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dktbs commented on It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi   github.com/dwhinham/mt32-... · Posted by u/nickt
amstan · 7 months ago
I did find the community around those projects (MisterFPGA) to be rather weird, so I understand a little where he's coming from.
dktbs · 7 months ago
I've found the MiSTer community to generally be pretty helpful, but there are definitely exceptions. The fact that its a project that aims to perfectly match the behavior of the original hardware leads to some strange arguments.
dktbs commented on Building a DIY Pen Plotter   szymonkaliski.com/writing... · Posted by u/tobr
ray__ · 2 years ago
What are the best approaches for turning an image into a plottable vector graphic?
dktbs · 2 years ago
There are a lot of options for this but the two I really like are https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3 and https://mitxela.com/plotterfun/

Also, vpype (https://github.com/abey79/vpype) isn't specifically a tool for vectorizing images, but its incredibly useful for preparing vector files for plotting.

dktbs commented on Tetr.io   tetr.io/... · Posted by u/trms
osk______ · 4 years ago
Dev of the game here, its anticheat is quite sophisticated (esp. for a webgame), trying to run a bot like this at any significant speed would get you promptly automatically banned. There's not really many times this happens - rather, Quick Play just tends to have a few really good players in it. For example: all the plays on the leaderboards for the "40 LINES" and "BLITZ" modes are ensured correct and fair. They're prominent community figures, most of the time. If you're not convinced, there's a liveplay[1] of a top player playing it at their top speed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDz4-pr9J4

dktbs · 4 years ago
This game plays so well, I really like it. I've sucked at TGM and nullpomino for years and I'm looking forward to sucking at this now. Thanks for posting the video, it can be hard to believe how good some people are at tetris.
dktbs commented on NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art   jacquescorbytuech.com/wri... · Posted by u/iamacyborg
LogonType10 · 4 years ago
Didn't some artist get his NFTs stolen through Discord screensharing and he begged his Twitter followers not to acknowledge the possessor of the NFT as the real owner of art?
dktbs · 4 years ago
I'm assuming you're talking about this person: https://twitter.com/calvinbecerra/status/1454328591202721796

It was funny to see how they responded to losing their NFTs by being tricked on discord: they contacted the centralized storefronts (rarible, opensea) to have them marked as stolen.

dktbs commented on Commodore Back in Germany   icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/33... · Posted by u/Audiophilip
panglott · 9 years ago
The company has NOS SID chips, but sold out of their 2015 C64 Reloaded motherboards (which have S-Video out and other useful modifications).
dktbs · 9 years ago
yeah, the fact that they have SID chips for sale was surprising to me. And they are 8580s!
dktbs commented on How to fend off a jerk   davedelaney.me/blog/how-t... · Posted by u/daveJSF
dsp1234 · 10 years ago
This is just a case where the person said empathy, but meant sympathy. It's a common mistake to make.
dktbs · 10 years ago
This seems like a good example of this article posted yesterday: https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
dktbs commented on Linux has matured into a robust desktop operating system   liminality.xyz/year-of-th... · Posted by u/dnantes
sz4kerto · 10 years ago
Unfortunately, no. I use Linux on a daily basis on my desktop, and while it's great for development (if you develop for Linux), it sucks for everything else (compared to Windows, for example).

> Linux is now a viable gaming platform, thanks in large part to the efforts of Valve and GOG.com. Six of the top ten games on Steam right now support Linux.

No. Look at the most recent SteamOS/PC review from Ars: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-si... -- even the purpose-built PCs deliver significantly lower performance with Linux than Windows.

> Hardware support is no longer a major issue. You can generally expect all your devices to work out of the box. Even your WiFi.

Not really. AMD GPUs are badly supported -- even the proprietary driver is _very_ slow compared to the Windows version and it has very crude power management (meaning that most of the time, your GPU runs loud and hot). The NVidia side is much better, but still tends to crash more than on Windows or OSX (things like WebGL are not 100% stable). Hybrid graphics is not supported properly, so laptops like my ZBook 15 G2 can't run Linux well (there is no solution that provides on-demand GPU switching AND proper external monitor support at the same time).

In general, my biggest issue with Linux on the desktop is stability of things related to graphics/display. My quite standard desktop (Xeons, NVidia GPU, SATA SSDs) cannot boot with the most recent Ubuntu image. Fedora 23 installs well, then the first software update breaks graphics (it turned out that GDM cannot communicate with X due some SELinux misconfiguration). I could install CentOS7 which is officially supported by the manufacturer but that has crappy font rendering and obsolete packages.

And sadly, the situation in 2015 does not seem better than ~10 years ago, when I was trying to install Linux on my X40. Everything worked well except the graphics. Same in 2015.

Look at what Windows is doing with WDDM and DX12. It's really-really cutting edge. Yes, Vulkan is coming sometime, but MS has actually delivered. But still, as a Linux dev, that's not an alternative.

dktbs · 10 years ago
You address every issue I have with desktop linux at the moment.

The lack of hybrid graphics support is especially annoying. The bumblebee project was working on solving this, but there hasn't been an update on that project since 2013.

dktbs commented on Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away from 4Chan   rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/bshanks
panic · 10 years ago
I think you're misinformed: the real source of all internet culture is and was ebaumsworld.com.

Seriously, though, internet culture is more than just /b/. The Something Awful forums (where 4chan was born, after all), Fark and YTMND contributed a lot. More recently, sites like Reddit, Instagram, Vine and Twitter have become much more relevant than any 4chan board.

dktbs · 10 years ago
> The Something Awful forums (where 4chan was born, after all)

Would you mind explaining this? I have read that moot was originally an SA user and posted on there to announce when he first launched 4chan. Is there any connection beyond that?

dktbs commented on All the steps needed to create deep dream animations on EC2   github.com/JohnMount/Caff... · Posted by u/jmount
jmount · 10 years ago
I really wanted to run the deep dream and deep dream animation scripts people have created. I am now re-sharing the instructions I found (with links to original guides). It isn't an automated install. You pretty much have to paste the lines one by one. But I did replace any "edit" steps with append or patch.

To do this on a fresh Ubuntu EC2 g instance there are a lot of steps- but I have tested them and put them all in one place (with links to the original sources and guides). I have CUDA up but not CUDNN as I haven't found how to legitimately download CUDNN without registering on the NVIDIA website.

Again: credit to the actual creators and all the original guide authors.

dktbs · 10 years ago
Thanks for updating and organizing all of this. I got a working EC2 instance with CUDA and CUDNN working yesterday but it took some time. Having all of this is one place is excellent.
dktbs commented on All the steps needed to create deep dream animations on EC2   github.com/JohnMount/Caff... · Posted by u/jmount
azinman2 · 10 years ago
Or... Just use deepdreamer.io
dktbs · 10 years ago
That is definitely the more convenient option for running the defaults, but I think this is for a different usecase. If someone wanted faster results and full access to edit the python code and caffe models, this would be the better option.

u/dktbs

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