chevill

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by chevill 5y ago
> It's not a HN thing, it's everyone with a passion for technology, the same way how someone with a passion for cars will appreciate an old-timer rather than his Toyota Corolla. From my experience at least 90% of people passion
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by chevill 5y ago
Proton is really good compared to earlier attempts to game on Linux. However we still have a long way to go. The claim is that like 75% of Windows games are rated "gold" or higher for support using proton. IMO the standard for &qu
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by chevill 5y ago
Great idea, I'd just recommend letting people filter out games.
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by chevill 5y ago
>the new 'elite' looks to have taken it up a notch too. I got their new "Pro" as a secondary keyboard. Its really nice, however, unlike most of the reviewers I didn't like the polycarbonate plate. I put the stock
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by chevill 5y ago
In this context they aren't referring to the keyboard as "mechanical". They are indeed all mechanical. Mechanical Keyboard is just short for "Mechanical Switch Keyboard". I can see how it would be easily confusing f
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by chevill 5y ago
>What's a fancy keyboard supposed to give me? If you want a standard keyboard with a standard layout or something similar, a cheap rubber dome keyboard is going to work just as well as my $600 keyboard. If that's the type of ke
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by chevill 5y ago
>I guess I just see it as a fool's errand to try to approach vegan cheeses as imitations. I don't really think its a fool's errand for consumers to approach food as an imitation when its literally developed and marketed as
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by chevill 5y ago
>In the beginning ultrawide support was hit or miss but at this point I’d safely say 90-95% of games support ultrawide. There's support, and then there's that support being so flawless that its the same quality of experience yo
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by chevill 5y ago
If I'm not worried about being killed or jailed by authoritarian governments and I just value privacy as a general principle what should I do instead of using a commercial VPN?
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by chevill 5y ago
>I think that dual 4K is the old way, single 6K/8K ultra wides are the future. In the near future 16:9 8ks are going to be standard (too bad it won't be 16:10) but right now you can get a decent triple 4k monitor setup for half
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by chevill 6y ago
>with 2 people and a budget of 200K you can make a tiny indie game. As an example I remember reading an article explaining how something like angry birds probably cost approximately this much money to develop, but everyone was treating i
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by chevill 6y ago
I can't remember the name of it but there was another one a year or maybe a few years ago where they were it was going to be an MMO that's an alternate earth where you can be anything. AAA photorealistic graphics, lots of IRL jobs
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by chevill 6y ago
That is really interesting and something I hadn't heard before. Got any recommendations for detailed write-ups on their histories?
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by chevill 6y ago
>If UFED just copies data from unlocked phones, why would they be using vulnerabilities to do so? I think what he meant to say was that if Cellebrite is used on your locked phone it could be the equivalent of a person having your unlocke
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by chevill 6y ago
>Claiming you are going to make a huge MMO when you are an inexperienced game developer is pretty common. Yea its so common its basically a meme that the first question a beginner asks when they join /r/gamedev or another gamed
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by chevill 6y ago
I don't think many people expect a literally unlimited world. I'm almost 40 so I don't have enough time to finish most of the non-infinite games I start. I just take issue with his statement that promising literally unlimited
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by chevill 6y ago
>Yes, you are quite right. My point was past performance is not always a good indicator of future human potential. I agree. People can shift into an entirely different field and get fairly good at it quicker than many would imagine. Once
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by chevill 6y ago
>promising an infinite open world and then having a large-but-limited one. This is also flat out lying, its just that most people will realize its not true. Simulated gameplay that's labelled as "simulated" is fine but if
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by chevill 6y ago
>Game industry experience? Baldurs Gate or the original Witcher teams had zero of it also in the beginning. I agree with the spirit of your post but these are bad examples. Baldur's Gate wasn't Bioware's first game and the
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by chevill 6y ago
>It really doesn't feel wonderful in fighting games. It depends on the person. You're right that games that cater to the lowest common denominator and allow casual players occasional wins are way more popular. But for most mult
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by chevill 6y ago
As far as reading for entertainment as opposed to reading to learn, this is one of the best books I've ever read. Very inspiring.
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by chevill 6y ago
It was interesting, but other than the part about developing a genuine interest in what other people like to do I found it pretty difficult to implement most of the advice. I'm autistic though. Knowing what to do is far easier than doi
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by chevill 6y ago
>I'm not sure if you can be more destructive than that without it being obviously visible. I don't know if it the damage was greater than NotPetya but you definitely can have something more destructive without it being immediat
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by chevill 6y ago
If you tried to continuously pedal probably not. However, I'm not familiar with this particular product but every exercise bike I've used you can just instantly stop for a second or two and then start back up. So if you intermitte
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by chevill 6y ago
There definitely is. I'm not sure if that was the case with Feynman, but he sure did produce some great work during this era. I used to be like that when I was in my 20s, but as I get older if I get depressed it significantly reduces m
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by chevill 6y ago
In addition to all of the craziness going on in the world at the time his wife was hospitalized and dying of tuberculosis while he was working on the Manhattan project.
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by chevill 6y ago
I agree the moderation of twitch is much worse. I was referring to the quality of the content. There are worthwhile niches you can find on both sites.
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by chevill 6y ago
Interesting concept but its pretty discouraging browsing the website. I'm a principal analyst specializing in digital forensics and incident response and I've been thinking about ways to pivot into a job for a philanthropic organi
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by chevill 6y ago
I'm not too surprised given their history of inconsistent moderation and random, secretive bans. I do wonder what the justification was here. They have a section for digital art, game dev/game dev art, and other types of art inclu
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by chevill 6y ago
Its just becoming more like reddit. Reddit has some great information and content if you know where to look and don't stick to the most popular subs. Twitch is the same way. Twitch has some great programming/game dev/traditio

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