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I want to build a snowman
I disagree. I don't read because I like to read books, I don't listen to audiobooks because I like listening to audiobooks, I don't talk to people because I like talking with people, heck, I don't take pictures because I like taking pictures.
I like stories and all of the above are simply ways of hoarding more stories. The way I'm getting the story is not important, the story is.
Well, scenario contains the letters s, c and n, while behavior doesn't.
The short and sad answer is that most people that work in web development do not understand how the web works or how web apps work.
That's my understanding, or, maybe a better word would be "guess". The CPU telling the GPU: this is your memory now.
What is the difference between unified memory and shared memory?
Shared memory existed since the first CPU with an embedded GPU came to market and you could set in BIOS how much memory goes to what component.
I do have an opinion about how unified memory could be different, but I want a proper explanation.
Story time.
Around 2005, I was hired by a company that was building software for USB drives, to build a porn site.
Turns out, they wanted me to build a poc for an authentication solution: some USB drives would have a fingerprint reader and they wanted to build this auth system based on that.
So I built that, but "perplexingly", they didn't get any finance or enough prospect customers, so the project got shelved.
Then, I was handed another project they had on the back burner, a sort of firewall for devices, meant to prevent exfiltration of company documents on unapproved USB drives.
I built the single user version, eg you had to be admin to allow devices and the product sold quite well, even winning some prizes iirc.
We started getting requests to have a centralized admin interface and a way to allow/disallow copying some file types. I started working on the centralized admin and the company hired a very talented engineer to build the file filtering thing. This last thing was based on a windows API that allowed for virtual file systems. Things were ticking along nicely and the company even hired a business manager to try to come up with other products we can build with our existing tech.
One afternoon, over a bunch of cold beers, to link with the hell on earth that happens right now in London, me and this person came up with a cunning plan! What if you sell an 1GB USB drive with an extra 1GB of space?
The plan was simple: plug in the device, you get a drive that's the regular USB drive, but also another drive, backed by the virtual file system thing and a version of my http auth thing, and you would read/write from a server on the Internet.
Big boss liked the idea and I started researching how to get servers and the like, while a third engineer was tasked to build the desktop app needed.
It all came crashing down, days later, when this engineer declared that is not possible to have a windows app minimize to sys tray and the project got cancelled. I left the company not long after that .
This was the story on how a small German-Romanian company could have beat Dropbox.
For some reason I though the GP was talking about browsing on mobile, where I have the issue:
For some reason I though the GP was talking about browsing on mobile, where I have the issue:
I’d say perhaps once per day I’ll encounter a website that has never had zoom in/out (ctl +/-) tested because if you zoom up even one level from 100%, everything breaks
Just tested, hn breaks if you zoom >110%.
this thing is never seeing seawater anyway
I can definitely see these used as lighting devices on luxury boats.
How do you know where the first string ends and the second starts? Did you miss the "stdin" part?
This is not
./program first_number second_numberGimp will never be able to pull a Blender because they are operating on hugely different conditions.
Blender never had to play catch up with a proprietary file format. In Blender's world, fbx and any of the video formats are the way to interop with other studios.
In the Photoshop/Gimp world, the interop format is psd. Under full control of Adobe.
There is also the matter of price. Maya and 3dStudioMax are eye watering expensive, while Photoshop is dirt cheap. As a professional photographer, I can get the 300 GBP it costs me to have Lightroom and Photoshop for one year, in an afternoon.
Why do you need the AI to write a script? Why not have the AI do the work without a "script"?
You are not supposed to offload your users table, you are supposed to offload your password field.
While not related to penguins, [0] is the saddest thing I ever saw.
while the customers were still asking for 1880's style 'brown' cloth sails for the traditional Dutch fleet
That is missing the point a bit. For quite a lot of fleets, keeping the tradition alive is a very important aspect of sailing/racing said boats. The other aspect is that for these "one design" classes, the rules, including what the material of the sail is, are meant to keep the old boats competitive and, probably the most important aspect, not end up with pay-to-win situations.
I am planning to use the extension route to... bypass the imgur UK block. Just need to use imgur for more than once in a while.
Sorry, but this is horse droppings, there seem to be 9 countries doing this.
https://bestcitizens.com/2024/11/08/list-of-eu-countries-pro...
I can vote in local elections, eg for people that spend my council tax.
As an European citizen, living in UK, I can vote for my borough leadership, along with general elections in my original country and European elections for my original country representatives.
The UK local elections I had to register for, I think I got a letter asking if I want to vote and had to fill in a form and every so often I need to go online and tell them nothing changed in my circumstances.
To vote for my original country, things were a bit tricky when I moved over, mostly because they were not prepared to accommodate that many people in diaspora wanting to vote (check the Romanian Elections in diaspora 2014 and 2015). Since then, we have 3 days to vote in person and we can also register to vote by mail.
/Edit: I can also vote for the mayor of London. Since I live in London.
This reminds me of The Paperclip Game: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
If you are ok with 6x4 prints, postcard size, then canon selphy cp1500 might do it.
It doesn't do great with bw photos, but colour pictures are good enough.
Wait, this is THE Canberra? The Mighty Canberra? The RAF Luton Canberra?
This gives those jokes an entire new dimension!
What if you have two people with different ideas of how to name a certain variable and they just flip the name back and forth every release?
Fire both. There is no amount of skill and productivity that can justify that amount of pettiness.
I think an edit is in order, as your post, in the current form, doesn't make any sense.
Do you put any effort in steering the discussion towards something you care about?
A discussion that started about the newest model of some car, ended up with that person fixing my boat's outboard motor.
What a stupid take, but it showcases the underlying problem: there is no loneliness issue, there is a "me me me" issue.
Friendship is a two way contract: you add something to someone's life and they will consider you their friend, they add something to your life, making them your friend.
If you "optimize" for your own and only your own benefit, nobody is going to be your friend.
If your work area is anything other than it, perhaps the Mac isn't necessary.
How about photography and video production?
Something that surprised me is that very little of the computation photography magic that has been developed for mobile phones has been applied to larger DSLRs. Perhaps it's because it's not as desperately needed, or because prior to the current AI madness nobody had sufficient GPU power lying around for such a purpose.
Sony Alpha 6000 had face detection in 2014.