bazooka_penguin

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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
They already had a low level graphics API for ps4, GNM, before Mantle. In fact, EA DICE's Johan Anderson who did most of the groundwork for mantle, said he got his ideas from working with console APIs. At the time he was working on the
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
I've had a similar thought about the pursuit of AGI. If researchers are trying to create an AI sufficiently advanced enough it could pass as conscious isnt that just a roundabout way of creating slaves? But playing around with cloning
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Theyre generally safe post cure and finishing. But in liquid state and while printing they're not (the curing reaction can give you serious burns if left uncleaned) and the fumes are noxious
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Guess we have no choice but to send it into the sun now.
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Until a safe vaccine is produced those total lockdown nations have to stay in lockdown. Even a minor outbreak can explode. Korea handled it the best with limited closures, aggressive tracking, and a responsible public, and they still had su
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Nvidia has been contributing to open source scientific computing, ml, and simulation libraries for a while now to support CUDA's adoption
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Tencent has a stake in Activision-blizzard so they may ban CoD later
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
That's incorrect, Apple designs their own micro architecture that implements the ARM ISA. Qualcomm, HiSilicon, and Samsung use ARM's reference micro architectures, which are mostly designed in Austin TX now, although some have bee
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Playstation is pretty much American. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, its a division under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsiadry under Sony Corp America. Both the PS4/pro and PS5 were American designs led by Mark Cerny
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
ARM is still mostly the same company, softbank just holds it. That said most of the recent uarchs were designed in Austin, TX and the next gen A78 and X1 will be too. And ATI hasn't been Canadian in over a decade. The current graphics
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by bazooka_penguin 6y ago
Didnt they try this before and ISPs just ate the money and didnt finish laying cables?
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
It distances us from the most local and immediate effects of pollution. China is ok with the pollution, we're not
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Is profit the problem here? Not a horde of unnecessary make-work jobs and overpaid workers?
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Considering its primary function is to launch targeted explosives or paint targets for other weapons platforms, without being targeted itself, the vestigal gun being inaccurate seems like a small problem.
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Did cavemen have a conception of worth? Probably nowhere near what we would think of it. I think if you took these men and tossed them on an island with a forest some would wait to die, many, most would start chopping wood just to have some
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Arduino is a microcontroller, made for realtime. Like a stepper motor vs a normal DC motor
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
And NYT can say it is big corporate paid advocacy and the FedEx brand will taint it. My point is one brand is seen as more trustworthy in this space, and perhaps in general. You're also assuming that media companies are strictly compet
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
This is a ridiculous statement that completely ignores the social expectations of each company. People generally expect reporting media to report the truth unless they have some strong bias (like political), people expect fedex to deliver p
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Being in the same level as cable tv isnt great in this day and age
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Theres a much cheaper flip option. A case with a flap cover
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Famous last techie words
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
They can claim the US is a bully for anything... Like Europeans will point at Libya and say the US is a bully and they eat it up in self stroking agreement.
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
These games shouldnt either with parental/family friendly controls. Would that make it good enough? Because I'm pretty sure at least on consoles you need to go through the platform to use saved credit data, and consoles offer pare
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Physical comes with its own set of problems, like bootlegs, which I've fallen before. And there are games that do have aftermarkets like PUBG and Counster Strike iirc. Are those blameless? They were/are some of the biggest lootbox
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Why this coming into the spotlight now as opposed to collectible sports cards, trading carding games, coin operated gacha/cache capsule machines, etc?
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Doesnt help a lot of fantasy bad guys are cooler and more metal than the good guys. Especially appeals to outcasts of social groups
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
It's currently a subsidiary of Softbank Japan.
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Owned by a japanese parent company, HQ'd in the UK, designed and, I assume, patent filed in the US, texas iirc
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
More people to manage, more local governments with more layers of hierarchies and more bureaucracy overall and I've never heard of bureaucracies scaling well
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by bazooka_penguin 7y ago
Pretty sure IBM 7nm was functionally complete but they decided not to expand facilities to support it. Why would they do it for TSMC 7nm instead of, say, licensing something from samsung again?

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