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by animatethrow 1y ago
Sure, but that's a fair bit of extra time and friction to watch an HDR video versus just clicking the play button on Windows or Mac and being done with it. It's also nice on Windows how every Steam game launches and runs without a
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by animatethrow 1y ago
One can choose to have neither a Samsung Account nor a Google Account on a Samsung phone, as I have done, and use F-Droid and Aurora Store as I mentioned in a parent comment. The linked video shows that all the settings needed to disable th
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by animatethrow 1y ago
Yes, I concede these niche operating systems won't show me ads. But can I play an HDR YouTube video in a web browser on my HDR display using FreeBSD or OpenBSD? No. One can't even do this with Linux yet as far as I know, though Fi
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by animatethrow 1y ago
I can disable the Ubuntu terminal ad in seconds, whereas the last time I tried to install Debian I gave up after several hours of dealing with getting the correct proprietary firmware blobs, etc., that the Ubuntu installer mostly handles fo
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by animatethrow 1y ago
You can quickly disable all the Windows start menu ads using either gpedit.msc or regedit. On Linux Ubuntu there's a least one Ubuntu Pro terminal ad I remember having to disable, so no OS is immune from this. As a long time user of Li
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by animatethrow 1y ago
Only downside is no blue bubbles texting family, ha ha. Seriously, the switch was easy. My Samsung phone included a migration app that transferred over all photos and other important stuff from my old iPhone. I love the Samsung S-Pen, somet
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by animatethrow 1y ago
At least with Windows one can 100% disable start menu ads using either gpedit or regedit. A major reason I switched from iOS to Android are the much more powerful adblocking options for browsers (Brave, Firefox, etc.). On Android I can use
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by animatethrow 1y ago
When a 300mph Japanese maglev passes close by it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gp4DcRsELc Imagine living in the SF Bay Area and seeing a BART train move like that? Just unreal.
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by animatethrow 1y ago
Playstation 1 didn't do perspective correct texture mapping. If you scroll way down this WebGL tutorial page a few examples are shown: https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-3d-perspec...
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by animatethrow 2y ago
> Nah, just create the world at a state where modern medicine can cure cancer, like we're on the slow road to doing. We would have cures for every illness if not for human selfishness and evil. Look at all the money and effort spent
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by animatethrow 2y ago
I needed this cute video to tell me what the heck conker is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGuZZraIqg You and your opponent each attach a chestnut to a shoestring. You try to destroy your opponent's stringed chestnu
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by animatethrow 2y ago
Only iPad Pro has M4? Once upon a time during the personal computer revolution in the 1980s, little more than a decade after man walked the moon, humans had sufficiently technologically developed that it was possible to compile and run prog
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by animatethrow 2y ago
Consider a simpler example from basic math. Is 1/x infinite when x==0? The answer is that 1/x is undefined when x==0. In calculus one can take limits as x "approaches" 0 but x==0 is still undefined. Likewise, the Loren
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by animatethrow 2y ago
How were these drawings made? It seems the only accurate way would be to painstakingly excavate soil around the root systems a few tiny clumps at a time so as to record how the root system really is shaped prior to any disturbance. This wou
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by animatethrow 2y ago
This appears to be more limited than what CBMC[1] (the C Bounded Model Checker) can do. CBMC can do function contracts. CBMC can prove memory safety and even the absence of memory leaks for non-trivial code bases that pass pointers all over
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by animatethrow 2y ago
Again, my intention wasn't to downplay the importance of the EPA's ban. My intention was to point out that natural sources of pollution remain, as natural sources of pollution is something I have been fascinated with for a long ti
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by animatethrow 2y ago
I never said the EPA ban was bad. My point was to point out that natural asbestos sources remain a threat. I was quickly massively downvoted though because readers assumed I was criticizing the EPA when I in fact was not. I will have to be
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by animatethrow 3y ago
An EPA ban can't do anything about natural mineral asbestos that occurs near many residential areas. Floods continue to contaminate residential areas with natural asbestos and have done so for millennia. Recent report from Washington s
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by animatethrow 3y ago
For many years the XOR sprite cursor was patented, but the patent seems to have expired in 2013. One of us should make the request to the GNOME/KDE/Wayland/DE people and link the expired patent: https://patents.goo
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by animatethrow 3y ago
There's a video that is better than the linked article about why Tolkien disliked Dune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqeftRRpB0 This video mentions that Tolkien started a sequel to LotR titled The New Shadow but qu
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by animatethrow 3y ago
Aliens could plausibly sterilise earth from light years away using an electron beam, according to a great Kurzgesagt episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybKnGZRwcU An electron beam seems to be the stealthiest of the t
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by animatethrow 3y ago
Nowadays how well are old-school X11 window managers doing necessary interop with the desktop bus to keep modern GTK/QT apps rendering correctly on 4K HiDPI screens? I was forced to give up on FVWM because tweaking my X resources Xft.d
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by animatethrow 3y ago
So I read through the materials on mesh shaders and work graphs and looked at sample code. These won't really work (see below). As I implied previously, it's best to research/discuss these sort of matters with professional gr
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by animatethrow 3y ago
> The new modern APIs are not to be understood as graphics APIs, rather as GPU APIs I've heard this repeated a lot in internet forums, but my experience working through hundreds of pages of Frank Luna's 800+ page DX12 book befo
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by animatethrow 3y ago
Does WebGPU enable a pure 2D game with many sprite animations to not need to pack a texture atlas for best performance? I.e. can I tell the GPU, "Draw these 1000 quads using the following distinct 1000 textures using just this one draw
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by animatethrow 3y ago
Are Windows prebuilt Dawn WebGPU libs available anywhere so I can try to draw a triangle using C/C++? Many Google projects are extremely time consuming to build on a Windows machine and need like 30+ GB of space for all tools and depen
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by animatethrow 3y ago
GNOME and KDE have been doing Linux desktops since the 1990s, "literally decades". At Microsoft and Apple there are evidently product managers incentivized to ensure bluetooth earbuds "just work" and do not hang the blue
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by animatethrow 3y ago
There's the Babylon Bee deplatforming that led to Musk buying Twitter. The Babylon Bee called a public official who is a biological man a 'man'. So Twitter deplatformed the Babylon Bee.
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by animatethrow 3y ago
The ADL has been successfully sued for defamation before. Back in 2000 the ADL lost $10.5 million for defaming a Colorado couple: https://jweekly.com/2000/05/12/judge-fines-adl-10-5-million-... "On April
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by animatethrow 3y ago
> There’s nothing stopping anyone from going back and using all of that old software exclusively. Monthly bills are stopping me. Can I use Apple's MPW C compiler to build for iOS?

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