Can run wine on windows finally?

A few years ago there was an (amusing) announcement of WINE running on WSL. The link quit working a few years ago. The broken link was:

https://woafre.tk/2017/02/08/wsl-wine-runs-on-it/

This is the (still working) Hacker News story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603451

Misleading title is misleading...

CPython rounds float values by converting them to string and then back

PyPy does it too: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/2fc0a29748362f2a4b99ab57...

Jython instead uses BigDecimal::doubleValue: https://github.com/jythontools/jython/blob/b9ff520f4f6523120...

But as another comment noted, BigDecimal::doubleValue can pull a similar trick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818586

Is PyOxidizer going to make it any harder to 'decompile' one of these Python executables? Of course, once you have the bytecode it's easy to recover the source code, but I wonder if something could be built into this tool to make it ever-so-slightly more difficult.

Nuitka has the potential to solve this issue, but it seems not ready yet.

Anyone know if/how Dropbox does it?

Dropbox uses a modified python interpreter

https://github.com/anvilventures/lookinsidethebox

https://anvilventures.com/blog/looking-inside-the-box.html

Nuitka can do that. Since it converts python to c, then compile the c code, you can just get the c, and compile it the way you want.

PyOxider packages and accesses the python files I think, so they are here and available.

Just run the executable it produces through your favourite executable pack/obfuscate program. Either way it's only a delaying tactic.

'octahedral' could mean it has the same symmetries as an octahedron, not necessarily that it's an octahedron.

Believe it or not, performance.. Embree holds up against Nvidia GPUs and Optix, at least it did in 2014 (see: https://embree.github.io/data/siggraph2014_embree_paper.pdf)

guess this superceeded Songbird: https://google.github.io/songbird/, previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031828

edit: indeed, https://github.com/google/songbird now redirects to https://github.com/google/resonance-audio

Indeed. The bird has left the nest. ;)

Why Ireland and not the UK? I can imagine a lot of startups/banks in London could use this... Brexit fears?

I wouldn't read too much into this - Amazon's Ireland region was deployed earlier (2008?) than London (2016?) and seems to receive updates earlier too.

London only came online relatively recently, maybe there's some operational stuff getting in the way of deploying? Or perhaps London has relatively few users at the moment, so the number of clients who will be able to take advantage of more specialised instances is also relatively low?

Because Ireland is so close to the UK that the latency will not matter?

Ireland is one of the older and larger regions, and generally gets new stuff at the same time as Virginia or very shortly afterwards. London and Frankfurt tend to be delayed a bit. See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...

The London Region is really new. Amazon are using it as a way in to UK-only projects (specifically healthcare due to NHS regulations). I suspect their datacentres are considerably smaller than that of Ireland along with their client-base for the moment. I wouldn't read too much in to it, brexit-wise.

London region is tiny and not the region to go to unless you have specific geolocation requirements.

The Dublin data center is probably much larger than the one in London, for starters.

Worth mentioning that this is just a box-shaped room. How many early reflections are calculated?

Hi Science404, yes indeed we're launching with the standard shoebox for now, but obviously we're thinking about the future too. :) Currently we calculate listener-based 1st-order reflections, optimized for performance. Once the ecosystem out there gets faster, we can explore fancier methods. ;) You can see this in EarlyReflections.js

Cheers, Drew

Yes but they are limited in size and in precision to FP16, which is not sufficient for most applications, especially scientific computing... What this person is asking I think is: Can you actually think of another concrete application?

Can confirm that. Have this box (with 8 K80s) and we measured 90dB next to the box..