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by bzzzt 4y ago
The iPhone does a lot of stuff: - correcting for lens distortion - automatically setting white balance - optimizing color and contrast - blending multiple exposures when it's dark and has some advanced denoising tricks (which sometimes
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Switch is not competing with PS/Xbox, but with mobile phones, tablets and portable consoles (including Nintendo's DS line). It's not underpowered for a battery powered game machine and has a standardised controller setup and
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Apple Pay charges approximately 0,15%, not 30%.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Last '486' I used was a PC Engines WRAP router board (bought around 2005) which used an AMD Geode 233MHz 486 compatible core.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
By that logic "not supporting" equals "actively sabotaging"? I'm no Gnome developer, but the OSS landscape is fragmented enough as is and the number of developers is very limited, so not supporting something that do
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Do you test the data is identical? I've got a stack of old CD-R's containing mp3 files from 20 years ago and lots have unreadable files or worse: data that reads correctly but won't play without glitches. (corrupt mp3's
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Probably related to the quality of the camera.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Calibrating color with an iPhone is already a feature in tvOS, so correcting for local errors looks like a nice improvement in that direction.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> any time Apple's decisions are questioned, legions of people defend them for no reason. Maybe because your arguments are very one-sided and border on cult-like anti-Apple beliefs, like > The cables Apple makes are designed to
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by bzzzt 4y ago
At some point we'll have fusion and/or fully self-driving cars. Still the AI only can replicate learned ideas, so you can't do anything that hasn't been done before. Generated content will look 99% there but be just a bi
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Since all EOS R series camera's can charge their battery perfectly fine when connected to a USB-C PD charger the only thing that adapter 'fixes' is the software lock Canon placed on the camera which causes it to stop charging
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by bzzzt 4y ago
It's not only about calculation speed; the cost of building an AAA class game has exploded over the last 10 years. Maybe you can render 10x as much stuff on screen, but somebody has to actually draw and integrate that in the game. Also
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by bzzzt 4y ago
> Why educate good phone use when you can just impose any rules you want? You don't start educating people on responsible alcohol use by getting them something to drink...
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by bzzzt 4y ago
https://adventuregamers.com keeps track of new releases in the genre. I also like this blog where volunteers replay classic adventure games: https://advgamer.blogspot.com (there's a lot of content in the archive
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Depends on the generation. I've got one of the last plasma's made (2013 model), it's a 42 inch panel and has a max consumption of 180W (only when at full brightness viewing a white screen).
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by bzzzt 4y ago
In my company there's no escaping Google Drive. It's miles ahead of Microsoft if you want to collaborate on a document with multiple people.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I'm wondering if anybody uses it on Mac at all. If you don't need lots of features iWork is provided for free (and can handle lots of Office documents). If you need to have Microsoft Office you can buy it. Tried the Mac version a
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by bzzzt 4y ago
MacOS would need a Tb of disk space to store all the emulators and libraries if every CPU architecture would have to be supported indefinitely. And Macs would be more expensive than they already are.
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by bzzzt 4y ago
I found it quite the opposite: every leaf, foliage etc is moving. Seeing it in motion really brings the game world to life. Maybe the spinning pirate's perpetual motion machine was broken ;)
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I was put off by the screenshots, but seeing it in motion makes it look a lot better. At least it's got more personality than the 3D Monkey Islands ;)
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Maybe when downmixing it to stereo. If you play it on a real 5.1 system (not a soundbar or other "Dolby Atmos" gimmick with less speakers) your dialogues will come out of the dedicated center speaker which will make it easier to f
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by bzzzt 4y ago
"All nuclear plants rely on government subsidy and externalization of decommissioning costs. In other words -- they're not on the balance sheets. What legit business gets away with that?" Lots. Name one business that has comp
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Also depends on the TV you upgrade to: replacing a 50" plasma with an 84" LCD will do nothing to decrease your energy usage. While plasma uses a bit more energy than LCD it's not that big of a deal (especially if you've
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Why don't you download and self-host the Google fonts?
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“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so whe
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Startup times (especially for 'on demand' cloud workloads) are kind of the point of GraalVM. Effectively, it shifts optimisation to the compile phase. GraalVM build take much more time than classic Java. But they run a bit faster
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Technically, horizontal scaling is the job of the application server runtime. If you can keep server state limited it's possible to use clustered caches. Which requires a lot more setup than just failing over to another stateless node.
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Or your microwave suddenly changes into a steam oven. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721530
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It's a problem with every plasma TV ever made. I've got one of the last Panasonic Viera's which, after almost 10 years, has a slight dark patch around the place where subtitles tend to appear (I'm from the Netherlands wh
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by bzzzt 4y ago
Depends on what modern TV since most people are buying bigger TV's now. An 28" CRT uses about the same amount of power as a 55" OLED so replacing the former with the latter does not improve energy use. Besides that, energy is

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