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  • This is How Trump’s Monstrous Ballroom Will Dwarf White House

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  • Also no way that they're going to build that thing for $200M. That won't even cover the first round of grifting before a spade hits the ground.

    Can't help but laugh at all the steps in front of it too, when that fat fuck was complaining about the escalator at the UN being broken. How you going to get into that building, Taco? Someone have to carry you?

  • Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

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  • I didn't ask for this.

    The original looks fine; it's gone from 'okay for 2000', through to 'dated' and back to 'retro charm' again. Plus you can turn up the resolution and fps to silly levels, which wasn't the originally intended effect but is pretty nice.

    All early 3D games look so bad that the slight year-on-year improvements are nearly irrelevant now. A hideous AI texture 'upgrade' doesn't bring it to to modern standards, and distracts from the truly amazing game behind it all.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 now has a native Linux build

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  • Yeah. I've got MangoHud throttling it down to 36 fps for that reason - if it tries to run 4K @ 144 fps then my graphics card sounds like a Spitfire getting ready for launch. It's not a game that needs twitch response for any reason, so it's not harmed by that.

    It's an amazing game but the graphics are a small part of that, which makes the fact it runs inexplicably badly a bit of a mystery. Complicated lighting and long view distances in the underdark? No probs. Just a row of houses in act 3? Enjoy your stutters and framerate dips.

  • Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios

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  • 48 studios will be closed before they get a game out, and then the other two will be closed after making something award-winning and genre-redefining, and the IP will never see the light of day again.

  • Jhosts

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  • Somewhat the premise of Alice Bell's excellent books. She's the former Rock Paper Shotgun editor that got binned when the site was bought out and the new owners decided to fire all their most talented writers. The money I've saved when I cancelled my subscription is more than enough to buy her novels.

    https://alicebellauthor.com/books/

  • Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal

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  • Reads like Intel will be using Nvidia's stuff for integrated systems, and doesn't say anything at all about discrete graphics cards.

    If you're integrating a GPU, then it's going to be either for a laptop, in which case performance-per-watt and total die size are very important, or it's for a generic business PC, in which case 'as cheap as they can get away with' takes over. A B580 might be the best mid-range graphics card, but those aren't the areas where it shines. Using someone else's tech makes sense.

  • Piss off!

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  • ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

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  • I got myself a remarkable after seeing a colleague use one and thinking they were cool. An astonishing price for what is essentially a kindle that you can write on, but that is essentially the entirety of its functionality right there. No web browser, no ebook integration, no keyboard, just a thing for scribbling notes with a big battery life. No distractions.

    As such, it's completely ideal for my work diary, meeting notes, D'n'D notes, maps for games that I've been playing, random scribbles, all sorts. Quite a lot lighter than the thousands of sheets of paper that would be required otherwise. Also not as rude as popping open a laptop when you're meeting someone - they can see you're just making notes and writing to-dos.

  • Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

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  • Yeah. Got a raspberry pi sat by our router, being the home dns server and fileshare. Installing forgejo was a one-liner, configuring nginx to serve it over https took about half a dozen. Very easy, perfectly reliable.

  • somehow Charlie Kirk is more annoying after he died

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  • Can we get COD and Battlefield added on there? If they're boycotting, then it would be good to get the fash off of as much internet as possible.

  • Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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  • My company has an ill-advised "try to do it with AI first" rule in place.

    For senior devs, that means rejecting the first twenty AI-generated code suggestions as they're bollocks, and then having to fix it up by hand anyway. Takes 10x as long as it should do.

    For junior devs, who don't know enough to reject the 'bollocks first suggestion', it means raising pull requests that take 10x as long for the seniors to review, since they have to untangle the original intention and then explain why all the code is terrible and why they need to go and fix it.

    We have truly embraced 10x programming.

  • Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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  • Fuel economy is normally expressed as "distance per volume" (mpg) or "volume per distance" (l/100km). Normalise that, it has units of area. I like to visualise that as the cross-section of a string of fuel dragging a car along, being thicker when accelerating and thinner when running down hill.

    Acre-feet is a weird unit for volume, but if you know how big your reservoir is in acres then at least it's an easy conversion to depth. And at least it's just a conversion factor away from a sane unit that can be used for pump sizing and such.

  • ladies get urself a mothman

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  • I prefer to pretend that Dune and Dune Messiah are the only books in the series, and in particular that his son never wrote anything. Makes for a much more satisfying tale.

    Also works for 'underground worm film' Tremors. Done perfectly after the first one, no sequels.

  • Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS

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  • From the couple of games where I've been able to compare; frames per second are exactly the same, but the CPU runs a great deal less hot. No concern on desktop, but that would make a difference on the Steam deck.

    (Mark Of The Ninja has a deadlocking issue on native that it doesn't have on proton, got quite a few of Frictional's games - Penumbra, Amnesia - that just won't open on my main monitor when native, and most recently Silksong has been really funny about my 8bitdo controller when native. Works great with my fightstick, though.)

  • 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

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  • Or 'love hotels'. You want to rent a room by the hour, Mario gets his cut.

  • Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live

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  • The harpoon works just fine too, one-hits the stick insects and does her some damage as well if you can line it up. She's not very dangerous if you know her moveset, but that's an education learned by many runbacks.

    Doesn't say they've fixed the comedy bug where if you look at the map while on one of the collapsing platforms, then when you fall through then the game stops accepting input, Hornet just stares at it forever. Only glitch I've found, quite impressive for a day one purchase.

  • 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'

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  • The time for "collaborate and listen" has passed. Now, the time for Nintendo to bring down hammer go hammer mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play has arrived.

  • Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

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  • Fifty million? The "StarGate" talk was more like five hundred billion bro, just trust me, one more nuclear reactor man, that's all we need, just one more hand and we're going to win it big, bro.

  • Seagate invests $135 million in its European photonic center to deliver 100TB hard drives by 2030

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  • While it's awesome that I'll finally be able to get all my porn onto one disk, I do hope that they manage to improve the data rates on these disks. If they're the typical 100 MB/s, then that'll be 12 days to fully read or write one of these. We'd be looking at basically an entire month to resilver one of these in a RAID, which probably justifies a special risk assessment for their usage.