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I can't help but feel disappointed that after 35 years the first thing they're talking about is an SVG logo. I mean, there's a certain novelty that it was made on a laptop running …

This post immediately reminded me of the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (a charming introduction to Taoism). I think it's one of the rare books I've read more than twice and I highly…

While I'm a fan of unsigned (size_t mostly) there have been a few times when the tax for converting them to float was shockingly high: https://godbolt.org/z/96T4jTshc 1-2 instructi…

ICC profiles present a similar problem and remarkably Instagram, ostensibly a photo-sharing web-site, does not respect them when scaling images (or at least it didn't a few years a…

Not only is LEA more flexible I believe it's preferred to SHL even for simple operations because it doesn't modify the flags register which can make it easier to schedule.

His point is well taken but I find the reverse helpful when you're shooting in some sort of official capacity: subjects are willing to put up with a lot more fuss and bother when s…

We've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing; it's not clear to what extent they'll defend us …

Evidently it's not all Steam Deck either; I checked our internal stats and on PC yesterday 1.24% of Warframe players were using WINE and another 0.76% were playing on Deck!

My first thought was this blog article I saw on HN a while back: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-ch... He argued, persuasively I thought, that "this is an…

This reminds me of the PlayStation/2 developer manual which, when describing the complicated features of system, said something like "there is no profit in making it easy to extrac…

When cameras became more affordable to the middle class did painters furrow their brows in disapproval at the unwashed masses breaking the rules with a carefree click of the shutte…

My Windows 7 laptop still seems to want security updates about once a week; maybe it's just Windows Defender and not kernel bugs but I find it interesting that MS still bothers.

I get just as many likes from spam bots than real people and it makes me wonder how the numbers would be skewed if the AI-scrapers dropped a like when they absorbed my content.

One alternative that many games choose is to do it on-demand which is felt as micro-stutters while you play but this is a poor choice for a competitive game like CoD. We take a sli…

While reading this article it occurred to me to wonder if the CPU CRC32C instruction would be good for hash functions; I think the latency is about the same as an integer multiply.…

Our game (also on Steam) hasn't discontinued support for 7 yet and our usage stats from last Saturday Feb 8th 2025 are roughly: 53.6% Windows 11 43.8% Windows 10 1.59% WINE 0.79% S…

I was thinking how this article claims that people crave the authenticity of live music and that bullshit-generators will never be able to supply that. At first, I saw this as a re…

I started playing a week ago having letting it "cellar" for a few years; I was quite enjoying it but today, after downloading 20GB of free update, I reliably crash on boot :( Edit:…

We had a similar CDN problem with releasing major Warframe updates: our CDN partner would inadvertently DDoS our origin servers when we launched an update because thousands of cold…

I'd love to go back to 1974 to experience the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)

The inventor of the Aeropress believed that over the last century there was a trend towards shorter and shorter brews and that if you left the beans in water for too long it extrac…

I wonder how much of a difference our ad-blockers made to their revenue; I always liked AnandTech and now I'll feel guilty about leaving my blocker enabled.