smallstepforman

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by smallstepforman 7d ago
You also need microphones to pick up ambient sound and play it back at 180 phase shift .. There is a reason premium audio car packages cost over 2000$
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by smallstepforman 23d ago
Russian are more than happy to sell you NatGas, why do you think they’re weaponising? Watch too much propaganda?
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by smallstepforman 26d ago
By what metric do you consider them a failed state? You’re on HackerNews, this website attracts free thinkers, we’re not the group that our influenced easily by propaganda, open your mind, read some data, visit the country and then form an
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by smallstepforman 26d ago
*It's my current understanding that Ukrainians performed this sabotage.* If that were vaguely true, Germany which owned 51% of NordStream would have sued UKR immediately and abolished diplomatic relationship. The fact they didn’t tells
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by smallstepforman 28d ago
For graphics rendering Euler equation doesnt matter. Colours are 0.0-1.0 and have no relation to reality, but it works. Same with rotations (if we’re not using Quaternikns)
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by smallstepforman 28d ago
Are there any c/c++ libs / headers that use this (without converting to radians in the background). I like this idea.
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by smallstepforman 29d ago
Robotics, AI, hypersonic/Ramjets, affordable mobile data, streaming video, lots of innovation in the last 10 years.
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by smallstepforman 1mo ago
The thing about game engines is that 80%+ of engine developers time is spent on designing tools and a checkbox/slider for you to click. Another 15% is spent on conflits when combining featured. Less than 5% of the time is invested in a
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by smallstepforman 1mo ago
In the next decade, AI will be gutting every industry associated with hollywood other than nvidia and tmsc.
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by smallstepforman 1mo ago
Death by a thousand cuts. First the tech community screamed about memory leaks, so they bolted ARC (automatic resource counting) into Cocoa since unlike C++, Objective-C had no RAII. With swift to be compatible, they forced ARC to all objec
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
The unique_ptr destructor is called on scope exit, and there are times you want this earlier before other critical code.
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
X512 is an amazing treasure in the Haiku community. Other than nVidia hardware accelerated drivers, he ported Haiku to RiscV, got sound through HDMI and DisplayPort working, he got AMD Vulkan drivers for Southern Islands chipsets also worki
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
Oh god, what monstrocity have we created?!? All this complexity follows unique_ptr and copy constructor madness. Anything with pointers with ownership should never be copied - period. Reference pointers - OK if scope/lifetime is known.
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
With mmu, every app has its own 32bit address space, and the mmu “maps” the app space to physical space. Legacy apps get shared address space, while newer apps get isolated space. To port apps, its only the messaging system that needs rewor
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
BeOS/Haiku uses datatypes natively
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
You also got a battery backed clock with the 512kb memory upgrade :)
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
To support protected memory, you need an MMU, and the base 68000 did not ship with an MMU, however the 68020 and later did. The Amiga 3000 onwards should have defaulted to MMU and had a flicker fixer and chunky graphics and 16 bit sound to
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
NSA is west …
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
I wish it was 20-30 minutes. Try 2-3 hours.
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by smallstepforman 2mo ago
Yet the average software engineer hasn’t heard or Carl Hewitt, Joe Armstrong, has never programmed in an Actor Programming model, and dont even know what it is.
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
The thing about custom engines is that by the time it supports all the features you need, you’ve worked your mindset into optimal engine usage, so you end up being more performant on a hacked engine vs suboptimal code on commercial engine.
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
The rushed clinical trials were only done with 122 people and a control group. During the very short trial, 1 person died in the first group, 2 in the other. The “conclusion” was its better to be vaccinated and it protects you better. 12 mo
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
Doormen keep vagrants away and prevent dirty things from accumulating in front of the venue. Plus the social benefits of interaction. It is a cost but offers not immediately obvious benefits.
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
Mate, you have to revise your stance on Russia, more people are imprisoned annually in the UK for speaking than people in Russia in a decade. The UK banned RT while you can access any western propaganda outpost from within Russia. You’re on
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
Today I asked Gemini to extract a table from an PDF appendix and create C++ data table with its contents. After 15 or so iterations with corrections and new mistakes, it eventually gave up. I was floored when it said “I’m sorry, I cannot do
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
This is insane. So I need to work 5 years on site in Germany as a contractor being paid by foreign parent company, why should the company be liable to be registered and pay taxes in germany. Eg Microsoft sends tech to fix Azure system fir M
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
New platforms were 68000, old platforms with legacy code just wanted access to more memory, so 8086 segments allowed 64kb chunks. A hack only usable by folks that still wanted to run their old 64kb programs. It would be a piece of trivia to
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
My mistake. I remember reading the C= book “on the edge” and there was a chapter about how 3 chip designers at motorola couldnt get management to pursue low cost version of 6800, so they made 6502 in a startup called MOS in 1975.
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
While I’m on alternative histories, if Jack Tramiel didn’t piss off Chuck Peddle, it would be MOS/C= in Intels pisition today.
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by smallstepforman 3mo ago
The 6809 (and its clone the 6502) would also be strong contendors. And if Motorola were 6 months faster with the successor 68000 compared to Intels 8086, the IBM PC would be 68000 based and Intel would today be known as a memory chip compan

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