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by zokier 2y ago
Its not like there is any shortage of alternative string libraries for C; sometimes I feel everyone has gone and invented their own. Antirezs sds is just one example https://github.com/antirez/sds
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by zokier 2y ago
People who want separate non-ilc camera are already niche. People who want to compromise image quality and ergonomics for ultracompactness is small niche within that niche. Its not like something Fujis X100, Sonys ZV, or Ricohs are huge c
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by zokier 2y ago
At least Sony cameras can do automatic uploads either directly from camera, or tethered to phone. Afaik its primarily aimed at (sports) photojournalists who need to get photos out as quickly as possible, basically you can have editor pick u
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by zokier 2y ago
I don't see how riscv can be anything but worse than Arm in this regard. With Arm at least Arm Holdings has some nominal power to steer towards sanity (devicetrees, systemready etc), with riscv it's again full freedom for vendors
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by zokier 2y ago
Isn't that just same as 10cm base unit with 8 subdivisions though? Doesn't seem that odd to me. I mean 50/25/12.5/6.25/3.125 is a series that comes up all the time, it is not exactly uncommon to subdivide a pow
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by zokier 2y ago
a-gps is quite a different thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS
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by zokier 2y ago
What is notable here to me is how in computing we used to expect 2x improvement every 18-24 months, so for 20 years that would have meant 1000-10000x improvement. Yet almost all the increases are <1000x here.
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by zokier 2y ago
> Some of those frequencies we detect with our eyes, and the frequency determines its color This is common misconception. It's not singular frequency of light that determines color, but the entire distribution of intensity over visi
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by zokier 2y ago
I just point out that AWS ECR is exactly that, thin wrapper around S3. See for example https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/APIReference/AP...
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by zokier 2y ago
> how GPS itself works and how GPS forms its standardized time, which is synced to Earth based atomic clocks but includes more relativistic effects While the GPS satellites internal clocks might operate on whatever timescale, it is impor
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by zokier 2y ago
The whole point of the paper is to show that we can model the time for various bodies to very high degree of accuracy.
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by zokier 2y ago
There definitely are various timescales and standards that take relativity into account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris_time http
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by zokier 2y ago
One of my pet peeves is that graphics programming does not generally enjoy this level of rigor like audio does, despite arguably being also real-time. This is doubly true for UI programming, I'm not aware of any UI toolkits designed wi
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by zokier 2y ago
AMD has been working on GPGPU at least as long as nVidia. AMDs "CTM" SDK was released in 2006, same year as CUDA. In 2007 they released Stream SDK. Then they had "APP SDK" for a while, which iirc coincided with their ope
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by zokier 2y ago
The geomsys model, featured two days ago on the front page, seems like being on the right track: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905849 Don't try to sell software, sell your expertise. Basically variations on co
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by zokier 2y ago
> Since the rings are made entirely of noble metals, they’ll never corrode Just fyi, silver certainly can corrode, it is not quite as non-reactive as platinum group and gold. So don't go dunking your nice ring into acids etc, and sa
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by zokier 2y ago
Boeing hasn't won any major military aircraft deals in recent decades. The latest big bomber purchase, B-21, went to Northrop Grumman, as did the not so recent B-2. Fighters have been going to Lockheed (F-22 and F-35). The biggest rece
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by zokier 2y ago
OVS seems great but it doesn't seem to garner much hype these days. Does it carry too much connotations from OpenStack, or why isn't it the defacto solution for all L2 bridging/virtual networking for containers/VMs/
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by zokier 2y ago
I suppose if you want to be really thorough, you could run the tests with ptrace and single-step the threads to make different interleavings at instruction level. Has anyone seen that sort of thing done? Is there any alternatives for black-
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by zokier 2y ago
You are right, the situation is better that what I thought, the commercial smbstax SDK might not be absolutely required. They even have some BSP stuff freely available which is really positive sign. https://github.com/microc
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by zokier 2y ago
Not Broadcom, but Microchip has list prices straight on their website (how refreshing!), and yeah few hundred bucks sounds about right; for example this random 128Gbps switch chip is about $120 in single quantities, $80 in volume https:&#x
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by zokier 2y ago
Negative leap seconds will mean that there will be UNIX timestamp value that is invalid. What should systems do when they encounter such value? Generally UNIX time -> UTC conversion is considered to be infallible, negative leap changes t
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by zokier 2y ago
> I have never understood why POSIX and NTP timescales work the way they do. Posix committee thought it would be very convenient if you can get time of day by doing time()%86400. Very convenient indeed...
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by zokier 2y ago
> If you care about the position of the sun to second precision, then time alone tells you nothing - you need location too Unless you are using time and (celestial) observations to determine your location. It's not coincidence that
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by zokier 2y ago
> A significant number of systems related to Earth’s rotation (like navigational systems) rely on the difference between UT1 and broadcast UTC to be less than 1 second. Can you name some of these systems?
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by zokier 2y ago
> Why not just switch to TAI? Getting the world to switch timescales is orders of magnitude more difficult that redefining currently used timescale. The latter can be done in the BIPM backrooms by small committee, the former needs action
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by zokier 2y ago
It's not a timezone.
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by zokier 2y ago
Because POSIX committee thought it would make things easier for userland. It didn't; it did make things harder, much harder, for userland and everything else. People make mistakes.
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by zokier 2y ago
Which doesn't impact a stopwatch in any way.
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by zokier 2y ago
I think history has proven it to be absymally bad tradeoff. If UNIX time were just actually true seconds since epoch counter then I think lot of leap second related hand wringing could have been avoided

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