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by KVFinn 13y ago
If you running at 144 the frame rate drops to 72 whenever the game can't maintain it. Carmack says when this happens in VR it's like being kicked in the head but they can't disable Vsync because tearing is even worse. Unless
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by KVFinn 13y ago
New England Rotaries are closer to roundabouts than traffic circles, but not generally considered the same. "Most common in the New England region of the United States, a rotary is primarily a mid 20th century roadway design defined as
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I'll echo this, I had similar results restricting blue light. What clued me in was when I went camping for a weekend after not camping for almost a decade. I found myself falling asleep and waking early, feeling better, even after a s
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>"The eSports audience is a particularly valuable one for brand advertisers because they are hard to reach via traditional media channels," said DiPietro. "They tend to be extremely tech savvy, they are often cord-cutters,
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I've read through Godel Escher Bach, and I loved it, but I never really felt like I had a handle on Incompleteness theorem. Scott Aaronson had a throwaway 2 line 'proof' (not technically) of the theorem that intuitively click
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by KVFinn 13y ago
If you've ever wondered to what degree bribes influence World Cup selection, to find a worse location than Qatar you would almost have to put the World Cup in Antarctica or under the ocean. By just about every measure they considered i
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Gunpoint and Hotline Miama are both very successful games made with Gamemaker. Both good games, I might add. Spelunky was re-written for the port but the original is decent. It definitely ran right up against some limitations at the time.
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>First, Windows doesn't "manage" a dizzying array of hardware profiles, try to install a vanilla windows-copy. Literally nothing works. The display is 640x480. USB is o Have you tried this with any windows released on the
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I toyed with the idea of building a Hackintosh to replace my 2011 iMac, instead of waiting for the 2013 model The prices are comparable if buy an iMac in the launch window. But the 2011 iMac is still being sold today. If you were buy
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by KVFinn 13y ago
You're quoting a bunch of year or more old stats... there's been a flurry of recent news coverage because recent measurements have either exceeded past limits, or past measurements are now considered to have been underestimates, w
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by KVFinn 13y ago
To everyone complaining about Origin or that these are mainstream games: EA is giving the entirety of their income from this to charity. They likely think getting people to install Origin is a net benefit, but what more do you want?
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I stopped building and overclocking systems many years ago. Too old for that shit, etc etc. But the funny things is... CPU improvements have been so stagnant on the high end. Suddenly getting a 40% clock increase out of a chip isn't
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I've had some experiences in the opposite direction. A neighborhood kid, about 12, asked me for some computer help with Minecraft. My jaw hit the floor when he started asking about stuff I didn't learn until college -- he was doi
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>The tabletop market is already small and the only reason they can turn a profit is because their costs are low. It's bigger than ever and steadily rising. Blocks for building dungeons made 2 million on Kickstarter: http:/&#x2
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Just imagine how good this game and community around it would be if it had always been open source. Just imagine how much money they could raise in a Kickstarter to simply open source everything. I don't think he'd even need t
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>but the sheer complexity of items and purchase order is overwhelming. There are built in user contributed guides that suggest what what to build and why, with the guide's author comments on both individual items and skills, for eve
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>How does it compare to League of Legends? The biggest different between Dota 2 and LoL is pricing model. Dota 2 is free. Really free. You have access to 100+ heroes from your first game and there isn't a single thing you can buy
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I thought that was his point. He's super successful but still not happy, and it seems to me like this was part of him working through that. I mean, the whole tone of the article seemed, to me, seemed to say "gee, it seems like
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>On the PC with Steam the publishers are willing to drop the price to compete with piracy, but assuming the Xbox One is not cracked to the point of a Dreamcast, I can't imagine them ever allowing Steam-like prices. Yup. Prices are l
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by KVFinn 13y ago
10 CC photos of an Apple laptop at the top of hacker news... This is someone winning a bet that they could get anything to the top of hacker news somehow, right?
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I love Glenn. This is in good hands.
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by KVFinn 13y ago
I'm certainly an open-office hater, it drives me absolutely batty. Open office with frequent phone calls throughout the day by your neighbors? I'd quit. I do like small open offices when working closely with people on a team. But everyon
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by KVFinn 13y ago
In general writing a trick to get around this is to do a 'vomit draft' -- intentionally write something bad. In part, this is simply to get past the analysis paralysis or creative block and get going on something. But also because it can s
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by KVFinn 13y ago
His book is seriously awesome. It's in a weird space technically -- not sure I'd recommend it to someone who didn't take a least a few math or cs courses as an undergrad. But if you have, wow, it really shines some new light on things you
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>If you try to build a dynamical system as the model, things get weird very fast. Even in simple ones you can build as toys, there is a lot of system-internal behavior: there are feedback loops, oscillations, attractors. They kinda sort
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by KVFinn 14y ago
Others have asserted that they aren't doing the same processing and the GO program is not correct. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5586152
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by KVFinn 14y ago
In the original, pages were individually titled. The title was often quite relevant. Can you add that to the top or bottom of each page?
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by KVFinn 14y ago
Louis seems to be able to stay grounded despite his 'real' self being incredibly successful (and rich!) at this point. Hope he can stay that way. Seems like so many comedians start off drawing from a real place with their comedy, become su
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by KVFinn 14y ago
>If you made that kind of money, why would you even bother to do anything but just retire and enjoy life? >“When you have the kind of success Minecraft has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things,” said P
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by KVFinn 14y ago
>Interesting to see how Mojang/Valve's "work on what you want" policy might be Considered Harmful. Not wanting to finish a game, tune a webserver that processes your sales or freeze and document an API because it's hard. In terms of max

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