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dmitrygr

13,816karma·4,955submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.

me@dmitry.gr

https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple

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if it runs remotely, then why doesn’t the app just pull from github directly. why an intermediary? something doesn't add up
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A philosophical question: how does the author reconcile his source code being full of ".js" files and saying "lightweight" with a straight face? . And a more practical one: do they…
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In an interpreter, appearing to do threads is easy. Just interpret some instructions from one "thread", then some from next, etc
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That can be build for c64 easily and thus give you support of garbage collection, threads, arrays, and well, all of java
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A fool and his money ... you know the rest
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you're right
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high-performance [...] Reed-Solomon RS has not been the state of the art since, well, at least since BCH happened
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try that with f(x) = x^8 - x^4 EDIT: i cannot read. please ignore :)
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Lackman was "not permitted to refuse to answer questions" and his lawyer wasn't permitted to counsel him in his answers. Now that is some * * * * ed up stuff right there...…
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0. Learn something other than JS so you have a reference point before you go on to tell everyone everything should be rewritten in JS ?
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TFA has a nice link for that: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_... …
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Javacript "apps" on desktop using too much CPU and memory?!? Say it ain't so!
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The mini-series from a few years ago is very good and the English subtitles for it were pretty good. (I read each of the 3 major english translations and the Russian version as well and I think the mi…
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The only part missing? Physics... Somehow boxes slide along a flat floor with no deceleration until they fall off the screen
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I interviewed with Kite a number of years back. From that experience, I am entirely sure that they really had no malicious intent with any of this. That being said, I did tell them that IMHO they we…
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I am not an expert in some of these, but I CAN tell you that both GBA and DS can do much better than the author has done here.
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Same reason SEC exists. Because many people are easy to manipulate, and plenty of malicious people out there will convince (not force) them to invest in their ICO, etc.
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Good. This should help bring some sanity and accountability. they were both quite needed
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Though it is true that SOME CF cards implement TrueIDE mode, it is optional. The second part of what you said is complete nonsense. SATA uses very few differential signaling lanes. SD cards use a sing…
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Just because a new method of running a ponzi scheme has not yet put anyone behind bars does not make it an OK thing to do.
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the "14" in "14nm" does not refer to any particular dimension. Most structures in an 14nm chip are quite a bit larger than 14nm. It has been many years since the X in "Xnm&quo…
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Ever seen idiocracy? If you want fewer children, make sure you reduce birth rates in the right circles. I am going to guess that readers of this website is not the circle you want low birth rates from…
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images decode once and usually in hardware. js runs in background, forever.
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Maybe im missing something You definitely are. Disable js and try browsing. Note the quadrupled battery life in your laptop.
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even KY-97A from decades ago handles this for you
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With a lot of FEC, you can sort of approach it, but still not quite. Human brain is a lot better at picking out voice out of noise than any algorithm currently known. That is , for example, why your A…
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