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by erik 10y ago
Looks like I had the wrong impression. Thanks for the link!
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by erik 10y ago
These adapters support hooking TB2 devices to a TB3 host, but not the other way around. Intel initially announced that TB3 devices would be compatible with TB2 hosts, but it looks like they quietly dropped this feature. It's _really_
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by erik 10y ago
Right, but is this a useful metric? I'm pretty sure 100% of Steam games are x86, and that users know that. Are there even any Mac PowerPC binaries on the store?
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by erik 10y ago
PC game hardware requirements are fuzzy though. It wouldn't be impossible, but it isn't obvious how to do it either.
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by erik 10y ago
"Arcadia is still in pre-alpha and highly experimental. We are working towards a coherent first release, but we’re not quite there yet." http://arcadia-unity.github.io/ Looks like lots of fun to play with though.
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by erik 10y ago
While this whole project certainly is incredible, the box he created is a remix of existing art and design work: http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/564603-wolfenstein-3d/images/1456... http://www.vgmpf.com
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by erik 10y ago
I just replied to one of your other comments where I argued that the title was enough to tell you everything you need to know. But I guess I can see how other people wouldn't see it that way. For me, the fact that it is a game named S
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by erik 10y ago
I can see your point. But conversely I think "It's an iphone game named Super Mario Run" tells most gamers 90% of what they need to know.
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by erik 10y ago
How well do you feel that this has worked? I was under the impression that telecom prices in New Zealand were pretty painfully expensive?
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by erik 10y ago
Do you have a reference on this? Last I looked into it broodwar AI bots were easily beaten by competent humans.
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by erik 10y ago
Re:your edit, the PCIe lane configurations from the CPU aren't that flexible. There is no 4x+4x+4x+2x+1x+1x configuration. 4x Thunderbolt + 4x Thunderbolt + 8x GPU, with everything else on the PCH would make sense for the 15". O
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by erik 10y ago
The 40 GBit/s is definitely confusing. My understanding is that that's total bandwidth across all protocols. So the mix of Displayport and PCIe 3.0 can't exceed 40 GBit/s. The 4x PCIe 3.0 on it's own is 32 Gbit&#x
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by erik 10y ago
That is a good point. The implication got me to click through to the article.
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by erik 10y ago
It's not about TDD vs no tests. The article is about tests first or tests later.
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by erik 10y ago
From a cryptocurrency perspective, if custom hardware (ASICs) gives a mining edge, then mining power will concentrate to those who build custom hardware. If commodity hardware is competitive for mining, then mining power is more likely to b
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by erik 10y ago
I'm under the impression that the Litecoin creators thought that scrypt would prevent ASIC miners, but they still wanted to be able to GPU mine, so they used low difficulty parameters. Which of course led to ASIC miners being implemen
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by erik 10y ago
Old games usually kept their sprite sizes to multiples of 8. 8x8, 8x16, 16x16, etc. So 8x10 would have been weird for the time, and anyone who thought about it would probably assume they were 8x8. But there was likely nothing actually &q
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by erik 10y ago
Games are a super competitive field. I wouldn't expect commercial success unless you can clearly identify an undeserved market niche that you can fill. Though of course market demand is also key in creating a successful ebook or SaaS
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by erik 10y ago
GameMaker is usually the go to recommendation for rapid prototyping, and game development at a higher level of abstraction than Unity. I've lately been hearing some positive buzz around Godot, particularly for 2D games. But I also get
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by erik 10y ago
I played a very early build of Minecraft, when Notch posted it to an IRC channel I frequented at the time. It had primitive but recognizable voxel graphics, and almost no features. But the basic principles of exploration and building were
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by erik 10y ago
This article focuses mostly on design and the principles of rapidly prototyping a game, and I would say very little has changed in those areas over the years. Something that has changed is the available tools for rapid game development. Lu
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by erik 10y ago
"However, isn't the net environmental impact of the 1% actually tiny compared to the activities of the 99%" According to the linked video, the richest billion are responsible for 50% of global carbon emissions. The idea is th
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by erik 10y ago
Population is less of a concern than you might think. At least according to Has Rosling: https://vimeo.com/79878808 (This is long, but worth watching.) World population is starting to plateau, with the number of children n
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by erik 10y ago
IT is often used to refer to working with technology in a supporting role in an organization. For example, someone who makes sure the files are backed up and the anti-virus is up to date on the desktops of a company is part of the IT depar
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by erik 10y ago
I assumed this was about video game design, and it took me a minute to catch on that it was board games. Phase two of this approach, developing 10 prototypes over the course of 6 to 12 months, sounds incredibly labor intensive. Perhaps pro
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by erik 10y ago
Right, elsewhere in these comments it was pointed out that they are talking about a 1,000x improvement in latency vs flash memory. If they are using PCIe x4 and x2, then it seems that their throughput isn't going to be much better tha
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by erik 10y ago
1,000x performance, but they are introducing it with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface? That is suspicious. And then they are going to follow with a lower cost PCIe 3.0 x2 version? (That they still label as an Enthusiast / Workstation product?
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by erik 10y ago
Bus coverage in my city is nowhere near this good. High frequency routes are every 15min. Most are 30min, and some routes only run every hour. On demand with some delay would be a huge improvement.
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by erik 11y ago
While this would be a very cool formula for generating some interesting indie type games, that scale is far too small to produce anything that could compete in the AAA space. And good luck convincing anyone that retiring Mario, Zelda, and P
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by erik 11y ago
I've never used it, but contactless payment from a watch seems like it would be an improvement over retriving a card from my wallet to make a contactless payment.

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