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by vor_ 2mo ago
I lived that era too, and Snow Leopard was no less buggy than any other release. What actually happened is that engineers had been shifted over to iOS, which delayed Leopard. By the time of Snow Leopard, to put a positive spin on that lack
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by vor_ 2mo ago
I'd say Snow Leopard was as buggy as any other typical OS X release from that era, as covered by the Jeff Johnson article. The reality is that the "no new features" marketing was most likely a positive spin on the shift in en
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by vor_ 2mo ago
That's not how I remember it. In fact, Snow Leopard was no less buggy than any other release, I'd say. As explained in the article, that mythology of a stable release was formed over time later on.
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by vor_ 2mo ago
What software would that be, and how do you know there have never been memory-related bugs and vulnerabilities in it?
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by vor_ 2mo ago
That change is happening. Microsoft has been rewriting parts of Windows in Rust, Linux is accepting Rust code, and Apple is using Swift for core parts of their OSes.
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by vor_ 2mo ago
Wavesfactory Cassette does exactly that for several well-known models.
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by vor_ 2mo ago
U-he Satin emulates Dolby encoding/decoding.
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by vor_ 2mo ago
For what it's worth, which may be nothing, I remember being told that by NFT people.
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by vor_ 2mo ago
I must say, "great financial engineering" serves as an amazing spin on "scam."
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by vor_ 2mo ago
The policy reads: "The use of AI to contribute to Godot is discouraged, and contributions made entirely by AI are prohibited. We acknowledge that AI can be useful, but we are convinced that human effort results in better and more relev
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by vor_ 2mo ago
If you read the whole article, you'll understand the context and how its relates to Wikipedia. The fact GingerBill accuses Wikipedia of having a political bias against Odin when (spoilers) it was actually a "constitutional conserv
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by vor_ 3mo ago
I'll toss ya a few! What unexplored frontiers does he wish game developers would pay more attention to? How does he feel about the state of science education for children today in terms of schooling, television, toys, internet, and so
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Does it? I'm skeptical. In fact, we apparently have more than enough money for it because we suddenly have billions to spend on war in the Middle East.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Yet we apparently have money for military parades and wars and ballrooms. Go figure.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
So far, here isn't sufficient evidence that anyone has such reliably golden ears.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Even the cheapest consumer DACs oversample into the megahertz range.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Oh, dear, that AES 2014 paper from Meridian (which was trying to push its controversial proprietary MQA audiophile system the same year) was widely criticized on audio forums when it came out, ranging from the rectangular dithering method t
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Do you have citations for this claim? The "golden ears" argument is often employed by audiophiles, but even the cheapest converters oversample by up to several hundred times as well as employ antialiasing filters.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Is there evidence that a trained ear can reliably perceive these artifacts in a blind test of converters? I'd be interested in reading those links since converters typically oversample into the mHz range. At 11.29 mHz (256x 44.1 mHz),
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by vor_ 3mo ago
> Decades ago, I was treated to an ABX test in my brother's recording studio. I easily recognized and preferred a 24/192 master he played versus the 16/44.1 down-mix. I honestly don't know whether there was something
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Megatexture caused a lot of problems. In fact, it was such a hindrance that it was removed from the engine in Doom Eternal.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
The loss of the original team was a tremendous blow. After Quake, a common criticism of id was that they put out tech demos instead of games.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
It was people like Michael Abrash who did the groundbreaking optimization work at that time. He single-handedly doubled Quake's framerate.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Prey was infamously in development in various forms for over a decade.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
The technical innovations also began to have no impact or even an adverse one. Doom 3's push for 100% real-time stencil shadows was practically ignored by the industry when HL2 and other competitors came out. MegaTexture was actually r
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by vor_ 3mo ago
There are several snarky knee-jerk reactions in the comments here, but state assemblies pass things all the time that ultimately fail to pass or get vetoed. Now the public will debate it, contact their state senators to give their opinions.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
How did you determine that it's even more dangerous?
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Is that how you built the app you claim Apple rejected as spam?
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by vor_ 3mo ago
You built it from scratch? According to your Twitter, you're not writing any code. You're not even reviewing it.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
There's been a noticeable drop in quality. It's often a blend of AI culture war posts and arbitrary Github links.

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