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   by vkaku 2y ago

   There are no drawbacks if you have a Blu-Ray drive. Even the software and the filesystem I use to write on them - UDF 1.02 - are supported on computers 25 years older, even Windows 98. Since this is read-only, it makes it a safe choice. It&
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   by vkaku 2y ago

   Actual user here. Some of them seem to be unreliable (I have those 100GB discs) and not like the older batches I had. DM me for stats if you are interested in knowing what happened. But they're not fake - apparently they got bought out
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   by vkaku 2y ago

   Good point. Ah, we peel onions every few years.
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   by vkaku 2y ago

   The probability of web content not in UTF-8 is increasingly getting lower and lower. Last I tracked, as of this month, 0.3% of surveyed web pages used Shift JIS. It has been declining steadily. I really hope people move to UTF-8. While it i
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   by vkaku 3y ago

   This stuff should be on the Bugzilla. GCC developers act on them.
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   by vkaku 3y ago

   This ffmpeg stuff is great. Recently they highlighted the need [1] for next gen of low level developers, so this is a good opportunity for those who want to embrace this. Getting closer to the machine is the best way to improve speed of tod
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   by vkaku 3y ago

   A lot of DB optimizations are almost invisible to the user, yet have a profound impact on performance. Like what Omnigres does with their query caching feature. DBOS will definitely be an interesting thing to watch out for, if it looks to m
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   Shan's General MIDI Font 2.01 with XG Patches(musical-artifacts.com)

   3 points by vkaku 3y ago|2 comments
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   by vkaku 3y ago

   This is the community patched SoundFont with up-to-date samples. Do post links to other good SoundFonts. Cheers!
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Also See: Global Uranium Reserves, by Country https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-global-uranium-rese...
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    Visualizing Natural Gas Reserves by Country(visualcapitalist.com)

    1 points by vkaku 3y ago|1 comments
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    That whole region is full on conflict. Be prepared for more Internet links to be severed. Always better to double on Pacific, Atlantic plus Indian Ocean routes.
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    This coming in on the heels of the yuzu repo shutdown? Very very interesting. Suggestion: Allow an option to migrate from GitHub, like what Gitlab provides (Wiki, Issues, PRs etc. in one go.) You need to bootstrap Git hosting projects like
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Go and upvote the real answer below that one.
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Let me know once you build it. Cheers!
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    This is so cool to discover people are actively running teletext services. Very good read.
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Some parts of the article didn't exactly talk about their setup, idle and teardown costs. Plus how exactly their I/O is optimized. I am skeptical until I see those numbers. Edit: Read the OG version here. https://soteri
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Just days after the 1BRC. Maybe, if the Devs can replicate the perf with VarHandle and MemorySegment, it could go away eventually.
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    It's not merely an _assumption_ I wish Valve actually spoke up against this EOL date, yet what they've done is just follow that date so far.
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    They dropped Windows 7/8 support earlier this year. It is likely they'll do the same when Windows 10 is EOLed next year. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/wi...
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    This is not about SteamOS at all. GOG installers (and other DRM free methods) do work well with Wine - and with old Windows computers, no doubt about it. The question is about saving the older computers than, SteamOS itself requires a 64-bi
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Okay, wow, employee abuse is definitely NOT what I support. I must be living under a rock, I will look into this. What other alternatives exist that allow fully offline downloads?
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    RIP ... So many gems from IRC! I definitely think the siteowners should have an archive copy of it. Just zip the bash.org files and put it on Archive.org or something
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    I was deeply troubled with the fact that Steam does not really offer any options to get older games running on very capable computers, and with them stopping Windows 7/8 support early this year, and Windows 10 support going away in a y
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    Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG?(twitter.com)

    3 points by vkaku 3y ago|11 comments
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Thank you for sharing it. My observations so far: - Too expensive to be practical. Currently at $$$ per device. - Few chips exist in that power range for consumer electrical to make it mass produced and available. - Repairs may also not be
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Dennis, we should coax you more to release a rustup version for this. ;-) Great work!
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    If you're spurning customers away, very few will come back and tell you they are leaving. This is often the reason why developers seldom get it and embrace that signal. More features do not necessarily translate to better outcomes. Fe
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Yeah, well - They should be looking at the hardware supported by the Linux kernels and our present day compilers, so they can look at software running on present day devices. Another way, like you said, is to focus on adversarial interopera
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    by vkaku 3y ago

    Yes. We are increasingly working with a model where we have resources for free, and the most valuable resource happens to be developer time. If our tooling and efficiency is getting better, why would we not be able to automate a wide variet