I doubt it was a change to the compression method - that would require re-compressing all of the assets, which would result in a multi-gigabyte patch. And decompressors are usually optimized to hell and back already, it’s highly unlikely that they managed to get that much of a performance boost by improving the…

I think the argument is that regulatory credits are not a sustainable source of income - that within the near future, the competition will have caught up and no longer need to buy environmental credits from Tesla. Which is not incorrect! If Elon isn’t planning on a future where Tesla sells zero credits, he’s an idiot.

The Acer Swift 3X is not an advance in integrated graphics - it’s using a low-end discrete Xe GPU, not really different from the Aspire 5 using a discrete GeForce GPU. It’s actually going to be one of the first devices with a non-integrated Intel GPU, which seems like the biggest part of this story.

None of them are fully dependent on SLS.

It’s probably just oddities in the code. Consoles, especially modern ones, are incredibly complex - there are thousands of little details that even the creators might not have realized, which some games may have come to rely on.

My understanding (IANAMP) of the purposes of medical trials is that challenge trials do not help the part that most needs it.

My suspicion is that everyone collectively knew that Tesla stock was overvalued, but it needed some “spark” to start the sell-off. Literally any event could have fired it off, this one just happened to happen first. Even though (IMO) everything announced was a pretty good financial move, except maybe Plaid Mode, it…

idTech would be absolutely awful for an Elder Scrolls type game. Honestly I’m not sure any off-the-shelf engine would work for it - maybe Unreal can handle it, but it would be pushing limits farther than any other UE4 game. A lot of people underestimate just how big a difference the scale of world affects engine…

The Xbox soft reset was a common trick, IIRC Oddworld did it too. The system could reboot quickly, and wouldn’t touch the framebuffer while it was doing so. Games (any software, really) that do a lot of memory allocation/deallocation need to deal with fragmentation at some point, and the easiest way was to wait for…

I (and many others) question the usefulness of the Gateway. It seems less like an actual, useful component of the system, and more of a hack to make the system work despite Orion being a) way heavier than it ought to be, and b) having far too little dV of its own, due to an undersized service module.

Yeah, I expected there to be some way the scalpers would work around it. It’s still a small win, though - denies them the profit-maximization of a bid war, and it slowed them down by a few days.

Yeah, I think PS1 would be possible but it would take a lot more than a week to get it playable. The advantage of porting it to later consoles is that you basically don’t have to optimize any, to get it playable. And probably not even much to get it solid 60fps - there were only a few places I saw serious framerate…

I have seen claims that eBay auctions are being manipulated by “vigilantes”, to make it harder for scalpers to actually sell. Using bots of their own to flood them with bids, pricing out the people who would have been willing to pay a small premium but couldn’t pay $80,000, and making it hard for the scalpers to…

Crysis (both the original and the remaster) run quite well at their lower settings, on contemporary medium-end hardware. The minimum requirements for the remaster are pretty generous - it runs fine with the settings that are intended for modern hardware.

This is hardly a new idea - I think it’s inevitable in some shape, just electric cars are too uncommon yet for this to be in much demand. Easier for now to just rent a fossil-fuel truck than a trailer. I’m not sure about the modular, quick-swap concept, though - too much infrastructure, too many safety risks, too…

The design is to make clusters of these containers, and retrieve them for repair/replacement when enough of the servers within have failed. So instead of being swapped at the server or component level, they’re swapped at the “rack” level, or maybe even a row of racks (the container held ~800 servers). Seems like a…

Cool. Now come up with at least six more for each, split between both genders. Names get reused on a six-year cycle, so there’s no confusion whether you’re talking about the first storm of this year, or last year. Six years is deemed long enough to become irrelevant.

How, exactly, does Nvidia buying ARM make the Tegra any better? The models that are commonly used are powered by standard ARM CPU designs - the Tegra X1 in the Switch uses the same A57 seen in most smartphones circa 2015. Nvidia’s custom ARM CPUs have fallen a bit by the wayside - the Denver model of the K1 was never…

The 27th storm will be named “Zeta”.

Regardless of everything else, Advent Children has an amazing soundtrack. I’d rank it as Uematsu’s best work. I can’t pick a favorite track - the excellent covers of the older themes, in both piano and power-metal form? Battle in the Forgotten City? One-Winged Angel rewritten with lyrics that actually make sense for…