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Check out Asahi Linux, they run on Apple Silicon and have translation for 32 and 64 bit x86, so they even go further than what Rosetta achieved. Open Source as well.

A very interesting read. The article states that they added a computational correction step which is run whenever a result might be incorrect but skip it most of the time. I am won…

Great post, the fusion of scale with unit is a mess. When using it as a factor, for example when describing attenuation or amplification it is fine and can be used similar to perce…

While this gives an impressive boost in performance, it also means that frametimes are around 10% longer when the status bar has to be updated. Overall this can mean that in some s…

Nordic semiconductor also has microcontrollers with BT and Wifi. They are much less common than espressifs solution though.

Though this is an artificial constraint imposed by the platform holders (i.e. Apple and Google). Once they figured out how their new AI assistant needs to look like their own rules…

I could see that in the coming years the value of Waymo for Google is not actually in collecting revenue from transportation fees but to collect multi modal data to feed into its m…

You are right it feels off. The position of the guitar in stereo is all over the place, higher frequency elements appear to come from the left while other parts are more centered.

At the same time France had to buy loads of electricity from Germany in the last year because several nuclear plants had to shut down due to a) maintenance problems and b) low rive…

You also pay for quality control. Cheaper brands often have decent audio quality on average but high variation in between individual pairs of headphones. They also tend to fall apa…

You can modulate the brightness without flicker, you can try it yourself with a lab power supply. It is just that filtering the output of the regulator is “expensive” as you need a…

I assume the author of the library works under a hard real-time constraint. Under such circumstances (an example would be low latency audio) you can not tolerate the latency impact…

According to an article at Ars [0], longer sessions are more likely to output undesired responses from bing chat. So the limits might simply be a workaround to avoid articles about…

I would argue that the people who use AI generated assets and combine them for a bigger thing such as a video game are still artists. They are simply realizing their vision on a hi…

Boston dynamics also published a making of video. There it is explained why the luggage scenario is still far away: The robot has perfect knowledge of the object it is transporting…

They are using a combination of lidar with HD maps, radar and cameras.

Is there a list of functions for newlib?

Very interesting read. The author notes that double pumping the 512 bit instructions to 256 bit execution units appears to be a good trade-off. As far as I understood ARMs new SIMD…

I am also curious how this period in movies will hold over time. Older movies with more practical effects (such as Star Wars) still have a very crisp look to them while newer movie…

Appears to be common industry practice at least for entry level devices. My old HP has the same behavior. Cannot scan with a defective print head.

While the ideal filters have an infinite long inpulse response and are therefore „non realizable“, shorter filters simply increase the noise level. With filters of 100ms length you…

Fraunhofer is an institution in Germany positioned between universities and the industry. They provide applied research and license it to companies. For example mp3 was mainly deve…

I did not mean to discourage people from making their own evaluations. Maybe I did not word it correctly. The article starts with questioning best practices for implementing real-t…

Not sure what this empirical analysis adds to answer the initial question. Sure, modern computers are fast and modern operating systems are designed to reduce latency. At the same …

Signal offers to validate public keys of contacts via a separate channel (QR codes) to detect MITM attacks. The second claim is that the ciphers used are outdated. A counter-claim …