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by sqrt_1 4mo ago
There was this FPS demo recently https://playcanv.as/p/qxGSuzYq/ People have also converted some small sections of Unreal 5 demos into splats https://superspl.at/scene/692c4f91 Or perhaps use
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by sqrt_1 8mo ago
Current government has explicitly said that they will not lower hose prices: "We're not trying to bring down house prices," Housing Minister Clare O'Neil declared on ABC's youth radio station triple j. "That ma
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by sqrt_1 9mo ago
John Carmack likes how Grok will tell him he is wrong. "I appreciate how Grok doesn’t sugar coat corrections" https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1985784337816555744
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by sqrt_1 10mo ago
It really annoys me when fiction is based on real events, takes a lot of liberty with the source material that it enters into the public consciousness. The classic case is the "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" where i
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by sqrt_1 10mo ago
I think it is mostly just a problem with Victoria - and they are are hardly conservative. Hospitals and ambulance service is a state issue and other states fair much better.
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by sqrt_1 10mo ago
Windows built-in snipping tool (shortcut Win + Shift + S) also has a text actions button to extract text.
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by sqrt_1 11mo ago
I think Japan did this last year https://japandaily.jp/japans-government-initiatives-to-boost...
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
Looking at your link, it seems to be US only stats? Best selling in 2024 world wide was Model Y even including trucks? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-best-sell...
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
This is well outside my expertise, but some discussion happened at the time https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/56xxmb/the_str... Some people suggest that maybe Facebook runs with MAP_UNINITIAL
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
I don't believe they are allocating 128 bytes, or accessing out of bounds memory. He explicitly states 128byte filename allocates 129 bytes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk&t=1417s
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
It was from C++con 2016 - Facebook take on small strings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk&t=1343s I believe it is about a page that was conditionally returned to the kernel.
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
Related to unspecified vs undefined. I recall some C code was trying to be tricky and read from just allocated memory. Something like: int* ptr = malloc(size); if(ptr[offset] == 0) { } The code was assuming that the value in an allocated bu
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
I would settle for something like - "any network functionality in consumer devices must be open sourced and user modifiable" It is probably too high a bar for most manufacturers, so they will not likely include such functionality.
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
AoE2 is coming out on PS5 this year.
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by sqrt_1 1y ago
Didn't Tesla's top selling car (Model Y) get a refresh last month? Potentially a lot of buyers waiting to get the new model.
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by sqrt_1 2y ago
There is a counter at https://www.usdebtclock.org/
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by sqrt_1 2y ago
Higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic commonly used in food packaging, were detected in urine samples taken from women pregnant with boys later found to have autism. Florey researchers identified the biological molecular mechanism u
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Association between prenatal exposure to plastics and autism in boys(florey.edu.au)
2 points by sqrt_1 2y ago|1 comments
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by sqrt_1 2y ago
And the other reason for dlls for common system libraries, security. If a security bug is found in a dll that is shared amongst a lot of programs, that can be updated without having to recompile all the programs.
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by sqrt_1 2y ago
If you are thinking about the C runtime on Windows, you can statically link those dlls into your program via compile time options. There are valid reasons for dlls however. The main one being symbol name collision. For example, you can use
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by sqrt_1 3y ago
I don't think a town in Tennessee recently outlawed homosexuality in public, They just added: "No person shall knowingly while in a public space engage in indecent behavior, display, distribute, or broadcast indecent material, co
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by sqrt_1 3y ago
FYI there is a at least one science journal that only publishes reproduced research: Organic Syntheses "A unique feature of the review process is that all of the data and experiments reported in an article must be successfully repeated
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by sqrt_1 3y ago
Good video on the topic - there is a sun sensor on the dish - looks for the brightest object and orients to face it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbsHgE89qO4&t=340s
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by sqrt_1 3y ago
Classic skit on identity theft by Mitchell & Webb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by sqrt_1 3y ago
On Windows, as part of PowerToys - there is a Text extractor. Works just like the screenshot tool except dumps text to clipboard https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
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by sqrt_1 4y ago
Here is a performance graph on removing items from a vector vs list - slightly old (2017) https://github.com/dtrebilco/Taren/blob/master/Articles/iter... From the article https://github.c
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by sqrt_1 4y ago
This reminds me of when the Australian government did blind recruitment. "Blind recruitment means recruiters cannot tell the gender of candidates because those details are removed from applications." "The trial found assignin
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by sqrt_1 4y ago
Article mentions to format to exFat as NTFS has a 4GB limit - I don't think that is true.
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by sqrt_1 4y ago
The same Youtuber did a 4090 "review" for April fool day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0frNP0qzxQc
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by sqrt_1 4y ago
I don't think the system code page needs to be set? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library&

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