jamesgeck0 (u/jamesgeck0)

jamesgeck0 commented on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/OlympicMarmoto

jamesgeck0 · 14 hours ago

> To make something really different, and not get drawn into the gravity well of existing solutions, you practically need an isolated monastic order of computer engineers.

I mean, I'd give a fair shake to an OS from the SQLite team [1].

1. https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

jamesgeck0 commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

Zak · 5 days ago

> Nickel metal rechargeables are a good AA/AAA substitute for devices designed to tolerate their lower voltage.

Any device that can't is arguably broken as designed. Much of the energy (the majority, in a higher current application) in an alkaline battery is found under 1.2V.

See discharge curves: https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Duracell%20Ultra%...

NiMH actually stays above 1.2V longer for all but the lightest loads: https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Eneloop%20AA%20BK...

jamesgeck0 · 5 days ago

Unless the device was designed around the alkaline discharge curve! Smoke alarms rely on the lower voltage to give sufficient warning when the battery is low, and mine refuses to operate at all when powered by a rechargeable battery.

jamesgeck0 commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

skywal_l · 5 days ago

Had to use my old TI 89 one day. Haven't used it in 10 years. Took it out of storage, put in 4 AAA usb-c rechargable batteries, worked like a charm. Could you do the same with your hard to replace custom battery?

Any consumer electronic using standard format batteries is superior by default. Because 10 or 20 years from now, it still have brand new full batteries lying around.

jamesgeck0 · 5 days ago

I have an early digital video camera with a genius design. It came with a custom rechargeable cell in the battery compartment. But the compartment _also_ supports regular AA batteries.

jamesgeck0 commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

skhameneh · 5 days ago

I can relate in so many ways. I purchased a MX Master 3S and while it has a lot of great design choices, overall there were too many flaws for me and I returned it.

While I had the mouse, I kept looking for ways to "fix scrolling" and everything repeatedly pointed to third party software. If you have an iPad or Android device, you're completely out of luck.

How does a company become so out of tune with customers that customers feel the need to "fix" the design flaws of devices they bought?

I'm not one of those people to "fix" the device, because when I found the polling speed and latency couldn't be increased, that was a complete stopper for me. I really wanted to make the mouse work for me, I really tried to make it work, but I couldn't get past the many flaws. It felt as if they went backwards from their old devices like the MX Revolution in many ways.

jamesgeck0 · 5 days ago

My MX Master 3 has a weird issue where it can just stop charging. Apparently this is just an issue it can have. The "fix" from Reddit is to squeeze the mouse until it starts charging again. It sounds like someone trolling, but it actually works about half the time.

jamesgeck0 commented on Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev

minimaxir · 11 days ago

There are very few game development tutorials which aren't how-to-draw-an-owl and I'm not fully sure why.

jamesgeck0 · 11 days ago

The Broughlike tutorial is pretty decent. It targets a very specific genre, but it does explain every step and you have a serviceable game at the end.

https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/

jamesgeck0 commented on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not theregister.com/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/LorenDB

perryizgr8 · 2 months ago

Firefox performance is really bad in google sites like meet, calendar, docs, youtube. I wonder why they are not working on improving the situation. Everything else is already perfect, just iron out these few issues and be the undisputed leader.

jamesgeck0 · 2 months ago

As pointed out in the article, Firefox performance has been steadily improving for years. It's not exactly on Mozilla that specific sites are optimized specifically for their rival's product.

jamesgeck0 commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston

yobid20 · 2 months ago

Doesnt the video start out with laying on a different side then after it flips? Doesnt that by definition mean that its landing on different sides?

jamesgeck0 · 2 months ago

Every single shot shows a finger releasing the model.

jamesgeck0 commented on Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM theverge.com/news/692045/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging

LorenDB · 2 months ago

I can't believe that nobody has yet mentioned the Intel Arc Battlemage B580. Same $250 MSRP (which has inflated, but every other GPU is inflated too, and the 5050 will probably inflate as well), but has 12 GB of VRAM and bats just below a 4060 Ti 16 GB[0].

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

jamesgeck0 · 2 months ago

I've been pretty happy with my Arc A770 LE (16 GB). The drivers were rough at launch, but they've gotten much better, and at the time it was the best performance $350 could buy.

jamesgeck0 commented on Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM theverge.com/news/692045/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging

pitaj · 2 months ago

Agreed. Anybody buying this would be better off spending that money on a used card like a 2070 or 3060, and might even save a buck.

jamesgeck0 · 2 months ago

Or an Intel Arc card. They aren't very high end, but they're competitive at MSRP and I suspect they'll demolish this in benchmarks.

jamesgeck0 commented on Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM theverge.com/news/692045/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging

jekwoooooe · 2 months ago

Why is there so much hate against fake frames? I know you can’t tell the difference

jamesgeck0 · 2 months ago

NVidia themselves have said that framegen shouldn't be used if the card isn't hitting 60 FPS to start with because of the latency it introduces. If the card is cut down enough that it's struggling to hit 60 FPS in games, enabling framegen will do more harm then good.

You can feel additional latency easily in competitive FPS or high speed arcade racing games.