gens

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by gens 10mo ago
LLM-s are definitely not intelligent. The market is definitely irrational. The hype is insane.
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by gens 2y ago
It is not about memory safety or anything like that. It is about simplicity. If you say "you can't do x with y in C++" you will get an "yes you can, you just use asd::dsadasd::asdadqwreqsdwerig_hfdoigbhiohrf() with weaor
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by gens 2y ago
In my experience the hardware requirements are whatever the file size is + a bit more. Cpu works, gpu is a lot faster but needs VRAM. Was playing with them some more yesterday. Found that the 4bit ("q4") is much worse then q8 or f
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by gens 5y ago
When i think of "desktop integration", i think about drag and drop not working between `ark` (a QT program) and `thunar` (a GTK program), and i think of folk writing blog posts about window theming. (there's also notification
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by gens 5y ago
I never said it doesn't work. And yes, i do have "anything substantive" against it. The fact that, as i mentioned, it is just a package manager. And a bad one. > From what I have seen, most of the opposition to Flatpak com
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by gens 5y ago
Desktops integrate poorly with desktops.
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by gens 5y ago
I recommend just shipping everything you need with your app, either manually or using AppImage. Flatpack is, more or less, just a bad package management.. technology.
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by gens 5y ago
It says 72% efficiency, so over 400W of heat at full load. Inverter to a normal PSU would be about the same, if not worse. It could be that it raises the voltage then drops it back down to 12V, but i'd sooner think it's just cheap
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by gens 5y ago
That's cool. I truly wish you all the best in your future :).
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by gens 5y ago
May I ask what you developed in the kernel ?
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by gens 5y ago
"Hacker" "News" (It's a somewhat obscure reference)
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by gens 5y ago
Thief the dark project supports HRTF through OpenAL Soft[0]. Head related transfer function is the.. modeling of how sound waves bounce of your body (shoulders, ears, breast). And it's a part of how we determine where a sound is coming
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by gens 5y ago
Good headphones. Even without HRTF they are worth it.
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by gens 5y ago
Looks janky (the whole thing is shaking a lot every time it moves, especially the sensors). If it's cheap, it's good.
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by gens 5y ago
This forum.
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by gens 5y ago
Too many cpu companies are USA-ian.
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by gens 6y ago
Like all machines, they will fail. Picking up trash in space is harder then fixing what we did to the environment, even if it impacts us less. Laying down optics is a much better solution to this selfish problem.
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by gens 6y ago
Well, it seems to work fine (xorg.conf tearfree option, that is). AFAIK wayland compositing also has the problem that clients don't know when they should be done with rendering, as in when the flip is going to happen. I don't know
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by gens 6y ago
Screen tearing under X11 is more or less not a problem anymore. HIDPI, yes, but only for multiple monitors (maybe even just programs that don't support it properly ?). Security... eh, yes and no (Xorg can be ran as a normal user). The
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by gens 6y ago
Electrons are.. we don't really know what they are. What we do know is that they have a "charge" around them, an "electric potential", and that they repel each other. "Electricity" is one of those terms th
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by gens 6y ago
It would solve the needless IPC, cache trashing, priority scheduling (since it becomes a kernel thread, instead of a userspace thread), and other busywork.
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by gens 6y ago
Resampling in userspace and then sending it to the kernel is how it already works.. in ALSA. The only real problem with how ALSA does things is that you can't just switch the output (for example sound card to hdmi) for a running stream
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by gens 6y ago
That's how i write assembly. Extra newline between each small block, and two between every major block.
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by gens 6y ago
Room 641A is a similar thing.
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by gens 6y ago
We can lower the fossil fuel consumption by writing more efficient software, in a more efficient programming language like C. It gets less processed as well. Don't have an idea for politics.
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by gens 6y ago
While reading the article i thought of Erlang. Multiple independent programs sending messages to each other fits well into multiple independent cores sending messages to each other.
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by gens 6y ago
Your words anger me.
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by gens 6y ago
You are right. I didn't look into sizeof. So.. by the C standard, a byte is a size of char.
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by gens 6y ago
I would never use C++ if i had a choice. And i do have a choice.
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by gens 6y ago
EDIT: I was wrong, a char is always sizeof 1, See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131228 // old reply: I already replied to nanis above, so i+l just c/p it here. CHAR_BIT is a minimum of 1 byte (8 bits

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