nice_byte

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by nice_byte 1mo ago
Reading stuff like this and people's reactions to it makes me want to retire from breathing.
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by nice_byte 5mo ago
Sounds like you have two happy well-adjusted friends?
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by nice_byte 5mo ago
Not really. Besides the problems with ringing outlined in the post, the number of coefficients required to capture higher frequency detail grows quadratically, requiring not only more storage but also operations to evaluate. Which makes str
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by nice_byte 5mo ago
Author here. Please let me know if the sample code doesn't work for you. It's all single threaded dumb JavaScript which makes it very easy to read, but definitely not performant. I decided to stick with it for didactic reasons, bu
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by nice_byte 5mo ago
ai slop
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
http://pouet.net https://www.unknowncheats.me/
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
I don't think that is true.
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
you literally don't have to. you can literally just keep doing your job the way that you always have.
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
I don't know, I'm not convinced with this argument. The "ugly" version with the switch seems much preferable to me. It's simple, works, has way less moving parts and does not require complex machinery to be built i
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
sucks that opera is no longer with us. used to be my go-to browser before Firefox and eventually chrome...
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
no. it was the first question I asked and was given a satisfactory explanation (along the lines of, "this adds things to your program that help it write text to the screen.")
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
this story would make a killer asianometry video
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by nice_byte 6mo ago
this is such disappointing clickbait. i thought it was a hardware product.
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
mmap is not a language feature. it is also full of its own pitfalls that you need to be aware of. recommended reading: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
Good.
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
Yeah I misused the term "token". What I really meant is that they should just be token separator and nothing more (i.e. once we encounter whitespace it means the current token has ended)
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
I have really just one wish when it comes to syntax: no syntactically significant whitespace. Space, newline, tab, etc. should ALL map to the same exact token. In practice this also means semicolons or something like them are needed as well
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
tl;dr yes it is she did not explicitly consent for that photo to be used in computer graphics research or millions of sample projects. moreover, the whole legality of using that image for those purposes is murky because I doubt anyone ever
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
the "porn" angle is very funny to me, since there is nothing pornographic or inapropriate about the image. when I was young, I used to think it was some researcher's wife whom he loved so much he decide to use her picture abs
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
Everybody knows that. The GP's reaction is what perplexes me. Are they saying the name of the story is inappropriate? I think it's very appropriate.
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
when you read this and its follow-up "driver" as a commentary on how capitalism removes persons from their humanity, it's as relevant as it was on day one. good sci fi is rarely about just the sci part.
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
could you be more specific?
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
> I want the simple approach in addition what exists now, so we can both have our cakes. The simple approach can be implemented on top of what Vulkan exposes currently. In fact, it takes only a few lines to wrap that VMA snippet above a
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
> It's explicitly saying you want device memory You are also explicitly saying that you want device memory by specifying DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT. There's no difference. > Likewise, your claim about UMA makes zero sense. Device mall
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
> No you don't, cuMemAlloc(&ptr, size) will just give you device memory, and cuMemAllocHost will give you pinned host memory. that's exactly what i said. You have to explicitly allocate one or the other type of memory. I.e.
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by nice_byte 7mo ago
I would take all the ai-related research and infrastructure destroyed forever in exchange for just the steam frame alone getting released at a price that it actually costs.
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by nice_byte 8mo ago
I had stopped using linux at the start of the systemd takeover (it was not because of systemd). What I don't understand is how this has happened. I didn't care either way but everybody who did seemed to really fucking hate systemd
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by nice_byte 8mo ago
relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZQ
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by nice_byte 8mo ago
it's hard to believe that using simd extensions in rust is still as much of a chaotic clusterfudge as it was the first time I looked into it. no support in standard library? 3 different crates? might as well write inline assembly...
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by nice_byte 8mo ago
it's "cryptic" for an interview problem. e.g. the fact that you have to actually look at the vm implementation instead of having the full documentation of the instruction set from the get go.

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