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by phire 3y ago
That's not a massive problem. Most games avoid using the same meshes for both rendered graphics and collision detection. Collision detection is usally done against a simplified mesh with much fewer polygons. Since most games already al
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by phire 3y ago
Yeah. Especially if you rip out VDP2 and some of the more 2D orientated features of VDP1 it looks very much like an attempt at a cost-optimised Model 2. And if you read the interview that ndiddy linked above ( https://mdshock.com&
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by phire 3y ago
That's a VDP2 effect. It can only fade the final framebuffer againt other VDP2 layers (and the skybox is implemented with VDP2 layers) After VDP1 has rendered all quads to the framebuffer (aka VDP2's "sprite data" layer)
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by phire 3y ago
First, it was limited to a single blend equation of 50% foreground + 50% background. At minimum, it really needed to support the addition/subtraction blend equations. Second, because it doesn't work correctly for distorted quads,
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by phire 3y ago
Both of these issues can be fixed without switching away from forwards texture mapping. We have at least one examples of this being implemented in real hardware at around the same time: Nvidia's NV1 (their first attempt at a GPU) was a
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by phire 3y ago
Now that's a good interview. > I think his biggest mistake was that he underestimated how quickly the industry would switch to mainly focusing on 3D. I think his mistake was a bit more subtle than that. Because he didn't have
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by phire 3y ago
I've looked into it, and from what I can tell, the "3D was added late to the Saturn design" narrative is flawed. It's commonly cited that VDP2 was added later to give it 3D support. But VDP2 doesn't do 3D at all, it
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by phire 3y ago
The 8088 and 8086 actually have the same number of pins and almost identical pinouts, despite the the difference in data bus width. This is because the data and address are multiplexed onto the same pins, because of intel's obsession w
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by phire 3y ago
Two reasons: 1. The queue is 4 bytes long, which fits neatly in a two bit counter. You would have to switch to a three bit counter to store the 5th state, which increases the area and power usage by ~50% 2. The MT signal is explictly needed
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by phire 3y ago
I suspect the serialising is just a side effect of the CPUID instruction being implemented as a massive microcode routine.
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by phire 3y ago
I don't see any problem with trust. The police will still get the exact same raw data of that one target user. The change just means that they won't get any data on other users.
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by phire 3y ago
> The first one where the police uploaded videos and wanted viewer information is absolutely egregious and makes me wonder how a court could authorize that. The police didn't upload they videos. It's not entrapment, and it do
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by phire 3y ago
"Do aircraft systems really only use GPS" I know older long-range planes from the 70s and 80s had excellent inertial navigation systems. Not quite as good as GPS, but good enough to know the location of the plane within a few naut
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by phire 3y ago
Sorry, I might have misinterpreted your argument. I thought you were arguing that a collection of facts can't be copyrighted, full stop. Hence me getting very confused about why you were refusing to accept Feist as case law that collec
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by phire 3y ago
Sigh. If you refuse to actually read the findings of Feist (or at very least the wikipedia page [1] that does a good job of summarising the ruling and it's implications), then I'm not really sure I can be bothered to repeat and ex
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by phire 3y ago
The case law is linked above, the "Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co" lawsuit that sets some minimum guidelines for what counts as a copyrightable arrangement of facts. And that standard is pretty low, it bas
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by phire 3y ago
Indeed. The creator of wordle started with a reasonably exhaustive list of ~13000 five letter words. That list won't be copyrightable. But the first prototype wasn't so fun, because it would often pick a word the player didn'
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by phire 3y ago
Gameplay can't be copyrighted, but in the case of Worldle, the word lists are probably copyrightable. Any clone that derives their own word list is probably fine, but any clone that copy/pastes the exact word lists from wordle (es
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by phire 3y ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. One thing I learned playing around with chatgpt is that if you can convince the LLM to transform the input, that transformation happens internally, and the LLM can access this transformed version and operate o
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by phire 3y ago
If they just waited until discovery, it would be Musk's lawyers that control the narrative, choosing which parts of the emails to focus on publicly, which to ignore and what story to paint around it. As you say, this way, they get to c
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by phire 3y ago
This article is wrong, or at least the headline and intro is wrong. You don't need a precise time source to make power grids possible. You don't need any time source at all, as generator operators simply synchronise with the grid&
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by phire 3y ago
It's not a huge amount of trust; They have your number plate on camera. These days, most petrol stations do keep the pump disabled until a human inside presses a button. I assume the staff member is doing a quick visual check to check
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by phire 3y ago
Such a design would be possible, but not really commercially viable. HBM memory is expensive, it requires a huge amount of extra IO on the die and an expensive silicon interposer. And you still need to keep around the old IO for the DDR5 me
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by phire 3y ago
Really, it's a form factor limitation. As others have pointed out, you can't fit enough memory bandwidth though the AM5 socket to feed a powerful iGPU. Fixing this problem kind of requires abandoning the current desktop form facto
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by phire 3y ago
It mostly acted like a digital storefront, or more an xbox gamepass of the 90s. Except instead of down games over an internet connection, it only had one-way communication. The satellite would just continually retransmit the same games ever
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by phire 3y ago
ADDS did call it a "Status Line" in their documentation. It was purely terminal status, as there was no way to control its contents with escape codes. But if IBM were also using a 25th line for it's "Operator Information
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by phire 3y ago
One possible motivation for the IBM PC to go with 25 lines, is that it allowed for a terminal emulator to fully emulate the de facto standard of 80x24 and still have a spare line at the bottom to show status and hotkeys. I do know that the
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by phire 3y ago
Acceleration and Deceleration are symmetrical. It takes the same amount of delta-v to accelerate between up to 0.999c as it takes to decelerate all the way back down to 0. Though as you burn fuel your ship gets lighter and the actual energy
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by phire 3y ago
Things get more insane the further you go. After an observed 12 years of constant 1g acceleration, you will be 113,000 lightyears from your point of departure, which is enough distance to cross from earth to the opposite side of our galaxy.
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by phire 3y ago
Tuvalu is also working on a land reclamation project that is designed to keep at least some land above the projected storm surges beyond the year 2100.

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