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New comment by hifigi in "Metal Gear Solid V – Graphics Study"

hifigi — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 07:45:19 +0000

Yes, to be sure, but seeing the difference between PS3 and PS4 is a sea change. It doesn’t really run “beautifully” on a PS3...It runs on a PS3.

It functionally works as a different game. I watched an ex play through the whole game on PS3 (her choice) and there were many aspects of her playthrough that were not tied to her platform, but were hindered by being on the PS3

New comment by hifigi in "New Surface Pro"

hifigi — Wed, 24 May 2017 04:34:35 +0000

I miss this even as an American. The old 8088 computers I grew up with had reverse-L enter keys.

New comment by hifigi in "Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality"

hifigi — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:53:58 +0000

Or you could just burn the hay.

New comment by hifigi in "Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API"

hifigi — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:14:40 +0000

I make no argument against what you've said except you used Valve as an "appeal to authority", when they have a vested interest in promoting Vulkan (since SteamOS is based on Linux). So of course they will be persuading developers to use Vulkan over DX12, because it broadens the domain of users who can buy an individual title on Steam.

New comment by hifigi in "TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)"

hifigi — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:05:24 +0000

CS 235: Applied Robot Design for Non-Robot-Designers: How to Fix, Modify, Design, and Build

Circa 2012-2013

New comment by hifigi in "Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results"

hifigi — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:40:21 +0000

In Washington state (King County), the mail-in ballots are placed inside a privacy "sleeve" that contains a signed statement on the outside that you autograph. If your signature matches the signature of your voter registration, the ballot is removed from the privacy sleeve and put into an anonymous pile. It is then processed by a scantron machine. You only get a confirmation that your vote was processed into the system and counted.

New comment by hifigi in "Microsoft Surface Studio"

hifigi — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:59:33 +0000

This is eerily similar to my experience with Surface Pro 3. I absolutely love the hardware, with the conditional statement that it doesn't work as advertised most of the time. Forced updates broke functionality...and the actual hardware failed: I got a touch dead-zone, but Microsoft gave me a complete replacement after a year (the customer service was exemplary)

My Surface Pro 3 has never felt reliable. I can't count on it working the same way one week to the next, which is unfortunate. I told a colleague this morning that I was surprised that the last two machines I really wanted were both Microsoft hardware (Surface Book and Surface Studio).

But I also won't invest in new Surface hardware until I see lots of user feedback.

New comment by hifigi in "Microsoft Surface Studio"

hifigi — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:30:01 +0000

Everything Windows is so entrenched in eating its own dogfood, so it probably will never change. But what I wouldn't give for a ground-up POSIX-compliant Windows OS. It's stupid, it's unrealistic, but it would be so, so awesome.

New comment by hifigi in "The Self(ie) Generation"

hifigi — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:35:35 +0000

In the words of Henry Jones Sr. "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember."

Rote memory is fallible, fleeting and failing (in that order). Memorizing epic poetry is a noble cause, but even Plato would prefer to use those mental resources for applications more pertinent to a greater understanding of our physical reality. This sentiment accounts for the rapid transition to physically-recorded data, which everyone seems to agree was a general step in the right direction.

New comment by hifigi in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

hifigi — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:06:11 +0000

or 'pal' as in exampal (sic)