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  • How hard could it be?

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  • But the game is "finished". there is no need for alterations.

    If only that was the case. But there is no chance a game built for windows 95 could run unaltered on an android phone. Things like the rendering systems, input handling, and sound output will need to be adapted to work on a new platform.

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  • You could, but there isn't much benefit. The purpose of all that extra information is generally to make the program easier to understand for a human. The computer doesn't need any of it, that's why it's not preserved in compilation. So it is possible to automatically translate assembly to C++, but the resulting program would not be much (if any) easier for a human to understand and work with.

    To give a bad analogy, imagine some driving directions: turn left at 9th street, enter the highway at ramp 36, go right when you're past the burger king, etc. These are translated into physical control inputs by the driver to actually take the car to its destination. Now we could look at the driver's physical inputs and turn that back into a written list of instructions: turn the wheel left 70 degrees, turn it right 70 degrees, push the gas for 10 seconds, and so on.

    All the street name references are now gone. There are no abstracted instructions like "enter the highway" or even "take the second left." It would be quite difficult for a person to look at these instructions and figure out the trip's destination. Let alone make some alterations to it because there is roadwork along the way and a detour is needed.

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  • Your thought is correct. The basic problem is that higher level languages contain a lot of additional information that is lost in the compilation process.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • It's addressed in the article. The brave CEO has stated they will continue to support manifest v2 as long as the needed code remains in Chromium. He made no promises what happens when it is removed, though ("I don't write checks of unknown amount and sign them")

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  • Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

    Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

  • why is this race so close?

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  • The electoral college takes it from a 45-55 to a 50-50. But what on God's green earth gets him that 45% of the votes?

  • getting pricey...

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  • there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.

    You are correct, but to be clear, it's not so much that tasting this scotch is a life changing experience; it's more that to these people, 27k is just chump change.

  • Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

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  • GOG is getting a nice little pr moment off of this but you're getting basically the same license, no matter where you buy the game.

    The root of evil in digital distribution is the DMCA anti circumvention clause: it is illegal to circumvent a DRM protection to gain access to some copyrighted work, even if you in actuality possess a license to the work. This law gives big platforms far too much power to control how you interact with their products.

    It should be legal to modify a work to allow it to be played offline, to make copies for archival purposes, to fix the work to run on newer platforms, etc. As long as you have a license to the work you should be allowed to take steps to ensure your rightful access to it.

    By the way, the root beyond roots of evil in digital distribution is the insane length of copyrights themselves. Why are patents 20 years, but copyright extends to 120+? The answer is pure greed.

  • Traffic rule

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  • Democrats Vote

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  • The thing is, I always thought that you steer politicians through your vote

    To some extent, yes. However the amount of steering you can do this way is rather limited, since a vote only indicates a preference of one candidate over the other.

    For example, if you decide to vote Republican out of protest, Democrats might conclude that you like republican policies, and to win your vote back, they need to move even further right. If you decide to stay home and not vote, you don't really give any information to democrats what they actually need to do. They may decide that you are an unlikely voter in any case, and focus towards those folks most likely to turn out (that's generally older white conservative folks).

    One option is to vote for some leftist third party. This sends a pretty clear message about what policies you like. The problem is that, apart from the messaging, your vote is almost certainly wasted. You are in effect helping your enemy win in the short term.

    The other option is to engage politically outside of just voting. Most people have been convinced by establishment politicians that your only influence is your vote. This is not true. Protests, activism, grassroots movements, local politics are all effective ways to steer your preferred party in your preferred direction. This does require substantially more effort.

  • Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

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  • Technically there is no Hi syllable in Japanese either. There is ひ, which phonologically is neither "Hi" nor "Fi", but somewhere in between. The exact pronunciation varies depending on surrounding sounds, as well as the speaker's regional accent.

    So I wouldn't say they really use WiHi. They write WiFi and they say "ワイハイ" which is the closest you can get to WiFi using Japanese sounds. It will kinda sound like WiHi to an English speaker.

  • Oklahoma seeks to buy 55,000 Bibles – exactly like the ones Trump is hawking

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  • Not a US citizen either but isn't this a first amendment violation?

  • Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim

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  • Microsoft and the European Commission agreed to an initial period of five years. That ended in 2014, and the measure was not extended mainly for two reasons:

    1. Data showed the selection screen had had essentially no effect on browser market share whatsoever.
    2. This period was basically the height of browser competition, with Chrome, Safari, IE, and Firefox all showing significant market share.

    With competition in the browser market seemingly healthy, and the browser ballot not doing much to affect it, it was seen as pointless to keep requiring Microsoft to display it.

  • TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech

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  • The number has some connection to transistor density, in the sense that a lower number means generally higher density. However there is not any physical feature on the chip that is actually 3nm in length.

    This has been true since the late 90s probably.

  • Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir

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  • If this happened it probably wouldn't affect much of anything, but it would definitely get a chuckle out of me.

  • Don't do it.

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  • Telling your tenants what they can and cannot do with their rented property should be some kind of violation of the right to quiet enjoyment of property.

    This and the HOA shit is really weird to me. America is all like "we highly value our personal freedom and private property" but then HOA's and landlords come in and want to tell you exactly what you have to do with your yard. What the hell?

  • Yes But Who Gets the Money??

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  • It is also essentially a variation of Monty python's merchant banker skit. Nothing new under the sun.

  • Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing?

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  • Why is it weird? It's just your butt. Are you scared of your butt?

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    Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB

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  • You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot.

    You're not wrong per se, but I'm having trouble fathoming gigabytes of data being consumed by these types of parameters. You could probably track hundreds of thousands of airplanes with that much space. The only thing that I could imagine taking up that much memory is extremely detailed airflow simulation.

    However, as a rule of thumb, the vast majority of memory data for video games is in most cases textures and geometry, and not so much the simulation. Based on the article, it seems this game streams high resolution geometry data based on your current location on earth, which I would say is the most probable reason it asks for so much memory.