colhom

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by colhom 5y ago
How are you going to sustain the largest economy on earth if your populace isn't hypnotized? Most of the work that needs to be done is not intrinsically or spiritually fufilling. So there must be an alternative synthetic rewards system
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by colhom 5y ago
cough glibc cough
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by colhom 7y ago
Rounding errors aside, you can still experience information loss when stepping time. Any observed state which could have resulted from more than one previous states (by the rules of your simulation) represents an irreversible transition.
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by colhom 10y ago
Speaking of James May and manufactured items of yore vs today, he recently did a series where he puts together a bunch of old stuff. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+may+reass...
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by colhom 10y ago
It's actually a valve and a piston you have to worry about. At normal engine speeds the valves will simply snap shut if the cam stops spinning. Valves slapping piston is generally only a worry with an interference engine design.[1] 1.
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by colhom 10y ago
Have you heard of Claire? https://github.com/coreos/clair
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by colhom 11y ago
A noamrl peosrn can uranesntdd this whuiott too much dftfliciuy . I scseput there is hveay rniaelce on the ecixtetapon of waht wdors lileky come nxet . I thnik taht liniestng to seceph wkors the same wya.
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Ask HN: What “retro” PC game(s) do you miss but have not played in years?
14 points by colhom 11y ago|26 comments
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by colhom 11y ago
96 as of now.
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by colhom 11y ago
I've haven't gotten around to measuring it yet, but back of the envelope calculation is "between 100ms-200ms" delay from input event sent to h264 frame rendered. This is assuming virtually no network delay, so you'd
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by colhom 11y ago
h264 frames/opus packets over websockets. Broadway.js is doing the video decoding, something similar to (EDIT: opus.js) for the audio. All decode loops are in webworkers, separate websocket connection for each data stream (video,audio,
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by colhom 11y ago
We give every new session a freshly cloned VM. Changes you make will remain for your session but be reverted over when the machine is reclaimed for the next user.
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by colhom 11y ago
The idea is "one application per virtual machine", and to leave multi-tasking to the browser. Right now the only application we have is Warcraft. The fact that you can interact with Windows outside the context of the intended appl