w0utert

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by w0utert 6y ago
Obviously some of this is subjective, but the main points of frustration are the terrible standard library, the type system requiring you to use things like ===, !== to prevent crazy type conversions, the total lack of advanced built-in dat
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> - Finally (and most unfortunately): A lot of the strength of Python is in its ecosystem, and a lot of that ecosystem relies on native code. I was thinking the same thing... One can wonder how much value there is left if you build
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by w0utert 6y ago
I'm wondering if any of this will change now that Apple is going all-in on vertical integration, basically unifying their platforms so you can write a game once and run it on Mac, AppleTV, iPad and iPhone with (almost) no changes. Thei
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by w0utert 6y ago
You would be surprised how even the most innocuous electrical systems can draw down a car battery if the car doesn't move for extended periods, especially in cold weather and with a battery that's already degraded or only gets cha
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by w0utert 6y ago
It would appear to me this is the perfect solution for Hey then. Put a purchase option in the app with a clear statement you can get 30% off the subscription price just by going to the website. It could even look like a great offer to prosp
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> > The problem is that Apple has moved to a home-grown stack for it graphics and deprecated OpenGL and moved wholly to Metal. [...] There is no way Apple would create a Windows driver for that custom silicon—it has always relied
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by w0utert 6y ago
It's a framework called OpenVDB [1], which we use to represent and manipulate volumetric data (level sets). It stores the data as a sparse hierarchical grid with (from a practical perspective) infinite dimensions, and allows very effic
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by w0utert 6y ago
Yes it's apparently so fast that in some scenarios it's even usable for compressing RAM. A framework I'm using does that to be able to process much bigger data sets than what would fit in RAM otherwise.
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by w0utert 6y ago
> Its neighbours have managed death rates of nearly one TENTH of Sweden. The difference in timing of the outbreaks was one or two weeks. That certainly should not account for a factor of ten difference. How can you be so certain of tha
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> How is 4.500 dead, beeing worldwide #1 in deaths pr capita 2 weeks running, allround #7 in deaths and climbing, not qualify as catastrophic? Looking at graphs of excess deaths compared to previous years the graph for Sweden is pr
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by w0utert 6y ago
That's useful, but I think the person you were replying to doesn't just use the host machine as a remote file system but also as a build host and to have a single workspace with all its settings available from any machine. I recen
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by w0utert 6y ago
I would have to go back to the code to see what the difference is with your example, but I think the problem was with overload resolution, where the base interface/implementation classes have a function by the same name as the derived
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by w0utert 6y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but by virtual base classes you mean base classes with strictly pure abstract methods, that can be used with virtual inheritance? Because in that case there is a very straightforward and useful use case for them,
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by w0utert 6y ago
I find this a pretty weak excuse for a high-impact epidemiological model like this. Universities are full of the brightest people you will find anywhere in society, and most universities have faculties and courses in computer science and&#x
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by w0utert 6y ago
Exactly. The C++ code in the GitHub repo is absolutely frightening, but I'm 100% sure if would be pretty much the same in e.g. Python, probaly even worse. From my own experience code quality is inversely related to barrier of entry, wh
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> NVIDIA's main competitive advantage over AMD and Intel is its software stack. AMD could release a 2x powerful GPGPU tomorrow for half the price and most current NVIDIA users wouldn't care because what good is that if you
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by w0utert 6y ago
Like it a lot. Not sure how useful it is but just looking at it is mesmerizing, well done!
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by w0utert 6y ago
Maybe I phrased that incorrectly indeed. It's not so much that I want to find a 'better way to implement a message bus', but more 'if I want to re-implement the message bus I already have, how can I use the features of a
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by w0utert 6y ago
Great, I will check it out!
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by w0utert 6y ago
Lisp languages should be great for embedding into games to implement game logic, instead of more straightforward solutions such as embedding Lua. I've always wanted to explore this for my iOS side-project game, which now uses an event-
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by w0utert 6y ago
I have to concur with the other comments. I got a Luna USB-C key right before Apple announced sidecar and back then I was pretty bummed I spent the money on something I would not have any use for anymore once Catalina would be out. Turns ou
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by w0utert 6y ago
This is pretty much the analogue of gather vs scatter in GPGPU programming. It's a well known fact that in GPU programming, in almost any case a gather approach (threads map to outputs) works better than a scatter approach (threads map
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> It is fine for consumers to look at things from a consumer's perspective. This, in combination with 'small government' and deregulation, is a recipe for a race-to-the-bottom disaster where everyone gets shafted (in
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> My data says that perf of malloc/free in actual programs (not fake ass shit calling malloc in a loop) is never affected by the call overhead. I have thought the same for a long time until I ran some benchmarks on some of our
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by w0utert 6y ago
Whether money or debt is 'just a number in a computer' or not is besides the point. We built the system that way deliberately because bartering is not efficient, doesn't scale, and doesn't easily allow creating debt that
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by w0utert 6y ago
There's much more to server hardware than CPU power and efficiency, and it's difficult segment to enter because of the risk involved making large investments in unproven hardware. But despite that, it still seems like things are
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by w0utert 6y ago
We have the same discussion here in the Netherlands now, one of the poster childs of the (entirely rightful) public anger being Booking.com. Companies like this have been raking in billions of revenue and profit until very, very recently, b
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by w0utert 6y ago
I did some searching and it seems that there is indeed a way to bind/unbind the GPU from the host by writing to /proc/bus/cpu, but apparently this is (was?) not always very stable as some GPU firmwares (AMD in particular
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by w0utert 6y ago
I'm perfectly ok with some games not running as well as Windows, or not even running at all, in particular if I could also play them on console. I was more worried that Proton would not work reliably with streaming at all because it ha
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by w0utert 6y ago
Is anyone using Linux + Proton for in-home streaming? I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the st

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