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by zh3 4y ago
Yes, much much faster. The 7600GT will do about 900k characters per second (stock) or 600k at 160x60 using ter-u20b font. Last time I tested, a GTX580 does about 187k per second but that's in stock 80x25 VGA mode without a framebuffer;
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by zh3 4y ago
I keep a 'perfect terminal' in the office, basically a system with an nvidia 7600 in it because that's the fastest 2D text thing I've found to date (yes, modern cards are so slow in text mode it's not even funny). C
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by zh3 4y ago
I'd disagree with that - what's wrong with working for a company that has a good culture, even if you don't have shares? i.e. shares or not, I'd prefer to work for a company where I felt I was part of it as opposed to on
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by zh3 4y ago
Not only don't work for them, but surely also don't even use their product/services.
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by zh3 4y ago
Artificial General intelligence
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by zh3 4y ago
For dumb printers we use CUPS, even cheap printers (Oki B412dn here) just plug into the network and are found by most things (even Windows these days).
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by zh3 4y ago
We have a lot of computers, so DNS is easier than hosts files (also easier for dynamic updates,e.g. random Pi's given a hostname will update DNS via DHCP so no need to find the IP address and update other hosts).
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by zh3 4y ago
It runs DNS and DHCP as well (so we have a domain that's the same as the house name); the DNS is primarily caching so for most sites it's just stock internet (except a bit faster due to the caching). It's also authoritative f
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by zh3 4y ago
Our (decades old) house web server has a home page with useful links, and in particular to a simple wiki on the same box. Without any pushing (that never works) the rest of the house has slowly learnt to use it, so the calendar, the wish li
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by zh3 4y ago
Try https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220926200815.h... ...or... https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/09/layering-not-liquid...
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by zh3 4y ago
See also Karl Guttag's review at SPIE [0] (in particular read the "Conclusions" section) and HN discussion from Feb 2022 [1] [0] https://kguttag.com/2022/01/31/magic-leap-2-at-spie-ar-vr-mr...
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by zh3 4y ago
[1] is a very good book - it's not really one for learning C though, it's more for when you know C and you need to use it in - well - an advanced unix environment. Sort of like you shouldn't be learning how to use a scalpel i
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by zh3 4y ago
Eh, EDF charges more money directly than other suppliers (as a direct residential consumer, it was only a couple of years back I discovered how much more expensive they are). Plus as for making money, they are heavilty debt-laden and need t
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by zh3 4y ago
Just checked my first edition K&R (copyright date 1978, last page number is 228 (end of index) after which there is a single tearout page for other "High Quality C and Unix system titles" from Prentice Hall. There's also
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by zh3 4y ago
Erm, EDF. I'm in favour of nuclear, but EDF/Hinckley Point are how not to do it (I think the only residential consumers they have left have failed to do any sort of shopping around/don't care about the cost - very possib
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A BBC tour of the world's most top secret museum(bbc.co.uk)
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by zh3 4y ago
BSI standard for test finger appears to have been withdraw [0] in favour of EIC standards. You can still get test fingers on Amazon though [1]. [0] https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/standard-test-finger... [1]
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by zh3 4y ago
Weirdly, there are a few sites that don't work unless I disable javascript. Most specific one is the BBC news website - poking about the web, it's a not uncommon complaint that images there don't appear, and experimentally
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by zh3 4y ago
I recall an episode where it's all going to hell due to the holodeck, and Picard asks what happened. Geordie, I think, explains they asked the holodeck to create a character that could outsmart Data...at which point Picard lowers his h
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by zh3 4y ago
Yes, like Voxon and Lumi - swept volume (rather than static, hence 'weird mechanical setups'). It's basically the problem of taking any 2D display of reasonable resolution and moving or spinning it through the 3rd dimension a
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by zh3 4y ago
Volumetric displays. The perfect mix of personal challenges - insane data rates, complex realtime software, weird mechanical setups and warped graphics.
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by zh3 4y ago
It would not amaze me if you're spot on. Lots of images scraped off the 'net, especially celeb websites and quelle surprise.
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by zh3 4y ago
Funnily enough, I was involved in a project that did dynamically generated real-time adverts (specifically updating betting odds in real time). It crashed and burned because Facebook insisted every advert has to be reviewed and approved bef
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by zh3 4y ago
I guess C would be hard-lower-left on the final table; makes me think what are the candidates for upper-right.
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by zh3 4y ago
Statistically. I communicate with a lot of people via email, and if I don't get an expected response to something of consequence I follow up - it's far more common the recipient simply missed it/didn't get around to it t
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by zh3 4y ago
Hosting an email server on a consumer IP does seem to a losing proposition, Hosting an email server on a cheap (reputable) cloud server and doing the basics (PTR records, SPF etc) still works well.
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by zh3 4y ago
Reading the article, I've been programming for 45 years now, starting with a Z80 kit (which I still have, and still works - 768 bytes of RAM free) then PDP-11's (Fortran and Macro-11), 35 years of C (TurboC 1.0 FTW), Javascript, v
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Apollo remastered: high quality photographs from the Apollo missions(bbc.co.uk)
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by zh3 4y ago
I too run my own mail server, using a mixed approach of a dumb cloud server as a point of presence on the public internet and a private server at home as the actual email store. That gets the benefit on being a non-consumer presence as far
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by zh3 4y ago
"I used to be humble - but now I'm perfect!" (seen on Linkedin).

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