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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   I don't know much about 3D graphics and rendering. Oddly enough, I first learned about PBR when I heard that Metroid Prime Remastered for Nintendo Switch used PBR and still achieved 60fps, which is apparently an incredible feat for the
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   I think your last paragraph sounds about right. The Max is a compromise on battery life for those who want the absolute most possible performance, but I think Apple is seeing a much wider audience get the Pro chip. Anecdotally, whenever I s
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   Hey Jeff, I loved the video. I know it was more about "current state of the tech" and less about what we should actually be buying, but it would be very cool to hear more about how each of these setups are priced on the scale of &
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   Dude, we're talking about an RTX 4090. A GPU that can run current-gen AAA games on max settings at 4k60fps should not slow to a crawl when rendering "concrete and asphalt and brick textures and shit", to use your words. So if
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   This was popular on Amiga as well, although maybe less clean and "officially supported" compared to Mac OS system extensions. There were Amiga utilities that remapped OS system calls to custom functions with performance optimizati
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   Certainly! Here are some of my personal favorites from recent years. These all run on a stock A500 (with the ubiquitous trapdoor memory expansion). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc https://www.youtube.
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   Correct, the demo I linked is a non-interactive audiovisual demo that is designed to show off the leet coding and artistic skills of the team. ;) The OP is a fully-playable game, though. When designing a game, you probably have to code a ga
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   I believe a number of the devs who have been around for decades are still writing actual code with their preferred tools that run on Amiga. But I wouldn't be surprised if even there, most of the coding is being done in emulator, becaus
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   by dansalvato 3y ago

   Fellow Amiga game dev here. The Amiga dev scene is alive and well, and I feel like these past five years especially, we've seen some mindblowing stuff on the platform. If you haven't seen any recent Amiga demoscene entries, you&#x
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    > with Apple not really doing much to help. I think Apple is starting to push hard to get into the gaming market. You already mentioned Game Porting Toolkit as an example, but they have been regularly giving the floor to AAA game studios
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Thank you for the `-nojoy` suggestion, that seems to make it playable on CrossOver as well. It's a shame that Valve made this decision, because Apple is pushing hard to make a gaming comeback on Mac (hence Game Porting Toolkit), so we
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I would really like for LLMs to reach a point where they can actually tell you if they're not quite sure about something, rather than confidently outputting their BS like it's fact. Too many people interpret LLM output as though
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I have ADHD, and I more strongly relate to the Atomic Habits model (based on Tiny Habits) of Cue -> Craving -> Response -> Reward. I don't really like the word "motivation" because I feel as though nobody can really
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I really think this sounds like him. He was always a poetic and philosophical dude, very much a hippie in more ways than one. Another commenter mentioned it coming up in a recent book by Laurene Powell Jobs: https://news.ycombina
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Pretty sure the M1 MacBook Air will thermal throttle if you give it a sustained load for more than a couple minutes. I also have a Pro and am really impressed by its thermals—the fan only ever spins up under the heaviest of sustained loads,
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I love how snappy and no-nonsense this is compared to other sites out there. I play casually at the moment and don't really buy/sell singles, but I like looking up card prices. Any interest or possibility to add more card value in
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Sure, but we're talking about impressive technical achievements on dated hardware, which is a different conversation than whether it bested modern PC hardware on the year of release.
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I heard that The Last Of Us on PS3 really pushed the hardware to its limits, and seeing that game's visuals, I believe it. I think Naughty Dog put an enormous amount of time and effort into building and optimizing a game engine that co
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I got one of these as a gadget-loving teenager and loved the hell out of it. The way the buckle of the wristband hid a tiny stylus was very cool and surprisingly effective. I even had a Game Boy emulator installed and it worked surprisingly
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Coding in C, eh? Replacing false with 0 should do the trick.
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I can't determine if your /s indicates you're joking about this specifically, but Apple Health/HealthKit has been around since 2014, whereas Google's Health Connect (the subject of this API) was introduced late 2022
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Thanks for the chuckle. Google Health privacy overview page: https://health.google/privacy/ Apple HealthKit privacy overview page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209519 Notably, Apple mentions
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    This is great stuff. I came across this article recently since I've been working on an Amiga game and will soon be evaluating my options for compressing level data. That's one of my favorite things about writing a game for classic
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Not Wiidora?
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I'm a brand new user and thought all this time that Obsidian Sync was 100% cloud-only, so I spent a bunch of time trying to spin up a custom sync solution. This comment inspired me to look more carefully at it, and now I'm a paid
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    For real. Atari 2600 enthusiasts who actually own cartridges and want to buy something like this will almost certainly be put off by the inauthenticity of software emulation. It seems well-engineered (9-pin serial ports for the controllers,
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Back when I worked at an IT company, I created a very simple AHK script where pressing Ctrl + Alt + V would type in the contents of the clipboard, rather than paste it. We were constantly remoting into servers that required tediously typing
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I've been an avid TweetDeck user since 2016, but the "new" TweetDeck that was rolled out this past month is unbelievably slow and unresponsive on my machine—I'd say load and response times are ~20% the speed they used to
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    Wow, an Atom N270? I'm envious, I've always wanted to find a fun way to make use of old hardware like that. I have a Google Cr-48 chromebook with a similar CPU and 2GB of RAM. I'd be interested in learning more about your set
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    by dansalvato 3y ago

    I saw a talk that touched on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94je2edk He explains that dynamically-typed languages like Python, Ruby, and JS became popular in the 90s because they offered a fast feedback l