Night_Thastus

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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
It did used to be required. Older Java versions performed pretty terrible. However, Java 17+ completely fixed that. Even the heaviest modded setups run buttery smooth, even on older versions which are not well optimized.
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
It's hard to say if we ever would . We used up a lot of the very easy to access sources of many resources - minerals, oil, etc. Without having access to the advanced techniques, I think it's unlikely we'd even reach the indu
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
Consoles are more and more supporting VRR, as are televisions. But yes, given the limitations of the hardware, they often offer two modes - a high framerate but lower quality mode and a high quality but lower framerate mode. >I often see
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
Clicks and mouse movement do have different latency, but it doesn't matter for this test. The click is the constant part to show relative positioning of X11/wayland/low latency/vrr/etc. The relative performance shou
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
IMO, it can be profitable - but only at the business level. A business with many software devs can pay the steep price for access. For almost everything else, the answer is no. No one else would pay the real costs to run them. It'll
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
Well said. I do get the appeal of a somewhat fiddly tool though. Tool gives you a little puzzle each day, then you solve it! A little puzzle solved/accomplishment a day keeps people sane. Plus I think it's just nice to feel like y
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
I think the 'pelican test' is becoming useless. It's been around long enough that now I'm sure good examples are in the training data, and hell they might even do some hand tuning to make it do a decent job since they kn
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
Now let's see this working for Darkest Hours. ;) (Assuming they didn't fix it themselves, it is a pretty big overhaul to MC1) 99% sure it should work fine for (Exodus and Turncoat), (X-Ray and DSC Raid), and (Xenocide and Bengal
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by Night_Thastus 3mo ago
It seems like AmazonBrandFilterList is one of the lists they use. It also seems like there a couple extra features that doesn't have. Either way, it's not like they're hiding the use of it. It would be another thing if it w
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
There's a bit of misinformation here. At the end of the day, a blu-ray player is reading information from the disc and passing it onto the TV digitally - one player or another are going to do that identically. One can't have &#x27
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
AI has essentially nothing to do with it. This was standard well before AI took off.
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
If the server can't be rebooted without anxiety, something has been configured very poorly.
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
Actually, it's more or less the opposite. In some OS's (Windows, at least) a reboot does additional purging and loss of state that a shutdown will not do. That's by design, so a normal shutdown/startup is fast, but if
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
I shut my desktop down every night and bring it back up in the morning. It only takes all of 2 seconds these days with NVME drives, even with Fast Boot disabled. It's kind of a power hog and generates a lot of heat, so I try not to run
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
No they don't. Why should they bother? * Costs them money to make * Costs them money to maintain * Will only be used by a TINY subset of ultra-enthusiasts (no, neither HN or Reddit are majorities) * Every user on it is less telemetry a
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
Microsoft doesn't care about end users like you or I. We don't impact their bottom line at all. 0%. They care about business customers using other products, and occasionally data collection. Windows has to be just functional eno
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by Night_Thastus 4mo ago
I'm honestly not sure why this is making headlines. The move to digital-only has been happening for years . I mean, when I got Skyrim's legendary edition, the box only had a code in it, and that was 2013! 13 years ago! It saves t
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
Join those of us using File Pilot. It's still fairly early days, but it's SCREAMING fast and I find it very intuitive to use. :) Lots of customization and power, but the defaults are all quite reasonable.
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
"Windows really needs to ditch CRLF and just use LF, and switch from backslashes to forward slashes." Hahahahaha. That's hillarious. Oh god, you're serious ? Do you have any idea how much of Windows, and user software w
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
And they're right. If terrible support were an obstacle even slightly, they'd have all gone out of business decades ago.
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
As long as we're dealing with language models - those models will output human-readable text. An exchange of human-readable text is going to appear to be a dialog, even if it isn't really one. You could tweak it, but humans are i
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
...it does? This level of automation is recent, and industrialization is the blink of an eye in human history. If we're talking shorter scale, people have traditionally hand-waived it with 'Oh, these jobs will go away, but they&
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
>It isn't complicated Getting reliable, consistent, meaningful performance numbers is in fact, extremely complicated: * You need a consistent way to reproduce the exact same outputs - accounting for things like the game's RNG.
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
MS does not care. At all. This doesn't affect anything that they make a profit on.
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
Show me the numbers. Show me an identical gaming PC running Windows 11 and then Linux, and show not just FPS - but things like frametime pacing, latency, etc. This NTSync stuff is very impressive, but I haven't seen a lot of end-to-end
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
It's diminishing returns, but for those who want it and have the hardware to support it, why not? I have a 360 and when I play something I can actually get a full 360 out of, it's wonderful! Though honestly anything over 100 I&#x2
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
What are these features that can't be measured? Plenty of people who test monitors also compare things like color coverage, brightness, latency, contrast, viewing angles, etc, etc, etc. If you mean the entire monitor, they generally al
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
I hate Google when they pull anti-consumer crap. I believe they're too big, too unaccountable, and something needs to be done about them. Their power rivals that of a country and that shouldn't be considered acceptable. But man, I
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
There are plenty of e-mail providers out there. None of them have even come close to toppling gmail. Gmail is free and good enough for most people. Gmail is to e-mail what kleenex is to tissue. It's almost synonymous.
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by Night_Thastus 5mo ago
People complain a lot about Gmail, but honestly I kind of understand Google's plight here. They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free . If they ever shut it down the whole

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