xgkickt

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by xgkickt 3mo ago
You’d also get CEO optimization, getting them to talk about <buzzword> and how the entire company is now a <buzzword>-first business.
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by xgkickt 3mo ago
Like cigarettes, simply ban the advertising.
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by xgkickt 3mo ago
>They believed their thoughts and bodily sensations were controlled by a machine that defied their technical comprehension and secretly influenced them from a distance, often claiming that it was operated by a group of people who were pe
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by xgkickt 4mo ago
In a fit of 90s nostalgia I’ve also been going back to software rendering, though I’m doing a hybrid of 2D style CLUT banks with a more modern binned triangle and barycentric technique. Since I’m sticking to a fixed pipeline look, I’ve been
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by xgkickt 4mo ago
Ditto the ST equivalent STOS. Amiga owning friends preferred Blitz BASIC though. Unfortunately, due to one Dijkstra quote about it, people tend to be quite snobbish about BASIC.
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by xgkickt 5mo ago
Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)
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by xgkickt 5mo ago
A subgroup of MAGMA, for owners of secret volcano lairs.
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
“Designed in California, for Californians” was too long.
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
Interesting. I was on PlayStation so I only heard about N64 dev at lunch. Factor5 were much closer to Nintendo than we were, and also known to be a bit good. Plus SDKs change over time. Take PS1 for example. We didn’t get GTE register detai
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
They’re called off ramps for a reason right?
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
Yes, 2nd party privileges.
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
Probably more accurate to say the custom microcode tools were not given to third party developers. From what I remember, you had to list the microcode used on your submission form, and Nintendo checked for it in your ROM. Did some third par
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
Why do they do it? To make money. How do they make money? Advertising. Designate them broadcasters and hold them to the same advertising standards.
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
Which, despite the VCR-like appearance, meant no faux wood detailing ;-)
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by xgkickt 6mo ago
I wish they’d bring back the original PlayStation logo though, not just on anniversary editions.
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by xgkickt 7mo ago
Their presumed lack of regression testing.
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by xgkickt 7mo ago
For big games, it’s a legal thing. Ever since the Hot Coffee debacle, we are not allowed to hide content, all of which has to be approved by legal.
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by xgkickt 7mo ago
I have been in the situation of standing outside an after-hours pick-up only window at a McDonald’s in the UK, able to talk to the staff, but unable to order because they only accepted app orders and I only had access to the Canadian app.
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by xgkickt 9mo ago
Or pasta as a cereal, in a bowl with milk.
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by xgkickt 9mo ago
In space, no-one can ... serve you warrants.
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by xgkickt 10mo ago
How long before a phrase is found that causes a predicted birthdate of 1970/01/01 ?
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by xgkickt 10mo ago
I'd imagine that at most [e: of their] stores the loss from theft is less than that of spoiled goods.
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by xgkickt 10mo ago
Can PowerToys remap it?
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by xgkickt 11mo ago
Sometimes it does seem like they’re just showing off how much data they’ve gathered on you.
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by xgkickt 11mo ago
It was a smash & grab.
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by xgkickt 11mo ago
Wikipedia doesn't list any honours awarded by the French Government. Nor do I see anything from ACM. Definitely overdue some official recognition.
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by xgkickt 11mo ago
Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review.
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by xgkickt 1y ago
100 fuses for $1, awesome! ;-)
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by xgkickt 1y ago
For me MIPS is the best ISA for “stream of consciousness” assembly, you can just write it then tidy up the register usage and pipelining after.
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by xgkickt 1y ago
That would be the PS2’s VUs which had an upper and lower pipe and it was easier to write instructions for each in separate columns. Then in one SDK we received program called vcl which took a single list of instructions, doing all the pipel

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