duncanawoods

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by duncanawoods 6y ago
How much do you hate going back to 60Hz? The hedonic treadmill is getting brutal. Going up to a 4k/34" monitor was nice but it quickly became normal. The main effect was how bad it made 1440p/27" monitors!
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
I struggle to hit 60Hz at 4k with 2080TI even with graphics settings knocked down a few notches. Maybe next generation.
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
I notice that the main topic for > 100Hz monitor owners is how smooth it is to drag windows about. When they show off the monitor, they grab a window and wiggle it really fast. Given no-one has yet come up with a more meaningful demo I&#
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
> fairly reasonable I can't say I agree. I had a miserable time going from 3 to 4 because it also dropped Less support. Most of the blame goes to css but I do not welcome churn on a library like this. With a strongly typed API, most
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
The level of control they maintain over the devices after you have paid means I don't feel I am left alone. I feel I only have the rights of renter not an owner. They do eventually use this power to force you to buy a new house. They u
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
You can use "rank" to force the ordering.
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Now you've read the manual, time to start coding: https://bbc.godbolt.org/ Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia..
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
> I can't stand sugar alcohols, and got a ton of crap full of sucralose I don't think Sucralose is a sugar alchohol. You can spot those because they end with "ol" - Mannitol, Sorbitol etc. I find it pallatable myself.
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
What was the import duty like?
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Skyrim and Fallout 4 are breathtaking in VR.
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
I enjoy VR games but none of those sound attractive to me or at least with head-seats and controllers. Interactive virtual worlds are wondrous but not actually terrible practical for traditional tasks. Something that is perfect though is tr
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Tell me more about getting a Nobel in 5 hours. I’ll buy your ebook :)
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
That is a fascinating and disturbingly abusive prank - make someone responsible for killing a huge fish. What would they do - take it to a vet or a fishmonger or find a hammer? Call wildlife services for what you would buy in the supermarke
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
In my mind, adult taste is not just fashion but integrates judgement of quality and function. The adult has specific goals which are often benefited by greater order and less noise. A child doesn't share those goals. Their focus is pla
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Yup - also makes me think of a parallel with medieval illuminated scripts. We could print all books today with trees growing in the margin or whatever but we don’t because a pleasant reading experience depends more on simplicity and quality
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
True but I don’t think any pictogram language has ever been as ugly as emoji. It’s the “programmer art” of pictograms. Brushes and carving seem to be helpful design constraints to drive restraint, regularity and simplicity.
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
I fully acknowledge they are part of language now and it’s a much harder decision to not support them, my point relating to the topic is that they aren’t simply new words, or an interaction pattern or a ligature but kawaii design elements t
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
I thought this would be more about how emojis have invaded products. I recognise their communication value but they are aesthetic disasters (colour, dated cartoon style, cacophony) and they are real lowest common denominator expressions - o
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
Huh, weird. I would have assumed deficiency would be inversely proportional to amount of sunshine. Do people in northern europe really experience so much more “sun on skin” time or is it wholly diet driven?
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by duncanawoods 6y ago
The insult is that the mac you "you have to buy" is just the same Intel CPU, AMD GPU, Micron RAM and Samsung SSD you already own which can build and virtualise the 10+ other platforms.
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Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ with Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash(nytimes.com)
26 points by duncanawoods 6y ago|3 comments
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
Huge games like Skyrim/Fallout/GTA are less about beating NPCs than experiencing the world, characters and story.
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
Do the bundled bloatware deals depend on engagement?
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
Quest link requires the Oculus app which only runs on windows. ALVR/VirtualDesktop are also Windows only. A cross-platform possibility would be if it served up a WebVR page that could be accessed with Firefox Reality.
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
Many countries have some sort of "Competition Commission" whose role is to determine if acquisitions/mergers are bad for either the market or consumers. This might be for monopolistic reasons or other negative issues. In this
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
It's not ideal but I wouldn't go the conspiracy path. Just looks like typical issues with devolved services and responsibilities vs. centralisation. Knowing how this crap usually goes, each org demands they remain the sole source
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has been making press releases about new cases. I see them reported on the Guardian live blog and they also here: https://gov.wales/announcements/search?field_policy_areas%5B...
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
It's made watching Sumo a very different experience. You can hear every breath. You can hear the swish of the bow in the ending ceremony. It has been quite interesting until Takayasu's injury today - hearing his howls of agony in
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
> UK government aren't issuing any numbers for Wales (and Scotland, Are you confusing the UK Government with PHE (Public Health England)? Scottish and Welsh NHS organisations are separate. e.g. this site is from PHE https:/&#x
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by duncanawoods 7y ago
https://obsproject.com/ is win/linux/mac and really good for this because you have a lot of options for compositing what you want to record e.g. include front-facing camera and mic which can be very revealing abou

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