gary_0

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by gary_0 5d ago
Another big one is climate change. Ask the ASI how to solve that, and it's just going to say make a huge push for more renewables like solar, and strongly disincentivize GHG emissions. We already knew we had to do that. But the people
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by gary_0 27d ago
IIRC, a non-AMD contributor was working on adding HDMI 2.1 support to Linux's AMD driver, and then AMD managed to get the HDMI Forum to see that their position was moot and was making things very awkward for AMD.
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by gary_0 2mo ago
> If you use new parts, you might save 80$ Valve very obviously isn't enjoying a fat margin on Steam Machines, but they're not a public company so profit is profit. And people who buy Steam Machines are more encouraged to buy g
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by gary_0 7mo ago
The point of a canary is that it's cryptographically signed, and it's possible to set up a duress passphrase that will delete the key when entered, so if everything works correctly an unauthorized party can't keep posting sig
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by gary_0 7mo ago
Even if locked bootloaders weren't a thing, not being able to just buy a phone with an open Android pre-installed means it would get relegated to the Linux Zone, with a whole lot of "security alert" and "device not suppo
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by gary_0 7mo ago
I would argue the term "gatekeeping" is being twisted around when it comes to AI. I see genuine gatekeeping when people with a certain skill or qualification try to discourage newcomers by making their field seem mysterious and on
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by gary_0 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure quantum mechanics already forgoes conventional causality. Attosecond interactions take place in such narrow slices of time that the uncertainty principle turns everything into a blur where events can't be described
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by gary_0 7mo ago
Einstein laid the theoretical foundations for lasers in 1917, and it took over 40 years of "impractical" scientific work before the first functioning laser was built. It took decades more for them to become a cheap, ubiquitous tec
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by gary_0 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing. Just curious, is there any way to perform globbing over a list of path-like strings instead of only directly on the filesystem?
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by gary_0 8mo ago
As I understand it, compiling each source file separately and linking together the result was historically kind of a hack too, or at least a compromise, because early unix machines didn't have enough memory to compile the whole program
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by gary_0 8mo ago
The chips themselves add a bunch of new failure states to consider beyond software bugs, too. Maybe a bad wire or component puts too much load on the microcontroller's wee internal pin drivers and they melt into a permanent "on&qu
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by gary_0 8mo ago
> quite explicit furry art, is very common on bluesky Now there's an understatement. It's bloody impossible to get rid of. People here are sneering at all the political content but they're ignoring the curvaceous elephant
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by gary_0 8mo ago
I absolutely do not understand moving "report spam" under "report misleading". The UX for this is terrible. There are lots of bots posting SEO junk, at a rate and scale that definitely wastes resources, and now bsky has
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Yes, a simple purpose-made chip designed to be used in safety-critical situations, with high tolerances for voltage etc, would probably be better. Although one thing the 555 design has going for it is that a seasoned EE could take one look
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by gary_0 8mo ago
I would absolutely not want to use a microcontroller or a complicated chip for something like that. Simplicity is the point.
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by gary_0 8mo ago
I designed the electronics for a heavy-duty industrial 3D printer and used a 555 in the failsafe circuit (alongside the manual e-stop). If it didn't get reset by a heartbeat from the embedded computer/software, it would unpower th
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by gary_0 8mo ago
My memory that far back is hazy but I seem to recall being able to do full-page zoom in Opera circa 2003.
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by gary_0 8mo ago
If I download the image, Fedora KDE shows it properly in Dolphin and Gwenview.
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Leaving aside the externalities of constantly breaking everyone's workflow and potentially introducing disastrous bugs, there's an opportunity cost to innovating where there isn’t a clear need. Google and others are wasting massiv
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by gary_0 8mo ago
I highly doubt there's a steering input device so superior to the current wheel shape that it's worth throwing out the existing standard. Yes, at one point how steering should work (or how you should navigate the Web) was uncertai
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Yes! I don't want a car with an "innovative" way of steering. I don't want a huge amount of creativity to go into how my light switches work. I don't want shoes that "reinvent" walking for me (whatever the
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Early to mid 00's was peak Moore's Law. Every year left last year's computers on the curb. Graphics hardware acceleration and programmable shaders were expanding their capabilities in ungainly leaps and bounds. Every new piec
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by gary_0 8mo ago
> e.g. if they used a seperate rendering package or mostly painted by hand IIRC Max Payne was one of the earlier games to rely heavily on photo-reference textures (instead of hand drawing or computer generating them). Keep in mind that
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by gary_0 8mo ago
I feel old because the post talks about these techniques as if they're surprising innovations or compromises for more accurate simulations, but most of these tricks were industry standard for 3D games in the early 2000's. Much of
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Both questions could fill many books. But having grown up in Canada and having visited Europe, they both seem to have a fundamental disinterest in technology and futuristic-ness, and curiosity in and ambitions about it (relative to the US).
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by gary_0 8mo ago
"Killing the golden goose" is the phrase that has come to mind repeatedly in the past few years. As someone living in a country that has been brain-draining into the US for decades, I'm quite perplexed at all this. It looks l
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Yes, I know mmap already sort of allows this (and has for well over a decade). To elaborate: when I want to, say, parse a megabytes-sized file, I don't muck about with mmap(), I just read() into a buffer; it's simple and it&#x27
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by gary_0 8mo ago
Not a new idea, but it's intriguing to think about an architecture that's just: CPU <-> caches <-> nonvolatile storage What if you could take it for granted that mmap()ing a file has the exact same performance characte
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by gary_0 9mo ago
A more intuitive and natural phrasing, even though it's invalid in a technical sense. I've noticed this happens when people talk about computers/software as well ("it thinks the variable is set", "it freaks out
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by gary_0 9mo ago
The explicit support for Linux is the main reason I bought a Framework (which looked slightly more attractive to me than System76).

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