Qwazpoi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I’m assuming there’s some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

  The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn’t have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2' - Hackaday article⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly certain that the left one is Combat Evolved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah sweet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the process still relies on fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a protein-rich growth supplement for animal cell cultures.

  FBS, which costs around £300 to £700 per litre

  Also this all comes from a 4 submission to and art museum in 2020, it’s not supposed to be an actual product it’s more of a proof of concept type of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many keurigs would I need to daisy chain together to replace a water heater in an average house?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re looking into their heating capacity they should be able to heat approximately 7 and 1/2 gallons of water an hour. A lower end water heater can supply about 85 gallons of water per hour so you’d need about 11 of them to meet a small house capacity.

  If we’re looking at their water holding capacity and power consumption. The average house has a 40-60 gallon water heater and a Keurig has a 48oz reservoir. 10 Keurigs would give you around 4 gallons of hot water. You would need 107 to get to a 40 gallons capacity. When heating they use 1500 watts according to the Internet, so you’d need 160,500 watts (or 1,345.75 amps) of Keurigs to be the equivalent of a low end water heater for a house. The average 40 gallon heater uses between 4500 and 5500 watts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to get insurance just because you have a license. You can have a license and no car.

  It could help you as far as some employers will ask if you have one and a few situations like that.

  There’s no real downside other than paying for the drivers license test. Even after it expires it’ll still work for an ID.