stardreamer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
  • I can't simultaneously play a third MMO (already got FFXI and FFXIV)
  • X4 custom start allows me to jump to the parts I want to play instantly, no matter if it's starting wars, flooding the market, dogfighting, etc
  • My X4 save is a gzip file: no need to worry about latency after moving to another country etc (my EVE account is locked to a region halfway across the world)
  • I don't have to wait for irl people to do something fun in X4
  • The gziped save file is in xml format. If something breaks I can just fix it
  • X4 has a huge modding scene for whatever features you want
  • X4's modding tools are super easy to learn: it's all xml and lua. Took me only 2 hours to figure out how to modify the UI from scratch.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Because it's in a genre that has no good alternatives?

EVE is spreadsheet simulator, Elite Dangerous is space-truck simulator, NMS is all planets not space, StarField is StarField.

The only viable alternative I found was X4. Even that is slightly different from what Star Citizen promises (it's more empire management than solo flying in the endgame, vanilla balance is also questionable: you can "luke skywalker" a destroyer with a scout with pure dogfighting skills)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Agreed. Personally I think this whole thing is bs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A routine that just returns "yes" will also detect all AI. It would just have an abnormally high false positive rate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not sure about GreaseMonkey, but V8 compiles JS to an IL.

Nodejs has an emit IL debugging feature to see the emitted IL code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How much of that is cached state based on the percentage of ram available?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

An alternative definition: a real-time system is a system where the correctness of the computation depends on a deadline. For example, if I have a drone checking "with my current location + velocity will I crash into the wall in 5 seconds?", the answer will be worthless if the system responds 10 seconds later.

A real-time kernel is an operating system that makes it easier to build such systems. The main difference is that they offer lower latency than a usual OS for your one critical program. The OS will try to give that program as much priority as it wants (to the detriment of everything else) and immediately handle all signals ASAP (instead of coalescing/combining them to reduce overhead)

Linux has real-time priority scheduling as an optional feature. Lowering latency does not always result in reduced overhead or higher throughout. This allows system builders to design RT systems (such as audio processing systems, robots, drones, etc) to utilize these features without annoying the hell out of everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Base it off of total sqft?

I'm struggling to see how someone would need a combined 40000 sqft of residential living space either...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I completely forgot about the consumer side of things. I was expecting there being Cisco iOS/FRR router configs, not a full web dashboard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

As someone who works with 100Gbps networking:

  • why the heck do these routers run Lua of all things???
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How good are the RISC-V vector instructions implementations IRL? I've never heard of them. My experience with ARM is that even on certain data center chips the performance gains are abyssal (when using highly optimized libraries such as dpdk)

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