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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks good for safari, maybe a bit small for birding though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One caveat about the Olympics is, you can't just choose to compete there yourself as an athlete, even if you are world class. You have to be part, and chosen by, a national organisation. So even if the Olympics allow trans athletes, as long as most countries don't, there won't be trans athletes any time soon. I agree on the rest, I just don't think the Olympics will be a forerunner in terms of trans representation.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

No idea why they attached the FPS directly to the hardware.

It's the most trivial and straight forward thing to do. The game is a simple loop of:

  • get user input (can be nothing)
  • calculate new game state based on old state and input
  • draw new game state.

The speed of the game is now 100% dependant on the speed of computation. NOT attaching fps to hardware is the hard thing, as you need to detach the game state loop and the drawing loop and then synchronize them. Doing that yourself is extremely complicated. Today developers don't even need to think about that because the whole drawing loop is abstracted away by things like directX/Vulcan and the game engine. But without those tools, fps tied to CPU speed is basically the default.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I always assumed the word coke is derived from coca(-cola)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You don't need to know someone to have a conflict of interest. A candidate running on the promise to pardon everybody for every crime if they vote for that candidate is a clear conflict of interest. Or pardoning somebody for payment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

That is a real problem. In a perfect world you would want all of your data to be available to everyone who can use it to improve your live. And only getting advertisement for things you actually want/need (not only think you want/need) is a real improvement of your live.

Sadly "improving lives of consumers" is not the goal of any of the big data collectors and as such any data collected is or will be missused to cause harm to the owner even if it is not directly obvious.

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