FlowingRiver

He just has to put his name on everything doesn't he?

I mean, Obamacare was just the nick name for the Affordable care act, but Don actively just has to have it put up there.

Brilliant project and very well done.

That aside, it is just astounding that even a moderate laptop just plows through this as thought it is nothing.

I remember doing orbital calculations on a 486DX with about 30 objects at just barely 30fps thanks to the FPU. That was pretty good for me. Without the FPU you would get maybe 2FPS. Now, you can just throw a half million around at 60fps+ in a web browser. Crazy!

Considering the low end will be the Xbox Series S, that puts it not too far out from the Switch 2.

However, the CPU would be way behind the and storage on Switch is somewhat limited. I don't think people would want 180GB chewing up the 232GB of available storage on the system.

It would be in the impossible port territory but it seems like it could be JUST within grasp. This is all dependent on how well the Series S performance is. If it stinks on there, I doubt they will ever bother with a S2 release.

Yep, cannot learn the lesson if you don't survive it.

Out of interest, how well did the Ps3 cluster work?

I say this because the Cell processor was an absolute beast BUT the whole system was so RAM constrained that is felt like, it didn't matter how quick your code was if you simply couldn't get enough data into RAM.

I just remember some code that would blast through what was available and then just spin for millions, sometimes billions of cycles just waiting for the next chuck to arrive.

Stallman as right, yet again!

This is probably going to the be holy grail later this year. In light of the recent explosion in decompilation/recompilation efforts, the first one that can get a copy off their machine and running on PC will get a lot of clout. Essentially, if they won't release it on PC, the people will just release it themselves. LLM assisted recompilation are a mighty force that is yield results with surprising speed.

There are already some PS5 games getting this treatment.

It seems like a case of their skills couldn't match their ambition. To much tech and not enough restraint to manage it.

I say this because on the Wii, a considerably slower machine, they kind of managed it well. The Store and even the system setting menu are just HTML rendered using Opera.

JavaScript is the gift and grift that keeps on giving. A security nightmare when in Flash, but a gate way to freedom nowadays.

TLDW for others, this is about how many are using generative writing/video to copy the style of Ferns videos.

Fern is not the first to point out this issue but it is one of the more major channels to do so.

The much discussed issues of AI models that don't have much of a concept of authority and feed back on their out put like a digital Ouroboros. Might be the same as how eventually yeast kills itself with its alcoholic output.

At this point it is just starting to keep really awkward/cringe the way OpenAI and Anthropic keep say things like this. They say it in the same way a young kid threatens others even though they cannot back up said claim.

Just notice that it is always the ones going for IPO that talk like this. Microsoft/Apple/Google, they don't talk like this because they don't need to, they are already certain of their positions (for the most part).

What I mean is, how many projects, services and features have been scrapped in Microsoft, Google, Apple that we never knew about. It would have been weird if Tim Cook came out and said "We had this great new feature for the iPhone, but we aren't doing it now. So yeah, yay us!"

And yet, if they think that is true, they keep going because... ? Or are they using the moral corruption of "If we don't they will"?

Still sounds like marketing to me.

Seeing as running Doom on anything now is absolutely trivial, maybe Quake 2 should be the new high bar?

Howdy fellow child of the year of Orwell, 1984. :D

I don't think we will give it up in the next 20 centuries.

This is an argument I have had on both sides. One side demonized it, the other said it could do no wrong.

No, weed is not a one way path to a death sentence as you become a raving Satanist! But it also isn't harmless and there are things to keep an eye on, just because it doesn't kill you doesn't mean it gets the all clear.

If you want to do it, go for it, but please be aware of the potential issues.

This is a shoot from the hip idea. Speaking to younger folks, it seems to be much more cultural/social change rather than anything to do with health.

This might be an odd fluctuation to do with the first primarily social media generation? Don't know but that is just how I have seen it.

You are probably right about banning weed/vapes. They don't have anywhere near the same indoctrination into the structures of commerce and power that alcohol has.

When they introduced the higher alcohol tax here in Australia back in 2006(ish), all it did was push us to find ways to make it ourselves. Went from cheap to unbelievably cheap but completely unregulated. Who knows what the alcohol content of some of that stuff was. There are some vague fuzzy nights from that period.

Maybe isn't of hiding, it can colour highlight it. At least then, you have some potential context.

It is talk back AM radio without the presenter to moderate.

There are projects like eXoDOS that are attempting to provide a complete DOS archive. They are currently at version 6 that weighs in at just under 700GB. But they seem to be finding new stuff all the time, thus the versioning of the archive.

I do find it funny that the idea of removing cars (not all of them mind you) is somehow seen as the equivalent of teleportation. In our modern society, I get it, it is practically the same mentally and yet objectively they are very different.

Complete aside, I wish that we had things like that, like doorways to other parts of the world.

Let's go to lunch in Tbilisi walks through door to there. Once done, just walk back through to home.

In 1997 there was the Pure3D graphics card, it was a 3DFX Voodoo 1 that could do TV output. Of course it could only do it on games as it still needed the 2D pass through for VGA output, but it was neat to see the PC doing what consoles could do.

Credit to HDMI, it finally standardized the IO systems that means PC to TV is trivial nowadays.

I would say removing the need for personal vehicles were possible would be a much more powerful force, but yours is much more practical at least short term (decade's time frame).

A bit of both.

Googles quality issue seem to be, in part, a market driven choice. Services like Kagi use a large part of the Google data base but with all their additional capital extraction sorting on top.

Google can do it, but they must appease the share holders.

The other day, it was the Aussie AFL final. We were in the car and asked it for a score update.

"The team are tied at the end of the third round with the scores 43 to 51".

So it was tied at the end of round 2 for 43, not round 3. Not sure were it got the 51 from and why it figured it was a tie. LLM's pretty cool until they aren't. As they say, the hallucinate 100% of the time but most of the time it is useful.

I am so glad that I met my now wife in 2008 before all the app facilitated dating scene took off. I feel for folks nowadays try to navigate the mine field, never has it been easier and more difficult at the exact same time.

If I am ever in the position to be back in the dating scene, I will NOT be in the dating scene.

It feels like it would have been fun to be on the graphics team for the Katamari games. Every item is simple but you get to make thousands of them. Just look around the world around you and go "Yeah, lets put that in."

It is still one of those games that I wonder about the rendering tech, as it feels like it would simultaneously hammer the CPU do radial calculations or hit the display list/command buffer excessively and yet it seems to run fine on almost anything.

I mean the original was on the Ps2 with a limited MIPS core at just under 300Mhz and an obscure VPU0/VPU1 vector processor setup.

True, but there is a specific technique to it. Plants, hedges and trees add significantly to your radius. Once you can hit that level, you will grow rapidly.