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by erik 4y ago
> The lack of console support comes especially from the fact that there's no company behind godot itself that can become a licensed Nintendo developer for example. The lack of commercial entity isn't the problem. The problem i
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by erik 4y ago
> What about LPDDR (low-power DDR) allows it to be faster? And, by faster, do you mean lower latency? higher clock rates -> higher throughput? This is unintuitive to me. By faster I mean higher throughput at similar latency, achieved
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by erik 4y ago
The M1's bandwidth is possible because Apple uses high end LPDDR ram and a memory controller with a lot of channels. They aren't doing anything exotic. Consumer PCs don't match this bandwidth because DDR DIMMs generally aren
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by erik 4y ago
Celeste uses high resolution dialogue text, but its gameplay is strict about the pixel grid. Loop Hero is strict about its pixel art and uses a fixed 16-colour palette that is reminiscent of the Commodore 64. Baba Is You has visuals that yo
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by erik 4y ago
There was a window, from about 2007 to 2013, where basically any decently well made indie game that came to market would be financially successful. But the trick was, to get your game to market you had to establish a relationship with Micr
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The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option(blog.tmm.cx)
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by erik 5y ago
I wrote some notes on this in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30761695
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by erik 5y ago
Would love to hear more details if you can share them!
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by erik 5y ago
Logs were written to a ram fs. We experimented with occasionally flushing logs to disk, but ended up disabling this and leaving the microSD card filesystem read-only 100% of the time.
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by erik 5y ago
I've seen failure rates of >5% / year on 24/7 read-only Pi deployments across a variety of name brand consumer microSD cards. Are you getting better reliability than that? What cards have you deployed the most of?
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by erik 5y ago
The main problem with running a Pi on a microSD card isn't write endurance, it's low quality controller and firmware implementations on the cards. Contributing factors include: - Even when used read-only, the flash memory occasion
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by erik 5y ago
Another factor: data centres moved to fiber. And fiber is less physically robust and not great for desktop connections or plugging in to a laptop. 10GBASE-T exists, but it turns out pushing 10gbit/s over 100m of twisted pair requires c
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by erik 5y ago
> I haven’t been able to buy a CPU that doesn’t have SHA2 acceleration for an number of years now. This is incorrect. Intel only launched their 11th gen desktop processors March 30, 2021. The 10th gen and earlier desktop processors do
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by erik 5y ago
If a trackpoint is a hard requirement then you have very few options to choose from.
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by erik 5y ago
In theory a proof could show that such an algorithm must exist without producing the algorithm itself. Though that's not what this linked paper tries to do.
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by erik 5y ago
My take when he says he "missed mobile" is that he regrets that Facebook doesn't own the platform. Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp are enormously successful apps, but because Apple & Google own the OS, they are vul
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by erik 5y ago
Maybe "remaster" is the better term here? Apparently the "OSV" in the track title means "Original Sound Version". TIL!
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by erik 5y ago
> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples? Compare basic document editing in Office 365 with Office 2000 running on Win2k. Sure, 365 has loads of additional functi
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by erik 5y ago
This sounds more like you are getting counterfeit books, not print-on-demand.
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by erik 5y ago
Can you reach out to the original composer of the game music? They would likely care about the bogus claims. Particularly if it is a smaller studio. It’s not a great solution, but it might work.
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by erik 6y ago
For one, "7nm" and "10nm" are just marketing names at this point, and don't really correspond to the physical dimensions of anything on the chips produced. Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm are considered to have very compar
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by erik 6y ago
The top end most profitable SKUs are fully enabled dies. That they are now able to ship dies this large is a good sign. The 10nm laptop chips they have produced so far were rumored to have atrocious yield.
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by erik 6y ago
It doesn't even have to be during a write operation. Nand needs to be periodically refreshed after a read, so the controller can be shuffling data even on a read-only mounted card. I've read speculation that most consumer cards
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by erik 6y ago
Consumer mircoSD cards commonly have firmware bugs. A Raspberry Pi running Linux will consistently trigger these bugs given enough time, even if you mount the card read-only. The nand is fine, but the card will be unreadable until reformat
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by erik 6y ago
Two other factors that are often overlooked in the early success of the ipod: 400mb/s Firewire let you actually put a lot of files on it in a reasonable amount of time. The theoretical 11mb/s of USB 1.1 was painfully slow in comp
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by erik 6y ago
Sterilize-and-reuse programs for glass bottles are excellent, but they are rare. In theory melting down used glass for inclusion in new glass production is an energy win, but it seems to be rarely used in practice. About the best most glass
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by erik 6y ago
Yep, sometimes people use 2k to mean 1440p / QHD. But it's a particularly bad name for that resolution. 2K is an existing cinema spec that is much closer to 1920x1080 than anything else.
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by erik 6y ago
Rosetta 2 includes both ahead-of-time translation and run-time emulation. It can run x64 jit software for example.
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by erik 6y ago
Some brief googling tells me: - Razer Book 13 - Dell XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 - MSI Prestige 14 EVO - Intel's new whitebox laptop platform I think I've read that there are now Ryzen laptops shipping with LPDDR4x as well. It's awes
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by erik 6y ago
On the PC, if I don’t want to pay Valve or Epic’s cut, I always have the option selling directly. That’s a significant distinction.

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