LaggyKar

@LaggyKar@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been without a lot of things for millennia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also generally lower quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A big blocker that the article surprisingly doesn’t talk about is tons of IoT stuff that uses 2G and 3G. Stuff like alarm systems, emergency phones, street light control, cars etc. Here in Sweden there was recently a report that thousands of elevators have emergency phones using 2G and 3G, and if the network is shut down you would no longer be allowed to use those elevators. And since 2018 all new cars in the EU has to have eCall, which alerts emergency services on a crash. Many of these use 2G and 3G, and if it stops working the car won’t pass inspection so you’ll no longer be allowed to drive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A robot doesn’t need to be anthropomorphic, an assembly line robot is still a robot. It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still doesn’t allow background playback though, so it’s useless to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there has ever been a PPU on the GPU. It originally ran on PPU cards by Ageia, but AFAIK PhysX on GPU:s used CUDA GPGPU right from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mirror’s Edge actually had a place with tons of broken glass falling down, where the framerate would drop into the single digits if it used CPU PhysX. I remember that because it shipped with an outdated PhysX library that would run on the CPU even though I had an Nvidia GPU, so I had to delete the game’s PhysX library to force it to use the version from the graphics driver, in order to get it to playable performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you? It’s gonna defer depending on your country. In most of the world it’s available on Netflix.