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by jsheard 1y ago
The most extreme example of this is that Naughty Dog, one of Sony's flagship first-party studios, has still yet to release a single original game for the PS5 after nearly five years. They've steadily been making fewer and fewer br
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by jsheard 1y ago
> Already in 2025, Google Veo 3 is generating pixels far more realistic than AAA games. Traditional rendering techniques can also easily exceed the quality of AAA games if you don't impose strict time or latency constraints on them.
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by jsheard 1y ago
AFAICT it's not really different, they're just calling it something else for marketing reasons. The system described in the Sony patent (having a fixed-function unit traverse the BVH asynchronously from the shader cores) is more o
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by jsheard 1y ago
It's steadily getting better as they keep walking back aspects which turned out to be needlessly complex, or only needed to be complex for the sake of older hardware that hardly anyone cares about anymore, but yeah there's still a
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by jsheard 1y ago
And yesterday we had "GitHub pausing feature development to prioritize moving infra to Azure", immediately followed by them breaking their infra.
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by jsheard 1y ago
At least they went with OLED, which is as close as you can get with technology that's still in mass production. It would be a crime to use LCD for this.
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Affinity Stops Selling Its Software in Preparation for 'Big Changes'(petapixel.com)
12 points by jsheard 1y ago|7 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
> with how much Pixels cost you have to ask yourself what it is you’re paying for. The average consumer seems to be stuck on the same question, judging by Pixel's 3% market share.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Apple's vertical integration is formidable but Google are still really struggling with their execution, their Tensor SOCs are consistently years behind Snapdragon in performance and efficiency even after their switch to TSMC this gener
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by jsheard 1y ago
IIRC AMDs hardware had already adopted a fully bindless model by the time they were developing Mantle, so probably not. Vulkan 1.0 had to go backwards in terms of complexity to accommodate a wider range of hardware, with mobile causing the
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by jsheard 1y ago
It wasn't a technical decision. Apple decided to veto the use of any Khronos IP such as SPIR-V or GLSL due to a private legal dispute which was never elaborated on. That left the committee with no choice but to reinvent the wheel, and
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by jsheard 1y ago
Eve Online probably wins the slowest tickrate award with its whopping 1 tick per second.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Hey don't sell them short, they also delivered a TikTok clone with vertically integrated slop generation. It's the 5D Chess path to AGI, they just need to rot the average human brain until the bar for super-human intelligence is r
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by jsheard 1y ago
...in the EU at least, anywhere else Apple is going to say "no" regardless of how good your engine is.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Their plan did get off to a rough start, initially they wanted game devs to provide native Linux builds despite there being near-zero upside to doing so at the time, which unsurprisingly went nowhere and led to the first generation Steam Ma
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by jsheard 1y ago
You can pre-charge your account to give yourself a buffer in case your payment method doesn't work for whatever reason, although it requires a bank transfer.
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by jsheard 1y ago
https://archive.is/ndWB1
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OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device(ft.com)
1 points by jsheard 1y ago|1 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
They forgot the gun in the 007 logo. Rookie mistake!
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Microsoft's Rusty Revolution – RustConf 2025 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jsheard 1y ago|0 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
There's a replacement motherboard which uses an FPGA in lieu of an original GB/GBC/SGB SoC, so you can in fact build a Gameboy of Theseus with zero Nintendo parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cesh5OAL4uk
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by jsheard 1y ago
I assume you're on Android? That's the weak link when it comes to system fonts, it only ships with a handful so many of these stacks end up looking identical in practice. If you go through to the GitHub page there's screensho
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by jsheard 1y ago
It's a completely avoidable situation too, there's nothing stopping them from offering custom domains as a perk of paid Google One plans for regular Google accounts. Workspace is beyond overkill for individuals, you shouldn't
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by jsheard 1y ago
AIUI only on workstation/server cards though, it's one of the levers they pull to artificially segment their lineup.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Did you set up the SPF/DMARC/DKIM authentication records on your domain? Those can make a huge difference to deliverability.
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by jsheard 1y ago
> we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will. They spun off a separate instance of iCloud for China which is fully compliant with local regulations (i.e. backdoored), but that instan
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by jsheard 1y ago
IIRC you can still log into a lapsed Workspace account, but the core "business" products like Gmail, Docs and Meet are completely disabled until you reactivate your subscription. The rest of Google still works to the extent that i
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by jsheard 1y ago
> Are some people really so afraid of their kids learning that some people are happy being transgender? Elon disowned his trans daughter Vivian, so yes. It doesn't matter to him that she is happy, what matters is that this isn'
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by jsheard 1y ago
> I was paying $10/month for workplace and a couple days ago they froze my account because I was accessing it via IMAP. I used to pay for Workspace and left because a good chunk of features across all Google products simply didn&#x2
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by jsheard 1y ago
Probably to test the "low battery" part of the state machine without having to wait several years.

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