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the-golden-oneon Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

Is this a ParaLLEl-like implementation? I couldn’t work it out from the video.

the-golden-oneon A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

Why do all physics engines still look so floaty?

It’s not in the skull, it’s in the soft tissue on top of it. I’ve had the same dent after wearing them for a while, it comes out after a while.

the-golden-oneon MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)

Clickbait

the-golden-oneon QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)

Dolby have been doing this for years for audio on cinema film reels - literally from tiny QR-like codes between the sprocket holes on the filmstrip, with cinema-grade audio quality.

the-golden-oneon US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

This is the key point. It’s uncertainty which spooks the markets and investor confidence.

the-golden-oneon Using Postgres for Everything

I’m imagining the bell curve meme with ‘I’m going to put everything in a SQL database’ at both ends.

the-golden-oneon A disk so full, it couldn't be restored

I’ve had the exact same thing. Amazing to think in 2024, despite all the clever APFS volume management stuff, you can still put a ‘sealed’ device such as an iPhone into a state where it has to be recovered by DFU just by filling up the user’s storage.

In contrast, after accidentally maxing out the space on my windows 11 office laptop which has a single data and boot volume, I was still able to boot it and sort the issue out.

the-golden-oneon Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)

A number of arcade machines are x86 based, with non-pc-standard hardware, such as Z80 co-processors, etc..

For example - Seibu SPI https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/seibu/s...

the-golden-oneon Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games

DirectMusic had aspects of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectMusic

the-golden-oneon M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

Here you go. A simple google would have found that.

Apple wants more Grindstones.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/30/apple-arcade-strategy-shift/

the-golden-oneon M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores

Hardly any AAA companies are optimising for the Apple GPU. MoltenVK is where all the interest is.

Even if they did, there is very little in Apple Arcade which taxes the GPU, most target the lowest common denominator in terms of supported iOS/phone combinations.

The original Apple Arcade strategy was for AAA titles, but for whatever reason that wasn’t pursued, so now we have a tonne of casual games and re-releases of old titles.

Apple just seems to run hot and cold on gaming.

the-golden-oneon Apple Announces Apple Silicon Mac Pro Powered by M2 Ultra

Single M2 Ultra only.

the-golden-oneon Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?

No idea but I’m gonna go for expired TLS cert, and Finance won’t let you have the corporate card to renew it until Monday when the approver is back from holiday.

the-golden-oneon A brief history of APFS (2022)

Given how long it takes an iPhone to calculate local storage usage on iOS, I assume not.

the-golden-oneon Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

Given the value, I would suggest paying for a professional recovery service.

the-golden-oneon Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM

The seed is passed on the command line.

the-golden-oneon Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM

I can squeeze 640x512 out of my Mobile RTX 3080 with 8Gb VRAM (as the secondary GPU). Anything more than that fails.

the-golden-oneon My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

The only place 3D Touch remains active is on the flashlight button on the lock screen.

If you have a phone that supports 3D Touch, give it a try. You’ll find that simply long pressing on the button doesn’t work, you have to apply a certain degree of pressure before it responds.

the-golden-oneon Apple Mac Studio

like this? https://twitter.com/thijsvlierop/status/1501295909275111425?...

the-golden-oneon About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.2

Would it not be possible to detect these kind of errors using machine learning now? To go through the code base and find unsafe operations?

There must be enough security bug fixes out there on GitHub that certain classes of security error become easily detectable.

the-golden-oneon Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented

I'm not sure if these have been posted before, but the progress notes from Yamaha are interesting - https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~aj/archives/docs/all/051.pdf

the-golden-oneon Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

On a similar note, assuming this is done with a default=‘true’, would this not be a contender for the most expensive code per letter ever?

the-golden-oneon Amiga Music Preservation

.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…

the-golden-oneon Apple, Epic, and the App Store

On the wild assumption that the plist for macOS Safari at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2813786 is used on iOS and it's derivatives, and that the <key>Default</key><true/> pair implements this on all platforms, given the $9 billion placement payment for Google, would that code section not be a contender for the most expensive lines of code in existence, and at $360 million per letter?