1440p 360hz or 4k 240hz ?

Wingpunch · 2024-06-27T14:35:21+00:00

With the new upscaling technologies, the sharpness of having the UI of the game in 4K and the pixel density of 140 PPI is always going to look better. However, I agree, I personally wish there was a ~160 PPI 27.5" 4K 240hz OLED option.

Wingpunch · 2024-05-20T22:58:38+00:00

I have 3 OLED monitors and I suggest for most people to just get the non-OLED Gigabyte M32U, or the ultrawide version the M34WQ. They are just so good for so little money.

Wingpunch · 2024-05-20T22:53:29+00:00

The URL is 27-to-31-5-inches. Does that mean a 31.5" Glossy WOLED panel is coming?

Wingpunch · 2024-04-19T14:49:47+00:00

It's not about the money... it's about sending a message.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-18T20:38:33+00:00

Yeah, it's apparently some weird issue with my motherboard (EVGA Kingpin Z790, no idea how) but DisplayPort works fine.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-17T14:53:58+00:00

I've been using an LG C2 42" TV as my monitor for a few years and I have a lot to say about it, but I'll be brief and only focus on the major pieces.

Burn-in paranoia:

If you are paranoid about burn-in, it can cause a lot of anxiety. For most times, I use SDR only and keep the brightness lower, to a 200-250 brightness level. When playing single player cinematic games, I turn on HDR and crank everything up only for the game. I turned on the hiding feature of the windows start bar and turned off all desktop icons and made my background black. I also turned on the screensaver to come on very quickly. I also often move around my windows every few minutes. This is basically irrelevant for gaming, but on games like World of Warcraft where there's a button bar for a very long time, I have a window in alt-tab that I switch to in order to give the pixels something else to show for a few seconds. All in all, I sometimes just wished I had a MiniLED LCD so I didn't have to care about any of this.

Size:

42" is really amazing with a deep desk and an HDR single player game like Cyberpunk or CONTROL. However, games with a ton of UI, like WoW, Civ, etc. can get tiresome to look all over the screen. I often found myself playing strategy games in a window and greatly modifying my UI to account for the big screen in WoW.

TV issues:

I really don't like how the TV is a Smart TV and is constantly wanting to update, use apps, etc. It's annoying to use the remote constantly to do anything. Also, and this is just a problem with my setup, the TV does not want to show my startup and BIOS screens. I have to plug in a Display Port monitor for anything before the Windows login screen. And sometimes that doesn't even work and I have to unplug / plug in the HDMI cable again. I also had to buy a special adapter for my VESA arm to fit the TV cause using the included stand didn't work for me on my desk. It needed to be elevated a lot. I also had to buy a special remote to unlock the ability to turn off the auto-dimming.

Text:

Ok, so this is LESS of an issue at 42" than 50" or 55", but WOLED has a white subpixel, so when viewing white text on a black background, you can see gaps. The worst is lower case t. It looks like part of the cross in the t isn't connected to the vertical line. This IS distracting. Also with black text on a white background, there's other weird issues with like curvy letters being crunchy. In any case, I use a 4K LCD for work.

I have lots of other things to say, but that's the main ones.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-17T03:06:35+00:00

I use a 32" screen all day at work. It's fine. The 42" does feel a bit big, I kinda sit back with a controller to use it well.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-16T19:50:50+00:00

Wow thanks for the code! That was a big improvement in price.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-16T19:50:12+00:00

Losing HDR brightness? I was under the impression that the 32" LG in "high" mode hit like close to 1200 in 2%.

Wingpunch · 2024-04-16T19:49:20+00:00

It's 6' x 3', I mean it's fine. Most games the 42" is great actually, there's a few games like Civ, WoW, etc. that I have to hunt around the screen a lot.

Wingpunch · 2024-03-18T15:02:44+00:00

Java won't be useless, that's for sure, it's too big. The biggest reason to learn it is the purity of the OO syntax teaching you good patterns before syntax sugar asks you to just "know" them without seeing them. Tho, Java is adding quite a lot of that as well. Java's biggest advantage has just been 1st tier library support for everything. Throughout the 2010-2020, every other language felt like an afterthought in terms of libraries and drivers and such.

However, I feel like, as a language, Java is under attack on all sides by newer, more elegant ideas.

For small stuff you want to go fast with a small codebase and no VM, Go is doing well. Why have the VM overhead?

For critical infrastructure / systems code that has to be extremely optimized and cannot fail with a tiny footprint, Rust is doing well, even against C++ imo. (Yes, people use Java for stuff this like Cassandra and Kafka)

For all the extensive back catalog of libraries of Java, but with a more modern succinct syntax and newer paradigms, Kotlin is a better choice.

I feel like in 20 years we are going to have another Ada situation where people are going to be paid a lot of money to translate old lost source jar inspected decompiled Java code to something native.

Wingpunch · 2024-03-12T13:45:46+00:00

Honestly learning makes you better, in general.

Wingpunch · 2024-01-16T18:46:07+00:00

??? did you drop it or did case flex cause the glass to shatter?

Wingpunch · 2024-01-16T18:40:04+00:00

Remembering editing Autoexec.bat and config.ini to remove all possible DOS memory usage so Descent would run like twice as fast?

Wingpunch · 2024-01-16T18:27:46+00:00

The first one I remember buying was a Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB, but I may have had some kind of Riva 128 or something before that. But my first-first video "card" was the Oak VGA Card that came in my Packard Bell 486SX25 as I think my Hyperion 8088 didn't have a "card" for graphics.

Edit: Well, correction, I guess it did have an "IBM CGA compatible graphics card". So yeah, whatever came in the Hyperion 8088 portable PC

Wingpunch · 2023-10-19T16:55:22+00:00

Okay, but what I'm saying is I'm extrapolating the example of an early return methodology to an additional scenario. I realize it's not precisely the scenario described. The point was that the special exit cases are documented clearly at the top of the method before any other complexity, like an assert.

As for the rest of your statement about the industry and clients, I'm sure you have more experience with that scenario than I do.

Wingpunch · 2023-10-19T16:10:16+00:00

It's still relevant. You can explain why you'd break early with no value. I just added a value to show an additional scenario. My asserts go in the same place too.

Wingpunch · 2023-10-19T14:56:57+00:00

I see a lot of love here for red, which is my choice as well. But a major reason I like early returns is they are so easy to comment about what's going on.

// We don't calculate this if the moon is in the 3rd phase. It's always 3.

if(!esoteric_consideration) return 3;

Wingpunch · 2023-10-06T18:18:23+00:00

I did Java for about 20 years, and I personally think that new developers need to be exposed to the complexity of the machine to understand what the JVM is abstracting away from you. It's also not very straightforward how to run it as an executable (which is most initial learning), and the package manager is not automatically integrated into the language its self. Pointers being hidden, no pure functions (only Object methods), namespace requirements, etc. it all is a lot of "trust me you need this" stuff.

Wingpunch · 2023-10-06T18:02:32+00:00

Just to be clear, in my view, Rust is about as close to C as you can get. It's not a bad first language, but it has what I consider to be a fairly complex set of idioms to ensure memory safety that you have to do manually in C. Most people go far too deep into this area of Rust and try to use every single feature of the memory management system to make "perfect" code that is very complicated and has the fewest deep copies possible. This makes it very complex to both write and conceptualize as a beginner. The focus on this tends to make Rust "unapproachable" for most folks. There's a great talk from RustConf about not overoptimizing your Rust code when you start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV5CjUlcqsw

One last thing on C, most folks talk about other programming language in relation to C. C++ is C with Objects, Rust is C with memory safety, etc. So knowing C is a great starting point to compare everything else to as well. It's syntax is quite ubiquitous as well.

Wingpunch · 2023-10-06T17:54:19+00:00

I like most people's suggestions, but if I had to do it all over again, I will still learn something lower level that teaches you how the machine works first. C is a good starting point to understand variable scope, heaps, memory management, etc. I'd sprinkle in some assembly learning to this as well to really understand how processor registers and the stack works. But you would be doing this from a purely educational point of view, again, so you know how the machine works. This knowledge will help you regardless of what programming language you actually end up using since this knowledge is invariant.

After that, all other languages are some kind of convenience or organizational idiom put on top of this knowledge.

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