Summary: It's low resolution at only 256 x 80, stretched vertically to the screen size. It's only 16 colors so only 4 bits/pixel. That comes to 10kb per frame. A variant of Huffman coding gets it to 3.52kb per frame.…
Second Reality was art indeed, but the GUS didn't make all that much difference for it. The soundtrack didn't have higher rate samples for the GUS's memory to hold or more channels for it to mix. Later demos and games…
The Gravis didn't really make much difference for Second Reality. The Sound Blaster mixing worked fine, the soundtrack didn't have more channels for the Gravis to mix or higher rate samples to fill its memory. You might…
Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the…
Best is subjective there, of course. Tetris is proven solvable with that bag method. 10 cycles through the bag can be packed into exactly 28 lines and that pattern can be repeated forever. (5 cycles into 14 lines…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_rotation doesn't say anything about bimodal. There's a formula with a relation between size and rotation speed, including the fact that smaller stars live longer and have more time…
Consumers don't want to understand it because they don't want to consume less.
The article says "10x luminosity", and here's what seems to be the explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_C... That's the wiki article for the new one. Says "Increasing LHC luminosity…
Publix is also on that first list, of happy and overstaffed and privately owned. I do most of my shopping there and it's much more pleasurable than Kroger or Walmart.
The rarity is that very few copies ever existed of a standalone boxed SMB. Not every console came with SMB. One very early package didn't have it, and one later package included SMB3 instead. So SMB was sold as a…
Well, if there are 100,000 competitors and you want to win, then the 99.99th percentile isn't enough, and yes you would try to reach 99.999.
Right, iterating through pixels is better. The tricky part about iterating the angle is that you need to choose the step size correctly or else you could skip pixels. Like if you iterate in 1-degree increments, you'll…
Yes, this is broadly correct. The free market will (roughly) arbitrage out any differences between owning and renting. The hidden factor is that whatever money you have in house equity represents opportunity cost that…
Any angle within 23º of east-west will have henging at some time of year. You'd have to have the entire street grid be aligned diagonal rather than cardinal.
Love that "land for turn", although I think it might shift the balance a little too much, in that you can make a deck with too much land and high cost spells and know you can cast them reliably. There needs to be a risk…
I think this reason is dependency. Anything I'm doing where the action of one hand depends on the other has to go left-to-right. I can only finger frets with the left and then pick with the right. Can't go the other…
On MacOS (at least my older version on a 2015 MBP), Cmd-~ switches between app windows. Totally undiscoverable but knowing that restores a lot of usability.
I've always thought he just kind of slurred over the "a", like you'd do in casual speech, it came out like "f'r'a man". In the recording there's a tiny slight bit of a vowel after the "r" sound. I don't think he blew…
Several real pinball tables do this, keep a hidden ball staged to make it seem to instantly reappear. The Rick & Morty machine in particular does this - you can shoot into a portal, and the ball (actually a different…
And the version from Full Tilt is a significantly enhanced version of the game. It has multiball, where the Windows bundled version doesn't.
Most likely that pricing rule was/is at a more local level. The national level in the US doesn't have anything like that, but there are some states or cities or counties that can and do.
Hey, some of us are old enough to have done it on a TI-82 instead! I already knew Basic from a DOS PC, but did write a Breakout clone while bored in classes on my TI-82.
The Onion headline should be: Ted Turner dies at 87:05
Just Wikipedia. It cites two studies that found values of 8-13 mg and 3-32 mg per decaf cup, compared to regular which is 95-200. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination
FYI since many people don't know: Decaf isn't zero, it can still be several percentage points. In the US decaf is supposed to be under 3% of regular coffee but it's not commonly tested or enforced, so many types of…
Summary: It's low resolution at only 256 x 80, stretched vertically to the screen size. It's only 16 colors so only 4 bits/pixel. That comes to 10kb per frame. A variant of Huffman coding gets it to 3.52kb per frame.…
Second Reality was art indeed, but the GUS didn't make all that much difference for it. The soundtrack didn't have higher rate samples for the GUS's memory to hold or more channels for it to mix. Later demos and games…
The Gravis didn't really make much difference for Second Reality. The Sound Blaster mixing worked fine, the soundtrack didn't have more channels for the Gravis to mix or higher rate samples to fill its memory. You might…
Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the…
Best is subjective there, of course. Tetris is proven solvable with that bag method. 10 cycles through the bag can be packed into exactly 28 lines and that pattern can be repeated forever. (5 cycles into 14 lines…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_rotation doesn't say anything about bimodal. There's a formula with a relation between size and rotation speed, including the fact that smaller stars live longer and have more time…
Consumers don't want to understand it because they don't want to consume less.
The article says "10x luminosity", and here's what seems to be the explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_C... That's the wiki article for the new one. Says "Increasing LHC luminosity…
Publix is also on that first list, of happy and overstaffed and privately owned. I do most of my shopping there and it's much more pleasurable than Kroger or Walmart.
The rarity is that very few copies ever existed of a standalone boxed SMB. Not every console came with SMB. One very early package didn't have it, and one later package included SMB3 instead. So SMB was sold as a…
Well, if there are 100,000 competitors and you want to win, then the 99.99th percentile isn't enough, and yes you would try to reach 99.999.
Right, iterating through pixels is better. The tricky part about iterating the angle is that you need to choose the step size correctly or else you could skip pixels. Like if you iterate in 1-degree increments, you'll…
Yes, this is broadly correct. The free market will (roughly) arbitrage out any differences between owning and renting. The hidden factor is that whatever money you have in house equity represents opportunity cost that…
Any angle within 23º of east-west will have henging at some time of year. You'd have to have the entire street grid be aligned diagonal rather than cardinal.
Love that "land for turn", although I think it might shift the balance a little too much, in that you can make a deck with too much land and high cost spells and know you can cast them reliably. There needs to be a risk…
I think this reason is dependency. Anything I'm doing where the action of one hand depends on the other has to go left-to-right. I can only finger frets with the left and then pick with the right. Can't go the other…
On MacOS (at least my older version on a 2015 MBP), Cmd-~ switches between app windows. Totally undiscoverable but knowing that restores a lot of usability.
I've always thought he just kind of slurred over the "a", like you'd do in casual speech, it came out like "f'r'a man". In the recording there's a tiny slight bit of a vowel after the "r" sound. I don't think he blew…
Several real pinball tables do this, keep a hidden ball staged to make it seem to instantly reappear. The Rick & Morty machine in particular does this - you can shoot into a portal, and the ball (actually a different…
And the version from Full Tilt is a significantly enhanced version of the game. It has multiball, where the Windows bundled version doesn't.
Most likely that pricing rule was/is at a more local level. The national level in the US doesn't have anything like that, but there are some states or cities or counties that can and do.
Hey, some of us are old enough to have done it on a TI-82 instead! I already knew Basic from a DOS PC, but did write a Breakout clone while bored in classes on my TI-82.
The Onion headline should be: Ted Turner dies at 87:05
Just Wikipedia. It cites two studies that found values of 8-13 mg and 3-32 mg per decaf cup, compared to regular which is 95-200. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination
FYI since many people don't know: Decaf isn't zero, it can still be several percentage points. In the US decaf is supposed to be under 3% of regular coffee but it's not commonly tested or enforced, so many types of…