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by tverbeure 3mo ago
> But surely, latency is all about "placebo" and "vibes" and "feel" is it not? In the case matters most, it's not a placebo. Imagine 2 FPS players with identical ability who play against each other. If
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
There's a difference between "optimized for" and "it's the only thing you need". I could in theory get by with + and - buttons to zoom in and out of a map, but it's way more convenient to use pinch to zoom
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
Did it have multi-touch? Propaganda or not, I still remember the sense of wonder when first experiencing the smooth zooming and panning with two fingers on the first iPhone. Adding multi-touch to the 2007 MacBook trackpad was one of the rea
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
My GUS replaced an 8 bit sound card. The difference in 2nd Reality was night and day!
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
Looks like I got tricked into replying to a 1 day old AI bot account.
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
> I don't classify thin skinned snowflakes who do stupid things that get them screamed at by Linus, and then are butthurt about it for years, as being "extremely competent." There is no reason to believe that there is a ca
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
There are many extremely competent engineers who can’t deal with the idea of exposing themselves to public humiliation. That’s especially true in today’s environment where these kind of bully rants have become a spectacle for outsiders. Jus
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
Are you concerned about the issue that KrakenRF ran into with their passive radar demo project violating ITAR rules, or is that something that can easily be avoided by just not doing that specific kind of application?
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
That’s so cool! Reading these comments first, I assumed you were using a variant of Spartan 6 LVDS TDC trick which allows up to 200 Msps rates. ( https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubs/Homulle15fpga.pdf ) But this is a really i
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by tverbeure 3mo ago
Your analogy would be less terrible if mechanized farming took the fruits of traditional farmers and repackaged it.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
When fabs are full, you produce silicon with the highest margins.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
Yeah, I used to work for a large-ish company that participated in projects like this. The company has a project manager with a large spreadsheet to keep track of everything so that no employee would accidentally be officially double booked
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
> if that doesn't work, incarceration. Sure, let’s “solve” a minor problem in the grand scheme of things with a much larger evil.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
> EU is now pushing privacy laws that severely undermine privacy. Even if it’s most just theater, you don’t make the case at all how it undermines privacy.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
Maybe it's better to be vague in a situation like this?
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
Ferris isn’t doing himself any favor by writing “Let that sink in” in this blog post.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
You’re really asking for a Keynes comment here. :-) He flirted with bankruptcy multiple times.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
I think you're wildly overestimating the rationality of investors.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
When I was a kid, an SX-64 was the ultimate personal computer. Great to see that they’re still being restored.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
War Games and 'Allo 'Allo.
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
You can still buy a 4GB HP T520 thin client for around $25 on eBay. The Radeon GPU has a HW h264 decoder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/185826328888?_skw=hp+t520
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
The fact that it completely autonomously read in a 5 MB firmware image of an old piece of test equipment and generated a Python script to generate license keys: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/04/12/AMIQ-Li
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
> There's also no official source for the amount Nvidia paid for the tech, Did you honestly believe that this kind of deal doesn't leave a trace in financial disclosures? The February 2026 Nvidia 10-K has this: Cash flows from
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
> you use a different format and suffer quality loss by transcending. Compressing to AV1/h264/265 etc is really only done for the final version, but that doesn't mean that videos are stored in RAW format during editing, wh
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by tverbeure 4mo ago
The difference is that until now I had never heard of speed.cloudflare.com before. (I know about fast.com though.)
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by tverbeure 5mo ago
The percentage is irrelevant for this discussion. As soon as you’re public, you need to report detailed financial numbers.
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by tverbeure 5mo ago
Why don’t you start by explaining how an age verification at the start of a Linux installation help against children being groomed?
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by tverbeure 5mo ago
It's really a miracle that the black box was found.
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by tverbeure 5mo ago
You’re using that standard tactic of attacking a minor detail to discredit a much larger point.
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by tverbeure 5mo ago
In the early nineties, standard cell design was already used by everyone except those who needed clock speed at all cost.

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