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by makomk 3y ago
Valve have funded some good work on the underlying compatibility code, but their big contribution was really fixing a problem they themselves created. Lots of games expect to be able to call back to the Steam client for a license check, and
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by makomk 3y ago
There's a bunch of publicly available documentation about how the Canopus star tracker on the Voyager probes works out there, last I looked, and it's quite an interesting design by modern standards. It uses an image dissector tube
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by makomk 3y ago
Huh. This seemed to be weirdly offended by Lie groups the first time I tried asking (the answer is also subtly wrong as far as I can tell): >>> Hello there <snipped> >>> In mathematics, what is the group SO(3)? The S
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by makomk 3y ago
The problem is that the social interests we expect Big Oil to pursue (or at least the ones the Guardian does) are contradictory. The Guardian wants Big Oil to throttle back production in order to reduce CO2 emissions, but at the same time i
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by makomk 3y ago
No, that's not it. They make sense as investments for things like pension funds because what those pension funds need is basically the other side of what's needed to have infrastructure like water and sewage treatment: the pension
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by makomk 3y ago
Quite a lot of the nationalised water and sewage systems elsewhere in Europe don't even seem to be managing the bare minimum though, it's just that without the privatisation angle the media doesn't care so they appear better.
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by makomk 3y ago
We know what people want, though: they want the sewage system fixed and to continue paying the same amount for water and sewage as before, and they've been convinced they can have it by cynical populist campaigners and politicians tell
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by makomk 3y ago
That'd be a little tricky and probably have undesirable collateral damage. The Oculus side of this is a general-purpose streaming VR app called ALVR that's mainly designed to stream desktop VR apps running under SteamVR (which Ocu
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by makomk 3y ago
A lot of Iceland's CO2 emissions seem to be from tourism and metal production for export, particularly aluminium. It obviously doesn't make too much sense to think about this in per-capita terms since they're a tiny country p
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by makomk 3y ago
Huh. I'm pretty sure that was largely obsoleted a while back (like, over a decade probably, not too long after this was written) by NetworkManager and ModemManager adding better handling for all the weird quirks that did actually matte
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by makomk 3y ago
Legacy admissionss are part of the problem with Harvard's affirmative action scheme that made it really blatantly discriminatory - basically, they kept those legacy admissions and balanced them out by putting a thumb on the scale again
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by makomk 3y ago
Actually, what you're describing pretty much did happen in the UK (which is where this blog post comes from). British supermarkets are generally less willing to raise prices than elsewhere in the world and certainly didn't increas
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by makomk 3y ago
Though since the correct ID is basically every kind of ID that's valid to buy age restricted goods like alcohol and stores have become more and more strict at checking that over the last few years that mostly seems to have been older p
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by makomk 3y ago
The obvious answer here is probably that shutting down large chunks of the economy like that directly impacts its efficiency and ability to supply people with stuff, and there's probably no way of fully preventing that impact. There we
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by makomk 3y ago
It is probably not possible for people to carry on buying luxuries, gadgets etc at the same levels as before without others being forced to do without the basic necessaties. Remember, this all started out with an energy crisis: there was no
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by makomk 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the QLED screens on the market are not based on the QLED technlogy that article is about, and the lifetimes given in that article are obviously far too low to build a usable television set with. They claim non-uniform
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by makomk 3y ago
Same thing happened to a certain extent with French nuclear. This article talks vaguely about new requirements whilst large components were manufactured, but one of the big problems with Flamanville 3 was that one of the largest and most cr
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by makomk 3y ago
Some level of retroactive regulatory changes are required because the industry keeps discovering that the previous way of doing things was substantially less safe than previously assumed. My favorite example of this is that during the golde
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by makomk 3y ago
Different market, I think. The PSVR2 is aimed at gaming where resolution matters less but the demands on graphics hardware to push that resolution are much higher because they're rendering complex scenes with fancy visual effects and f
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by makomk 3y ago
2.5x the pixels is more like 1.5x the resolution in terms of the smallest features that can be seen - remmber that displays are two-dimensional and in order to halve the width of the smallest discernable detail like say a line you need to d
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by makomk 3y ago
It's old, pretty well tested technology with a much better lifespan and lower deterioration in capacity over time than normal lithium ion - it was just a little niche until recently because it had lower energy density than more common
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by makomk 3y ago
The trouble is that AMD just didn't take AI seriously. For a long time, their equivalent of CUDA was not only Linux only and a pain to use but was outright broken on all consumer cards - as in, they dropped official support for the onl
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by makomk 3y ago
I think the actual reason this key is in Dolphin boils down to a historical accident of how game dumping and piracy used to work immediately after the Wii's release. Originally, people dumped games using certain DVD drives that were ca
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by makomk 3y ago
The thing is, it's not the same legislature in the sense that the US has had an election since then and a different party has a majority in the House of Representatives than the one which passed the budget with all the spending. The re
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by makomk 3y ago
It's an extremely important distinction. For example, Parliament in the UK has to pass a budget every year in order to authorise continuing government spending and taxation, without which the government effectively cannot operate - the
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by makomk 3y ago
By the time these games enter the public domain, there'll be no way to play them except via an emulator and no way to develop an emulator if there's not one already - the flash holding the OS on all the Wiis out there will have lo
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by makomk 3y ago
There's a really obvious reason why QE wouldn't have caused consumer price inflation in 2008 and its immediate aftermath: the financial crisis effectively shrunk the money supply. As the Bank of England's economists are fond
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by makomk 3y ago
The fact that money is ending up as corporate profits does not actually prove that corporate profits are causing inflation. For example, consider natural gas: it's now vital to producing all kinds of things, from fertilisers and electr
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That's not even really true any more - Ofcom (who are in charge of regulating telecoms here) decided that all the companies could increase their prices by inflation plus 3.9% every April without voiding people's contracts or allow
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by makomk 3y ago
Having such a permanent law would be constitutionally iffy. The power to borrow money that is part of the US national debt is specifically reserved for Congress, and this is essentially part of what makes the United States a democracy in th

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