CoolGuySteve

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by CoolGuySteve 1y ago
Almost any Ryzen laptop these days will have faster integrated graphics than a SteamDeck just due to the age of the chip set Valve still uses. I've had 2 now from different manufacturers and the firmware seems alright due to the integr
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by CoolGuySteve 1y ago
Well yeah, features that push the graphics card typically incur performance hits.
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by CoolGuySteve 1y ago
The current generation has a massive leap in storage speed but games need to be architected to stream that much data into RAM. Cyberpunk is a good example of a game that straddled the in between, many of it's performance problems on th
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
It’s annoying that Asus is shipping 14” laptops with 75Wh batteries while the Framework 13 maxes out at 61Wh and doesn’t use LPDDR. On the other hand, it’s annoying ASUS doesn’t ship models with more ram.
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
I would like for there to be a next CEO
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Come on man, if it wasn't Apple it would be some other manufacturer that would produce a dominant PDA+phone device using ARM CPUs. Feature phones were already outpacing PC growth by then and Intel decided to snub the market. Canceling
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Scotland was around 35 degrees latitude and the Jurassic period was fairly warm compared to now (tropical plants are found up to 60 degrees latitude) so it’s unlikely there was a winter to hibernate through. However there was significantly
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
AMD and Apple tried to push OpenCL but the design of it, a C-like kernel compiled to the GPU with LLVM and managed by the Khronos consortium, tended to lag in absolute performance to CUDA which was able to take advantage of evolutions in GP
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Yeah that's why the only and best way to send packages here is the USPS.
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
The Switch has a similar process, if you join two pins on the right Joycon rail it will allow you to flash a custom firmware.
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
You could download full games directly from the official online store servers using a homebrew front end. They did all the purchase auth on the 3DS but a hacked firmware could bypass it. They didn’t put the game file download process behin
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
They're almost all cargo culting the same whiteboard algorithm hiring criteria for otherwise humdrum jobs so yeah, they're all kind of unreasonable. An HR fad can cause structural employment just as easily as bona fide requirement
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
This article is so histrionic that it's a parody of itself. >and most disturbingly (because they suggest destructive violence against children's toys, and against the child in all of us) a ceramic Angry Birds figure and a stack
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal? It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no proble
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Because the rebate was conditional on sustained hiring and not a grant like the political rhetoric would have most believe. Essentially the state was rebating the corporate tax they would have received in lieu of the income tax revenue obta
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
Still innumerate I see. 1/5th of the projected rate. Besides, the program is structured such that they wouldn't get the rebate if they didn't hire so what does it matter?
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by CoolGuySteve 2y ago
The "subsidies" in this case in NYC were a tax rebate over 10 years tied directly to the number of positions created. The Empire program itself was meant to incentivize new offices to open in boroughs other than Manhattan to help
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
If you find this evolutionary history interesting then I can't recommend PBS Eons enough. It's a great youtube series on the subject: well researched, a dense but breezy pace, and the paleo art + fossil images help convey informat
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
Why should Apple be in the business of providing a proprietary messaging service when many alternatives already exist in the market like you said. The clear reason why they are bundling this service with their existing products at a loss is
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
Thanks for the shitty attitude but it sounds more like you're looking at the disassembly of debug builds or don't understand how constexpr/consteval work.
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
No, C is not the same as it is less expressive. C++ templates allow for declarative nested inlining into a single compilation unit that is extremely difficult to achieve with C macros. See elsewhere in this thread for discussion of boost, i
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
It depends on the contributors, but boost also almost always fails to consider performance implications. For me it mostly looks like a reject pile for a stdlib that I must also reject most of the time. The alignment of incentives between th
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
You can but it's definitely not easy to do correctly. There's also a lack of traits that can describe what's required of a specialized allocator. For example, std::map only needs to allocate 1 object at a time in practice whi
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
> It is easy to see that C++ is fit as a general-purpose programming language–adoption by millions is a testament to that. I really wish the std would drop this pretense and focus on C++'s strong point: Continue being the fastest sy
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
Yes. The attack surface would be much smaller.
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
This just gave me infinite captcha challenges like some kind of practical joke.
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
The difference is that you got an Intel CPU instead of an AMD one that's built on a smaller node and has a far more efficient GPU.
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
I disagree, this article shows how it compares to their own benchmarks. In particular, you can add a 7840U laptop to the comparisons to see how the 23W Qualcomm part compares to the current low power AMD CPU with a comparable wattage.
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
Almost every Windows app discards the default theme in favour of some idiosyncratic mess. It sucks. If a distro's default theme breaks an app then it's something the distro and app will have to work together and fix. But throwing
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by CoolGuySteve 3y ago
At Apple we would see this tone all the time from people on the VLC project. It got so bad that the senior people would refer to them as DCS, Drunken College Student. It got so bad that we mostly ignored them. It wasn't good for either

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