For me it’s the GPU prices, stagnation of the technology (most performance gains come at the cost of stupid power draw) and importantly being fed up with AAA games. Most games I played recently were a couple years old, indie titles or a couple years old indie titles. And I don’t need a high powered graphics card for that. I’ve been playing far more on my steam deck than my desktop PC, despite the latter having significantly more powerful hardware. You can’t force fun through sheer hardware performance

In terms of memory usage it’s a waste. But in terms of performance you’re absolutely correct. It’s generally far more efficient to check is a word is 0 than to check if a single bit is zero.

My experience is that the programmers from the first row very much still exist. My theory is that the number of programmers from the first row stayed the about same or even increased slightly. There are so many more so called “programmers” overall now, however, that in relation the first row programmers are much rarer now. And to be fair, you don’t need a programmer capable of programming entire games in assembly to center a div.

General advice regarding open source: even if you tried something out years ago and didn’t like it, it may be well worth giving it another shot. Open source projects often need some time to mature and take their time to improve, but only get better over time.

Become one /j

If it was as easy as giving it a nice name, you could just rename seed boxes to fair use machines.

It’s a finicky legal topic, because transformative can be anything and nothing. If you take an album and shuffle the tracks or create a mixtape from multiple albums, that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

By that logic it would be legal to pirate anything as long as you do so to write a review. Because then you download it to create some transformative product, protected under fair use.

Or better idea: someone should write a tool so that anyone can publish an AI based on their pirated library thus turning it into fair use

Is Hamilton known for any other impact than driving the car fast? It was my understanding that in the Roberg/Hamilton days of Mercedes Hamilton was faster on average, but it was mostly Rosberg’s feedback that drove the development forward. And at Ferrari it’s yet to see if he’s even able to drive faster than Leclerc.

Same for me, I haven’t even played any of the winners. But I consider it quite healthy sign for gaming that I had a great time without even touching the most popular picks.

Yes, and “alive” is quite stretching it. Even if Norris wins every point still available in the last 3 race weekends, Verstappen only needs 24 points to secure the title. He could finish 6th three times to secure the title. Even if Verstappen doesn’t get a single point in the last races, Norris needs to finish second every race and sprint and then get at least two more points through fastest laps or a win. There is still some mathematical chance but in reality over.

So we lose Alpine/Renault and win Audi as a new engine constructor while Honda pretty much becomes RBPT. Any further changes in the engine department that I missed?

Nonetheless, the first driver to score points for two separate teams during a season.

What is this statistic? He isn’t even the only driver on the current grid to do so. Verstappen, Gasly and Albon all scored for both Red Bull and Toro Rosso in a season

The one time I can think of is Alesi/Berger who moved from Ferrari to Benetton for the 1996 season

Oh, you’re absolutely correct. My bad. In my defense, I was confused by this slightly broken table in the German Wikipedia. I didn’t realise there were normal race weekends after USA, Brazil and Qatar.

The constructors title is in danger, there’s no doubt about it. For the drivers title however, Verstappen still holds a comfortable cushion. Even if Norris goes full domination and wins the 6 remaining feature races, Verstappen can defend his lead by only finishing 3rd each race. Norris’ only chance are basically DNFs from Verstappen or another constructor stepping up and consistently finishing between him and Verstappen