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by unsigner 5y ago
xxhash is not suitable for cryptographic purposes, but much faster.
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by unsigner 5y ago
Slavic pet peeve: Ivan is ee-`vahn, not `eye-vun.
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by unsigner 5y ago
I'm not saying I'm right, as I'm not a biologist and this is just stuff I've seen (oft repeated) on the Internet, but: A search on Google Scholar shows multiple publications exploring the adverse effects on sweeteners on
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by unsigner 5y ago
There is strong suspicion artificial sweeteners mess up your gut biome, but it’s not yet as established as the evils of sugar.
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by unsigner 5y ago
Beautiful. An age-old techno-anarchist pipe dream, mesh networking, co-opted by the biggest of corporations. Note the language used. Users are "neighbors". The network becomes "stronger". You "support community exte
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by unsigner 6y ago
"Think of a woman who buys a home in one part of town, takes a new job in another area a few years later, and is then stuck with a 90-minute commute, or of a man who turns down the better job because he doesn’t want to sell his home or
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by unsigner 6y ago
This. In the EU, you can't sell a concoction of palm oil, whey protein, fillers, flavors and colorings as "cheese" - you need to label it as "breakfast spread" or something like that. There are different words you a
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by unsigner 6y ago
but LZ4 doesn't have a arithmetic coder, or any other statistical encoding - it's just matches and literals. Puzzling...
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by unsigner 6y ago
Zstd is very different - it includes an entropy coder. LZ4 only finds repeated matches, but then doesn't encode them very efficiently. To put it simplistically, if you have a file which is a (good) random mix of an equal number A and B
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by unsigner 6y ago
Or that we only have one real joke, and it kinda sucks.
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by unsigner 6y ago
...so whatever you say, supposedly in private, can be more easily leaked?
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by unsigner 6y ago
No, artists can throw more problem at the hardware faster than you can throw hardware against the problem. There are enough quality sliders in the problem to make each render infinitely expensive if you feel like it.
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by unsigner 6y ago
There’s a classical studies word for that pattern: boustrophedon, with the same agricultural origin and motivation, only it refers to oxen ploughing a field, not a lawnmower mowing.
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by unsigner 6y ago
There’s the saying that Intel used to employ one compiler engineer per line of SPECint/SPECfp source code; and I heard it from an Intel engineer! (This is not something that should be taken literally, but rather seriously; a lot of mon
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by unsigner 6y ago
LZ4 makes sense when you need fast (i.e. runtime) compression; for anything compressed ahead of time and distributed to be decompressed, Zstd is probably better.
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by unsigner 6y ago
In the past 40-ish years, yes; in the previous 40 years, they inflicted a lot of suffering on the country.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Put it this way: if the new Macs had the performance of the fastest Qualcomm ARM cores available today, we wouldn’t be having this conversation now.
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by unsigner 6y ago
It is widely believed around here that one toxic mushroom is reason enough to throw away the entire basket.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Just last year a distant-friend family, elderly husband and wife, died after eating what they had picked, after a lifetime of picking mushrooms; their son got away with weeks in the hospital and some organ damage. The danger is real. (South
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by unsigner 6y ago
This is so Greg Egan. (An Australian sci-fi author who likes to layer realities computed/simulated on top of each other - give Diaspora or Permutation City if it sounds like your cup of tea.)
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by unsigner 6y ago
The difference being that Apple can actually manufacture the numbers needed to make a difference.
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by unsigner 6y ago
People are celebrating a kickass electric bicycle doubling the range of all the existing ones, and you demand to be shown it scaled up to the same power+price budget as an open pit mining truck, hauling dirt in three shifts. It might or mig
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by unsigner 6y ago
One of the reasons Rosetta 2 works so well is Apple silicon sticks to the more restricted x86 memory model.
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by unsigner 6y ago
There’s not a shred of evidence RISC-V can approach the levels of performance discussed in this thread. There’s a lot of “big implementations can potentially do X” hand waving in RISC-V land, and not much real silicon to show for it.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Yeah, I know. Where I live the 1050 is still widely available and slightly cheaper than the 1650.
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by unsigner 6y ago
You can still compile for x64 (by default Xcode produces fat binaries), and do some testing via Rosetta.
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by unsigner 6y ago
This benchmark is rather old, I believe it exists since before Metal - it may be the OpenGL ES version
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by unsigner 6y ago
This is significant because the NVIDIA 1050Ti, while way slower than the state of the art, is still the meaningful practical minimum discrete GPU. There’s no 2050 or 3050 - if you go about looking for the cheapest PC suitable for gaming, yo
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by unsigner 6y ago
Yeah, I was more than half joking. Of these three, only the blackouts in California are troubling, the others are more like comedy material.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Toilet paper shortages, rolling blackouts, now canning lids gone... America is turning into a faithful replica of 80s Soviet Eastern Europe.

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