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by erik 6y ago
In the late 90's starting a new search engine would have seemed crazy to many. It was a competitive market, there were major incumbents, profit potential seemed low, and it wasn't obvious that search could be significantly improve
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by erik 6y ago
Scramble is a side scrolling shooter. Thrust has a different sort of game play, with a lot more in common with Gravitar.
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by erik 6y ago
Nostalgia might be a factor. But I think the bigger appeal is that a system like this can be understood in a much more complete way than what you can achieve with a Pi or even an ESP32.
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by erik 6y ago
PCIe 4 and 3200MHz ECC are readily available on the Ryzen and Threadripper platforms. But if 8 memory channels is a hard requirement, then AMD's answer for you is the above mentioned Threadripper Pro in the ThinkStation P620. If you c
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by erik 6y ago
> “Battle royale” is simply a recent development because up until recently we barely had any 3D shooters which had maps huge enough to allow for this style of play. It's often surprising how long it can take for things to become mai
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by erik 6y ago
There is a Switch game on the list, which isn't a trivial thing. Also, I did not expect to see Object Pascal as the scripting language!
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by erik 6y ago
That actually happened. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/11/19/2156246/efficient-s...
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by erik 6y ago
People pay for games on console and the PC, mobile didn't have to be this way. In the early days of the app store getting high download counts was one of the only ways to get visibility. Which pushed the race to the bottom on pricing.
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by erik 6y ago
I've thought about this before, and the conclusion that I've come to are that dithering and anti-aliasing are both techniques from the wrong eras of pixel art. Dithering is something that you need the most when you are working wit
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by erik 6y ago
Interesting, they state the conclusion that "both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment" But they also say this:
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by erik 7y ago
N95 masks need to go to hospitals first. They don't really make sense for the general public to be wearing. They are difficult to fit properly, and not comfortable for continuous wear. They are believed to be primarily needed when d
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by erik 7y ago
> A bad mask (eg a bandanna) means less virus gets out, but it is more likely to get out in the form of a fine aerosol Do you have a reference for this? I've only ever heard of aerosolization primarily being a concern around people
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by erik 7y ago
I've encountered people online who seem to be irrationally upset and negative about scrypt. Maybe you have proxy-haters?
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AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th(anandtech.com)
252 points by erik 7y ago|249 comments
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by erik 7y ago
A lot of modern hobby computer projects use a FPGA, micro-controller, or dedicated modern CPU to bit-bang the video signal. How did the original 8-bit computers do it? Did they have access to chips that are no longer produced?
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by erik 7y ago
PICO-8 might be worth investigating. It attempts to capture the experience of hacking on an 8-bit computer rather than something higher level. Also, it's cheap but not free. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
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by erik 7y ago
In my experience this isn't caused by exhausting the endurance of the flash. It seems like a lot of SD cards have really buggy firmware. And that Linux running on a RPi is particularly prone to triggering these bugs. Industrial SD c
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by erik 7y ago
Tom Forsyth's write up seems to make mostly reasonable claims. Though even he notes that it wasn't competitive with the high end at the time. "So let's talk about the elephant in the room - graphics. Yes, at that we did
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by erik 7y ago
Apparently this was the big thing that held Larrabee back as a GPU. The hardware was capable, but they never got their drivers to the point where they could do a good job with existing OpenGL, Direct3D, etc. code.
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by erik 7y ago
Larrabee had dedicated texturing hardware, but management decided to not expose it or try shipping it as a GPU.
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by erik 7y ago
In order to render current games / 3d with reasonable performance you need dedicated texturing hardware. Intel's Larrabee had it even though it never shipped as a graphics card. And early plans for the PS3 involved adding textur
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by erik 7y ago
I find an off-centre keyboard to be a bigger usability problem than not having a numpad.
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by erik 7y ago
Digital privacy while crossing borders seems to increasingly be an issue. And I'm worried that it's not going to improve any time soon. Politicians and very rich people don't deal with border security the same way normal pe
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by erik 8y ago
Display output is definitely a problem that modern hobby computer and gaming projects run into. And a FPGA is one solution. The Gameduino takes this approach. There are downsides to the FPGA approach though. Even the cheapest FPGA can ea
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by erik 8y ago
Apple's replacement program for the 2011 MBPs with bad GPUs just swapped in another motherboard with the exact same faulty GPU. All the 15" 2011s eventually die of the same problem. The clock is ticking on mine.
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by erik 8y ago
Nvidia also reported Chinese consumer consumption being down in their results.
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by erik 8y ago
I found the lighting from the explosions particularly convincing in a way that most games don't capture. Part of my brain was expecting to feel the heat.
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by erik 8y ago
Note that this is just the C# layer. The underlying C++ engine code is still only available under "call us" license terms.
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by erik 8y ago
Promoting a game isn't enough on it's own. To succeed today a game needs to have quality, market fit, promotion, luck, and probably a number of other factors as well.
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by erik 8y ago
Have you used one in a desktop? Can you feel the difference in speed between Optane and NAND they way you can feel the difference between a SSD and a HDD?

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