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Re:The Death of Arduino? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:07PM (#45985970)
Teensy 4.1 is a beast, also quite power efficient.
Re:Noise Cancelling a Fan on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @07:29PM (#45282734)
if you don't care about safety remove the protective grill
Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:21PM (#44870578)
Google Keep is a nice concept. Text and available on all devices.
Re:Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields on Saturday March 15, 2025 @02:59PM (#43374484)
I'm not a data scientist, but I assume that having more information about the subject would yield better results. In particular, upscaling faces doesn't produce convincing outcomes; the results tend to look eerie and uncanny.
Re:Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields on Saturday March 15, 2025 @10:29AM (#43372769)
Instead of training on vast amounts of arbitrary data that may lead to hallucinations, wouldn't it be better to train on high-resolution images of the specific subject we want to upscale? For example, using high-resolution modern photos of a building to enhance an old photo of the same building, or using a family album of a person to upscale an old image of that person. Does such an approach exist?
Re:Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:58PM (#42481851)
pretty sure a memory access is faster than the methods presented in the article.
Re:There aren't that many uses for blockchains on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @01:52PM (#41312541)
There is room for only one blockchain app in the world we live in. And that is for Bitcoin.
Re:Why Use ECC Memory on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:09AM (#40296628)
I've been there, and it was a pain. All my backups were corrupted due to a faulty RAM module. Initially, I blamed the hard drives because they seemed to be failing right before my eyes. I was copying a large file; sometimes it copied okay, but occasionally it would become corrupted. Since then, I've been paying a premium for ECC.
Re:Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:40AM (#38843591)
so, it's full screen compiled sprites.
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:03PM (#37948686)
I would buy that book.
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:44AM (#37927805)
The demoscene has always been about real-time graphics. It never sought to compete with video animations. Many demosceners were, at heart, game developers who valued and appreciated real-time code, often considering animations to be "lame".
Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:31AM (#37927677)
The demoscene was once the birthplace of elite programmers.
Re:Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @08:29AM (#37480083)
Nostalgia
1g constant acceleration is enough. But we don't have the technology yet.
Re:Shorting BTC and going long QQQ/NDX. recurring pattern on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:14PM (#35186864)
thank you, but no. Short it yourself.
Re:ECC RAM should be a human right on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:23PM (#34480461)
Silent data corruption is silent. ECC should be mandatory just for the error reporting. The system should inform the user that a DIMM has gone bad and needs replacement.
Re:ECC RAM should be a human right on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:43PM (#34471474)
Latest Intel desktop CPUs (i.e. i9-13900KF) supports ECC with the W680 chipset.
Re:I am a quite good bad programmer on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:19AM (#33451410)
Also cache matters a lot. If n is small an array is always faster by a big margin.
Re:The Commodordion on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:14PM (#33291955)
Only respect for this mad guy. Not only did he build it he also played it in public.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read? on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:15PM (#32795339)
Godot is nice
easy solution: Don't click on trends, read only tweets from the people you follow.
Proof of work is the only system where you can look at the blockchain data and figure out the consensus. All other systems depends on people agreeing on what is the truth. PoW is not just superior, it's essential for true decentralized crypto.
Re:Why bother with old technology? (2013) on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:55AM (#27529208)
Nostalgia.
Re:Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:31AM (#27206729)
Yes, like VR this will be used extensively by the porn industry.
Re:Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:37PM (#27168770)
To all complaining that twitter is full of hate. Have you ever tried using twitter without the search feature, or clicking on hashtags? I'm following a lot of interesting people and I find the content fascinating.
Proof of work = trust physics to determine what happened.

Proof of stake = trust humans to determine what happened.

PoW is superior.

You assume that early adopters still hold their Bitcoins. A tiny fraction of them might, most of them have sold (and regretted it, me including).

The Bitcoin traders are estimated to a few hundred million, certainly not "a few". Coinbase alone have approximately 56 million accounts.

The market is constantly crashing and reviving, people refusing to take the risk and buy should not complain afterwards for the new "elite" class. You had your chance (multiple times).

Re:Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:11AM (#26831929)
Resistance is futile peasant! You will be assimilated!
Re:Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:56AM (#26831352)
Ah yes, China banning Bitcoin. This rumor has been circulating since 2013.

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