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by g_p 6y ago
I have seen a trend in UK PhDs in the last 10 years or so to include much more of the "practical skills" type work. There's certainly been a big push around the "Researcher Development Framework" [0]. I would say th
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by g_p 6y ago
Sheesh, I had the 15% usage issue as well when in the foreground of the downloader (and also wondered why it was using GPU to show a basic screen). I never popped it into the background to see that. I wonder if the lack of framerate cap cou
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by g_p 6y ago
Agreed, although most of this will end up wrapped up into the token and system itself, I suspect. U2F is pretty much a "key" (some even visually looking like keys) that are used pretty much like a physical key - put the key into t
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by g_p 6y ago
Yeah, I can understand wanting the downloader to exist outside of the game (so they can update a broken game out-of-band) - that's all reasonable. The issue is, as you say, a single-threaded "download-extract-next" flow... It
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by g_p 6y ago
These are good tips for flying GA and getting started in the sim. Older versions of FS used to teach more of the ground school theory than the current version. I did the tutorial just out of curiosity but it didn't really teach enough
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by g_p 6y ago
The downloader itself also just doesn't meet the level of quality I'd expect Microsoft would want before putting their name to something. Microsoft is meant to be all about cloud, and this seems to be a single threaded downloader,
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by g_p 6y ago
Putting aside the embedded beneath the skin aspect (I share your concerns), this concept can actually work - see FIDO2 and U2F protocols. They're actually pretty good from a privacy perspective too, and give you unlinkability between s
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by g_p 6y ago
I guess the approaches taken with U2F tokens here (and FIDO2) makes sense - have more than one token enrolled, and allow either to be used. It's not perfect and there are usability issues around this, but they're mostly solvable.
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by g_p 6y ago
That's the same conclusion I reached here. I also think when you pause (i.e. hit escape, not talking live pause where the sim keeps running), the game continues to render the full scene in the background, even though there's conte
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by g_p 6y ago
Was meaning from the perspective of "I'm viewing a menu, this shouldn't max the GPU out". From another comment it does seem the video running in the background is being rendered in realtime, and maxing out the GPU. I am
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by g_p 6y ago
It also seems the menus were designed by designers that had no "performance budget" cap - looking at performance, the menus only hit a sensible FPS when on the loading screen. The sheer amount of animation and transparency in the
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by g_p 6y ago
I've been doing similar, although reached a slightly different conclusion. It seems to me that the menus (even idling in them) use full GPU. I'm not convinced it's necessarily rendering stuff (and if it was, it really ought t
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by g_p 6y ago
It's a very good (and new) simulation model. The issue is that it's pretty buggy, and performance is varied. I think there is real potential for it to be optimised into being much better (very poor use of multi core CPU for exampl
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by g_p 6y ago
> Without vsync? I guess its shifts from being more GPU-bound to more CPU-bound when running simulation proper, thus changing load percentages. Yes, without vsync, idling in the main menu uses 100% GPU in task manager. GPU fan confirms t
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by g_p 6y ago
The inability to take advantage of large numbers of cpu cores is my biggest disappointment from a technical perspective. I don't know why you'd rewrite the game and fail to design it for modern core counts. The micro stutter is ve
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by g_p 6y ago
For me, the biggest issue is the complete lack of visual feedback you've actually launched FS... It's at least 30 seconds on a fast SSD, on a fast PC that is suggested to use the high spec profile! At least some progress screen to
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by g_p 6y ago
One of the biggest issues with Google play store review is they won't actually tell developers which rule they're breaking, as you point out. This is so incredibly developer-hostile that the fact developers keep using the play sto
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by g_p 6y ago
Your post here exemplifies why apple's behaviour is so problematic - you're left trying to adhere to a set of rules that even Apple can't manage to enforce consistently and correctly, facing the risk of having to pay an unexp
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by g_p 6y ago
Google views sideloading as their inconvenient but necessary antitrust escape valve, in my view. They don't want people using it, they want it as something to point at and say "not guilty". Interesting however is the wording
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by g_p 6y ago
It seems that this kind of weakness in tenant isolation is something that's hard to avoid in a public cloud environment, yet really critical to get right, to preserve confidence in it. Yet given the nature of SPF and DMARC, they'r
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by g_p 6y ago
In contrast here, this data likely came from an insurance company, which got access to the data from their claims. They don't inherently care about these people, because they're all seen as "costs" to the balance sheet p
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by g_p 6y ago
My guess is the blame lies with insurers, probably keen to automate detection of "fraudulent whiplash claims" based on "the data". They'd get access to the records via their claims. This incident should show why sha
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by g_p 6y ago
Has anyone affected (or their parents) considered how this sits in line with the GDPR (implemented as the Data Protection Act 2018). It has various provisions for purely automated decision making processes that have significant effects on a
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by g_p 6y ago
Interesting, so there are at least two occurrences now then. I must admit this is why I like self-hosting services. Ghost seems to be trying to compete with WordPress, but if this is how they approach customer service and people talking abo
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by g_p 6y ago
This seems like an opportunity Ghost should have taken to listen and learn - it sounds like the "on ramp" for their up-sell is just too slippery, and people end up on the "on ramp" without realising. There is then a sign
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by g_p 6y ago
I think the UK telecoms market has much lower headline prices thanks to the sheer number of MVNOs (virtual networks) - regular operators even own MVNOs to get some brand segmentation (Three owns Smarty, Telefonica O2 owns GiffGaff, just to
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by g_p 6y ago
A cartel, by my understanding, would require the act of collusion to take place. The issue in the telecoms market, at least IMO, is the high entry price (spectrum access sometimes meaning there is no option aside from buying an existing ope
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by g_p 6y ago
It seems to me the obvious solution is to extend the "parental controls" install permission feature, and add an optional restriction API for "sideload apps" (like on Android). This would handle the "I want a locked
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by g_p 6y ago
Apple's restriction of access to device capabilities/sensors through web "apps" would likely be arguable as a restriction designed to prevent this, and force you into entering their burdensome and anti-competitive market
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EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover(bbc.co.uk)
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