Such as in The Expanse

(I don’t think she was trans but that’s what the name reminds me of)

Microsoft had relatively interesting ideas concerning 3D and VR content, then proceeded to do an extremely mediocre execution, simultaneously dumbing everything down while also making it hard to use, and then proceeded to discontinue their software after almost never touching it again for seven years

I have a Reverb G2 (windows mixed reality headset), it is really a good headset and is still competitive with the Quest 3 in several areas for use on PC. The WMR software itself isn’t that bad and I think if it had more care and attention put into it it could genuinely have been great. If they had better home options, user created homes, more customization and the ability to fix things in place so you don’t accidentally move them, the ability to add (even just user created) minigames and dynamic objects that stay in the world, and (most importantly) the ability to actually invite other people into the space to play with you and launch into other games. They’re Microsoft, they were large enough and early enough that I’m sure they could even have gotten game developers on board with some protocol that automatically brings people you’re playing with into a multiplayer session of whatever game you start. I think they were onto something with their home system and could have fleshed the software out into something much better than even the modern competition. Of course it’s all discontinued now, the latest version of Windows doesn’t even support it, I plan to continue to use the old version until it stops getting security patches in 2026 and then switch to Linux where hopefully the open source people will finally fully support using controllers.

Yes, the game should account for latency as much as it can, so a conscious decision to lead or trail probably won’t help. It’s more useful for debugging sort of purposes imo, like figuring out if your network is slow or if it’s just the person you’re playing against.

It sounds like they’re tying the effect of attacks to the actual fine detail game textures/materials, which I guess are only available on the GPU? It’s a weird thing to do and a bad description of it IMO, but that’s what I got from that summary. It wouldn’t be anywhere near as fast as normal hitscan would be on the CPU, and it also takes GPU time which generally is more limited with the thread count on modern processors being what it is.

Since there is probably only 1 bullet shot most of the time on any given frame, the minimum size of a dispatch on the GPU is usually 32-64 cores (out of maybe 1k-20k), just to calculate this one singular bullet with a single core. GPU cores are also much slower than CPU cores, so clearly the only possible reason to do this is if the data needed literally only exists on the GPU, which it sounds like it does in this case. You would also first have to transfer that there was a shot taken to the GPU, which then would have to transfer that data back to the CPU, coming with a small amount of latency both ways.

This also only makes sense if you already use raytracing elsewhere, because you generally need a BVH for raytracing and these are expensive to build.

Although this is using raytracing, the only reason not to support cards without hardware raytracing is that it would take more effort to do so (as you would have to maintain both a normal raytracer and a DXR version)

Clearly the best way is to first separate hue, saturation, and value, and then combine them but set value to 1

I did some messing around

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/X3tfWf

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/43tBWf

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lcdGR4

Minecraft vanilla actually lets you edit the vertex and fragment shaders now I think

I looked it up and apparently it was introduced in 1.17, but they allowed you to add a custom post processing shader from back in 1.7

No, the 13 doesn’t have that shaded area to the left of the camera bump

I just got that one with the 4 camera spots recently, its the oneplus 12

I mostly got it because its fast and has a good battery life, but it also has decent cameras ig, although most people say the google pixels have better cameras

Anyways, it has a normal camera, a wide angle camera, a 3x zoom camera, and the last one is not a camera but an ambient light sensor and 13 channel light sensor (I think? its hard to find info on this actually)

People were saying it would have a full 12 channel actual image sensor there with a decently high resolution, but I guess that didn’t end up happening

IDK if Mastodon has a good way to port accounts but I think its good to have people first join a basic instance and then move to something more specialized once they get used to the platform

I’m not autistic, just ADHD but I do honestly feel like double checking that figure here

edit: i’d estimate 62.1% full

and assuming that glass is perfectly radially symmetric (idk if that is the correct term or not) you would not ever need to do that much math

if you had the actual glass you could probably do a much more accurate measurement just with a graduated cylinder

8x the size of the world either means 1/8 the original handcrafted stuff per area or 8x the development time and cost, there’s no way you can get around this

“The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: where woke_mind_virus lives in my brain. [Announcer: “woke_mind_virus deleted.”] Goodbye, woke_mind_virus.”

now that republicans don’t need to block the deal to decrease Biden’s popularity ig

I think the main difficulty is getting companies like Gmail to recognize your domain as legitimate, as they don’t by default

I feel like storing steam at nearly infinite pressure is easier than getting steam to nearly infinite pressure

If space efficiency is a priority, I would say just take a normal restroom, add better locks, stall walls that actually go the full height and all of the way to the ground, and have a urinal section around a corner so that it is fully out of view from the (security camera monitored) common area where the sinks are

https://xkcd.com/208/

I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)

otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper

but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up

prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850

honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones

gambling (both lootboxes and the skin site kind), big fees