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About zokier
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Comment #49043139
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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Comment #49043048
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 hell…
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Comment #49027338
> executes on all pixels sequentially or in parallel?
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Comment #48990794
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 …
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Comment #48984110
In 2026? Path/ray traced global illumination.
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Comment #48928221
better known as BCD, binary-coded decimal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
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Comment #48786391
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.o…
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Comment #48779959
conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/
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Comment #48753435
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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Comment #48752920
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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Comment #48729330
> 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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Comment #48729320
You can still wake up earlier and enjoy your sunrise even if your working hours are fixed.
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Comment #48729299
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 choic…
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Comment #48665825
xlr?
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Comment #48643729
The problem is RPi though, and all the junk it runs before booting Linux.
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Comment #48546893
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/jza…
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Comment #48521334
There is also another major DM42 firmware project: DB48x https://48calc.org/
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Comment #48452268
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 thoug…
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Comment #48452107
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 compr…
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Comment #48445677
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 topologi…
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Comment #48445537
I'm not really seeing the connection to projections here?
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Comment #48428456
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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Comment #48428421
AMD Fusion knocking from 2010.