rhombus

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[–] rhombus 1 points 5 days ago

Just making shit up so they have something to point to when the investors wonder why number didn’t go up enough.

[–] rhombus 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the more important factor is taking ownership over something that originated elsewhere.

Even though it isn’t sacred, I would argue that the association between Great Britain and tea comes from appropriation. It wasn’t necessarily appropriation for the Portuguese to bring tea back to Europe, but it certainly was when the British used Chinese seeds and cultivation techniques in India to push China out of the trade.

[–] rhombus 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It probably made the downloaded binary smaller, but the actual instal size for x86 machines probably didn’t change much.

[–] rhombus 1 points 6 days ago

That is 100% what it is, if it were about learning they wouldn’t be obfuscating bot matches. Pretending the bots are players is just a stealthy player retention trick.

[–] rhombus 1 points 1 week ago

Because that’s the definition: an essential organic compound that is not a mineral, fatty acid, or amino acid. It’s the “everything else” category for essential nutrients.

[–] rhombus 3 points 1 week ago

We don't need campaign insiders to tell us anything.

Mostly because they haven’t learned shit. They still think they just needed more time or to change their advertising strategy. It’s infuriating. It’s not how the message was presented, it’s the damn message!

[–] rhombus 2 points 1 week ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately hears that every time the word beaver pops up.

[–] rhombus 3 points 1 week ago

I did some FPGA programming in school, so I totally get it. The hardware is really amazing, but the janky proprietary development toolchains not so much. Plus, Verilog is kind of a pain in the ass.

[–] rhombus 5 points 1 week ago (9 children)

FPGA mimics hardware 1:1 without overhead, which is why it works well. This is talking about software emulation, which has to use lots of shortcuts to make it fast enough (for most machines). The N64 has a weird architecture though that makes it difficult to find shortcuts that work well.

[–] rhombus 8 points 1 week ago

There isn’t actually a ton of translating going on with the Switch, as it’s basically just a computer (an ARM computer, but still). The N64 had a very different architecture that doesn’t work like modern computers do. On top of that, games on it relied on low level graphics code that makes it very difficult to cheat like other emulators do.

[–] rhombus 7 points 1 week ago

Just a heads up, the author of this article worked with maia crimew on it and then poorly presented the evidence in a right-wing paper with no credit. Here’s maia’s post with more solid evidence:

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian-dittmann/

[–] rhombus 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think that 100% holds true for Johnson. The man is highly educated and well spoken, but acts ridiculous. As for Trump, I fully believe he’s just a useful idiot, as a lot of his blunders have been harmful to more than just his public image. He is also very ego driven and would probably present as more intelligent if he were capable of it, whereas Johnson never seemed to care much when he was ridiculed.

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