From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?

In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.

That’s a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

Too soon

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/15/us/waffle-house-employee-killed-after-customer-becomes-irate-police-say/index.html

they can’t be jammed the way radio can.

I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.

By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it’s just giving oxygen to people who don’t deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.

This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there’s no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.

(Federated) email didn’t survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It’s now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn’t interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that’s exactly what it looks like is happening.

Got a link to that?

Can’t wait to read about it telling someone to put glue on pizza.

Thanks! I was racking my brain trying to think of where I knew it from, and after seeing the page that you linked I’m almost certain that it’s After Burner that is causing my brain to trigger the 80s association.

You can tell just from the font that this book is from the 80s

She’s a great chess player but she’s never been a World Champion. There’s no need to embelish her story. She’s currently training to become a surgeon at University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Is there something significant about this release, or are we just going to have a post every time every piece of software releases a new version?

perhaps

Porges believes

This is an interesting article and yet you’ve chosen to quote the most speculative unscientific part of it from the final paragraph.

“Have you tried going outside” is not a scientific cure for depression.

Note to readers: Don’t install python dependencies for random python projects of unknown provenance. PyPI is regularly being used as a vector for distributing malware. See recent news stories here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tag/pypi/

You should manually check every package listed in requirements.txt and verify that it is a trustworthy python library.

• Does your phone automatically join open wifi networks?
• Do you have worse cell signal than usual in this store?

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to take away from it.

He doesn’t actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

• assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
• assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
• using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold “multiple millions”.

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn’t know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.

I know my real age, I have a birth certificate.