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I just realized thanks to this article, that the x86 memory-model emulation is not only available in the M1, but has been present going back to at least the A12 series. Apple has been planning this a long time.
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I think the fact that Flash was an one-stop shop for graphics, animation and coding made it very accessible to creatives/artists, who might not have had a strong technical background who I suspect were behind most of these games.
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Vikings invade England, pillage and massacre the English, yet they are still seen as the good guys. I wonder if the people who made this game have some historical resentment towards the English.
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khm Overwatch khm
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Now if we could have Node.js for ARM separately, that would be nice.
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It does get kind of warm, but it's not uncomfortable, and the throttling is not too bad, after 10 minutes you lose like 10% performance, after which it's solid. Probably the Pro doesn't have that issue.
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I'm not super familiar with the history of aviation, but by the end of the 90s, 3D accelerators became widespread. This meant that 3D became available to the masses, but the only way you could render graphics was the DirectX/OpenG
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I just bought a MacBook Air. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this redefines how we think about a laptop. Whereas previously a laptop was something that spent the bulk of its time plugged in, and only capable of shor
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I have so much to write on this, sorry if it comes off as incoherent rambling. The gist of it is I think the 90s really were a special time in computer gaming, and it's not just nostalgia you're feeling. I'll try to list wha
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That's not quite true, there's this project, that already has the boilerplate written for you: https://github.com/BlazorExtensions/Canvas It supports both Canvas2D and WebGL. The API supports batching calls a
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While I under what YouTube is trying to do, even if it raise issue with free speech, I feel the bigger issue is how they plan to determine if a video is in line with their policies. Due to the sheer volume of videos YouTube needs to handle
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7y ago
I'm afraid of the future with regards to electric cars. The simplicity and efficiency of current designs means that any further improvements in car quality are pretty unlikely, save for battery improvements. This suggests that electri