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by erik 9y ago
If you play Zachtronics games on Steam your best scores show up ranked against any Steam friends that have played the level. I've found trying to out optimize my friends pretty rewarding at times.
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by erik 9y ago
Did Vista's kernel break from XP's in some significant way? I've never heard anything indicating that Vista/7/8/10 were a new kernel, and not a continuation of the NT line.
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by erik 9y ago
I'm not sure if AMD could offer Thunderbolt, which might be a deal breaker for Apple.
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by erik 9y ago
Thunderbolt displays will only work with a Thunderbolt port. Apparently you can adapt the Thunderbolt display's Thunderbolt 2 mini-display port connector to the newer Thunderbolt 3 connector via Apple's adapter. But you're
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by erik 9y ago
When you say that devs get paid based on time played, I'm assuming this is platform wide hours, and not per player? Have you considered alternative rev share models? Whenever I see this sort of service, I'm concerned that it is g
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by erik 9y ago
GameDev.net has a copy of the article that includes the images: https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/graphics/gpu-pe...
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by erik 9y ago
I'm sure this is just arguing about definitions, but the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA)[1] was a graphics card. I don't know what else you could call it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
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by erik 9y ago
You're right in that the original IBM PC shipped with optional CGA graphics. Searching around I'm finding conflicting information on Flight Simulator 1's use of the black & white 640×200 CGA mode and support for a colour
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by erik 9y ago
Unity uses a modified version of PhysX. Unity 5 updated to a newer PhysX build that supports at least some multithreading.
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by erik 9y ago
KSP has been extremely successful financially. The staff problems likely come from Squad not being a game studio. It was a marketing agency, and KSP grew out of an employee's passion project. Management has never seemed to be invested
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by erik 9y ago
Walmart Canada has stopped accepting Visa due to the fees.
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by erik 9y ago
Has the tech improved in recent years? Last I looked into it, there were still big problems with lifespan.
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by erik 9y ago
It seems that for network management vPro needs a compatible CPU, motherboard chipset, and a Intel ethernet controller. So in theory Macs are safe from remote exploitation? What will really be interesting to see is if this is exploitable v
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by erik 9y ago
Re: popularity; If you play PC or console games, you probably listen to a lot of Vorbis encoded audio.
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by erik 9y ago
Specifically, there were major lawsuits over patent infringement immediately after Facetime launched.
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by erik 9y ago
I've seen several attempts to do the same thing with games. Introduce another site, or another portal, and hope to drive discoverability through it. But the audience has no incentive to visit your portal. In games, Steam and the app
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by erik 9y ago
When I looked into it, I was surprised by how hard it is to set up basic smoke tests for web development, and that Selenium / Webdriver can't do this.
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by erik 10y ago
If I recall correctly, there was some work done on getting Linux running on the GBA. I think DSLinux started with that.
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by erik 10y ago
Your comment sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I was confused about how burning 1L of fuel, which weighs ~1kg, could possibly produce ~2.3kg of CO2. (This page confirms Toyota's number: http://www.eia.gov/tools&#x2F
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by erik 10y ago
I certainly agree that vector performance is overrated. But it seems to dominate HPC spending. At least on the top500. But maybe AMD can pick up some HPC spending for smaller clusters designed to run less specialized code? I don't
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by erik 10y ago
I wonder if AMD's patent cross licensing with Intel is broad enough to even allow them to do Thunderbolt.
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by erik 10y ago
Most HPC systems are focused on floating point though, and Zen's vector/AVX implementation doesn't match Intel's.
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by erik 10y ago
External GPUs are explicitly supported by Thunderbolt 3, and some people have had success with it on TB2 as well. The 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes offer enough bandwidth for most purposes. It's kind of poorly supported on Mac OS though, and the
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by erik 10y ago
Broodwar bots perform poorly against competent humans though. Micro advantage or not, the strategic decision making isn't there yet.
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by erik 10y ago
You're confusing Xbox Live Arcade with Xbox Indie Games. In the 360 days, Live Arcade was the featured store that games like Braid and Geometry Wars were sold on. "Xbox Live Indie Games" was a separate storefront that didn&
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by erik 10y ago
Similarly, Kijiji actually found success in Canada, and has quite a bit more traffic than Craigslist for most cities here.
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by erik 10y ago
I wonder about the other x86 licenses that have been out there in the past. Via still offers x86 apparently. It looks like Cyrix ended up with Texas Instruments. Transmeta looks messy. IBM used to make x86 chips as well. And I wonder if
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by erik 10y ago
During the negative press following the touchbar Macbook announcement Apple themselves said they were receiving record pre-orders on those models. Apple seeing good sales despite vocal complaints isn't anything new.
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by erik 10y ago
I wonder how useful martian soil is for making glass or ceramics.
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by erik 10y ago
The idea of a Beowulf cluster was using networked commodity PC hardware and Linux to do HPC / scientific computing. In some ways this idea came to dominate. If you look at the top500 list: https://www.top500.org/list&#

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