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rabfon 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous

ATI drivers were a horror show for the longest time on windows never mind linux. What Nvidia did was have have basically the same driver code for all operating systems with a compatibility shim. If you were using any sort of professioinal 3d software over the previous 2 decades Nvidia were the only viable solution.

Source: Was burned by ATI, Matrox, 3dlabs before finallly coughing up the cash for Nvidia.

rabfon 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous

Nvidia has had driver parity for linux, freebsd and windows for many many years. No other graphics card manufacturer has come close to the quality of their software stack accross platforms. For that they have my gratitude.

rabfon 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous

Part of the success of directx over opengl was that very few graphics card companies seemed capable of producing a fully functional opengl driver, for the longest time Nvidia was the only option.

I recall ATI and Matrox both failing in this regard despite repeated promises.

rabfon Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

Don't connect it to the internet is an option. Games can be sideloaded from a PC.

rabfon Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

If you don't trust meta why would you have a facebook account to correlate or link to?

rabfon Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

I've had a quest 2 for over a year now and do not have a facebook account. It was possible to set the device up using a oculus developer account before, and a meta account now. You want dev mode enabled so that you can sideload apps anyway.

I think that the Quest pro is very attractive at the new price, it is a great standalone and pcvr headset.

rabfon Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

PCVR will always be an option with these headsets.

rabfon Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets

https://github.com/basti564/Oculess

rabfon Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement

The one sane voice at the SEC.

rabfon Porth, It's Like Forth but in Python

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpM-Dvs8t0VbMZA7wW9aR3EtB...

Playlist of this being created.

rabfon Shorting Tether

Why not use one of the on chain solutions? Theres quite a few options platfoens ib defi.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/decentralized-option...

rabfon FTX’s balance sheet was bad

Good to see a well researched accurate article on this compared to some of the hit pieces floating around from other "journalists".

rabfon FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan

That was Bitfinex, and honestly it was the best possible outcome. Far better than what ftx users are likely to get.

rabfon Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?

The quest now has a feature whre it can passthrough a user defined portion of the bottom of the screen so that you can see your desk while in VR. You can also passthrough physical items such as just a keyboard and a cup or everything bar your virtual screens in apps such as immersed.

rabfon The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

rabfon Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

A cheap laser engraver could work well here.

rabfon Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

Crypto fees is an interesting website which aims to show which chains and dapps people are paying to use.

https://cryptofees.info/

rabfon Ushering out strlcpy()

https://github.com/antirez/sds

rabfon Ushering out strlcpy()

If you want to use this function read the brief man page that covers all these points in very little text. Skip the article!

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy...

rabfon If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions

I you are cycling to work everyday your fitness will very quickly get to a level where you don't break sweat on that ride.

rabfon Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

Do you believe that the sam applies to encypted messaging protocols which facilitate criminals and terrorists to communicate privately?

The developer of Tornado Cash is not responsible for who uses it and for which reasons, just are knife makers are not responsible for murders.

rabfon I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To

I love this interview where David Bowie tries to convince Jeremy Paxman of the value of the internet in 1999!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg

rabfon Hathora: Multiplayer Made Easy

These are great links, gafferongames demystified so much for me. I will also add in a link to Fabien's look at the quake 3 netcode, with the added bonus that the source code is available.

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/network.php

rabfon Demoing Our Displays

Try https://lovr.org/ for a really quick and painless way to quickly create a VR app.

"You can write 3 lines of Lua and drag and drop a folder onto an exe to get a working VR scene."

rabfon Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)

You can get lithium ion rechargable AA batteries these days. They have a built in regulator to drop the voltage to 1.5V. Some of them even have micro usb ports on the side for charging.

rabfon Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand

You can hear for yourself what he has to say here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo

rabfon How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)

Wood does indeed expand and contract a lot due to changes in humidity. The expansion and contraction is far greater in certain directions and will vary according to species and how the grain is orientated in a particular board.

Laminiating strips or sheets in addition to the strength from the glue (typically in plywoods this is done with perpendiclar grain directions) can counter this.

For a solid wood panel door for example you really want a very stable hardwood species for the frame and for the panels to be fitted without glue into recesses with room for them to expand and contract.

rabfon FreeBSD Audio

You can also have datasets on a single disk where copies can be set to 2 or more so that checksum errors can be recovered. Each dataset in zfs can have a wealth of options such as compression that are specific to them.

rabfon Binance banned from doing business in UK

"The ban, said an FCA spokesperson, only applies to Binance's English incorporation, Binance Markets Limited, which Binance has not registered with the FCA (despite plans to do so).

The spokesperson clarified that "UK consumers can continue to interact" with Binance Group, the wider, international collection of Binance companies that maintains no official headquarters. That means that Binance's customers in the UK can trade on Binance as normal—nothing changes."

rabfon $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved

After the Mtgox hack mtgox debt was breifly tradable on website called bitcoinbuilder iirc. Financial innovation at its finest.