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1. 181.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Macbook trackpad is weird. On the other hand, it's excellent for most desktop tasks. But I just can't play almost any mouse-requiring game with it.
2. 182.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   I meant narrowly only about IA64. There is sure some lessons learned value.
3. 183.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Pretty surprising. So IA64 registers were 65 bit, with the extra bit describing whether the register contains garbage or not. If NaT (Not a Thing) is set, the register contents are invalid and that can cause "fun" things to happen
4. 184.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Pretty clear SpaceX could have sent something to Mars for about 10 years, had they so wanted.
5. 185.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Starlink will soon be (probably already is) 4G/5G capable. I'd be surprised if Kuiper won't get the same capability.
6. 186.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Can you give an example of a lower latency satellite service?
7. 187.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   > Plus Blue Origin has beat SpaceX to Mars What about that Tesla that regularly crosses Mars orbit? Ok, it's not on Mars, but it was just about calculating an orbit. They could have smashed it on Mars as well.
8. 188.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   These effects used to be much worse in the nineties, often even if you had a fancy sound card. Electrical noise is significantly reduced now.
9. 189.▲
   by vardump 10mo ago

   Rather 89% PC players have an SSD. For the console players much less. People (read: hordes of kids) are still using PS3, PS4, etc.
10. 190.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    Well, Samsung chose for example to stop supporting micro SD cards. Samsung just keeps chasing Apple, so I don't see any point to buy their phones anymore. The only unique selling point Samsung has left I can think of are foldable phone
11. 191.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    Ok, I guess we'll need to wait until Tesla removes the safety drivers to see the whole truth.
12. 192.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    A cosmonaut (or an astronaut) really should know better.
13. 193.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    IIRC, Tesla's safety record is about 30% worse than Waymo. The gap has been closing rapidly. It's not that long time ago Tesla made an order of magnitude more mistakes than Waymo.
14. 194.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    Of course you can often beat the compiler, humans still vectorize code better. And that interpreter/emulator switch-statement issue I mentioned in the other comment. There are probably a lot of other small niches. In general case you&#
15. 195.▲
    by vardump 10mo ago

    Might be an interpreter or an emulator. That’s where you often want to preserve registers or flags and have jump tables. This is one of the remaining cases where the current compilers optimize rather poorly: when you have a tight loop aroun
16. 196.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    > - mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0) You don't need operand size prefix 0x66 when running 16 bit code in Real Mode. So "mov ax, 0" is 3 bytes and "xor ax, ax" is just
17. 197.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    I have had zero issues running ZFS on Linux for the last 10 years. (Not saying there were no issues that have annoyed or even caused data loss.)
18. 198.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    IKEA 45W and 65W Sjoss chargers and braided cables are also good. Pretty cheap too. There's also a 30W charger, but it has cheaper, presumably poorer quality components. Those chargers have nice specs too. They support PD PPS (programm
19. 199.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    And the industrial base that maintains it? Chips have a limited lifespan.
20. 200.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    In case you're not familiar with the metric system: 1m is 1000mm. In other words, one millimeter is one thousandth of a meter.
21. 201.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Here's some more information: https://www.hackster.io/news/ian-scott-s-picoide-turns-a-ras... Based on RP2350. Perhaps because RP2350 provides more GPIO pins?
22. 202.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    > Unless you want to charge in negative temperatures I do all of my charging way above 0K. :-P
23. 203.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    > Charging is the problem. Which also occurs while driving, whenever you're decelerating.
24. 204.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Sorry also for being offtopic, but "cracking" in this case most likely refers to cracking [with laughter].
25. 205.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    I wish PCs had a unified GPU with 400..1000 GB/s bandwidth to the main memory. Up to 256 GB (or even 512 GB in Mac Studio). It's nice for AI. Thus staying on Macs, at least for now.
26. 206.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Dithering is usually used up to 18-bit color (6 bits each red, green and blue components). But it's useful even past that to reduce banding.
27. 207.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Could you give me some numbers about deaths caused by Tesla versus other brands per mile driven? It seems to be very difficult to find enough information to draw any conclusions.
28. 208.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Not only Cybertruck. Also other trucks like Ford F150 etc.
29. 209.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    Special games? I thought NES was controlled by Nintendo?
30. 210.▲
    by vardump 11mo ago

    C++98 forced the compiler to generate a lot of useless code. Newer semantics helps to remove this overhead. You can still write things the old way, if you like.