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by fourfour3 2y ago
That’s definitely a more interesting proposition to me (and a bit different to the parent comments). It might well result in less repetitive background chatter & stock comments from side characters without taking focus away from the pri
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by fourfour3 2y ago
Yes - I want to maintain quality, even at the expense of flexibility. I would rather there were 1, 2 or 3 high quality paths through a RPG style game or quest than hundreds, thousands, or infinite ones that are 'meh'. (edited to e
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by fourfour3 2y ago
Exactly this. I want plot/character driven games like RPGs to be a curated & carefully designed, plotted, and paced experience. I want speech & narrative to be scripted! It means someone sat down and thought about the experienc
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by fourfour3 2y ago
I think this is an area where SD is actually fairly suitable - not for storing the actual OS for the console, but certainly for storing data files. They're mostly read only other than saves, which should be miniscule amounts of I/
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by fourfour3 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that you shouldn't use microSD for / on your SBC! I've been running a m.2 drive on a Pi5 for a few months now (using the Pimoroni HAT), and it's a game changer for how well it perform
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by fourfour3 2y ago
What I see a lot of too is poor quality hardware causing crashes - eg poor quality power supplies, actually faulty memory, memory that is marginal at the speeds that it's sold at (eg fine at the standard JEDEC speeds, but fails at the
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by fourfour3 2y ago
I’ve found crashing in games using NVIDIA’s DX12 driver is one of the most reliable indicators of CPU/RAM instability in gaming PCs, so doesn’t surprise me! Lots of people’s gaming PCs (self built and otherwise) are very crashy - there
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by fourfour3 2y ago
As a fellow customer, I can vouch for their gigabit service being quite nice, though :) I’ve used a few different ISPs but I’ve gone back to A&A every time
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by fourfour3 2y ago
I don't disagree with the article's main sentiment. You don't always need AWS. I advocate quite a bit for self-hosting when it makes sense. But if you're going to manage your own servers, you need to do it right. This ar
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by fourfour3 2y ago
That license is what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoxin use to produce their x86 chips, now.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Looks like Arch Linux shipped both compromised versions - and 5.6.1-2 is out to hopefully resolve it.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
ECS is terribly underrated, I agree. Most people don’t need kubernetes, and ECS + Terraform is very approachable and easy to get started with, especially with Fargate for compute.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Absolutely this. It is a case of personal preference. Removing or having creature comforts like easy refactoring, being able to do code aware search like go to definition, etc won't make you a better or worse programmer. It might make
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by fourfour3 3y ago
> Playstation and Xbox run on x86 because that makes porting games from Windows more convenient. I expect it helps a lot that AMD can easily provide competitive x86 and GPU cores in one SoC, as they’re already building similar APUs - jus
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Yeah - this is a big factor. My home internet gets ~7ms to London (I'm in the UK, London is the important IXP. My test is to one of my ISP's routers at LINX). 5G is about 40ms. When you add load, my home internet stays at about
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Work’s London office is in Angel, it’s a wonderful part of London. Absolutely tons of niche food options of just about every kind you can think of. I make it a personal mission to eat somewhere different every time I visit.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Each of the console manufacturers operates their own CDNs, typically. Valve do too on PC. They often have some kind of proof-of-ownership (like a license ticket) required to download game data or updates, too.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Unfortunately it didn’t quite hit the nostalgia button for me - I think the lack of the classic diseases like bloaty head was particularly felt!
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by fourfour3 3y ago
It’s also an plausible anti-leaks measure - if the gamecard contains everything needed to play the game, the game can easily leak early when the cards are going to retail. If a day1 patch is required, then it can’t leak until that patch is
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by fourfour3 3y ago
I typically use light themes for work and dark themes for personal use - I find it enforces a nice mental separation between work and home.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Fault injection has been used successfully and people have introduced manual errors that do get flagged - eg https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=24901&PID=10365... For Linux support you need a very recent kerne
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by fourfour3 3y ago
I have one of these ASRock Rack servers, and I can confirm ECC works on it - I have 128GB of ECC DDR5 with a Ryzen 9 7900. I wish more motherboards bothered to validate ECC working - it's a nice benefit in an affordable platform.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
How have you found the Voodoo 3 emulation? I have found it a bit ropey in 86box/PCem - but I find voodoo 1 or 2 works really well.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
Whole system emulation like 86box does a much better job of emulating older hardware and OSes - I use it quite a bit for DOS/Win3.11/Win9x era stuff.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
The FPGA is used to implement an approximation of the original hardware’s functionality - not a perfect clone of the original hardware itself, which means they have their own unique bugs and inaccuracies compared to the original designs. I
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by fourfour3 3y ago
I am exceptionally sour about this, as Prompt 2 just crashes on opening on my iPhone, has for some time, and now the 'fix' will be "Buy Prompt 3".
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by fourfour3 3y ago
tulip is a set of DEC ethernet controllers that are from about the right time as your anecdote :)
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by fourfour3 3y ago
I guess you can also draw similarities to the MS/IBM joint venture that was OS/2, but that actually released products - even if MS dumped it for NT.
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by fourfour3 3y ago
For an app running on one VPS? Sure, this might make a decent amount of sense. But... for an app running multiple instances, the article suggests a lot of extra complexity. Managing that complexity makes less sense to me than just firing up
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by fourfour3 3y ago
I have a M1 Max and a AMD Ryzen Pro 5750GE (35W) - they are competitive, in fact on most things the 5750GE is slightly faster.

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