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Building complex apps is hard. User-facing, feature-rich apps--especially so. It takes a lot of engineering effort, but also management (which implies some kind of a corporate stru…

There is also a technique called logarithmic depth buffer (which should be self-explanatory): https://threejs.org/examples/?q=dept#webgl_camera_logarithmi...

Quest 3, the DPI looks somewhat similar to a non-retina Apple display. It felt really futuristic to log into my office computer from a synthesized apartment via Virtual Desktop. Th…

I stand (partially) corrected: https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif/pull/640

AVIF does not support progressive encoding.

iOS and Android allow apps to process push notifications before displaying them.

> what percentage of those billions are correctly using the ridiculously long numbers (60 decimal digits) used to represent identities (WhatsApp calls them "security codes") in tha…

Cargo is insufficient if a project has cross-language dependencies.

But M1 did provide fundamental increase in performance. It had only 4 performance cores, yet it could build my code 1.5 times faster than the mightiest i9 of the time.

But, given a choice, wouldn't you choose your own transactions to be untraceable?

What about ZCash-like networks with anonymous transactions?

Those single-frame next-gen formats don't support progressive rendering.

App Store has a CDN-like feature that allows uploading large resources separately and download them after running the app for the first time.

For me personally, it's a low-fee payment system that can't be blocked and doesn't require any KYC. My friends and I use it primarily as a replacement for cash when we split restau…

Anonymous (or pseudonymous), independently verifiable operations with digital goods are clearly in demand. There may exist a better solution, but blockchain works now.

The amount of work it takes to decode an image is incredibly tiny by today's standards: https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/C/decode.c

1. Install numpy (pip3 install numpy) 2. Download a bazel binary ( https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases or use package manager) 3. bazel build -c opt :encoder_main 4. bazel…

That is true, Bazel itself is still evolving, and there have been breaking changes between versions. Sometimes the required version number is placed in a .bazelversion file, which …

Bazel doesn't have any user-facing java dependency. > what real extra benefit Bazel brings in here Builds are hermetic by default, so unless the developer chooses to escape the san…

Apps targeting pre-2018 iOS versions bundle the mid-2018 version of swift runtime for compatibility reasons. For example, when you run an app made in the iOS 15 era on an iOS 13 de…

There are multiple reasons why TOR is not a good fit for WebRTC tunneling. However, TOR is already capable of establishing p2p connections via hidden services.

On top of that, like every p2p service without onion routing, one's IP address is visible to every other room participant by design.

HP Reverb G2 has a 2160x2160 full-matrix LCD. I would say it comes very close to being usable as a virtual monitor, but the virtual screen still needs to be quite large. Extrapolat…

The issues preventing this from happening are actually tracked in the Arti repository.

The rules of a natural language are not prescriptive, but descriptive. Studying the rules may work if the language's grammar is similar to that of one's native language.