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by zh3 1y ago
Map makers have done this for a very long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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by zh3 1y ago
Multimonitor with 4K tends to need fast GPU just for the bandwidth, else dragging large windows around can feel quite slow (found that out running 3 x 4K monitors on a low-end GPU).
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by zh3 1y ago
Yes, just went from i3770 (12 years old!) to a 9900x as I tend to wait for a doubling of single core performance before upgrading (got through a lot of PCs in the 386/486 era!). It's actually only 50% faster according to cpubenchm
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by zh3 1y ago
Develop on a fast machine, test and optimise on a slow one?
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by zh3 1y ago
Definitely fakes.
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by zh3 1y ago
Amazon UK With replacement phone or laptop batteries, most definitely. I've seen other stuff sold that looked sketchy enough to not be worth the risk.
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by zh3 1y ago
Going back a few years (from 1998), it was all dial-up and I was working in London on a stand-by. Happened to be paired with someone I respct, so I showed him "the internet" - pretty much Pat Sharp and mtv.com back then. Headline
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by zh3 1y ago
No, though there are many articles proving X is faster than Y along with articles proving the opposite. The process overhead is likely to hurt CGI though, which is why FastCGI was developed. As covered elsewhere in the thread, having a fast
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by zh3 1y ago
For anyone in the UK concerned about Turmeric, looks like the FSA are on the case (and not just about lead). https://www.food.gov.uk/research/turmeric-survey
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by zh3 1y ago
There's an SF short story where a single person is selected in an "electronic democracy" and asked questions to determine the outcome of an election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_stor
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by zh3 1y ago
The oft-cited reason is each call fires up a new process so is expensive in terms of resources (though resources are cheap these days). Additionally, the CGI program has to faff about to retrieve data and parameters from the request (easy t
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by zh3 1y ago
I have noticed that for local AI at least, there is little difference between an old system (i3770/Asus P8Z77WS from 2012) which has 4 PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (supports 16/16, 16/8/8 or 8/8/8/8) running a pair
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by zh3 1y ago
Click it enough times and the error goes away (howeever it looks like the tables further down the page are then broken).
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by zh3 1y ago
Yes, it was indeed using ConnectNamedPipe - just had a look at the code (which I can't share) to refresh my memory. The main problem was traced to setup delays in WaitForSingleObject()/WaitForMultipleObjects(); we fixed it as abov
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by zh3 1y ago
Literally just having spare listening sockets, ready for incoming connections (and obv. not busy-waiting on them). Just reducing to the number actually in-use was the biggest speed-up - it was like Windows was busy-waiting internally for ne
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by zh3 1y ago
Seared into my soul is the experience porting a linux pipe-based application to Windows, thinking it's all posix and given it's all in memory the performance will be more or less the same. The performance was hideous, even after w
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by zh3 1y ago
I will exclude myself from this club by finding it interesting enough to comment on.
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by zh3 1y ago
TLDR: Native language wins over JVM optimisations. In my recent but limited experience of working on iOS apps, they do need any performance boost they can get anywhere. Coming to the Apple ecosystem (appstore connect, testflight, xcode etc
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by zh3 1y ago
But you can. Out of the (limited) choices, vote for whoever you think is most in tune with how you'd like the world to be. If almost no-one votes because they think it won't change anything, the few people who do care enough to
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by zh3 1y ago
Or uacme [0] - litle bit of C that's been running perfectly since endless battery failures with the LE python client made us look for something that would last longer. [0] https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme
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by zh3 1y ago
Having spend some time there, I really like the R J Mitchell (designer of the Spitfire) wind tunnel - used to be at Farnborough until they took a section of it to Southampton Uni. Real sense of history using it! Most of our use is validatin
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by zh3 1y ago
Also https://forums.swift.org/t/xtool-cross-platform-xcode-replac... (and HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952239 ).
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by zh3 1y ago
Yes, very first item:- > When your finger gets close to the screen it causes a disturbance in the magnetic field that the electrodes sense. Sure should be capacitive?
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by zh3 2y ago
Ref. manufacturing, any serious-scale company is not going to commit to a decade-long (or more) plan to building factories in the US with this sort of uncertainty; I'm sure a few will pay lip-service to the current POTUS but what CEO i
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by zh3 2y ago
In the UK, laptopsandspares.com "2-power" batteries have worked well for me. Subtel are pretty good too for UK/EU. https://www.laptopsandspares.com/pno/cbi3402a.html https://www.subtel.co.uk&#
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by zh3 2y ago
T42, T60, T62, T420, T520 (multiples of some around the house) here, ending at the point they changed the keyboard. All running linux, the T420 and T520 (with SSD's) are fine with modern browsers while the older ones can be slow on blo
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by zh3 2y ago
Low cost monocular headset display for rugged outdoor use (cycling, sailing, err golf). Idea is your phone sends low bandwidth data to the display for handsfree info, so more simple data display than xR.
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by zh3 2y ago
Previous discussion (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250289
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by zh3 2y ago
To add to this, ideal temperature is 16C to 18C (we use a Pi to keep a running graph of the temperature). Lower is generally ok, apparently if it gets into the mid-20's they get so stress they try and escape the tank. We have a chiller
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by zh3 2y ago
Thanks to Minecraft and pester-power, we bought our son an axolotl some years ago on the condition he would look after it (figuring we'd end up looking after it anyway). And since they live a long time it's given us an out every t

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