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by xipix 2y ago
Why is it that every audio waveform renderer looks super aliased? I also recently made a fast audio waveform renderer using the best bits of Wasm and WebGL to create an animatable waveform that looks a bit less 1990s: https://pla
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by xipix 3y ago
That's data size, not code. There's no fundamental reason that a program that can smoothly render unicode at 4k needs a GB download when kB could suffice.
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by xipix 3y ago
Quite simply: it lets you build portable apps with near-native performance. Same source for both your desktop browser and your phone. I really love using it to make audio apps like this one: https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com&#x
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by xipix 3y ago
There's also a web audio stretcher: https://bungee-audio.pages.dev/bungee-web-demo
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by xipix 3y ago
Yes, also newer iGPUs (11th Gen onwards) can use same software
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by xipix 3y ago
Best to ignore such messages. Call Google's bluff. I do, my apps keep paying out.
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by xipix 3y ago
Nice. I'd love to see how this changes when you have SIMD and multiple cosines to compute in parallel. Also when you have to compute sine and cosine simultaneously which is often the case, and then you may be more interested in polar e
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by xipix 3y ago
A large system, so much higher chance of something breaking. What happens if it loses a node or a link? Or some memory becomes unreliable? This thing needs some sophisticated fault tolerance.
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by xipix 3y ago
I always thought this would be a cool thing to do if I ran Evil Corp... A = <totally random bits> B = <personal data> XOR A Store A in USA Store B in EU The data is not stored in EU, and it's not stored in USA either. It&#x
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by xipix 3y ago
It's so funny to see Apple's "combined memory architecture" praised. When Intel did this a decade+ ago with its integrated GPUs, it was roundly slated.
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by xipix 3y ago
Why are people still using mono fonts in 2023? There are very few reasons not to love proportional fonts in your IDE.
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by xipix 3y ago
Strategies for dealing with ageism would be useful indeed. But otherwise, besides knowing shortcuts to increase zoom/font size for changing eyesight, age brings no special needs.
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by xipix 3y ago
Perhaps (a) there do exist bigger models that weren't better or (b) this model isn't better than somewhat smaller ones. Perhaps the CEO has seen diminishing returns.
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by xipix 3y ago
Something not mentioned here is that software itself is rarely the subject of a patent. Instead, it is a "computer system running software". This, I think, is a trick to get around software itself not being patentable in some juri
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by xipix 3y ago
yup and, as ever, Apple definitely weren't the first with this.
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by xipix 3y ago
Matrix math units are a smart use of silicon for many ML applications, true. But Von Neumann compute isn't going away. Neither are fixed function modules for shading, ray tracing and massively parallel GPGPU type applications. Also no
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by xipix 3y ago
The thing about video compression is that it's already very compute intensive. Most devices have dedicated hardware cores for encoding and decoding in order to save power. They work exclusively with integer values, chiefly unsigned 8 a
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by xipix 4y ago
"Technological advancements" is a term that is open to interpretation. To many, it means advancements in terms of reducing CO2 emissions.
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by xipix 4y ago
Prices of the chips may be rising, but power usage is falling and in the end, that's often the bigger cost.
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by xipix 4y ago
Better than RTO, an annual or six monthly team meet up. Its enough to catalyse new and boost existing relationships without the pointless grind of daily commutes.
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by xipix 4y ago
The implicit point here is that speed limits should be based upon safety, or they should be abolished. This article fails to mention that there are important reasons for speed limits other than safety. For example, noise, pollution and clim
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by xipix 4y ago
Edible mushrooms do benefit from being eaten. Their total biomass is today much greater than if they'd remained naturally-selected, growing in the wild. That said, the evolutionary feedback loop of incrementally more intelligent humans