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That sounds really cool, can you expand a bit on the workflow you used: what format were the 360 pictures in and how did you convert that into data that this Python library uses ?

It appears to me that this is the same pattern you often see when junior employees are given one or more resources intended to help them succeed. Despite having access to those res…

Let my karma burn for saying this: Maybe it is time to let this go man. These comments are really the new incarnation of "grammar policing". (1) They don't add anything of value, d…

I think the point was that Python, as a language and ecosystem, has experienced a number of breaking changes over the years. In practice, that means code written only a few years a…

So, yeah, this is wonderful since the ARM architecture (Acorn Risc Machine) is arguably derived from the 6502 by Sophie Wilkins and Steve Furber at Acorn Computers.

I concur with that number for Chrome, then 70 Hz with Firefox 62 Hz with Safari

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Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...

One day i hope to build something like this. I am not a hardware guy but very intrigued by the basics of computing and interested enough to throw some, but not a lot, of hours at b…

Interesting that WSJ forgot to tell this part of the story: June 2023 "Galyn Susman, the Pixar producer who saved Toy Story 2, and Lightyear director Angus MacLane were among the 7…

Very nice. I checked and, yes, my favorite is on there: “The Santa Rosa Air Center was used to film Bruce Willis' 'Die Hard 2' in 1990 according to an article in the July 22 [2009]…

Isn't that how it is supposed to work ? Stroke of genius (over and over again) to get something working given constraints of the day followed by hundreds of engineers who will impr…

No vacuum tube questions. Fantastic deep dive as always, thanks for doing such stellar work! On that note, any chance we might get a teardown/history of Cray architectures in the f…

Most of us were amused when DALL-E and its peers went mainstream, and we were quick to point out the obvious flaws. Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as…

Oh, and (more often) they move pieces out of the way before the real move. First time you see that it looks like an illegal move but it’s all good because it gets moved back :)

One of the tricks I observed is that they move pieces half-way a square.

Ah—my favorite is in there: https://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/EngExcPhanF.html It’s a “robotic” board that moves the pieces by itself. You can sometimes find “untested” (i.e., b…

Am I the only one that misread the title and expected to see something about the reclusive Bellard ?

Obligatory ? https://xkcd.com/3227/

Word is that NetApp and Juniper are using FreeBSD. What these have in common is that they rely heavily on FreeBSD's I/O performannce and capabilities which is said to be head and s…

That is my impression too. From my experience, the fact that I used it early on makes me use it in the "wrong" way as the fundamental concepts have changed a few times. This is how…

Hm, the fact that he was mentioned or referenced does not prove that his role was downplayed, a quick search of the interwebs shows: - 2018 Oscars: Despite his massive influence on…

After the MeToo allegations, his contributions have been removed—or at least significantly downplayed—in Disney and Pixar’s accounts of Pixar’s origins.

>> The desktop outlook (the real one, not the 'new' one which is just the web version) is much better of course as it searches locally but it's only on windows. I am very confused …

Was not aware of this console and especially not of the processor a contemporary of the Atari 2600 which apparently was primarily successful in Europe. Programming for this must ha…