w0utert

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by w0utert 5y ago
>> The biggest technical hurdle is the inability to run external processes on iOS and iPadOS. >> Apps on iOS and iPadOS must use Apple’s Javascript interpreter, JavaScriptCore. > Both of these really suck because they are pol
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by w0utert 5y ago
>> This is a company that actively fights right to repair and implements software DRM to lock out non-Apple authorised replacements. But they do all these things for obvious reasons. Reasons you and I may not agree with or be happy
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by w0utert 5y ago
It's even worse when they fall off close to shore. Last year a small number of containers (around 5 I think) fell off a ship not far north of the Netherlands, close to a very vulnerable and quite rare ecosystem of small islands and tid
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by w0utert 5y ago
Oh I believe you can ‘stream’ stuff at 2 fps over a 500 kbps line alright, the ‘not serious’ part is how anyone could find that acceptable. Even if all you have is 500 kbps... If you would use your 2fps streaming browser to read, say, hacke
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by w0utert 5y ago
It's definitely interesting to see how people's workflows can be so different, I get by with at most ~10 tabs, and close things as soon as I'm done with them. At the end of the working day, I prefer to have at most 2 or 3 lef
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by w0utert 5y ago
Two whole frames per second... Not sure if serious :-/ Two fps at 34KB each is ~500kbps by the way, not 60 kbps
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by w0utert 5y ago
Yeah, you can even go back much further in time if you're not too worried about performance. I've been running a fanless Atom J1900 based mini-PC as a home server for ~8 years nonstop now. It's trivial to build such a system
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by w0utert 5y ago
Sure, but why does the Xbox One support it then, but not the PS5? And wouldn't it be possible to somehow incorporate the licensing cost in the console by means of a paid software upgrade (like on Windows) or a 'premium' versi
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by w0utert 5y ago
Like the other comments I'm confused, pretty much any game I've played for the past few years supports surround sound, most of them 7.1 even. What I don't understand is why Dolby Atmos is not used much more for games. Xbox On
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by w0utert 5y ago
The main problem would be to have to maintain the myriad of known working configurations, since they are all different depending on motherboard, BIOS, GPU, CPU, etc. If you are careful about picking the right parts (and assembling them prop
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by w0utert 5y ago
I do this with QEMU/KVM with passthrough of an RTX 3090, an NVME SSD, and one of the onboard USB controllers. Works like a charm, though the VM boot time is very high if you allocate a lot of RAM to it (there's some kind of bottle
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by w0utert 5y ago
Ah I see, yes that's horrible. It's kind of weird structured bindings where not captured with [=](){} before, actually. I'm still stuck at C++11 for most of my work so I cannot use structured bindings at all, but I would not
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by w0utert 5y ago
>> this is seriously going to change my life. Now I'm curious. Can you give a small code example of the kind of thing this solves and how it will change your life? ;-)
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by w0utert 5y ago
Most semiconductor production processes like etching, doping, polish etc are done on the full wafer, not on individual images/fields. So there is nothing to be gained there in terms of production efficiency. The litho step could in the
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by w0utert 5y ago
We use SCons at work, nothing really supports that :-/
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by w0utert 5y ago
And VS code with C++ is downright horrid, almost nothing works properly using the official C++ extensions. Yes it autocompletes and it sometimes manages to find the right files when you switch header/source, but that's about it. I
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by w0utert 6y ago
Most cars are mostly plastic and steel, and only a few percent aluminum, but I see your point
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by w0utert 6y ago
Good explanation in the linked article! This way of using Wayland and VM's seems very interesting and useful. What I'm wondering though, is whether it would be realistically possible to also expose some kind of GPU acceleration to
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> You still should at least consider a vector here. If lookups are infrequent, you can just sort it and binary search it on demand (and just add new items at the end). There are cases when this is not good enough, but they really ar
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> Although I'm still genuinely interested when a linked list is best suited. I'm also curious why they were invented and why they're taught, maybe just for teaching purposes... It's not hard to come up with ple
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by w0utert 6y ago
Yes it's not hard to spot the fake code if you take some time, I scored 10/10 on the first try. The GPT-2 code definitely 'looks real' but it doesn't make any sense most of the time, using unitialized variables, com
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by w0utert 6y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Almost all (if not all?) consumer motherboards will drop the 2 x16 slots to x8 mode if you insert anything in the second slot. So using a PCIe riser for NVME SSDs means your GPU will get less bandwidth. This
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> Valve did build out a lot of features like Remote Play and streaming on Steam, but just to a level of ok functionality. I think Remote Play works brilliantly? I've finished multiple games using it, streaming from the PC at t
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by w0utert 6y ago
Not only that, but also: what's the business model behind Stadia? Like how do they expect to ever make money off of it? Right now they are still giving away the product for free if you just use 1080p, which the vast majority of their t
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by w0utert 6y ago
Lua is popular for games because it’s so small, focused, flexible and very easy to embed, not because the core language is so great. The Lua core language really is as bare bones as it gets but that’s by design, because of its simplicity an
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by w0utert 6y ago
That's moving the goalposts. The point was that signing and distributing an app outside of the App Store does not require a paid developer account, not that it would play nice with Gatekeeper. You can still option-click and run the ins
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by w0utert 6y ago
That's crazy and stupid, no argument about that. But even if they refuse to change that culture (which they should) they could still 'fix' that problem by throwing more money at it, everybody has their price.
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by w0utert 6y ago
>> Plus signing up and paying for a developer ID. Signing your app and distributing it outside of the Mac app store does not require a paid developer ID.
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by w0utert 6y ago
Reading through the explanation IMO the problem is not that Apple wants to force VPN apps to use frameworks and a distribution model they feel best fits their security/safety model. There are good arguments to be made for that. The pro
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by w0utert 6y ago
Yes,the article's own headline itself claims 'M1 is not faster than 98% of PC laptops', then goes out to 'prove' this by comparing it to 'high-end gaming laptops and desktop PCs'. I mean it's a pretty

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