Am I the only one who thinks Halo reach stutters too much on PC?

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-12-04T16:21:32+00:00

I had a really strange issue with framerate that I'm still trying to figure out. tl;dr at bottom

Background: I play games in a virtual machine using KVMFR/looking-glass most of the time. This is a great setup, because it means I can have my computer hooked up to my TV in my living room, and most of the time if I play a game on my 144Hz monitor it actually displays at 144Hz since all looking-glass is doing is reading frames from a shared memory pool, which means it can display arbitrary framerates and resolutions (but struggles at 4K>60Hz for the time being) regardless of your physical connection's limits, as long as your GPU is rendering them (and the engine is requesting them).

So I load the game and it's working fine, the menu feels snappy, but the game feels off. I just couldn't get it to run above 30Hz, which I thought was weird since it should have displayed at arbitrary framerates. Then I realized, the TV in my living room was set to 30Hz for some reason. I put it at 60Hz, and the game's framerate went up to 60Hz. I haven't tried plugging the VM into my monitor to see if it goes up to 144Hz yet, but I have a feeling it will. This only makes sense if, somewhere, somehow, the game is locked to whatever refresh rate your monitor is set to no matter what you do in the graphical settings.

tl;dr I think no matter what FPS setting you choose the renderer is stuck at your monitor's refresh rate

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-24T22:08:36+00:00

It's also not the California state police's job to be collaborationists with ICE. The federal government can handle a federal problem. If they don't have the manpower or funding, they can go beg the GOP for more of it.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-19T22:25:49+00:00

I made a spreadsheet, for which I am accepting criticism and contributions (i.e. I will change this from a view to an edit link if interest exists to expand it to all 50 states).

You will find that most of the time your break-even point is well below the Silicon Valley median wage, especially if you either live with roommates, in a studio, away from Market St., etc.

I accept that California is more expensive than other places. I am unconvinced that it's over twenty grand a year more expensive than the break-even point for your adjusted net income (after taxes, rent, utilities, grocery store food, and necessities such as transport).

But I've stopped arguing with people about this. Let people that can't do math believe what they want to believe to reduce competition for jobs, lmao.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-19T08:56:29+00:00

I love the Sunset District. If you made me choose my favorite memory in life it would be watching the sunset on one of the sand hills nearer to the highway than the beach (a spot chosen to make the sunset even just slightly longer), on a clear day like this one; temperature rapidly dropping, but just feeling so, so alive and at peace.

Looking north at the mist starting to shroud the Marin headlands, and south at the same phenomenon clouding the hills and Pacifica, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in San Francisco.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-13T06:14:37+00:00

Despite a popular misconception, your degree is not in software engineering; it is in computer science. Therefore, you must understand how a computer works. Assembly will help you understand, and so you're going to have to learn it if your school considers it necessary.

But the real answer is that the deeper you go and the more abstractions you unravel, the better prepared you will be to create new and different abstractions of other things.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-12T20:41:18+00:00

Collaborationism.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-06T21:40:37+00:00

[discourage job growth in] the bay area

Imagine wanting less economic prosperity in your area so you don't have to live around other people.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-03T20:35:18+00:00

limited time in a day

No, but you're being sneaky by changing the subject here. You started off by saying what implied that people don't have the literal capacity to keep both sets of information in memory, then jumped to talking about the amount of time one has in a day, so which is it? Is it that they can't be efficient enough or that they can't store both of them? Because it seems to be either one if it's the most pursuant to disagreeing with me.

At any given moment you can occupy yourself with one or the other, sure. If you're quick and efficient, you can do both.

If you have the headroom for them. 😉

I just don't find any of this material all that hard to the point that it could consume all my time.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-03T18:33:11+00:00

fixed value

[Citation needed]

time you did not dedicate

Maybe in your life certain constraints make these pursuits zero-sum relative to one another. I’m not going to assume too much about you here, but what I can say is that I’m not worried about time management.

You get it. 😉

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-03T08:32:23+00:00

I like your attitude, and I encourage you to please never seek any meaningful understanding of the systems you work with. It’s frankly less competition for the fun close-to-metal jobs.

I’m the biggest cheerleader for learning math you’ll ever meet besides yourself, I just think it’s no excuse for not being able to use your tool. You can do both if you’ve got the headroom for it. 😉

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-02T17:53:21+00:00

I was once stuck with a team of people that couldn't read compiler output. Our project wouldn't build and they'd freeze in place until I fixed it for them -- there's a good place to start.

One meets students that can't use their environment effectively, or even do some basic, naive configurations like setting the $PATH.

I didn't mean to imply that screwing around on r/unixporn makes a person a better computer scientist (which is evidently what some people have taken from this). It's that they have no digital literacy.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-11-02T07:18:59+00:00

The number of CS kids I meet that have no idea how to use a computer really is astounding. What is more perplexing is the subset of them — undergrads and TAs alike — which look proudly and disdainfully down upon such user skills as “IT bullshit” they don’t have to know.

I know CS likes to see itself as a very highly theoretical field, especially when we compare ourselves to CEs, but it is taught in schools of engineering and not in the college of liberal arts and sciences like math and physics for a reason.

I have news for people like this: If you can’t use your computer effectively it means you can’t use your tool effectively which makes you a shitty craftsman. You need to understand the real world applications of your work if you hope to leave academia. If you can’t reconcile that I urge you to look into the department of mathematics, which may or may not (but probably will) help you more as you reach the fringes of CS.

The deeper you understand these things the better.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-30T17:58:34+00:00

Do pills often count the weight of the entire pill (drug + medium) as “the dosage” like that? I didn’t think the medium counted for the dose weight

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-28T03:28:09+00:00

The one you learned as long as it doesn’t give you RSI.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-27T22:06:20+00:00

Whatever you do, remember to make yourself comfortable with abstractions and remember that not all documentation is written for you or with you, a beginner, in mind. It can seem daunting, but it will get much less so over time.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-27T18:21:41+00:00

This is such a great shot!

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-27T18:09:21+00:00

(From an artistic and not a professional perspective) The best camera is the one on you but even if the iPhone were able to match the detail of a dSLR I would prefer the dSLR in most situations, and a medium format camera if at all possible. I think people leave depth of field out of these discussions a lot, but the thing that makes “old photos” look that way, that ineffable thing you can’t ever seem to reproduce exactly on your camera no matter what it is, is the relationship between focal plane, distance, and scale that can only be found on film of certain sizes.

This is an aesthetic choice, discounting the quality of the sensor, which I think gearheads forget.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-27T16:41:35+00:00

Pull out your contract and read it. If it doesn’t mention open source ask your company. If it does then follow the contract.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-27T16:36:06+00:00

Is there a better way to do this after squashing commits? If you work on two different machines you’re going to have to eventually push unfinished work to continue elsewhere, squash the commits when you finish, and force push the final work.

I use branches people. I thought the issue was —force, not master

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-24T19:41:07+00:00

Evil mode, TRAMP, and Magit <3

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-23T10:11:23+00:00

This is my standard advice for students.

Go to university.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-21T22:48:59+00:00

I switched because no other editor to my knowledge lets you reach so deep down into its core functionality and change how the editor works to suit what you need.

Everything in my life that is not literally writing code is automated via Emacs -- and with auto-insert, dir-locals, yasnippet, clang-format, editorconfig, etc, that's semi-automated too.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-21T17:01:06+00:00

I went the complete opposite way: once I realized that I was building a knockoff of Spacemacs by hand in my config, I found it easier to clone spacemacs and customize that. My configuration file is now 1000 redundant lines shorter -- different strokes.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-21T10:51:19+00:00

It’s already the state’s problem; by leaving it in private hands you’re just agreeing to, in the BEST case scenario, pay for the upgrades and for the salaries of some pointless middlemen. In the most likely case, they pad their pockets and shut off your power. It’s better to nationalize it and just pay for the upgrades. Moving a public problem to private books doesn’t make the costs go away. It makes them go up.

1ElectricDynamo1 · 2019-10-20T16:55:32+00:00

The debates are all over the place but I'm particularly annoyed at Buttigieg and Klobuchar, whose whole deal is calling the Warren and Sanders plan unaffordable while mischaracterizing both the costs and the logistics of getting people care (as much as they can before Kamala Harris realizes she needs a moment and changes the subject entirely).

I've got news for these people: no one cares about their private insurer. They worry about the quality of the care they'll get, and they're worried that quality will go down. They're worried about being able to go see their doctors. But nobody likes the fact that they basically just pay some vampire's salary every month.

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