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Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:12AM (#50257965)
A parrot can be never a true source of information.
Re:JDK 28 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:38AM (#50138833)
Eclipse SWT ?
Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:29AM (#50129414)
There is a partial read-only implementation in native Java. I'm particularly interested in doing an ImageIO plugin using libxl or the rust version. In my field, we work with terabytes of JPEG images for archival/preservation of books and archives. Transcoding it to JXL and reading/writing JXL from our software would be a nice improvement.
Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:26AM (#50129387)
yes
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:19AM (#50129336)
he is doing a deep deep Andalusian accent, plus the extra noises and laughs makes hard to understand. The normal Andalusian accent it's perfectly understandable by anyone that understands Spanish.
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:15AM (#50129318)
Spanish native here. Andalusian accent never was known by being difficult to understand. Have other associations, but never that it's difficult to understand.
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:58AM (#50033057)
Spaceballs CPR
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:27AM (#49878540)
> you have AI make code, AI review code ... I hope you can see the stupidity here...

You will be surprised how many times, catches errores made by the AI coding agent. However,as you point, isn't deterministic. And you can guarantee the end results is 100% fine code

Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:55AM (#49812160)
No. it's just the opposite of Hyper-thereading. SMT it's about maximize the resource usage of a CPU, running 2 or more threads at the same time. AMD used the opposite technique of SMT. It had a technical name that I can't remember now, and wasn't invented by AMD.
Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:47AM (#49812118)
I did run a multithreaded CPU only n-body problem resolvers in FX cores. So heavy double precision work and putting each core to 100% . A Fx-8370E would get a speed up around 7.5 times Vs the single threaded version A FX-4300 would get a speed up around 3.9 times Vs the single threaded version

So in a physical heavy computation task, involving double precision math (where the AMD design of share FPU units should penalize most), the FX cores where happy churning numbers with the expected speedup Vs a single core/thread version of the code. So stop saying that FX cores sucks at multithread. They fucking worked fine on that kind of tasks.

Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:38AM (#49812060)
I just was to say the same thing. I had a good experience with a FX-8370E. They go for too many cores to early, and sacrificed some of the CPU performance to do it. The gamble gone wrong...
Re:The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:29PM (#49805000)
perhaps was 60hz interlaced. I had memories of my first CRT monitor only allowing to do 1024x768 in interlaced and doing a very obvious flickering. But was flicker free at 800x600 and lower resolutions.
Re:The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:25PM (#49804904)
c&c Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 used Boxes instead of sprites. But yes, PC pixel art was easy to see in the late 90s, specially in RTS games .
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:08AM (#49766302)
Simply, don't use AI to generate posters and pay someone to do it.
Re:Lucasart's Afterlife on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:05PM (#49742800)
I played SimCity 2K without reading the manual as a kid.
Re:Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:52AM (#49722572)
I remember playing Star Fleet Academy demo on my 486DX5@133 and a Trident 3d SVGA card at slow motion in battles. The game requires a Pentium 75 or 90 and a DirectX accelerator.
Re:ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:09PM (#49612369)
It would be interesting if someone could implement or adapt Roman Black's BTC algorithm to model the Speccy beeper. https://www.romanblack.com/BTc_alg.htm
I personally like to play with the graphs of the Totally Games version of Tie Fighter but with the iMuse music of the original. it's the best experience.
I wouldn't call xwvm a mod. It's a reimplementation of the X-Wing alliance engine .

> XWVM is a facilitator app to play Star Wars X-Wing from Lucas Arts and Totally Games. > We are re-implementing the executable to extend the game beyond its original hardware support.

Re:Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:20AM (#49461547)
Not my problem. Currently my problem is the high traffic of bots that kills our web apps and don't respect robots.txt or meta tags . We are currently deploying Anubis.
Re:The End of an Athlon on Sunday August 23, 2026 @03:53AM (#49406884)
nope
Re:HTML Can Do That on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:39AM (#49385018)
They are yet here. Tables are being used a lot. Also, you have <iframes>
Re:HTML Can Do That on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:36AM (#49384991)
I find it very useful to create complex dropdowns. Also, to generate popover that shows previews...
Re:HTML Can Do That on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:27AM (#49384920)
Suddenly it's 1999
Re:HTML Can Do That on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:23AM (#49384897)
I always try to develop having in mind that some people have disabled JavaScript or isn't running the last version of Firefox or Chromium bases browsers. So if someone enters with disabled JavaScript, keeps having the basic functionality of search, navigate and download. I do webservices for public digital libraries that shares public domain stuff and I true believe that always should be accessible to everyone.
Re:HTML Can Do That on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:13AM (#49384832)
Sadly, Firefox for Android don't support <datalist>, needing a polyfill.

Also, I run in issues where clients like to customize the style of the <datalist> drop-down selector in desktop. However, it could be styled, the element itself, and with the help of a little JavaScript that makes this visible element I lay when needed and accesible.

Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:41PM (#49349445)
Something that they removed in Windows 11 because yes.
But there are people who keep using FB?
it's called Zaragoza
I was taking small doses of melatonin before go to sleep for a year or two. To help me begin to sleep. I have a tinnitus. Usually I have a deep sleep. I can get sleep, I can sleep all night without problems. it's only the first hour that can be problematic for me. I stoped like half year, and I don't having problems to sleep.

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