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> An arms race is the inevitable outcome. It's either that or competitive gaming is not viable. I'd rather just give my passport and do one of those face turning challenges to play compet…

You can buy an autoclicking device or software that recognizes screen pixels of enemy avatars and instantly clicks to kill them. This works in "remote streaming" situations and is ~30% of th…

It was very fun. Brick Battle, Galleons, the game with many towers. The explodey terrain put Roblox on the map initially. The problem is the opportunity cost of destructible terrain was too high. Deve…

Counterpoint is Roblox, which had one of the most innovative game engines ever. It could multiplayer simulate thousands of blocks of destructible terrain in 2006 . This feature was mostly ignored by …

Because the TPM effectively rate limits brute forcing of the key. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-... > For example, when BitLocker is us…

Japan has stigma towards used houses.

Airports are such a place. That is why they have duty-free stores that are exempt from taxes so long as you take the goods out of the country. The onus is on the consumer to pay taxes at their destina…

Building a "Canadian equivalent" of something else is a great way to get money from the Canadian government right now. In addition to direct subsidies/grants, the government has a buy C…

Technoethical sells a refurbished T400 with GNU Boot. https://tehnoetic.com/laptops/tet-t400s Libreboot actually isn't free anymore by FSF standards because it has binary bl…

No, because you're doing decimal floating point, which eliminates the rounding errors of binary floating point.

I've never understood this argument. I regularly run insmod and/or modprobe to load kernel modules. I'm guessing it's because Linux constantly breaks ABI for out-of-tree kernel mod…

That's literally the official FSF position. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw > For example: the Free Software Foundation only purchases desktop machines which support Lib…

"Chess-related roguelike" is a an very crowded genre for unclear reasons and it's difficult to stick out. So far I've played Shotgun Queen and Pawnbarian. There's also Ourobor…

"Chess-related roguelike" is a an very crowded genre for unclear reasons and it's difficult to stick out. So far I've played Shotgun Queen and Pawnbarian. There's also Ourobor…

This is brilliant, except for the "alignment won't stop this part". > Now, some people believe these machines can be made to serve humanity. Does it sound reasonable to imagine a sup…

From page 175 of the AMD CDNA4 ISA: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/instinct-te... > V_MUL_U32_U24 >,Multiply two unsigned 24-bit integ…

> Just don't allow casting to u24, as it makes no sense unless you define u24 to be u32 sized as I think c standard does. The reason u32->u24 casting must be well defined is because some ha…

From playing Stellaris, it was all bottlenecked on a single threaded pop simulation which is why it got so laggy in the endgame. Most "CPU intensive" games I've noticed are like that.

It has gotten worse. Shadow of the Erdtree requires you to kill a boss (Mohg) hidden within a SECRET AREA (Mohgwyn Palace) hidden within ANOTHER secret area (Consecrated Snowfield). And the Consecrate…

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) predicted this.

I did port forwarding in 2010 for a Minecraft server. Basically every router supports it. It wasn't meaningfully more difficult than setting up the server.

Buying the ANSI C standard still costs about $300. Same for C++. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/iso/isoiec98992024?sourc... Nobody does it. gcc/clang implement it …

I use Gentoo. You have to specifically install "overlays" and every package maintainer would make their own overlay. You can't easily take over an overlay without the original person&#x…

That's not how the legal system works, though. If Midjourney says "maybe you have cancer" but your doctor doesn't take it seriously, you might sue if you do end up with cancer. Y…

So you can have an animated or interactive "wallpaper". The malicious wallpapers in the OP are hentai games.

I love how the post is clearly written by AI. A human might've noticed all the screenshots appear to be of interactive hentai games distributed through Wallpaper Engine. And wouldn't have sa…

This was the technique used by American Dad speedrunners. Unfortunately, speedrun.com banned it after years of controversy, since fast-forwarding videos doesn't count as a speedrun. Summoning Sal…