Not sure this qualifies as insane. Seems more like a self-defense maneuver to me. People have harassed and stalked this man to an absurd degree over features they wanted and bugs that bothered them that in some cases only existed in forks like Swanstation.

This is on top of this guy working a full time job. He can do what he wants and give away free code to the world on whatever terms he sees fit.

Basically, he got too famous and entitled assholes started treating him like a public slave.

It sucks and I'm sad to see him turn the project away from a true FOSS license, but I'd rather he contribute public code than not.

Also 6x7 + 2x5

If you're a Linux person, there's Simula and also Stardust.

I haven't tested either, despite having a Vive. Just never bothered.

TIL, thanks!

VR headset, my dude

Also probably Emerald Sword by Rhapsody of Fire would work pretty well. There's a ton of power metal that would work great for LG Paladins

It's a Circuit City.

I bought my first PC's parts all from TigerDirect's website. Did a bunch of my research for it using their catalogue.

Nowadays I'm just happy to live an hour from a Microcenter.

I like this show so far.

Gotta say though, if you skipped X-Men '97, you missed out. That show was amazing.

Is that Reinhard Von Musel?

Machine Learning tech has been around for decades. It just became sorta a little bit useful (outside of super specialized uses like photo post-processing or chess engines) around 2017 or so, and since then has exploded in capability, at a speed that the public is kind of incapable of comprehending.

It went from the approximate intelligence of a toddler to a smart high schooler in about 4.5 years, in the last 1.5 years it has nearly reached the level of a STEM PHD in several areas, if the latest whitepapers are to be trusted. And of course it's been much faster than us at reading, interpreting context and summarizing information accurately for a couple years as well.

DeepMind cracked the Protein Folding problem, and that's old news.

I honestly don't think people are ready for how fast AI has been improving.

There are powered extensions, so one of those might work, but a hub is certainly a comparable price and a more compact solution

Char's Counterattack 2.22: You <Cannot> Die

Any background process, routine, or program contributes to the complexity of the overall system, which does indeed contribute to ruin as entropy gradually builds and collapse/death/crashing becomes inevitable.

Which is to say, I agree with these definitions.

I am here for the MMO-ified explanation of economic systems.

You should read about (and check out the demos for) Q‐Tuners. They're humbucker pickups based on Neodynium magnets that capture upper harmonics and detailed dynamic range that other pickups would muddy.

Pretty interesting stuff. It seems to me they need a bit more love from EQs and such to sound "right" through an amp compared to other pickups, but having a cleaner source signal definitely seems to capture something extra

The architecture was originally developed for desktop PCs, but they discovered it was incredibly efficient at the time (late 80s, early 90s), so Apple partnered with ARM to develop it for the Newton.

The first commercial device with an ARM chip that I remember fondly was a Gameboy Advance.

It's more like a built-in hardware emulation mode than anything else. Modern ARM chips use out of order execution as the default, whereas x86 uses ordered execution as the default. M-series and Snapdragon X chips have a little flag that can be passed to tell the hardware to run in in-order mode instead of out-of-order mode.

Depends on how it's implemented. If they have a version of Proton that translates all x86 windows syscalls to ARM Linux, some operations could be extremely efficient.

There's definitely got to be more overhead overall, though. Especially for devices with memory page sizes other than 4K, like the M-series Apple chips do (they use 16K as their page size), likely a VM will need to be sandwiched in there to ensure memory alignment. It'll more fully be emulation and not just translation.

Even Rosetta still gives up 10%+ efficiency compared to a native compilation of the same program. I'm not saying it's not viable, but in a resource constrained (especially battery-constrained) device 10% is a lot.

Steam for Android ready to play my PC games from my phone sounds awesome, not gonna lie.