It's the other way around - 2600 Pac-Man didn't do any hacks and that's what made it terrible. The signature hack on the system is to reuse sprites mid-frame. That's the "racing the beam": after an object has been…
The Sound Blaster 2.0 wasn't 16-bit. It could do a higher sample rate than 1.0 but it was still doing 8-bit audio in an 8-bit ISA slot. The Sound Blaster 16 was a separate product another year or two later.
We don't even keep very close to that as it is. Between daylight summer time changes and some time zones already being very far off from geography, some places like western Spain or China are already as much as 3 hours…
I beat Chess39 on my second try on the hardest setting, using a wall of all pawns (27 pawns and 4 bishops.) Keep advancing your rear pawns whenever there's space so that no pawn is ever unprotected. Eventually the pawns…
Like the AI that was developed to play Tetris as long as possible. It succeeded by... pausing the game.
All it would need is a wi-fi antenna internally, and then it could connect to an open wi-fi network anywhere. And it's going to be pretty much impossible to avoid ever driving your car within range of some open network.
And just for comparison on that number, the entire Apollo spacecraft (command+service+lunar modules) was about 50 tons to lunar orbit. And that took a gigantic Saturn V to launch.
Right. Although in-universe, it was the NX-01 that was the genesis of the name for starships. NCC-1701 was a century later.
There's a fun time loop here: The Star Trek Enterprise and the real-life space shuttle Enterprise were each named after the other. In real life, the shuttle was named after the Star Trek ship. In-universe, the first…
The definition isn't fuzzy, we define a brown dwarf as an object that has undergone deuterium fusion. The fuzziness is in the physical properties needed to achieve that. 13 Jupiter masses is generally the threshold…
The other reply gave good info, but didn't quite answer this. Once an object's core acquires enough temperature/pressure/density to start protium fusion, it will continue, not burn out. The fusion itself increases the…
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…
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. https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever 20 cycles through the bag can be packed into exactly 56 lines and that pattern can be repeated…
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…
It's the other way around - 2600 Pac-Man didn't do any hacks and that's what made it terrible. The signature hack on the system is to reuse sprites mid-frame. That's the "racing the beam": after an object has been…
The Sound Blaster 2.0 wasn't 16-bit. It could do a higher sample rate than 1.0 but it was still doing 8-bit audio in an 8-bit ISA slot. The Sound Blaster 16 was a separate product another year or two later.
We don't even keep very close to that as it is. Between daylight summer time changes and some time zones already being very far off from geography, some places like western Spain or China are already as much as 3 hours…
I beat Chess39 on my second try on the hardest setting, using a wall of all pawns (27 pawns and 4 bishops.) Keep advancing your rear pawns whenever there's space so that no pawn is ever unprotected. Eventually the pawns…
Like the AI that was developed to play Tetris as long as possible. It succeeded by... pausing the game.
All it would need is a wi-fi antenna internally, and then it could connect to an open wi-fi network anywhere. And it's going to be pretty much impossible to avoid ever driving your car within range of some open network.
And just for comparison on that number, the entire Apollo spacecraft (command+service+lunar modules) was about 50 tons to lunar orbit. And that took a gigantic Saturn V to launch.
Right. Although in-universe, it was the NX-01 that was the genesis of the name for starships. NCC-1701 was a century later.
There's a fun time loop here: The Star Trek Enterprise and the real-life space shuttle Enterprise were each named after the other. In real life, the shuttle was named after the Star Trek ship. In-universe, the first…
The definition isn't fuzzy, we define a brown dwarf as an object that has undergone deuterium fusion. The fuzziness is in the physical properties needed to achieve that. 13 Jupiter masses is generally the threshold…
The other reply gave good info, but didn't quite answer this. Once an object's core acquires enough temperature/pressure/density to start protium fusion, it will continue, not burn out. The fusion itself increases the…
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…
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. https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever 20 cycles through the bag can be packed into exactly 56 lines and that pattern can be repeated…
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…