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by paulmd 3y ago
> Nah, we used and paid for Unity because the licensing structure we signed on with made sense. They’re literally changing the terms on us in a way we cannot push back against. Games made years ago are subject to this new fee structure.
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by paulmd 3y ago
just wrote a reply here that could have been a response to this comment ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37525456
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by paulmd 3y ago
> I think we are starting to see the cracks in the utopic vision of open source. we definitely are, and it's the inherent contradiction of "one entity pays to maintain it, another entity makes all the money from exploiting it&
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by paulmd 3y ago
Such ”incompetence, not malice” errors can be trivially solved by defaulting to the consumer receiving a discount on the item in the event of variations in how the items on the shelves are labeled. Boom, you now have an army of validation s
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by paulmd 3y ago
This is the same family as the MacBook line use. Once yields improve on N3 next year you’ll be able to get even a MacBook Air that will have this same chip but with more cores.
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by paulmd 3y ago
> [ not sure about sanctified places; can't think of any ] Margaret Thatcher’s grave is anointed daily
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by paulmd 3y ago
Starfield is getting poor utilization on nvidia because they do not align memory, because they are doing an “indirect execution” thing and telling the driver that the wrong thing is being executed, and then doing this over and over nonstop.
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by paulmd 3y ago
AMD seems to have moved to a “gameworks” style business model where all their sponsored titles run like crap, but they run more like crap on the competition (and increasingly lock out intel entirely etc, as Bethesda has refused to support t
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by paulmd 3y ago
Nah, people just realize that it’s not worth continuing to fight the drug war and kill and imprison hundreds of thousands just because little skylar turned into a bit of a pothead for a couple years. This is exactly the kind of pro-drug war
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by paulmd 3y ago
The license pre-October 2022 actually explicitly allows you to continue using older versions of the software under the original licensing terms when you released back then. So there is no money in legacy customers, except Genshin-scale ones
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by paulmd 3y ago
No, you need to fuck off, and not justify and defend this kind of rhetoric on HN. nobody should be calling anybody brainless here. The end. I will page dang if you want.
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by paulmd 3y ago
the regulation is much more about regulating a governmental solution to the android-iphone wars than regulating consumer freedoms or e-waste etc. those are convenient levers for the powers involved. tim sweeny does not care about unlocking
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by paulmd 3y ago
sure, literal tech media whining about anti-theft being too good: https://www.macworld.com/article/1485237/mac-security-t2-chi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545028 literally and direc
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by paulmd 3y ago
damn, so how long a lifecycle did sony do before they were forced?
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by paulmd 3y ago
"optical center" of the antenna probably is at least 5mm even with a phone pressed against your head, given the distance the ends are away. and things like clothing or purses add interposing distance too. again though it's a
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by paulmd 3y ago
I know, but windows 3.1 looked like windows 3.1. Windows 98 at least looks reasonably modern, like system 7.5+ or system 8 level fit and finish or whatever. Windows 2000 definitely is 90% of the way there in terms of UX. Windows XP really
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by paulmd 3y ago
yeah, it's oft-remarked but it's extremely silly how much memory and CPU usage have been inflated over the years. 256MB was just fine for gaming in the early days of XP. windows 98 or windows 2000 could run pretty nicely on like
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by paulmd 3y ago
> especially models with only Thunderbolt ports are practically unusable without a hub. "come on now, USB-C is the future, why won't apple implement it!?" "no, not like that"
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by paulmd 3y ago
> What makes you think it's fine to use 23 year old speed limits in a $800 device the USB Implementation Forum, I'd expect
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by paulmd 3y ago
this is actually all about TSMC N3 and the problems they've been having getting it to work and yield. N3 itself is essentially canceled and split into two nodes: N3B (b for Bad), which has a small gain, and then N3E (E for Enhanced) w
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by paulmd 3y ago
the problem is it's not just one feature, it's USB3 and ProRes and the PHYs for handling external displays, and a bunch of other stuff besides. in aggregate the cost adds up, it's a larger and more expensive SOC and a higher-
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by paulmd 3y ago
those are thunderbolt cables, not usb-c cables. they're backwards compatible but they have extra signal pairs to support PCIe tunneling, and much more stringent shielding and termination that allows 40gbps bidirectional transfer (and
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Budget Android phones do USB-C 3.0 and have for years. Some do. Not every one, certainly, if that was your implication.
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by paulmd 3y ago
it's crazy to me just how much fanboy wars have fallen into "products that I don't want to buy should be outlawed". especially in this android-vs-iphone arena.
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by paulmd 3y ago
And yet USB2 is still the baseline standard for the USB-C standard ratified less than 10 years ago, the standard that the EU mandated compliance to. If the EU wanted to outlaw USB2 phones it should have done that. But there would have been
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by paulmd 3y ago
it is, and the french are kinda catering to the wackos by letting them tinker with the EU/FCC standards. unsurprisingly when you place the phones closer than normal, you get a higher measurement, and if you do not adjust the absorptio
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by paulmd 3y ago
Sounds like the article is incorrect. The relevant standard for EU-wide regulations is EN 50566:2013, which allows manufacturers to choose the separation with up to 25mm (most vendors standardized on 15mm because this is the maximum separa
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by paulmd 3y ago
Worth noting that this is due to the French regulators applying the same SAR absorption standard as the rest of the EU but at a closer distance. Obviously radiation follows the inverse square law so this means you absorb more radiation in F
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by paulmd 3y ago
> If you think it's reasonable that a person is going to be strapped into a headset at a child's birthday party, then that is indicative of what you believe would be socially normal or acceptable behaviour. I dare say other fam
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by paulmd 3y ago
you're generating twice the e-waste of the apple product here. and you don't have to pay 3x the cost if you don't want, buy last year's model refurbished.

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