ajconway

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by ajconway 1y ago
Building complex apps is hard. User-facing, feature-rich apps--especially so. It takes a lot of engineering effort, but also management (which implies some kind of a corporate structure). Coincidentally, it also doesn't align well with
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by ajconway 2y ago
There is also a technique called logarithmic depth buffer (which should be self-explanatory): https://threejs.org/examples/?q=dept#webgl_camera_logarithmi...
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by ajconway 3y ago
Quest 3, the DPI looks somewhat similar to a non-retina Apple display. It felt really futuristic to log into my office computer from a synthesized apartment via Virtual Desktop. The latency was fine for typing. Even YouTube video/audio
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by ajconway 3y ago
I stand (partially) corrected: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/pull/640
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by ajconway 3y ago
AVIF does not support progressive encoding.
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by ajconway 3y ago
iOS and Android allow apps to process push notifications before displaying them.
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by ajconway 3y ago
> what percentage of those billions are correctly using the ridiculously long numbers (60 decimal digits) used to represent identities (WhatsApp calls them "security codes") in that system to ensure they are actually communicat
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by ajconway 3y ago
Cargo is insufficient if a project has cross-language dependencies.
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by ajconway 4y ago
But M1 did provide fundamental increase in performance. It had only 4 performance cores, yet it could build my code 1.5 times faster than the mightiest i9 of the time.
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by ajconway 4y ago
But, given a choice, wouldn't you choose your own transactions to be untraceable?
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by ajconway 4y ago
What about ZCash-like networks with anonymous transactions?
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by ajconway 4y ago
Those single-frame next-gen formats don't support progressive rendering.
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by ajconway 4y ago
App Store has a CDN-like feature that allows uploading large resources separately and download them after running the app for the first time.
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by ajconway 4y ago
For me personally, it's a low-fee payment system that can't be blocked and doesn't require any KYC. My friends and I use it primarily as a replacement for cash when we split restaurant bills abroad. There are people who use i
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by ajconway 4y ago
Anonymous (or pseudonymous), independently verifiable operations with digital goods are clearly in demand. There may exist a better solution, but blockchain works now.
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by ajconway 4y ago
The amount of work it takes to decode an image is incredibly tiny by today's standards: https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/C/decode.c
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by ajconway 4y ago
1. Install numpy (pip3 install numpy) 2. Download a bazel binary ( https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases or use package manager) 3. bazel build -c opt :encoder_main 4. bazel-bin/encoder_main --input_pat
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by ajconway 4y ago
That is true, Bazel itself is still evolving, and there have been breaking changes between versions. Sometimes the required version number is placed in a .bazelversion file, which makes Bazelisk your top-level dependency. I'd expect Te
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by ajconway 4y ago
Bazel doesn't have any user-facing java dependency. > what real extra benefit Bazel brings in here Builds are hermetic by default, so unless the developer chooses to escape the sandbox, everything is guaranteed to build on other mac
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by ajconway 4y ago
Apps targeting pre-2018 iOS versions bundle the mid-2018 version of swift runtime for compatibility reasons. For example, when you run an app made in the iOS 15 era on an iOS 13 device, the app can’t use any runtime features that are not in
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by ajconway 4y ago
There are multiple reasons why TOR is not a good fit for WebRTC tunneling. However, TOR is already capable of establishing p2p connections via hidden services.
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by ajconway 4y ago
On top of that, like every p2p service without onion routing, one's IP address is visible to every other room participant by design.
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by ajconway 4y ago
HP Reverb G2 has a 2160x2160 full-matrix LCD. I would say it comes very close to being usable as a virtual monitor, but the virtual screen still needs to be quite large. Extrapolating from this and older generation headsets, I would guess 4
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by ajconway 4y ago
The issues preventing this from happening are actually tracked in the Arti repository.
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by ajconway 4y ago
The rules of a natural language are not prescriptive, but descriptive. Studying the rules may work if the language's grammar is similar to that of one's native language.
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by ajconway 4y ago
> I do not want my 2 ton moving vehicle updated on a whim. The car won't update itself, so: 1. Ignore any updates as they become available. 2. Problem solved.
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by ajconway 4y ago
> Both of those could be enabled by combining data blocks semi-randomly. Ie. rather than downloading the data you're looking for, you download a block of data containing what you're looking for and some other data What you&#x27
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by ajconway 4y ago
This kind of solution should work fine event if the database is encrypted.
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by ajconway 4y ago
Could it be that the majority of those 12 hours were taken by running tests?
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by ajconway 4y ago
> Would you describe Ford as being composed of thousands of brilliant engineers? Absolutely. I've seen people believe that creating a browser is no big deal, can you imagine developing, manufacturing, compliance certification, marke

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