Just curious has anyone ever contacted customer support in the past decade and not gotten the message saying their call volume is high atm and thus the wait will be "longer than average"?
I was surprised by how may VR games I played and how many hours I put into it once I got a headset.
That being said I still think VR will always be a niche thing. We had VR headsets decades ago, aimed at the kind of person who builds a full cockpit setup at home for playing extremely nerdy flight sims. Now things are amazing if you're one of those people but I dont see VR ever being truly popular.
I honestly think VR hasn't taken off yet because every VR headset since forever has been a locked-down platform or not a stand-alone device (meaning: You need a powerful PC to use it, which makes the cost too high for casual players). The development barrier to entry is far too high and the market far too small.
The Steam Frame is a full PC that doesn't require a tether. I think it'll change everything if it doesn't cost a fortune (which it might). The possibilities for 3rd party hardware and the open ecosystem of a complete Linux distro + Steam are endless.
Day one of the Steam Frame I'm sure we're going to see all sorts of open source tools/scripts that make it better. Then 3rd party hardware will be announced and suddenly everyone's going to want one because all those things together make it sooooo nice.
I thought so too about the steam frame. Then I saw the pass through was not good. Pass through for me has made these products so more livable. It was downright shocking how much less isolating it felt to have full color pass through.
E-fuses are just write once memory with limited reads ability 10e6-10e7 read cycles after which it becomes unreliable.
Secure boot that can't be controlled by the user should be illegal, though. You should get some secret code along with a device, that allows you as the buyer to tamper with it. So much hardware out there can just serve as something else, or can be supported by people on a voluntary basis, sans the completely arbitrary lockdown of ability to install your own code to the device.
Basically all computers use efuses, otherwise it would be possible to rollback the firmware to a previous, insecure version.
For something like a game console, that’s annoying, for a phone or laptop, that’s highly desirable if something like a TPM bug is fixed, without efuses the system would forever be vulnerable.
I don't expect this administration to care about the Iranian people when it comes down to it, which is the only scenario they'd ever commit to something like that. They will likely only care about American objectives like destroying their navy/combat capabilities and make some deal with an IRGC leader to let them save face for an exit.
The vast majority of our media, most of our culture, has been created by artist / writer types, you know; kinda shallow, superficial, not particularly intelligent, not very well educated people, with nothing to say aside from meaningless platitudes like "all you need is love"
I guess that's normal? I dunno, I dont have any further conclusions. Maybe we should be concerned about it?
"the vast majority of our media and culture has been created by media and culture specialists" - well yes obviously, just as our technology has been created by technology specialists.
Yes, everyone. The username makes it clear. Really though, the supreme arrogance of calling the whole of an entirely different industry mediocre is practically indicative of our craft at this point.
I think that dismissal culture makes no sense when it is aimed towards artists.
For me it is kind of hard to like the things I produce, because of the obvious egocentrism bias. Do I like it, because I like it, or do I like it, because I made it and had to sacrifice something for it?
When I'm judging other people's work and I like it, I consider that feeling to be more genuine, even if the creator outright panders to my preferences.
Just cus structs and classes work differently, and classes are much more common. I tend to make everything a class, unless there is a really good reason to make it a struct.
The most common programming language where "struct" and "class" are both kinds of user defined type is C++. In C++ they only "work differently" in that the default accessibility is different, a "struct" is the same as a "class" if you change the accessibility to public at the top with an access specifier.
If you think you saw a bigger difference you're wrong.
Classes are a safe default even if you expect things to go very, very fast.
The overhead of screwing up NUMA concerns vastly outstrips any kind of class vs struct differences. It's really one of the very last things you should be worrying about.
Allocating an array of a class vs an array of struct might seem like you're getting a wildly different memory arrangement, but from the perspective of space & time this distinction is mostly pointless. Where the information resides at any given moment is the most important thing (L1/L2/L3/DRAM/SSD/GPU/AWS). Its shape is largely irrelevant.
I downloaded the AshesStandalone_V1_51.zip file, but it looks like it only contains the windows executable. For our linux friends, unzip it, install gzdoom, and then run this command inside the "Resources" folder to play it on linux:
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