silotis

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by silotis 3mo ago
From various interviews with designers who were at iD during that period, it seems there was a fair amount of conflict between them. One in particular seems to be severely disliked by Sandy and others to this day. Presumably Carmack wishes
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by silotis 3mo ago
As in don't put your pronouns on your CV. Rightly or wrongly this is associated with having a tendency to mix politics with work.
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by silotis 4mo ago
Can you point to any other patent lawsuit over AV1? AFAIK the Dolby case is the first.
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by silotis 4mo ago
The brief mention that the fallout wasn't as disastrous as myth would have it greatly understates just how exaggerated the popular account of tulip mania is. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-r
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March in Servo: keyboard navigation, better debugging, FreeBSD support, and more(servo.org)
6 points by silotis 5mo ago|0 comments
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by silotis 5mo ago
At this point it's extremely unlikely the needed funds will be secured for the foreseeable future. Even if the federal government were willing to contribute, spending $100+ billion of federal tax money on a regional rail project would
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by silotis 6mo ago
*Claimed to still be valid. If you're just hosting videos on your website you are probably using High Profile which was standardized in March of 2005, i.e. more than 20 years ago. That doesn't stop VIA and MPEG-LA from claiming th
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by silotis 6mo ago
MPEG plays a clever game with their standards. A standard like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264) doesn't just refer to one standard but rather a whole series of standards published over an extended period. Patents are pooled by stan
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by silotis 6mo ago
So far only the Nasdaq-100 has gone along with SpaceX's special weighting chicanery. The biggest fund which tracks the Nasdaq-100 is QQQ. Suffice to say, if you have money in QQQ you should be re-considering that position.
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by silotis 8mo ago
The EV1 was a regulatory anomaly. The tech wasn't there yet for mass market adoption.
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by silotis 8mo ago
The increased activity came from Igalia who started working on Servo in 2023 with support from the Linux Foundation. Prior to that the project was effectively dead in the water with no sponsored development.
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by silotis 8mo ago
Unless you're paying for a concierge doctor, MDs frequently will not spend the time to give you useful advice. Especially for relatively minor issues.
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by silotis 9mo ago
Roads are rivalrous because too many people using them causes a traffic jam. Seriously go read the Wikipedia article on the subject.
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by silotis 9mo ago
"Public good" is a term of art in economics which means a good is both non-excludable (it is impractical to control who benefits from it) and non-rivalrous (one person benefiting does not prevent others from also benefiting). Road
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by silotis 11mo ago
I was thinking less about the DB data itself and more about temporary allocations that have to be made per-request. The same is true for most server software. Even if arenas are used to reduce the number of allocations you're still doi
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by silotis 11mo ago
This depends heavily on what problem domain you're talking about. For example, a DBMS is necessarily going to shuffle a lot of data into and out of memory.
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by silotis 11mo ago
Cryptographic software is probably close to a best case scenario since there is very little memory management involved and runtime is dominated by computation in tight loops. As long as Fil-C is able to avoid doing anything expensive in the
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by silotis 1y ago
That's less a matter of price sensitively and more that other countries usually have price controls on healthcare. That's why doctors make so much less and drugs are so much cheaper outside the US: it's literally illegal to c
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by silotis 1y ago
The problem is for many years now the smallest phone available has been getting larger and larger. This has lead small phone enthusiasts to cling to their old phones as long as they can stand it until they are forced to step to a larger mod
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by silotis 1y ago
If your ISP issues you a routable IPv4 address then not much. Otherwise IPv6 lets you avoid CGNAT and all of the issues that come with that.
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by silotis 1y ago
These days ACH settlement runs multiple times a day. The biggest source of delay for ACH transfers is your bank delaying release of the funds for risk management. ACH transfers can be reversed even after they have "settled" and if
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by silotis 1y ago
> Medical insurance companies often already go out of their way to pay early to save in the long run Literally LOLed when I read this. Health insurance companies might pay lip service to this and make some token gestures like free preven
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by silotis 1y ago
> Because at the time those vulnerabilities could be exploited by executing malicious javascript in a browser to steal passwords "could be" is doing a lot of work here. AFAIK there has never been a PoC or active exploit which a
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by silotis 1y ago
Yep. I have IBD and have to track calories to keep my intake _up_. It's shocking how much food you have to eat to get much more than 2k a day.
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by silotis 1y ago
It doesn't need to be a cash cow (and probably shouldn't be), but public transit should be able to break even because that is the only reliable signal that a service is providing enough value to justify its cost.
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by silotis 1y ago
Did you look at the linked list? This is the opposite of cherry picking, nearly 100% of these grants are absurd.
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by silotis 1y ago
The "you're fucked" was written on the inside of the ejection port dust cover so that it would become visible after the weapon was fired. The implication is that he was eager to shoot someone.
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by silotis 1y ago
Pretty much any algorithm that involves mul/div/mod operations on array indexes will naturally use 0-based indexes (i.e. if using 1-based indexes they will have to be converted to/from 0-based to make the math work). To me th
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by silotis 2y ago
I seems to me best approach would be to compress the contents with a Huffman code or some other entropy encoding. All this business of restricted character sets is just an ad-hoc way of reducing the size of each symbol and we've got mu
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by silotis 2y ago
> NAT-PMP and PCP qBittorrent (via libtorrent) supports NAT-PMP and PCP > IPv6 qBittorrent supports IPv6

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