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by zokier 14d ago
But combustion engines go also much faster than 9000 RPM; afaik bike engines can reach 18000 RPM or more.
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by zokier 14d ago
> The telescope works out where it is, finds the target, tracks it and starts collecting images. A few minutes later, something appears on the screen that clearly is the nebula, galaxy or star cluster you selected. And importantly: it is
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by zokier 15d ago
the first spotify client was plain win32
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by zokier 15d ago
I expect competitive multiplayer to shift towards dedicated locked down gaming distros (such as steamos) that will offer fully signed hardware backed (tpm) remote attestable system for anti-cheats. Which will make casually playing such game
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by zokier 16d ago
Or thunderbolt-net/usb4net https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/thunderbolt.html#network...
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by zokier 21d ago
why is there such clear empty region in the middle? some regional governance thing? also why is Brittany so much worse than rest of the country, despite having relatively high pop density
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by zokier 23d ago
tbh execve should be userspace operation instead of syscall, idk why kernel needs to care about the executable format at all
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by zokier 1mo ago
My recommendation is that do not bother to try thinking too hard about Mars image colors, it's deep and ultimately unsatisfactory rabbithole, just enjoy the pictures as they are. Here is another rendering of the same raw data: https:&
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by zokier 2mo ago
They could have done the same thing they did with the coins and make every country put their own faces in there.
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by zokier 2mo ago
A) Front is nice, but I can't get over the shadow people in the backside B) The most boring of the options. The tiny text with the bird facts should not be there. C) Corporate hellscape. D) wtf are those hands doing here E) Again front
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by zokier 2mo ago
> executes on all pixels sequentially or in parallel?
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by zokier 2mo ago
I think the key insight here is that 243 is 100000 in base3. So dividing by 243 essentially converts any 5 digit base 3 number to [0,1) interval. Multiplying by 256 converts it to [0,256) interval which conveniently fits into a byte.
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by zokier 2mo ago
In 2026? Path/ray traced global illumination.
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by zokier 2mo ago
better known as BCD, binary-coded decimal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
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by zokier 2mo ago
There was a plan for Mars Sample Return mission. But it got scrapped by budget cuts/concerns. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/mepagapril2025/presentatio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by zokier 3mo ago
conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/
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by zokier 3mo ago
I find it very suspicious that the laundry folding segment of the video has awkward cuts of the interesting parts. Makes me question if it is actually capable of doing that
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by zokier 3mo ago
fyi "Bevy XPBD" got renamed to Avian Physics (it is not xpbd based anymore) https://github.com/avianphysics/avian/issues/346
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by zokier 3mo ago
> that’s already the case with our existing leap seconds. Which we are also in the process of getting rid of.
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by zokier 3mo ago
You can still wake up earlier and enjoy your sunrise even if your working hours are fixed.
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by zokier 3mo ago
You realize that you can change your own sleep patterns seasonally if you want to? Heck, you could do that even gradually instead of those abrupt 1 hour changes. That is your choice, we don't need to fiddle with clocks for the whole so
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by zokier 3mo ago
xlr?
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by zokier 3mo ago
The problem is RPi though, and all the junk it runs before booting Linux.
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by zokier 3mo ago
for lot of image processing linearizing srgb is only half-way measure, and you might want to reach for a better colorspace altogether. cielab is obvious example, or maybe oklab/jzazbz/xyb/something else.
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by zokier 3mo ago
There is also another major DM42 firmware project: DB48x https://48calc.org/
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by zokier 3mo ago
I find it funnysad that python people coined the phrase duck typing and then ended up designing what they have now. Meanwhile TS manages to embody duck typing far better even though coming from very different background.
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by zokier 3mo ago
I'm struggling to understand what the concrete proposal here is. > So what is Thinnernet? Imagine a fiber optic bundle of undersea cables- maybe a hundred or so 10Gbps cables comprising.... and the question goes unanswered. is it a
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by zokier 3mo ago
Reminds me of this little map I created some time ago: https://ibb.co/TPVMCR3 My intent was to simplify the shapes of state borders as much as possible while retaining the topological (?) relationship between states. But th
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by zokier 3mo ago
I'm not really seeing the connection to projections here?
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by zokier 3mo ago
yes, here is 2013 AMD presentation of the topic as example: https://events.csdn.net/AMD/GPUSat%20-%20hUMA_june-public.pd... see slide 14 especially

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