Narishma

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by Narishma 10mo ago
Wine for Amiga is as confusing as Windows Subsystem for Linux. I thought it would be a port of Wine for the Amiga but it's instead something to run Amiga software on PC.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
This discussion is about the Steam Deck.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
No, unsafe doesn't disable the borrow checker.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
What do you mean by that? AFAICT it's on the board.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
The 500+ model has NVMe storage and comes with a 256GB drive.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
He was not building a AAA game nor trying to...
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by Narishma 10mo ago
They do need to lock it down if they want to subside it with store purchases, otherwise it's too tempting for non-gaming uses where they don't get any money after the initial sale.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
Related: https://xclass.sourceforge.net/index.html A C++ GUI toolkit with the Windows 95 look and feel.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
Written in Rust with an MIT license for good measure.
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by Narishma 10mo ago
What makes you think they're talking about CPU? It reads to me like it's memory.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Those aren't really good names either, IMO. Even the 360 was just OK. They should just have gone with Xbox 2. Or Xbox 3 and skipped a number if they really were worried about lagging behind PlayStation as it's sometimes alleged.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Poor name, clashes with the old KDE Javascript engine used with KHTML.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Same situation but I'm using NetBSD instead. I'm betting it'll still be supporting 32-bit x86 long after the linux kernel drops it.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
PS5 version doesn't suffer from this issue. It's already much smaller.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
One even responded to an earlier comment of mine that we shouldn't be optimizing software for low-end machines because that would be going against technological progress... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152275
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by Narishma 11mo ago
A dumb terminal doesn't even need a tenth of that.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
It absolutely is slower. To an extreme degree even. It takes 10 to 20 seconds to load and is incredibly sluggish to use on some low-end machines I use regularly.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
You may be thinking of UT99 or even the first Unreal. UT2k4 required a GPU and didn't have a software renderer.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
That used to be the case, but this current generation the vast majority of games have a 60 fps performance mode. On PS5 at least, I can't speak about other consoles.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
I think they were talking specifically about this game, which is only available on PS5 and PC. Edit: Forgot it was released recently on Xbox Series consoles but those also have SSDs.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
I don't think it's backwards compatible the same way x86-64 is.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
No, the 8088 used in the PC has a 2 byte word size. More importantly, it only has an 8-bit data bus, so alignment didn't really matter because it fetched instructions one byte at a time.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
> One of the random things burned into my memory for 6502 assembly is that LDA is $A9. I never separated the instruction from the register; it's not like they were general purpose. You had LDA and LDX and LDY as separate instruction
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by Narishma 11mo ago
I am from France. It's pronounced exactly the same here. Kids always joke about it when they first learn the English word 'bit'.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
> bit (in English) is not pronounced the same as bite (in French). The French word is closer in pronunciation to “beet” or “beat” in English. Wrong, it's pronounced exactly like the English "bit".
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Maybe they were developed together but Windows 2.0 released earlier was my point, so saying that Windows 2 was based on PM didn't feel right.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
You're talking about Windows 3. Windows 2 predates Presentation Manager.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
You have too much faith in the software industry.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Not necessarily. It could just be uniformly slow with no particular bottleneck.
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by Narishma 11mo ago
Isn't that redundant?

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