI monitoring, together with panic buttons and other local communication tools, can detect and ID a threat before a shot is fired Heh, I guess they thought Minority Report was an instructional video. "Keep your hands rai
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by tomxor 4y ago
> board-level repair is hardly worth it Not worth the time and money? or the reduced environmental impact?
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by tomxor 4y ago
I think in summary what you are alluding to is instruction decoding and scheduling as the sibling comment points out, which is indeed a large cost in both speed and power. > SIMD vs no SIMD has a neglectable overhead compared to entering
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by tomxor 4y ago
I quite like to destroy my $HOME occasionally So I've been decorating my $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for a decade.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> The surprising fact is that the energy cost of executing an instruction (scheduling etc.) is much higher than the actual operation. Good point, decoding and scheduling are expensive and SIMD certainly eliminates a lot of that. However

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