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by wtallis 1y ago
Yes, you still have the option of manually activating a venv, and that makes sense if the amortized cost of that is lower than several instances of typing `uv run `. Though sometimes when working in one project with its venv activated, I en
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by wtallis 1y ago
What's your use case for UV_NO_SYNC? I assume the option exists for a reason, but aside from maybe a modest performance improvement when working with a massive complex package environment, I'm not sure what problem it solves.
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by wtallis 1y ago
My decade-old recollection is also that Minecraft's obfuscation didn't do anything structural, just mangled class and method names. Think of it more like JavaScript minification than a serious attempt to thwart reverse engineering
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by wtallis 1y ago
Being able to rely on fast storage makes compression less necessary for performance reasons. But the higher price/GB of SSDs mean users have a stronger preference for games to keep the install size under control.
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by wtallis 1y ago
That is more or less what users asking for another Snow Leopard want: a release that doesn't have gratuitous UI churn and superficial changes, doesn't break the end user's muscle memory, but instead focuses on deep-seated a
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by wtallis 1y ago
The right tradeoff for compression ratio can change with just a few years of technological progress, or even quicker if it's a half-assed port from console to a high-end PC. There are similar issues for a game's decision of how ma
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by wtallis 1y ago
For residential lighting running off a single-phase supply, there are some annoying LED bulbs with simple half-wave rectification that strobe at the grid frequency with less than a 50% duty cycle (often seen with bulbs emulating vintage exp
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by wtallis 1y ago
USB-C in DisplayPort Alt mode plus USB 2.0 signalling for the keyboard and mouse inputs is starting to be a pretty common option on consumer systems. Capturing that would allow remote control of a PC including the BIOS using a single cable
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by wtallis 1y ago
The blame is shared between Microsoft and Intel. It's not really that Windows supports sleep modes that Linux doesn't, but that Microsoft and Intel conspired to get rid of S3 sleep mode entirely. The intention was to replace S3 wi
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by wtallis 1y ago
What's relevant is not how cold it got on the coldest day of the year, but how warm it got on the coldest day, and how long it stayed cold. If the daytime high is mild enough that an undersized heat pump can keep the house at 72, it
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by wtallis 1y ago
I think what you're missing is that "secure boot" isn't a system-wide on/off thing on a Mac, it's a per-OS thing. And UEFI Secure Boot specifically is something that only exists on a Mac to the extent that As
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by wtallis 1y ago
The existence of a BIOS option called "Linux-compatible sleep mode" is a dead giveaway that the default behavior is enshittified sleep that wakes up your system periodically so it can check your email, phone home to Microsoft, an
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by wtallis 1y ago
NAND flash memory chips these days are manufactured with low hundreds of layers of memory cells on each die, so they're probably some of the thickest individual dies. They are commonly packaged with up to 16 dies per package, usually i
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by wtallis 1y ago
> It actually does protect against errors on access, but support is optional. Can you explain how exactly the on-die ECC capability can help protect data in transit? What is the optional functionality you're referring to, if not the
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by wtallis 1y ago
There's minimal demand for Thunderbolt/USB4 ports on Windows desktops. It won't ever make sense to inflate CPU pin count specifically for that use case, especially when the requisite PCIe lanes don't have to come directl
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by wtallis 1y ago
No, the NIC runs at 200Gb/s, not 200GB/s.
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by wtallis 1y ago
You're barking up the wrong tree. Nobody's manufacturing power-of-ten sized DRAM chips for NVIDIA; the amount of memory physically present has to be 128GiB. If `free` isn't reporting that much usable capacity, you need to dig
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by wtallis 1y ago
LPDDR5 x really just means LPDDR5 running at higher than the original speed of 6400MT/s. Absent any information about which faster speed they'll be using, this correction doesn't add anything to the discussion. Nobody woul
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by wtallis 1y ago
You don't have to believe the parts you made up. The comment you're replying to didn't actually state that a single customer was deploying to four different Debian versions. As written, the comment only requires you to beli
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by wtallis 1y ago
> I think it's conceivable that you could get much much better results from a custom upscale per game. > You can give much more input than a single low res frame. You could throw in motion vectors, scene depth, scene normals, unl
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by wtallis 1y ago
Their storage architecture was novel in that they made different tradeoffs than off the shelf SSDs for consumer PCs, but there's absolutely no innovation aspect to copy and pasting four more NAND PHYs that are each individually run
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by wtallis 1y ago
Storage on the PS5 isn't really fast. It's just not stupidly slow. At the time of release, the raw SSD speeds for the PS5 were comparable to the high-end consumer SSDs of the time, which Sony achieved by using a controller with mo
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by wtallis 1y ago
And they're achieving "acceptable" frame rates and resolutions by sacrificing image quality in ways that aren't as easily quantified, so those downsides can be swept under the rug. Nobody's graphics benchmark emits
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by wtallis 1y ago
> Weirdly that's the cheapest NewEgg lists for anything above 8TB and even SSDs are more expensive. Please don't perpetuate the weird misconception that "SSD" refers specifically to SATA SSDs and that NVMe SSDs aren
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by wtallis 1y ago
A 4ft USB 4 cable is $30. That's more bandwidth per dollar than an Ethernet cable. Thunderbolt cables aren't cost prohibitive any more (though the devices at either end are still very expensive).
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by wtallis 1y ago
2.5GbE only started gaining steam when cheap Realtek chips became available (especially since the Intel chips that were on the market earlier were buggy). Those have been adopted by almost all desktop motherboards now on the market, and mos
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by wtallis 1y ago
Isn't that really obviously about five steps too many to be considered a reasonable way of installing a package? (And you didn't handle getting an appropriate version of python installed.)
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by wtallis 1y ago
The cycles in question are not those of any processor, but those of the signal coming in the wire. No matter how it's implemented, a switch cannot react to bits that are still in the wire and haven't made it to the switch yet.
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by wtallis 1y ago
uv provides a breadth of functionality that no single tool has before, and that no simple, easy combination of tools has before. For developers, it replaces poetry with something much faster and more reliable, and replaces pipenv. For end u
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by wtallis 1y ago
Virtual environments are an incomplete solution at best. In particular, they really don't help much with the use case of wanting to install a tool : if you're installing a tool and not just setting up a development environment fo

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