AlolanYoda

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[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You OK? Just reaching out

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I avoid team games because I don't want to be the reason someone else loses

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leaked screenshot of Dune 3

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm glad they're having success, but this is not a use case for neuralink. It's a use case for brain-computer interfaces in general. Research in BCIs is ongoing and a very relevant topic of research, but usually research institutes can't indiscriminately kill monkeys for this. I am very excited about this tech (my PhD is tangentially related to it) but wish it was being developed by literally any research institute not owned by Musk

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Tl;dr: I asked a girl out :)

I met a girl in a flight and thought we got along well, but she was only in a layover flight while I was in the last flight of my trip. Still, we kept in touch, and she's apparently coming to my city for a few days in two weeks.

So I did something I had never done before (even though I've been in a few relationships before) and asked her out! She said "maybe" (her trip was already planned and she is busy and staying with some friends, she seemed genuinely sorry) so in two weeks I may have a date :)

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Finally, one where Heathcliff is essential to the comic. Without Heathcliff, the slug doesn't have a spotter, which is incredibly dangerous, not to mention very irresponsible on the slug's part.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly you don't read enough books... Like, bro, she's clearly absorbing the contents of the book through diffusion. If you don't know how to do this then you're clearly not in our league.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest I naively assumed Nintendo not to be the type of company (... Or even competent enough) to implement the type of data mining that would impact performance lol

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, this makes sense for Minecraft, and the video itself only compared Minecraft (for fear of being struck by the Nintendo Ninjas, which is an interesting fear considering everything else in the video). I'd love to see if other games, like BoTW or Pokémon S/V, have similar performance enhancements.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, yes, this makes a lot of sense and is something I had not considered. Great point.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 125 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

That's so weird. This isn't about Nintendo hardware sucking: it's running on an actual Nintendo Switch, except instead of it using the Switch's OS and it running the game, it goes Linux -> Emulator (yuzu) -> game (running from an actual cart through a dumper) and somehow that's faster.

It's a software issue.

Is it the Nintendo Switch OS which is needlessly bloated? It does nothing, how can it be heavier than an actual Linux Distribution?

I'm not familiar with how the Switch works, but the dumper has a FPGA for decoding the cartridge. Is this something that the Switch has to do in real time in software, and maybe that's where the performance loss comes from? It seems unlikely but I know nothing of the Switch's internals or software. In fact let's just say I know nothing at all, I'm just an idiot.

PS: Everyone who buys used Switch games should see this until the end. The dumper allows you to extract a certificate file from a cartridge. Basically, someone malicious could buy a new game, dump it including the certificate file, clone it, and resell the game. Then they would be able to play online with it. If you buy the original copy afterwards and play online, you are likely going to be the one whose certificate is flagged as fake, leading to you being banned.

Also, they could just sell multiple copies of cloned games and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference... Except for the certificate, which would be the same and would signal Nintendo that you (and like 10 other people) are playing a fake game, unbeknownst to you.

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