shaggie76

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by shaggie76 1mo ago
I can't help but feel disappointed that after 35 years the first thing they're talking about is an SVG logo. I mean, there's a certain novelty that it was made on a laptop running Hurd itself, but still I was left with a sens
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by shaggie76 2mo ago
This post immediately reminded me of the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (a charming introduction to Taoism). I think it's one of the rare books I've read more than twice and I highly recommend it.
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by shaggie76 2mo ago
While I'm a fan of unsigned (size_t mostly) there have been a few times when the tax for converting them to float was shockingly high: https://godbolt.org/z/96T4jTshc 1-2 instructions for signed vs 11 including a
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by shaggie76 3mo ago
ICC profiles present a similar problem and remarkably Instagram, ostensibly a photo-sharing web-site, does not respect them when scaling images (or at least it didn't a few years ago when I started posting photos to it from my PC); whe
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by shaggie76 6mo ago
Not only is LEA more flexible I believe it's preferred to SHL even for simple operations because it doesn't modify the flags register which can make it easier to schedule.
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by shaggie76 8mo ago
His point is well taken but I find the reverse helpful when you're shooting in some sort of official capacity: subjects are willing to put up with a lot more fuss and bother when staring down the barrel of a girthy lens.
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Aspartame study suggests that current guidelines should be re-examined(sciencedirect.com)
4 points by shaggie76 9mo ago|0 comments
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by shaggie76 10mo ago
We've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing; it's not clear to what extent they'll defend us but our last partner would routinely null-rou
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by shaggie76 11mo ago
Evidently it's not all Steam Deck either; I checked our internal stats and on PC yesterday 1.24% of Warframe players were using WINE and another 0.76% were playing on Deck!
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by shaggie76 11mo ago
My first thought was this blog article I saw on HN a while back: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-ch... He argued, persuasively I thought, that "this is an area where truthfulness is
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by shaggie76 11mo ago
This reminds me of the PlayStation/2 developer manual which, when describing the complicated features of system, said something like "there is no profit in making it easy to extract the most performance from the system."
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Silicone bakeware as source of human exposure to cyclic siloxanes(sciencedirect.com)
39 points by shaggie76 1y ago|23 comments
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by shaggie76 1y ago
When cameras became more affordable to the middle class did painters furrow their brows in disapproval at the unwashed masses breaking the rules with a carefree click of the shutter?
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by shaggie76 1y ago
My Windows 7 laptop still seems to want security updates about once a week; maybe it's just Windows Defender and not kernel bugs but I find it interesting that MS still bothers.
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Electrolysis with a cheap metal that can produce 10x more hydrogen(farmingdale-observer.com)
9 points by shaggie76 1y ago|0 comments
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by shaggie76 1y ago
I get just as many likes from spam bots than real people and it makes me wonder how the numbers would be skewed if the AI-scrapers dropped a like when they absorbed my content.
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by shaggie76 1y ago
One alternative that many games choose is to do it on-demand which is felt as micro-stutters while you play but this is a poor choice for a competitive game like CoD. We take a slightly different approach: we don't do any up-front in t
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by shaggie76 1y ago
While reading this article it occurred to me to wonder if the CPU CRC32C instruction would be good for hash functions; I think the latency is about the same as an integer multiply.
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by shaggie76 2y ago
Our game (also on Steam) hasn't discontinued support for 7 yet and our usage stats from last Saturday Feb 8th 2025 are roughly: 53.6% Windows 11 43.8% Windows 10 1.59% WINE 0.79% Steamdeck 0.13% Windows 7 0.03% Window
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I was thinking how this article claims that people crave the authenticity of live music and that bullshit-generators will never be able to supply that. At first, I saw this as a reason for optimism, but then I got to thinking about evidence
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I started playing a week ago having letting it "cellar" for a few years; I was quite enjoying it but today, after downloading 20GB of free update, I reliably crash on boot :( Edit: deleted C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\co
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by shaggie76 2y ago
We had a similar CDN problem with releasing major Warframe updates: our CDN partner would inadvertently DDoS our origin servers when we launched an update because thousands of cold edges would call home simultaneously when all players playe
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I'd love to go back to 1974 to experience the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)
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by shaggie76 2y ago
The inventor of the Aeropress believed that over the last century there was a trend towards shorter and shorter brews and that if you left the beans in water for too long it extracted unpleasant sour flavours. I know it's a matter of t
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I wonder how much of a difference our ad-blockers made to their revenue; I always liked AnandTech and now I'll feel guilty about leaving my blocker enabled.
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by shaggie76 2y ago
When I visited New York on vacation I was delighted to spot the fallout-shelter signs posted around the city and it makes wonder what what extent economies of scale make communal shelters advantageous as opposed to every family fending for
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by shaggie76 2y ago
> It is tempting to build a math library around SIMD hoping to get some performance gains. However, it often has no proven benefit ... For example, game play programmers often do a lot of piecemeal vector math. They are not chopping 8 ca
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I wonder if the ritual of taking the cartridge out and re-inserting it scraped a bit of dirt or corrosion off of the contacts which was actually what made it work.
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by shaggie76 2y ago
I've never known someone so mindful of the weather forecast as my uncle the farmer: is it too soon to plant? Should I irrigate or wait just a few days longer? If I don't harvest now will my fields get too muddy for the tractor?
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by shaggie76 2y ago
A grossly over-simplified argument for SMT that resonated with me was that it could keep a precious ALU busy while a thread stalls on a cache miss. I gather in the early days the LPDDR used on laptops was slower too and since cores were sca

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