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by NovaDudely 4y ago
That and stable diffusion. While I am not really excited about either technology use in my personal life, I do understand what a huge leap they are. They are both things that few saw coming in the fashion they did and so quickly. Yes, it to
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The best definition was from Dr Karl on ABC radio (Australia). If you put it with ice cream it is a fruit, if you put with a roast it is a vegetable.
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For about 20 years I had the mantra of "Don't bet against Intel". A good example of this was in the early 90's when all the hype from the Apple fans about PowerPC and the end of x86 by the year 2000. The hype was real bu
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by NovaDudely 4y ago
It can also be a case of confirmation bias however. I have seen some people that have seemingly made some apparently near perfect predictions about wild far out things only to check their back record and find 1000 misses on other things. If
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It is funny playing titles from that era on modern hardware as it is apparent just how much the CPU was doing. Mostly due to the lack of optimization of the geometry routines past basic use of MMX - frame rate are still high just nowhere ne
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by NovaDudely 4y ago
I remember seeing this in a store back in 97 and being blown away by the idea of Windows Games running on a TV. I cannot remember the game they were demoing but I remember it wasn't the most amazing demonstration. I think it was just t
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by NovaDudely 4y ago
I find Zero Hedge such an interesting website. 90% dull meandering analysis of noise. 9% absolutely loony things. 1% pure gold! Occasionally their data monsters pull out a winner but it can be a lot to dig through. Also as an Australian, &q
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by NovaDudely 4y ago
Geez, time does fly. The last time I briefly spoke to you (FSM event) you were still working on Fdroid.
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I am going to be back in Chch in a few days for the first time in 5 1/2 years, it is going to be fascinating to see how things have progressed.
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YouTube channel Video game esoterica actually had a fairly good idea on how should have handled it. Put a little more hardware grunt into the 32x and release the Neptune (Genesis + 32x) while pushing heavy on the software support for this.
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If one had to make a console that would go against almost every trend that would come to dominate, The Saturn would hit almost all of them. From going multicore before the tools were ready to backing quads over polygons.
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Bingo! The strive to achieve was an innate function. Having others realize the resources they needed allowed it to happen.
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Another data point, here in Australia we do a census every 5 years. Never really heard any objection other than it is annoying.
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Windows 11 requires a minimum security set on their hardware limiting it to machines only a few years old. Planned obsolescence in hardware is already here...