MindSpunk

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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Intel MacBooks were overpriced, under powered, overheating junk. They ran outdated processors at launch day and charged a premium because they had the best screens and track pads money could buy. Apple Silicon Macs are a 180. Fantastically
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Isn't Selaco desktop only? The problem is GPL on consoles, because you can't ship GPL code to a console because it's impossible to meet the modify+re-link requirement since the consoles will only run signed code.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Comparing the M1 Max to a Ryzen 7 8845HS is not a fair comparison because the M1 chip also includes a _massive_ GPU tile, unlike the 8845HS which has a comparatively tiny iGPU because most vendors taking that part are pairing them with a se
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Apple also buys out basically all of TSMC's initial capacity for their leading edge node so generally every time a new Apple Silicon thing comes out it's a process node ahead of every other chip they're comparing to.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Arc/Weak can only get you so far. The problem I have with Rust in the mentioned domains (gameplay programming, retained GUI, interpreters) is what makes it so good, sharing xor mutability. If you're writing lots of multi-threaded
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Even long ago we had the AMD Phenom X3 chips which were 3 cores.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
While I'm not saying waste when things are plentiful in general is okay, I think water is a unique case that can be treated differently. Comparing to energy costs isn't the same because using the energy for the incandescent bulb c
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Let's run the numbers for indie development. Say you're a team of 3. Your game takes 2 years to develop. You spend on salary for 3x2 years. You've spent ~$600,000 so far. Let's assume you haven't had any other sourc
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The common problems with exceptions isn’t the easy part of try/catch, it’s the execution model and “any function could throw” that causes most contention. Error values are logically simpler and fully document if and what errors the fun
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The firmware flashing story for the drives is even funnier because some of the really common LG bluray drives that get used for ripping UHD blurays doesn't support reading UHD discs "on the box", but if you flash the firmware
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The P320 is a service pistol used by various US military branches, police forces and other people with an obvious need to carry a gun. The design is unsafe compared to other designs. People who's job requires carrying a gun are made le
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The specific chip powering the Framework Desktop is something very unique in the PC landscape in general, even in desktop. The Strix Halo chip pairs a 16 core CPU with a huge iGPU that performs like a desktop discrete GPU, and 128GB of RAM
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Vulkan is Mantle. Vulkan was developed out of the original Mantle API that AMD brought to Khronos. What do you mean "AMD should just go all in on Vulkan"? They've been "all in" on Vulkan from the beginning because
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
That's very loosely how IPv6 works. Your ISP will typically assign your router a prefix and will route any address starting with that 56 or 64 bit prefix to you. Then devices on your network pick the remaining bits and they get their f
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
It is fantastic for CPU parallelism. The problem is the CPU/GPU boundary is difficult to deal with and exposing an API that is both fast and safe and flexible is almost impossible. I don't believe it's possible to make an
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The only countries even capable of enforcing launch bans stand to gain nothing from them because it just makes launching their own payloads more difficult. There's like ~10 or so countries who are readily launch capable and even less w
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
We saw what happens when you use just-in-time manufacturing and keep minimal stock of material when covid collapsed supply chains a few years ago. Imagine if that was our food supply instead. The over production is the price we pay for food
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
WebGPU is about a decade behind in feature support compared to what is available in modern GPUs. Things missing include: - Bindless resources - RT acceleration - 64-bit image atomic operations (these are what make nanite's software ras
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
I've got both at the moment on my two Hondas. Both manual, one with a throttle cable and one with throttle-by-wire. There's quite a bit of difference in how they handle off throttle. The cable will just slam the throttle shut if y
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Huh, interesting. I had thought it was just from the higher gears being used. Vast majority of my driving is with manual, I've only really driven modern autos with 5+ gears (and a Toyota hybrid, which don't really have gears at al
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
You're right. Petrol engines are air pumps so I should've realised the explanation wasn't correct. Though the ECU would be doing the AFR management on modern EFI engines as the injectors aren't vacuum operated like Carbu
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
It's a choice in so much as I would be gambling against how likely I am to get knocked back at a safety inspection for having plugs on the side wall. I'm in urban NSW and whether I'd get by a safety inspection would be a gamb
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
It's not "nearly". It's exactly the same effect. Compression braking. Even if you're not on the throttle the engine is still rotating as it's connected to the wheels. If the engine is rotating it is compressing
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
You don't engine brake with the clutch, you engine brake by downshifting and using the higher engine RPM in lower gears to brake the car via wasted compression.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
depends where the puncture is. too close to the sidewall and you have to bin them. if they've already been plugged once and theu get another puncture its off to the bin.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Just about every motorsport series is manufactured drama. The rules and restrictions are arbitrary. Anything with a large televised audience will have the rules impacted by trying to make a spectacle. It's not exclusive to F1. F1 certa
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
Well time to revive the Gnomon/Sundial weapon project. Edward Teller would be pleased.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
> A sufficiently advanced compiler Much like how Intel Itanium would've taken over the world with the VLIW revolution if only we had one of these 'sufficiently advanced compilers'. It's a very vague statement that doe
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
That's just called super sampling. Render at 4k+ and down sample to your target display. It's as expensive as it sounds.
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by MindSpunk 1y ago
The 50 series connectors burned up too. The issue was not fixed.

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