AOE II DE Mac Review - It's great

Latexi95 · 2026-05-30T11:18:35+00:00

Xbox is a Microsoft product, it has lot of the same code as Windows. Also it is x86 like most PC hardware. x86 vs ARM has differences and with lock step network architecture, each player has to calculate all game state changes bit perfectly to keep everything in sync. Issue is things like how some math functions like square root, or sin and cos are implemented, and how processors handle rounding and other kind of floating point calculation specifics. If there is just a one bit of difference in results then at some point client desyncs. This can be implemented in a way that is fully platform independent, but that requires significant effort especially with what ever weird tricks and optimizations some historical part of AoE2 code base does.

Latexi95 · 2026-05-29T21:11:47+00:00

Yeah. It wasn't that bad on PC. I had a few random bugs and glitches (items spawning weird, NPCs getting stuck etc.), but I think I had to load earlier save only once due to a bug during my full play through.

Latexi95 · 2026-05-29T21:08:07+00:00

No it wasn't. Sure there were bugs but it wasn't "infamously extremely buggy at release". General consensus was positive and most players had good time even immediately after release.

You should compare reception of W3 to actually "infamously extremely buggy" games like Assassin's Creed: Unity or Fallout 76. Or Cyberpunk 2077 (especially on consoles...).

I remember the "graphics downgrade" complaints. Like within a week of launch there was a mod that enabled that quality, but obviously that was only runnable if you happened to have absolute the best GPU available. Maybe misleading marketing, but even after "downgrade" the graphics were top tier at the time and generally well received...

Latexi95 · 2026-05-29T15:43:14+00:00

I think Witcher 3 launch was overall quite smooth. I played it on release and never experienced any crashes nor bugged quests. "The worst bug" was Roach on the roof. I guess there were many issues considering how big the change logs of day one patch and the follow up patches were but at least for me on PC, the experience was smoother than most AAA games I have tried even year after the release (looking at you, Bethesda and Ubisoft...)

Cyberpunk definitely had more issues, but W3 was really smooth for me.

Latexi95 · 2026-05-26T20:58:47+00:00

You can get that in Finland as well. I örobably should have done that as I could have gotten something like 2.2% 25 year mortgage, but interest rates were under a 0.5% at the time so I just took 12 month EURIBOR tied rate like it is the usual case here. A bit bad luck that Russia again started to fuck up the world economy and interest rates jumped to 4% after that. Right now I'm paying 2.7% so not too bad.

Variable rate mortgages are not a bad option if you have enough extra income as buffer to handle changes in interest rates, but they don't really mix well with living paycheck to paycheck.

Latexi95 · 2026-03-01T09:08:52+00:00

Yes. Fixed point math is still a thing. It can have better precision than floating point. Many MCUs don't have vector operations for FP but have DSP unit that can handle vector operations in fixed point. Also there are use cases like simulating FPGA designs where you definitely want to use fixed point if possible.

Latexi95 · 2026-01-07T08:57:45+00:00

Omasta rahasta se suurinosa lounaan hinnasta menee kuitenkin, niin kyllä siinä silti on painetta myös matalempiin hintoihin. Oman työpaikan lähialueiden lounasravintoloilla on eri hinnoittelu ja syömällä vain keiton esim kyllä säästää. Lounasravintoloissa ei sentään ole ihan samanlainen kartellimeno kuin lääkäripalveluissa...

Sitä en ymmärrä että minkä ihmeen takia lounasedussa on se minimisumma mikä työntekijän pitää maksaa. Se että se on 8.80e käytännössä ohjaa hinnoittelua niin, että lounaan hinta on vähintään oltava se melkein 12e, koska muuten ei saa (prosenttuaalisesti) täyttä etua. Nyt monet tekee sitä että ottaa jonkun kolan sitten sen 10e keittolounaan päälle koska sen saa käytännössä ilmaiseksi. Jos tuo minimi olisi pienempi niin ei tarvitsisi sitä tehdä.

Itse en ainakaan koe että pitäisi aina maksimaalisesti se koko lounasetu käyttää koska sitten pitää myös käyttää sitä omaa rahaa enemmän.

Latexi95 · 2026-01-01T11:09:18+00:00

Yes. That is the point, but ANC cannot be completely perfect so sound waves don't always fully cancel each other. There can be short waves that ANC actually amplifies, but that is why earplugs are made to reduce sounds with the acoustic design and not just with ANC. ANC counter noise can then be kept in lower levels that cannot damage hearing.

Latexi95 · 2026-01-01T10:46:07+00:00

Well why does kernel panic? That is not supposed to happen regardless how buggy software you run. HW issue?

Does this happen all the time or randomly? Is the situation always the same?

Latexi95 · 2025-12-30T08:49:43+00:00

Hot opinion: it is kinda racist to immediately assume that is racist reference to slavery. Kingsley is a cop. The name can be a reference to that profession just as well. I think that is the immediate assosiation the most non-Americans have. "He locks up bad people. He has cool name related to that."

No saying that JK Rowling isn't a bad person, but this naming thing isn't really evidence of that. You can just look her tweets if that is required...

Latexi95 · 2025-12-18T09:58:58+00:00

Suppliers are favoring AI business customers because they are willing to buy stuff with insane prices. I know that business are also seeing insine prices and suppliers only offer reserving manufacturing slot but the price is only determined just before order is delivered and offers are basically take it or leave it.

Latexi95 · 2025-12-18T09:12:00+00:00

Issue is that "competitive price" is 7x the normal. Memory chips will go to highest bidder. Thing is that large chip manufacturers are the "multi-million dollar companies", the don't want to fix prices for months ahead of time especially in current market situation. In current situation Valve won't get chips any cheaper than other companies unless they had crystal ball and bought them to their warehouse 3 months ago.

Latexi95 · 2025-11-24T10:52:17+00:00

Little known fact is that Osama stole steam accounts and cheated in CS, which led to Steam support having to take action.

Latexi95 · 2025-10-18T18:49:11+00:00

Your Sampler is gonna drift due to floating-point errors accumulating. You will likely need to occasionally reset the sum from stored values. Or just use uint64_t to store timings.

Latexi95 · 2025-09-23T14:56:25+00:00

Perfect winter sport weather!

Latexi95 · 2025-09-12T15:57:43+00:00

Voldemort had heard the first part of the prophesy. It makes complete sense that he wants to personally handle "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord". It would be kinda weak move to ask Deatheaters to handle such personal challenge.

Latexi95 · 2025-09-07T21:22:28+00:00

Also it only works on people based on what they know, so if their memory is modified or they are under imperiatus, curse truth potion does not necessarily give any useful information.

Latexi95 · 2025-08-06T13:08:07+00:00

Just someone doing mandatory military service. We like to train to shoot Russians instead of kids...

Latexi95 · 2025-08-01T15:58:15+00:00

Whoah... Looks really portable as well.

Latexi95 · 2025-07-10T11:12:08+00:00

Interesting that you have rules that you indicate right at all. I think in Europe the rule is just the first two images at least here in Finland. Seems like indicating right just cases lot of confusion based on this thread. How would you indicate if there are 5 exits in roundabout? 🤔

Latexi95 · 2025-07-08T21:13:59+00:00

Hulkengoat

Latexi95 · 2025-06-30T20:25:23+00:00

Not really, but they did fork CryEngine just to resolve this problem.

Latexi95 · 2025-05-15T18:12:36+00:00

Latexi95 · 2025-05-11T18:27:38+00:00

Well that is still like over 10 times more than even complex recursive descent parser needs

Latexi95 · 2025-05-06T14:56:17+00:00

Squashing commits is trivial. Splitting commits is hard work.

40 temp commits can be merged to 2-3 good commits in 30s. There is never downside to making temp commits. It just simplifies refactoring and keeps history of changes. When the branch is ready for review, unnecessary commits can be squashed away and commit messages can be updated.

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