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adhoc32··on The Death of Arduino?
Teensy 4.1 is a beast, also quite power efficient.
adhoc32··on Noise cancelling a fan
if you don't care about safety remove the protective grill
adhoc32··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Google Keep is a nice concept. Text and available on all devices.
adhoc32··on Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields
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.
adhoc32··on Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields
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?
adhoc32··on Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers
pretty sure a memory access is faster than the methods presented in the article.
adhoc32··on There aren't that many uses for blockchains (2022)
There is room for only one blockchain app in the world we live in. And that is for Bitcoin.
adhoc32··on Why use ECC? (2015)
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.
adhoc32··on Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines
so, it's full screen compiled sprites.
adhoc32··on What is the Demoscene? An interview
I would buy that book.
adhoc32··on What is the Demoscene? An interview
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".
adhoc32··on What is the Demoscene? An interview
The demoscene was once the birthplace of elite programmers.
adhoc32··on Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy
Nostalgia
adhoc32··on NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life
1g constant acceleration is enough. But we don't have the technology yet.
adhoc32··on Shorting BTC and going long QQQ/NDX. recurring pattern
thank you, but no. Short it yourself.
adhoc32··on ECC RAM should be a human right
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.
adhoc32··on ECC RAM should be a human right
Latest Intel desktop CPUs (i.e. i9-13900KF) supports ECC with the W680 chipset.
adhoc32··on I am a quite good bad programmer
Also cache matters a lot. If n is small an array is always faster by a big margin.
adhoc32··on The Commodordion
Only respect for this mad guy. Not only did he build it he also played it in public.
adhoc32··on Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
Godot is nice
adhoc32··on Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it
easy solution: Don't click on trends, read only tweets from the people you follow.
adhoc32··on It's time for an inequality index for cryptocurrencies distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
adhoc32··on “Proof-of-work” proves not to work for spam prevention (2004) [pdf]
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.
adhoc32··on Why bother with old technology? (2013)
Nostalgia.
adhoc32··on Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Yes, like VR this will be used extensively by the porn industry.
adhoc32··on Twitter's subscription service might cost $3 per month
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.
adhoc32··on Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane
Proof of work = trust physics to determine what happened.

Proof of stake = trust humans to determine what happened.

PoW is superior.

adhoc32··on Bitcoin hits new all-time high above $63,000 ahead of Coinbase debut
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).

adhoc32··on Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
Resistance is futile peasant! You will be assimilated!
adhoc32··on Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
Ah yes, China banning Bitcoin. This rumor has been circulating since 2013.
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