musicale

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by musicale 3mo ago
Large publishers (and studios) tend to go for large games and usually some combination of sure bets (series, remakes) with a smaller number of riskier bets (new properties). Fortunately there are tons of smaller producers and we have digita
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by musicale 3mo ago
There are still lots of great games though.
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by musicale 3mo ago
> Nothing worth noting released on those consoles Have you heard of Elden Ring? Or is your complaint about cross-gen, timed exclusives, and PC releases? Or that there aren't enough new franchises beyond established series and remake
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by musicale 3mo ago
If we actually owned the game software, then digital downloads would be fine.
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by musicale 3mo ago
Customer service was already replaced by rubbish automation; AI simply adds to the endless voicemail maze and the "your call is very unimportant to us..." delay before "all representatives are currently busy ignoring other cu
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by musicale 3mo ago
One Immovable Fact that AI Companies Hate!
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by musicale 3mo ago
"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently
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by musicale 3mo ago
The schematics tell you how things are wired together, which is maybe useful if you are building compatible hardware. The ASIC specifications tell you how to operate and program the chips, which is what device drivers need. Better for Linux
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by musicale 3mo ago
Both are true. Apple's official qualification, continuous integration, bug fixing, backporting, etc. takes more effort than a hobbyist getting things to (mostly) work. But the main issue for Apple is focus: Apple wants its product deve
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by musicale 3mo ago
> The entire point of Intel Macs was for running Windows on a Mac That wasn't the point for Apple. After pointing out that PowerPC hadn't hit 3GHz (as he had promised two years prior) and that there was no PowerBook G5, Steve J
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by musicale 3mo ago
Stocks have reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau."
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by musicale 3mo ago
> “Apple should certainly be blamed for deteriorating the supply and demand cycle in the global NAND flash market,” The Korea Times quotes an un-named industry official as saying. The article goes on to say that the Apple iPhone is provi
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by musicale 3mo ago
The American Revolutionary War began [1] in 1775: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_heard_round_the_world As I understand it, America250 is the official organization/celebration [2] established [3] to commemo
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by musicale 3mo ago
This is a very good point. DRM is not the same as digital. There doesn't seem to be a lot of clarity though around reselling digital downloads the way there is with physical media (first sale doctrine, etc.)
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by musicale 3mo ago
Many Switch / Switch 2 games can still be played offline with just the game card.
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by musicale 3mo ago
> Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video this is how you don't share games on playstation :(
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by musicale 3mo ago
What a difference a space makes.
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by musicale 3mo ago
I just have to say when I saw BMOW 1 I was delighted. Also Magic-1, another homebrew CPU, also made out of 74LS TTL chips from the 1970s. Fantastic trend, really. https://www.bigmessowires.com/bmow1/ https:/&#x2F
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by musicale 4mo ago
I miss them.
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by musicale 4mo ago
(Serious answer in spite of the punch line at the end of my parent post which perhaps addresses your first point.) I think it's good for people to be educated, and to have the opportunity when they want it, but it can be self-defeating
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by musicale 4mo ago
FPGAs are great - it's like writing software to create hardware, magically and on demand. I wish it were easier to get started with them - the toolchains are usually designed for professional engineers rather than beginners, and the de
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by musicale 4mo ago
I guess it depends on the program, but at my university an undergrad EE major, even though it had more units than any other major, didn't get to the best and most interesting stuff (perhaps because engineering majors also had to learn
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by musicale 4mo ago
A master's in CS can teach you interesting and very useful things, like how OS kernels, distributed systems, networks, and microprocessors work. A master's in EE will teach you things like signal processing and analog circuit desi
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by musicale 4mo ago
Apparently some students aren't actually interested in learning and view the diploma as a meal ticket rather than a meaningful credential. Or perhaps the university is just seen as a networking opportunity. If students don't want
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by musicale 4mo ago
You could probably implement the whole Apple II on the FPGA and have LUTs to spare... Edit: Tang Nano 20K, so fairly powerful, with 64Mbit of DRAM (enough to use as a virtual hard drive.)
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by musicale 4mo ago
Forget "serious" - games were and are the killer app for personal computing devices. How many people use Apple II emulators to run VisiCalc, after all?
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by musicale 4mo ago
There is also a downside I assume.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Digital wouldn't be so bad if you actually owned it - first sale doctrine, easy resale/transfer, etc. Though I'm sure game publishers would just switch to token online features to prevent resale.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Tekken 7 does not need to be 100GB. And with improvements in procedural rendering, textures and environments should become more compact than pre-rendered (and games should load faster as well.)
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by musicale 4mo ago
Ah yes, Jacob Collier. What I like is that he suggests an exercise that he used to practice microtonal singing: see how many intermediate pitches you can sing between two notes (could be a half step apart or you could start with a wider int

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