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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I'm a Bitcoin supporter, but one has to think there are useful hard problems to solve rather than just banging out SHA-256 hashes over and over. If that's true at all, then Bitcoin is wasteful. There are curecoin and gridcoin,
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by KVFinn 13y ago
There are many bitcoin competitors now and I find it interesting that many of them are the creations of a specific political and economic line of thought. While bitcoin supporters tend to hate the idea of inflation, there are others coins t
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Seems like most mainstream coverage about bitcoin is in the context of an investment instead of a currency. I wonder if this is hurtful in the long run -- thinking about bitcoin as something to stock away for retirement rather than a useful
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Is it just a quirk of the GPU architecture that Nvidia can't mine as well as AMD or it a problem with their cards?
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Those do look pretty good. How's your battery life?
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>That price point is now full of phones with 1920x1080 5" screens; 1280x720 is very much "last year". The camera specs are beaten roundly by my year old $200 phone. The physical design is almost identical to said year old
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>He is a terrible, terrible coder. Minecraft was (and still is) an unoptimized, poorly designed piece of crap when he handed it off to the rest of Mojang. The DCPU-16 he designed had many flaws and his assembler for it threw out assembly
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Chess is as balanced as it gets. It's "balanced" in some respects but both sides use the same features and most games end in a draw, and high level play is less and less interesting. And for that matter it's not eve
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Chess 2 ( http://ludemegames.com/chess2/ ). I'm not joking. USGamer has a good write-up on it: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/chess-2-the-sequel >I agree there's a certain amount
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by KVFinn 13y ago
F2P models are so strange. Game piracy used to mean stealing the game. Now 'piracy' is getting extra lives.
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Not to whine (because this game is pure liquid gold straight into my brain meat), but the one thing I was hoping for was a new endgame as an alternative to the final boss. Agreed. A wider variety of challenges in the end game would be
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>The only weird thing I've found: There's an option to show the reachable systems on the map, so you can plan your route through a sector in advance. >This is quite a gameplay change from the route guessing game you encounte
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I have done all of that, except tried different ships. I only played with the starting ship, on hard difficulty, because I wanted to finish the main game before trying the extra modes. You should 100% try the other ships, it's the
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I spent 15 hours with this game, did close to 40 attempts and only once got to sector 7. Usually I'd die around sector 4 or 5. The game is hard no doubt, so most of the challenge is seeing how far you can get with what resources yo
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I think it is well established that you are better off with saturated fat and cholesterol heavy foods if it means no longer being obese. Since compliance with any diet is so important, it probably is healthier for people in general to not
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Isn't the point of the FirePro line that they come with ECC? I'm pretty sure they use regular ram, but even if were the case, I'd still prefer a single high end one.
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>I've seen plenty of cases where someone said they could build an equivalent PC for less, and then ended up not being able to, because they were thinking of cheaper and worse components than Apple used. If your needs align exactl
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Well, to be fair, it's more a comment on Intel's progress than Apple's. >Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either. In the context of this thread topic of, "wow 7 ter
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand. >Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD Each D700 GPU is 3.5 terraflops. These are the same hardware as the 7970 which currently retails for 300 dollars. So it's even more i
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Disappointed in the GPU configuration. I would much prefer a single fast GPU like a D700 (same hardware as 7970, R9 280X) over two slower GPUs like the D300 (R9 270x) in the lower configurations. And even the high end options -- the D700 i
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Video of the entire panel discussion between Carmack, Sweeney, and Johan (lead on EA's Frostbite engine) is up here: http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/b/471263848?t=2h27m
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John Carmack explains Nvidia's variable refresh rate tech (G-Sync)(youtube.com)
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>What is so terrible about having a lower complexity budget that guarantees 60fps >Think about it- is having a complexity ceiling the only possible way to ensure 60fps? I'm really not following you. Are you asking what is the be
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>I ask again, what is so impossible about just rendering the 60fps Are you asking why renders can't maintain perfectly steady frame rates without going above or below 60fps, regardless of WHAT they are rendering on screen or what is
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I wonder if that latency is noticeable to them If you get a chance, demo a 120hz monitor setup and spin around quickly in an FPS. It's quite noticeable. It almost feels extra surreal a la the Hobbit at 48fps until you get used to
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Is this technology going to require hardware manufacturers to cooperate with nVidia, or will their cooperation simply make things nicer/easier? Carmack said on his twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/sta
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>As an Apple user, this doesn't really surprise me. Apple has never liked games, although I'm hoping that was a Steve Jobs thing and the company will see the light. But Apple DOES have a thing for responsiveness and smoothness,
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I understand that, but if you have vsync there is already no tearing, and with a 144Hz refresh rate your lag is at most 1/144th of a second, or 7ms, and on average 3.5ms - I don't think that's something noticeable. If the
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by KVFinn 13y ago
If the game ever drops below 120 there will be a benefit. Another way of putting it -- you can crank up graphics settings so that you don't need to stay way above 120 just to maintain a minimum 120, because dipping to 90 for a second n
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Video of the panel discussion between Carmack, Sweeney, and Johan (lead on EA's Frostbite engine): http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/b/471263848?t=2h27m Carmack answered some questions about it on twitter right

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