Be sure to hoover your basement first, tell your pets that they can look but not touch, and if you get any fingerprints on the platter, be sure to wipe them off with a damp rag. Then this should be fine ๐
addie
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It's supposed to enable raytracing features on AMD, isn't it? I suspect it's going to be something that I switch on, decide that I need several generations of card updates, and then switch off again. The example video I saw of slightly better-looking bricks in the wall (ie. self-shadowing correctly) in Elden Ring would absolutely not be worth cutting my framerate in half, it would be unplayable.
Release notes, innit? For a very technical new feature; that seems enough. If it was a bug, then maybe a line about how we missed it; if it's user facing, what new functionality it enables. You can always go look at the PR if you want the real detail.
Yeah - pure functions and immutable data aren't always the right answer, but appreciating that they're damn good most of the time is a good first step. Writing obvious code that does exactly what it appears to do at first glance and not one thing more? Your colleagues will thank you when they have to work with your stuff.
Hey, just because 95% of them are worthless, doesn't mean the other 5% aren't too.
My last upgrade was from a GTX1070 to a 6700XT. That was both a big performance upgrade, and a massive "not having to fuck about" upgrade.
It's not like it's colossally difficult to install Linux, install the build-essentials, download the latest NVidia driver, stop your window manager, run the shell installer remembering to select the x86 packages for compatibility, disable Nouveau, and restart (repeat when there's updates). But compared to keeping AMD up-to-date, which is just 'install Linux and let your package manager handle it', then it's much more time consuming and prone to error.
I've also been having less graphics glitch issues, but whether that's the driver change, or whether that's the fact that Linux has been getting much much better at everything related to gaming this last few years
Gonna have to all club together and buy John Carmack a keyboard with a functioning enter key...
Annoying - the demo was really good, and ran great on Linux using Proton. Guess I'm going to be holding off on buying till it's removed and on sale, then - there's no point in buying a game early and it running like shit.
Maybe a bit of a poor example - writing an integer to a string isn't the main problem area that std::format helps with, getting consistent output of doubles and lining them up is much more useful, and being able to line up unicode double / half width characters in columns is nice too. Maybe the wrong thing to measure - most apps aren't rate limited by formatting operations, and the ones that are probably need a bit more control than the standard library can provide - but it's nice that it's quicker.
More of a concern for me is having to specialise a template function in the headers that define 'classes, structs and enums that I'd like to output formatted', in a very similar manner to how its done for hash specialisation. Ugly, ugly code; at least writing an std::ostream &operator<< definition is a one-liner.
Yeah, reminds me of the original Gameboy. Weak hardware, terrible screen, great battery life, awesome first-party support, stupidly robust. Sold a hundred million or so. Up against the Game Gear and Atari Lynx, which although basically miniature consoles, had an unquenchable hunger for batteries and crap games. Complete turkeys. All of Nintendo's other, very successful, handhelds continue the same idea; yes, a Switch is really underpowered compared to the newest Playstation, but that's not it's niche.
Yes; you can pack more powerful hardware into the space that a Deck, or a Switch, or even your phone, takes up. But is the amount of fun you get from that device increased in reasonable proportion to its increased cost?
It would still be a fun little puzzler, but it's very much a single-note satire, and a lot of it would come off as "lol random" rather than taking the piss out of The Witness. Which is also brilliant, love them both.