Recent content by Obi_Kwiet

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    Fallout 76 Has Built in Speed Hacks Because the Physics Engine Is Tied to Its Framerate

    Yeah, but they can't keep a consistent framerate even on consoles. This is just crap design.
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    NVIDIA’s Lower-Tier 2000-Series Cards May Not Support Ray Tracing

    If the 2080ti can barely handle ray-tracing at 1080p, it's not like supporting it on lower end cards is going to do any good. No one out there has 720p monitors.
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    To Detect Bombs Efficiently and Cheaply, Try Using Wi-Fi

    I read the paper. It's not that great. It simply defines all metals or liquids and dangerous. The operating principal is basically a more sophisticated version of "metal and liquid block wi-fi more than other things, bigger metals and liquids block more than smaller ones". The trouble is that...
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    DroneShield is Protecting NASCAR From Drones

    This just makes me want to build a flight controller that can defeat it. Maybe a highly directional antenna, combined with semi-autonomous control, visual odometry navigation, and a communications strategy that involves picking up transmissions intermittently while taking evasive maneuvers.
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    Guy Documents Nearly a Year of Quality Problems with His Tesla Model S

    Yeah, but the standards are higher for an 80,000 car.
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    Microsoft Receives Patent to Protect the Headphone Jack

    Who really cares about making phones thinner than they are? We're spending huge amounts of effort getting phones .1" thinner so we can turn around and shove them into a 20 dollar case.
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    Chevrolet Beats Tesla in Consumer Reports EV Range Test

    A miserable econobox gets a slightly better range than a luxury sedan with a half a ton heavier curb weight? Well, yeah, it would.
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    Elon Musk Calls Zuckerberg’s Understanding of AI “Limited”

    Neither of them have any expertise in AI. Musk is always going off a little half cocked on something.
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    Drone Crash Knocks out Power to 1,600 in Mountain View

    I don't understand how a drone could cause that much damage. The cables are far to large to physically cut, and birds are easily the same size.
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    Man Finds StarCraft Source Code, Decides to Return It to Blizzard

    Obviously Blizzard has the source code. However, it was the only copy of the source code outside Blizzard in existence, and it was probably worth a lot more than $250 to keep it that way.
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    First Ultra HD Blu-Ray Torrent Uploaded, Questioning AACS 2.0 Protection

    It's hard to imagine a good reason to pirate UHD Blue-ray. It's too expensive to just leave it on a hard drive, and if you re-encode it, you may was well just pirate regular blueray, which is already a bit to big to pirate without reencoding. It's nice to have a fallback in case I loose my disk...
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    Apple Working on “Completely Rethought” Mac Pro and Pro Display

    A funny shaped case isn't innovation. If you think it is, you really can't innovate anymore.
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    Connecticut May Become First State to Allow Deadly Police Drones

    I feel like the FAA may have something to say about this. I'm pretty sure that states don't have sufficient sovereignty to just up an arm aircraft with weapons.
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    Tesla Model X Driver Blames Autopilot for Insane Collision with Semi-Truck

    No, it really isn't. There are different things you have to pay attention to, and different things to avoid.
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    Philips Hue Excludes 3rd Party Bulbs With Firmware Update

    Unless their plan is to have an expensive niche market that dies after a few years due to lack of adoption, no. Stupid companies always that their proprietary ecosystem will be popular with consumers and they will be able to use it to leverage out the competition. Except it never is, because no...
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