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by pezezin 2y ago
Dungeons and Dragons?
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by pezezin 2y ago
SCART could carry 480p, but few devices supported it. In any case, this was only an issue in the 6th generation of consoles (Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox). Before that era, everything was 15 kHz, and after that, everything started to incl
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by pezezin 2y ago
You are so right. There is a reason why PC and arcade monitors work in RGB. But in addition to that, there is no cross-talk, no dot crawl, and all the other weird artifacts of composite video. Also, no chroma modulation means that it was mu
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by pezezin 2y ago
SCART is the worst connector ever designed, that is true. Not only it is difficult to plug in, it is also super flimsy and it will unplug if you glance at it wrong. But on the other hand it provided the best possible picture quality (on con
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by pezezin 2y ago
The transparency effects are NOT a byproduct of CRTs, but of the horrible artifacts of composite video. How do I know? Because just yesterday I was playing with a Megadrive connected to a Trinitron PC monitor through a line doubler. It look
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Side note: D actually predates a lot of this by being from 2001, but, sadly, never seemed to get any traction. It seems like it had the misfortune of being about 10 years too early and that programmers just weren't ready for a new
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by pezezin 2y ago
But each channel is half the width, so we are back at the same point.
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by pezezin 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, the original Pentium had branch prediction, but speculative execution was first implemented by the Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture)#Feature...
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by pezezin 2y ago
> (1,000 is 1000 in France or the UK or Spain, but 1 in Germany or Romania) No, France and Spain follow the same standard as Germany: dots as thousands separators, a comma as the decimal separator. Actually most of Europe does the same,
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by pezezin 2y ago
If you did, then you would know that it is not about race, it is about culture. Gypsy culture is extremely toxic and more akin to gangs than to normal society. Do you like violent drug gangs? If not, why? Are you racist to them?
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by pezezin 2y ago
Have you ever lived in Europe and had to deal with gypsies? If not, please don't talk about what you don't know.
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by pezezin 2y ago
That is also true. I am currently working in an international project in Japan, so when designing our systems and databases I always insists on the terms "given" and "family" names instead of "first" and "
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by pezezin 2y ago
If you really care about performance, you should not allocate within hot loops.
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by pezezin 2y ago
In this case, his family names (Spanish people have two) were just "Ruiz y Picasso", the rest was is given name. So you can argue that his family name fits within 128 bytes. But that brings us to the assumption that people have ju
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by pezezin 2y ago
Sorry, I wrote my comment early in the morning and I didn't explain myself clearly. "Coriander" was the standard English word, and "cilantro" the standard Spanish word, way before the European arrival to the America
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by pezezin 2y ago
Spanish guy here. The standard name is cilantro, used for both the seeds and the leaves. The Mexicans got the name from us, not the other way :P However, I have seen the opposite situation, Mexican people calling the seeds "coriandro&q
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by pezezin 2y ago
I call bullshit on this. I am from Spain, I have met many people from different Spanish-speaking countries including Equatorial Guinea (people always forget about them), and we rarely have any problem understanding anybody (unless someone i
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by pezezin 2y ago
I love the Metal Slug series, they are the only arcade games that I can actually complete in a real arcade xD Crazy story, one time at Taito Hey (highly recommended retro arcade in Akihabara) I saw a dude completing Metal Slug X with two ch
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by pezezin 2y ago
Not only that, but many Japanese companies are notoriously inefficient, with lots of people tasked with bullshit jobs. Maybe they could also try to optimize a bit...
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by pezezin 2y ago
> [0] These are specifically called chaebols and the group includes LG, Hyundai, Samsung, Lotte, and a few others. Japan used to have something similar, but they ate their rich... and then brutally invaded and colonized half of East Asia
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Makes me wonder where this myth of "good Korean internet" even came from if everything ends up so bandwidth constrained. Is it because all the customers and services are in the same city so it appears low latency? Same here i
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by pezezin 2y ago
> I remember my old boss' example of "when walking down a street in Beijing, if you ask somebody directions to a street that they don't know, they will adamantly indicate that they know and it's that way (a random dir
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by pezezin 2y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted, your comment is spot on. The way this man has been treated should be an embarrassment to all the leaders of the so-called free world.
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by pezezin 2y ago
As an Spanish guy living in Japan, let me tell you that Japanese urban planning and development is an utter disaster that we should not copy. Please find a better example.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Quake was the first game to make heavy usage of the FPU and thus require a Pentium. You could run it on a 486 DX, but the performance would be atrocious.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Around 10 mm for OS2 cables.
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by pezezin 2y ago
> And if you pronounced [e] and [ɛ] to native speakers of either Spanish or Japanese, they most likely wouldn't be able to differentiate the two sounds consistently without having had training. I am a Spanish guy living in Japan, so
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by pezezin 2y ago
Seriously? What kind of textbook are you going to read on a tiny cellphone screen?
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by pezezin 2y ago
It must be a big issue in Japan, because every public toilet around here has a big sign telling you not to do that, and explaining how to use the toilet properly.
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by pezezin 2y ago
I remember that, and also how it was called the Emotion Engine because it would allow the creation of virtual characters with real emotions, which to my 15-year-old self sounded like a big load of BS.

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