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by yuriks 10y ago
I'm native from Rio Grande do Sul. I often tipped taxis (usually by "rounding up" the value to make change easier too) and I don't think I've ever tipped at a restaurant. Might depend on the region, but I was under
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by yuriks 10y ago
The crucial point, however, is that while FP multiplication is faster than integer division, converting between a floating point and an integer is very slow: cvtsi2ss and cvtss2si have a latency of 6 cycles each. This adds a latency of 12 c
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by yuriks 10y ago
Yes, Java code relies a lot on devirtualization to get good performance. This is because the language allows every function to be virtual by default. The flip-side is that this make coding styles that make heavy usage of interfaces (arguabl
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by yuriks 10y ago
What kind of breakdown? The game engine does the same rendering process for any scene. You need a specific example to follow.
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by yuriks 10y ago
This kind of thing is just done using a graphics debugger. It runs fine on the original binary: http://i.imgur.com/GmeqKT5.png http://i.imgur.com/TXksZJj.png
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by yuriks 10y ago
Worth noting that Embree is a ray tracer in a different sense of the word: It's a library to accelerate the tracing of rays only . All other behavior (such as light transport, materials, etc.) is left to the user. They do have an exam
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by yuriks 11y ago
>It turns out that for certain types of content, users really, really don't like to wait for external programs to load. I'm not sure how that's a valid point. My native media player loads in literally less than a second. (
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by yuriks 11y ago
>Just imagine if every single (286, 386, 486, pentium, pII, etc) generation had more registers and they were automatically used by software. This is, in fact, exactly what modern processors do. They have upwards of a hundred registers in
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by yuriks 11y ago
PRNG determinism is widely utilized in TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun, basically a game played using tools such as frame advance and save states to simulate a "omnipotent" player.) to manipulate games to achieve favourable outcomes.
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by yuriks 12y ago
In my experience, most of the evils of enums can be traced back to the lack of exhaustive pattern matching in C++/Java. When programming in Rust or Haskell, enums are used much more often, and the exhaustiveness enforcement by the comp
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by yuriks 12y ago
And when you update all your clients with static linked OpenSSL, did you also remember to restart every single one of them? These seem like equivalent problems to me.
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by yuriks 12y ago
Unicode makes extensive use of combining characters for european languages, for example to produce diacritics: ìǒ or even for flag emoji. A correct rendering system will properly combine those, and if it doesn't then that's a flaw
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by yuriks 12y ago
I think it needs to be stressed that anyone can submit character proposals to the consortium and work with them to get them included in the next versions of the standard. You don't need to be a member (By paying the hefty fee. Someone
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by yuriks 12y ago
SSH always (to the extent of my knowledge) uses Diffie–Hellman to generate session keys, and regenerates them at periodic intervals, and so always has forward-secrecy. This only affects the ability to MITM new connections.
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by yuriks 12y ago
What was deprecated is the explicit closure type specification, which is only the ":" part.
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by yuriks 12y ago
The concept of redis has always baffled me. A hash table is a very fast data structure. As soon as you put that in a dedicated server, the cost of the actual lookup is instantly eclipsed by the need to parse a text protocol and do network I
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by yuriks 12y ago
This sounds like the exact case where you'd use a trait.
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by yuriks 12y ago
Yes, I compared Rust and Clang using similar LLVM versions and the Rust version of the code consistently beat Clang.
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by yuriks 12y ago
I might be mistaken about this, but I believe they plan on implementing support for this at some point.
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by yuriks 12y ago
I also did a similar thing with SmallVCM, another "educational" ray-tracer: https://github.com/yuriks/SmallVCM-rs There is also a written report with my experience and benchmark results, but unfortunately it&
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by yuriks 12y ago
My mother gets all her TV from TPB and she's really not technically skilled at all. When it went down this week she asked me for an alternate place to download from.
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by yuriks 12y ago
Similarly, "Why we did ___", "How we did ___" or "How I did ___ in ___ time" formula blog titles are starting to get on my nerves seeing how popular they are here on HN.
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by yuriks 12y ago
The technical overview mentions that there can be various different kinds of challenges, so presumably you could use a DNS based one or even an email based one if it's implemented.
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by yuriks 12y ago
https://www.identrustssl.com/ authenticates fine for me in both Firefox and Chrome, and the certificate issuers for both that site and https://letsencrypt.org/ is in fact the same. I did notice that the Ide
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Ninjhax – 3DS Homebrew Exploit(smealum.net)
96 points by yuriks 12y ago|36 comments
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by yuriks 12y ago
Most casual users (family, non-tech saavy people) that I've seen don't even use the task switch button. They go to the home screen and then open whatever app they want, even if it ought to be in the task list already most of the t
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by yuriks 12y ago
Are you speaking with any authority? I know this is a thing that can be done, but it doesn't seem to me that it is actually what's happening: It's interesting that the delay seems to be always constant, exactly as long as t
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by yuriks 12y ago
What about requiring JavaScript even for the bare minimum of functionality? (That is, even loading the main page.)
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by yuriks 12y ago
The transitions the author is probably complaining about are menu transitions: Every time you tap on a menu item you get a outward radial animation thing. It looks tacky but, more importantly, adds a half-second delay to every menu interac
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by yuriks 12y ago
I am a university student, but have never been able to take advantage of these kinds of deals because my country doesn't use '.edu' domains for educational institutions. How is it in other countries? Or are these offers speci

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