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bzzzt commented on Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum   timeextension.com/news/20... · Posted by u/Flow
gxd · 4 days ago
I wouldn't have believed my eyes if I had seen that back in the day. The interesting thing is that the capability was there all along.
bzzzt · 4 days ago
My thought exactly when I saw the 8088mph demo. Made me wonder why we put up with those ugly CGA graphics in the 80s ;)
bzzzt commented on Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum   timeextension.com/news/20... · Posted by u/Flow
cesaref · 4 days ago
Yeah, with those early machines it was inevitably about lookup tables, and producing the illusion of doing work which was otherwise impossible in the number of cpu cycles you had available. I did lots of this sort of thing for the C64, where similarly CPU cycles were short, and then you end up scratching around trying to find enough spare memory...

It's great to see people still exploring and pushing the boundaries of what these machines are capable of. Coding this on a more modern machine, getting the effect right, then back-porting to the Spectrum seems like a smart move and would have been a game changer during the prime of these machines!

bzzzt · 4 days ago
Lots of commercial Spectrum games were coded on a 'more modern' machine, often an IBM PC with a better keyboard and a cross assembler to generate Z80 code.
bzzzt commented on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit   phoronix.com/news/Linux-A... · Posted by u/teleforce
Avamander · 11 days ago
These types of mitigations have the biggest benefit when resources are shared. Do you really think cloud vendors want to lose performance to CPU or other mitigations when they could literally sell those resources to customers instead?
bzzzt · 11 days ago
They don't lose anything since they sell the same instance which performs less with the mitigations on. Customers are paying because they need more instances.
bzzzt commented on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit   phoronix.com/news/Linux-A... · Posted by u/teleforce
worthless-trash · 11 days ago
Big tech isnt running their stack on js.
bzzzt · 11 days ago
Maybe, but their cloud customers certainly are.
bzzzt commented on Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit   phoronix.com/news/Linux-A... · Posted by u/teleforce
Traubenfuchs · 11 days ago
Sometimes something in me starts thinking about if this regularly occurring slowing of chips through exploit mitigation is deliberate.

All of big tech wins: CPUs get slower and we need more vcpu's and more memory to serve our javascript slop to end customers: The hardware companies sell more hardware, the cloud providers sell more cloud.

bzzzt · 11 days ago
Why would big tech do this when customers bring it upon themselves by building Javascript slop?
bzzzt commented on QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo   archive.org/details/QNX_i... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
SpaceNoodled · 12 days ago
It's still used to this day!
bzzzt · 12 days ago
Yes, it's powering the 'digital instrument cluster' in my 2015 Volvo.
bzzzt commented on Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening   creativebloq.com/3d/blend... · Posted by u/walterbell
Joel_Mckay · 12 days ago
The Wacom stylus are pressure and angle sensitive pen input devices, and some pros work on non-screen surfaces to digitize sketches and sculpts etc.

Very common in video and media art work... also popular for Asian language glyph calligraphy inputs, but for regular users it is an acquired taste to put it mildly. =3

bzzzt · 12 days ago
Current Apple pencils also support pressure and tilt sensitivity. Lots of people are using an iPad with software like ProCreate to draw, which is a lot more portable than a laptop with a Cintiq hooked up to it.
bzzzt commented on Objects should shut up   dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
browningstreet · 21 days ago
My favorite no-longer-works feature: I have a classic car and I used to be able to sit my phone upside down in the drink holder, so that the power port could be connected to the power cable, and the iPhone would rotate the screen around so I could still use navigation. Somewhere along the line, iOS/Google Maps/Apple Maps will no longer rotate the screen upside down. This just can't be done anymore.
bzzzt · 20 days ago
Probably so apps don’t have to deal with the notch on the bottom.
bzzzt commented on Objects should shut up   dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
userbinator · 21 days ago
Catalytic converters are required by law too, yet I know plenty who have done a "cat delete" on their vehicle. As a simpler example, pulling the seatbelt chime fuse was a common mod long ago when I grew up. You may want to check if the modding scene has any solutions for your make and model.
bzzzt · 20 days ago
If you modify your car in such a way in the EU it won’t pass the mandatory yearly inspection which means it’s no longer road legal.
bzzzt commented on Objects should shut up   dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
chabska · 21 days ago
They could try to cheat! That's actually what Volvo did in the Dieselgate. The EU regulation mandated the impossible duo of lower NOx emission and higher fuel efficiency. Diesel engines get higher efficiency by increasing compression ratio, which also increases NOx production.
bzzzt · 20 days ago
I’m pretty dure you mean Volkswagen, not Volvo…

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