aruametello

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by aruametello 7d ago
+1 to sarcasm.
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by aruametello 15d ago
i find it quite amusing that some people forget that opensource software is a double edge sword in these cases. > "why can we run windows games the way we want and often better than windows?" its because we can fiddle with anyt
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by aruametello 2mo ago
faster than a zergling early base rush.
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by aruametello 3mo ago
> I just fear that HDCP is a Trojan Horse. yep. overall what I expect to happen in a few years: * more people get more fed up with microsoft + gaming on linux gets more popular * some few distros will be very oriented for closed source d
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by aruametello 3mo ago
some people want to implement this DRM support and some others want to use this support. freedom in this scenario is more akin to "you are free to choose" above "you should pick one of the free choices". some people will
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by aruametello 3mo ago
Then Tresspasser CSS next https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespasser_(video_game
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by aruametello 4mo ago
i can vouch for desec.io for having the option to have TXT, NS, CNAME, etc dns entries on their free tier! (limited to 1 domain, up to 50 entries) i really had a bad time trying to get a letsencrypt certificate through the regular auth beca
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by aruametello 4mo ago
out of the box, I imagine that surfaces can be lit, but probably not shadowed correctly. (structures aren’t solids, more like particles in 3d space) it could look like the real-time lighting of an old game engine on rather modern assets. (q
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by aruametello 4mo ago
perhalps ublock origin could merge this as an easter egg in the config? (like a very poorly maintained easter egg, not a problem if is broken by something else)
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by aruametello 5mo ago
> is it worth the headache of supporting way more hardware combinations? no. Probably is one of those of "because its fun" type of projects.
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by aruametello 5mo ago
even better, windows running in dos. oh wait... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0 )
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by aruametello 5mo ago
to be fair there are some degree of "hand curation" of the data so while "it is the internet", the actual trained data is a derivation of that. in a mild but productive analogy: I could actually hand a K&R book C pro
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by aruametello 5mo ago
> Fork the kernel! pre "clanker-linux". I am more intrigued by the inevitable Linux distro that will refuse any code that has AI contributions in it.
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by aruametello 5mo ago
4000 certainly did, the "shader execution reordering" gave an meaningful uplift to tasks that "underutilized warp units due to scattered useful pixels". it seems to have helped path tracing by a lot.
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by aruametello 5mo ago
its a very honorable mention in my eyes because its more appropriate of the tile of "first independent Graphics unit" than the Geforce 2. (did more than just blast already projected triangles at the screen) not that it was an awes
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by aruametello 5mo ago
+1 to that, when i first saw unreal tournament with the add-on compressed texture pack was a real WOW moment.
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by aruametello 6mo ago
(VR enthusiast here, mostly under windows) intel support has been mild to non existent in the VR space unfortunately. Given the very finicky latency + engine support i wouldn’t bet on a great experience, but hope for the best for more compe
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by aruametello 6mo ago
Post traumatic "nvidia TurboCache" disorder triggered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboCache (Not the same thing 1:1, but worth the joke anyway)
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by aruametello 6mo ago
(not a teardown dev) i had brainstormed a bit a similar problem (non world aligned voxels "dynamic debris" in a destructible environment. One of the ideas that came through was to have a physics solver like the physX Flex sdk. ht
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by aruametello 6mo ago
from what i seen in "low end" ssds like the "120gb sata sandisk ones" under windows in heavy near constant pagging loads is that they exceed by quite a lot their manufacturer lifetime TBW before actually actually started
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by aruametello 7mo ago
glad to know, i am rather new here and somewhat used to the "don't do the usual forbidden stuff".
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by aruametello 7mo ago
it seems to be bad at spatial and some temporal tasks given it currently f*** s**'s at pokemon. source: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon
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by aruametello 7mo ago
you may just have casted a curse on our future motherboards, damn you
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by aruametello 8mo ago
... did they mine their own minerals? this could go into a sagan's "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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by aruametello 8mo ago
> ... gaping demon butthole for someone bad at naming things that gives me an idea! a software named gdb ?
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by aruametello 9mo ago
To dial up the weirdness, sometimes the solar flare activity has spikes ( https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla... ) and these have a mild relationship with the odds of having "bitflips&q
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by aruametello 10mo ago
cutting edge perhaps?
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by aruametello 11mo ago
> (...) I think they built or used a different engine designed to take advantage of the N64s graphics hardware. Something around that, they used the build engine as a starting point but "hacked it to oblivion". On the very leas
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by aruametello 1y ago
it was sarcasm through counter example. the parent comment mentioned: > Yup, they're sitting on millions of hours of work because of some nefarious business logic. Probably they determined that making old games available would negat
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by aruametello 1y ago
Honestly i find it quite useful that "single developer projects" may have extra hands on code (with manual human review) to get things done faster. my personal pet peeve is the idea that "AI is better than humans" instea

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