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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Yes, that’s what I said. Powerful and flexible, at the expense of not being able to know how it will be used ahead of time. Bundling and precompiling is not a fool-proof guarantee but it is very effective. Most often when a game has shader
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Unreal’s limitation is that it doesn’t know how a shader will be used until it actually tries to render it on the target hardware. This is a trade-off to gain flexibility and rendering performance. The engine has to compile shaders on the f
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
You can mix and match to some extent, though Nanite, Lumen and Megalights are intended to work together. Megalights really needs Lumen, and Lumen works best with Nanite. There’s the whole forward renderer path you can use instead, which wor
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
It’s not “moving to India” so much as Western studios are now forming smaller core teams locally and farming out much of the content to outsourcing studios in India, Malaysia & Eastern Europe rather than doing it all in-house.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
I’d love to blame collective internet myopia on bots, just as I’d love to blame leaded gas for the mental state of geriatric politicians, but in my heart I don’t buy it.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
There’s indeed quite an uproar and I’m not unsympathetic to it, but only 3% of Sony’s 2025 revenue came from physical game sales. https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/corporatereport/... (pag
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Cowpox was used to vaccinate against smallpox. Cowpox is a less severe infection that stimulates the same immune response as smallpox, but it’s not the same virus. Inoculation is where a weakened pathogen is introduced to create immune resi
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
That’s what Dr Fauci said for seasonal flu in 2004. Yes you will have antibodies from being exposed to one strain of flu. You won’t for the next strain. Catching COVID carried a far greater risk because although symptoms can be mild in ma
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
If you’ve had Covid twice then you’ll have had the antibodies in your system, however there were several strains and getting boosters to maximise resistance was important. Remember that you caught Covid twice , because your body’s immune s
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Vaccines have always been about preventing the spread of the disease and “the definition of vaccines” has not changed. This is easy to prove. Simply find a high school biology textbook printed before Covid.
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by teamonkey 3mo ago
Kids spread the virus, whether they’re at risk of dying or not. Vaccines reduce the chance of them spreading it by reducing the symptoms and the time that they they’re infectious. The main benefit of vaccines is that they reduce the transmi
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Switch merged with Maestro, which was owned by Mastercard, to become Switch-Maestro, which eventually became Mastercard Debit.
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
It is. There are incoming EU regulations about consumers needing free access to their data that is sent to a cloud server on their behalf. That doesn’t mean all the functionality of an app needs to be implemented. My feeling is that this ch
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Data point: I bought a Skoda because of its claimed efficiency. It wasn’t the only factor, but in the balance of weighing things up, I cared that the stated emissions and fuel efficiency were better than some of the competitors. I was lied
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
It can’t be that bad because the latest Renault EVs have pretty good real world range figures in their class.
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Some EV models have gone back to drum brakes. The main drawback of drum brakes is overheating, which is why they can’t be used for performance vehicles, even though drum brakes can deliver more braking power. EVs with strong regenerative br
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Are you saying that the cost/MWh of battery storage goes up the more batteries are installed?
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Also, when you’re done with the solar farm you simply take the panels off, disassemble the aluminium frame, then you have your field back. Unlike a coal mine.
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
This guide to the UK’s Land Use Framework says that the amount of land required for renewables by 2050 is comparable to the amount of land used by golf courses. https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-englands-new-land-use-fr...
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
Perhaps they did not mean point 18, but I found it interesting anyway. The existing gas infrastructure represents a large amount of taxpayer investment, not due to be paid off until 2070. But it’s estimated that there won’t be any users of
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by teamonkey 4mo ago
The good reason is that there are plenty of third party boards that already offer what you want. There’s very little to be gained by an ‘official’ one. The next one probably should have C, if just because it is the Euro standard, but no u
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
It feels strange there’s no decentralised search. I know this is likely to do with the nature of the problem, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting some wildly-unsuitable decentralised nonsense in the past.
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
In the UK, much further from the equator, some people are fitting panels on north-facing roofs. These are most effective on cloudy days. This is mostly only cost-effective for remote properties where power cuts are common, but it works.
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
Microcontrollers are fun. The specs of modern MCs are similar to home computers 30 years ago. The community aspect is there. They’re cheap, too.
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
As someone who has never had an opportunity to play with it, I’m fascinated by what people are doing with PIO. In many cases it seems to be a ‘good enough’ FPGA on absurdly cheap hardware.
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
The Union Flag is much more of a right-wing symbol in Scotland, as you say (I lived in Scotland for 10 years) but in England the GC is far more associated with nationalism and the right, while the Union Flag is a bit more VE Day, church fet
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
England has a unique position in the Union, and indeed much of the world, where it is seen as an historic and current oppressive force, and our attitude to flags has to acknowledge that context. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the U
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
> Only SAP is or has been featured somewhere below the bottom. “The company is the largest non-American software company by revenue and the world's fifth-largest publicly traded software company by revenue. In June 2025, it was the
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
It’s understandable that people blame AI for economic issues when so may CEOs are publicly stating that “increased efficiencies due to AI” is the reason for laying off staff.
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by teamonkey 5mo ago
When the parent said that the reactors may not actually be safe and you said “Better a potential bad outcome than directly measurable and ongoing harm, though“

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