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by erik 3y ago
I believe most wifi routers have 802.11b support turned off by default these days. Otherwise, ssh should be doable!
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by erik 3y ago
Another quirk: It was pretty common to load your homebrew software from a cartridge in the gameboy port. The cartridges would have some combination of ram and flash based storage or CF Card, and you could tell the cartridge to expose the
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by erik 3y ago
I made a few small contributions to this a long time ago. Nice to see that the website is still up! Probably the most interesting feature of this project was how it handled memory. The DS only has 4mb of ram. And there is no MMU, so swap i
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by erik 3y ago
This story is fascinating, weird, and entertaining. But most surprisingly, I found it kind of uplifting and inspirational! Not what I expected from a story so intertwined with a major corporate brand and their marketing agencies.
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The Making of the Burger King Games – Documentary [video](youtube.com)
1 points by erik 3y ago|1 comments
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by erik 3y ago
Is it just me, or is this applying a very different standard to influencers compared to traditional media? > The new guidance makes it clear reviewers and other media creators should clearly disclose when they receive free products or ot
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by erik 3y ago
There is a slow motion view from the side at 4:13. https://youtu.be/11da-YAOXBI?t=253
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by erik 3y ago
This isn't Godot specific at all is it? A very large amount of game modding involves running unrestricted code.
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by erik 3y ago
It looks like they are doing some sort of dynamic text justification. If I change the text width by resizing the window it dynamically inserts hyphens at line breaks. Presumably via some javascript library.
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by erik 3y ago
"On Package" isn't the same thing as on die. Apple's M1 LPDDR memory setup isn't really any different from what you would find in a normal PC laptop. By putting the memory as close as possible to the CPU it makes
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by erik 3y ago
Apple's wide ram interface is an advantage. But they aren't doing anything exotic to achieve it. AMD & Intel could offer consumer cpus with more memory channels but they choose not to, likely for cost and market-segmentation
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by erik 4y ago
The focus of the event is a big part of it. GDC is a developer conference, and showcasing games in development is very small part of it. PAX is an event for gamers and while a lot of games do get showcased, it's not the main purpose
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by erik 4y ago
How do the cheap disablers work if the protocol isn't broken? Is someone signing devices that they aren't supposed to?
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by erik 4y ago
My impression is that the mac app store is pretty low traffic. The opportunity may be pretty small.
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by erik 4y ago
> It’s a mix of a simpler ISA, good core design, and small process nodes. It's also a design that prioritizes perf/watt, whereas CPU vendors tend to prioritize perf/area. (aka perf/$)
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by erik 4y ago
> It's the web's destiny anyway. I hope that you're wrong! Google already has a tremendous amount of influence, and a Blink monoculture would give them near complete control of the future of the web. (And I think Google
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by erik 4y ago
> You mean Google will deliver a better browser than what currently iOS users have to the point that iOS users will decide to move away from the default No, I mean that Google will use their search monopoly, along with their dominant pos
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by erik 4y ago
> Personally, I’m more concerned about Chrome than iOS. Agreed. If the doors open, then Google will fight for the iOS browser space. And their ability to leverage all of their properties is pretty powerful here. If Chrome takes over iO
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by erik 4y ago
I do know what you mean. I grew up in northern Canada where seeing -40 was an annual occurrence. But when I've traveled to warmer places I've often found that I can be colder indoors than I ever would be at home. When it's th
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by erik 4y ago
While I don't disagree with your general point, central heating/cooling is more about climate than wealth. New Zealand is pretty temperate. Also, don't people walk around barefoot because they prefer to and it is accepted?
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by erik 4y ago
Last I read, Hacker News was still running on one big machine. And still uses text files as its database.
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by erik 4y ago
If P == NP, then it could be possible that a proof would show that an algorithm must exist without providing such an algorithm. But that approach wouldn't be necessary, actually showing an algorithm would of course also be a proof. &gt
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by erik 4y ago
Valve doesn't really do "exclusives" with Steam the way other platforms have exclusives. If a game is only available on Steam, it's not because their was a contract signed or money paid to enforce that. It's becau
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The 80s home computer you've never heard of: The NABU PC [video](youtube.com)
2 points by erik 4y ago|0 comments
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by erik 4y ago
I hadn't read that before, thanks for sharing it! I had expected your link to be the classic Steve, Don't Eat It! Prison wine story. So here is the obligatory link to that: http://www.thesneeze.com/2005/steve-
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by erik 4y ago
Has anyone tried using software to measure bit-flip rates on non-ECC systems? It seems like a pretty easy task. Turn off swap. Fill a bunch of memory with a known pattern. Every few hours read all the memory and verify that no bits were
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by erik 4y ago
SpaceX aims to reduce that by two orders of magnitude with Starship. It will be a big deal if they can achieve it.
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by erik 4y ago
NTSC television video is interlaced. First you draw the even lines of the image, then you draw the odd lines. Each set of lines is called a field. Originally NTSC was 60 fields per second, based on the 60hz frequency of the North American
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by erik 4y ago
Sonic Colors: Ultimate is the highest profile title to date. (Though Godot is only used as an interface layer, the gameplay isn't built in the engine.) Cruelty Squad and Luck Be a Landlord are both respectable indie successes. There ar
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by erik 4y ago
> Zen4 is supposed to be a monster and I’m kinda waiting to see how that looks, but I’m always looking for a bargain: does AMD sell a “gaming” chip competitive with the Alder Lake stuff? The Ryzen 7 5800x3d trades blows with Intel's

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