stuxnet79

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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
This is a perfect articulation of why even 13 years later, I still have no motivation to beat GTA 5. It worked great as a quasi-movie but not a video game.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> One of my favorite non-fiction books is Masters of Doom. Loved this book as well. Convinced me more than anything to stay out of game dev. It was also cool getting the inside story on why Ion Storm went belly up. I have huge respect fo
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
It will probably be an unoptimized hot mess for the first year. Same as the rest of the over hyped AAA titles. I'm sure devs are on a death match to hit the deadline.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Is this after aggressive optimization? Size inflation for AAA games has truly reached new heights. If it had to be released via physical media that would require 3-4 BD discs at minimum. I've been on a retro gaming binge lately because
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
F.E.A.R 2 was released on the PS3 and Xbox 360, both of which have laughably low specs by modern standards. When you have to create dynamic experiences out of a potato you are forced to get creative and that involves squeezing a lot of juic
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
The Wii U walked so that the Switch could run. I'm glad to see renewed interest in it. Now if we only had a decent emulator. I know Cemu exists but the compatibility of most games I want to play with it is atrocious.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> I really just want to not think about that stuff when I'm not working. This is my exact attitude but I don't have decades of sysadmin experience to lean on so I'm completely lost on what approach to take setting up my fi
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
It is the Asian model of capitalism. David Oks did a great article about this focusing on Japanese firms in particular [1] [1] https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
There are multiple reasons. (1) Canada over-indexed on low skill immigration. High skill white collar professionals either directly immigrate to the US, immigrate to Canada with the intent to move to the US eventually or they stay in their
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Except ... the collapse never happens. Once your engineers burn out or age out you just hire fresh meat and the cycle repeats. The issue I have with these types of articles (and books like Peopleware / Slack) is they never provide any
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Well the structural issues have been present for some time but the influx of newcomers during COVID did not help the situation. Not saying it is right, but these newcomers have become a scapegoat and it's stoked the flames of xenophobi
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Believe me an open border would do nothing but increase xenophobia. Canada is dealing with its own immigration crisis with a ton of newcomers DDoSing the overextended healthcare system and real estate market.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Going directly from a research lab with a healthy and collaborative culture to an agile scrum factory in the private sector was one of the most jarring experiences of my life. Everytime I speak to an academic who is trying to make the same
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Only thing missing from this comms masterpiece was all lowercase.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
A very unserious tone from probably the most consequential company of our lifetimes. It's vibing all the way to the top I guess.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Appreciate your comment. I skimmed the online version and it covers all the 2010s era developments all the way to Transformers which is enough to earn it a spot on my bookshelf. > Grab "Deep Learning" - you'll find it usef
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
This is incredible, thanks for sharing!
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
I didn't know Bishop had released a new textbook. I will have to take a look at it. I wasn't the biggest fan of his Pattern Recognition book as I found it overly dense. I much preferred the Murphy and Alpaydin books. EDIT: His son
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
I echo this. Software development stopped being a dignified profession a long time ago once we fully coopted the metrics / performance theatre that the MBAs brought in. I'm talking agile / SAFe / leetcode / mandator
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Could you share more details on how you were able to set this up? Do you use Koreader?
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
You are overthinking this. The whole purpose of the SpaceX / xAI merger is for Musk to launder his failing companies to make them more palatable to the public. Not unlike the complex Mortgage Backed Securities of the GFC era which had
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
It's not information overload. It's filter failure [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> Why do index funds follow the exact companies in the index itself? The fund itself is a financial product with a fee attached. Regardless of an index's perceived "quality" funds will always be created as long as there is
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
What makes this even more hilarious is that Meta's rebranding was in part inspired by the metaverse concept in Snow Crash. You can bet that Zuckerberg, along with many other tech executives, have read this exact passage while mining th
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Have to agree with you on this. Neal Stephenson is not a writer's writer by any means. But even by his standards I found the prose in Snowcrash to be plodding and amateur. I still love the book for its campy nature and for all the amaz
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
The Darktable hate is real. I guess scene-referred workflows (vs display-referred popularized by Lightroom) are too difficult for most people to grok.
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
Yes an entire generation of games running on a mere 2MB of RAM and 1MB of VRAM. The crazy thing too was how much a step up PS2 was compared to PS1 in terms of available compute and sheer horsepower. But even that wasn't enough for a sa
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> Windows it would nag me to update but apparently the CPU is too old for new Windows When I was trying to upgrade to Windows 11 from Windows 10 I got the same warning. It is the reason why I'm now happily running Xubuntu on the sam
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> They hold up pretty well when you play them as they were originally supposed to: on a CRT if you can or using emulators' CRT filters if you can't On the emulator side I would definitely recommend Duckstation. It's perfor
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by stuxnet79 4mo ago
> PS1 games do not hold up so good Eeh ... speak for yourself. PS1 did mark the dawn of the 3D era for home consoles. There are lots of people who are into the low poly 3D models with the characteristic PS1 "wobble". Sure a lot

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