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This essay says it's not possible to make a public-domain implementation of Opus. But it could be released under BSD (as libopus is), which is fine for games, as evidenced by the L…

In the Hydrogenaudio discussion thread's metrics table, the new encoder scores better than Core Audio. But this is at constant bitrate (CBR) [edit: maybe not? see lesscraft's reply…

PBS NewsHour interviewed one of Check Point's security evangelists this evening to discuss this same report. The discussion is a bit broader in scope than this blog post. https://y…

I would read a follow-up about LimeWire's dynamic query routing. I enjoyed the writing style very much and now I'm reading Rick's other articles on topics that normally wouldn't in…

That's my verdict on Stephen's Sausage Roll too. My personal favorite sokoban is Patrick's Parabox (the name is an obvious nod to SSR) because its puzzles have a gentler and finer-…

The process you describe, of porting the code and polishing the visuals, is for a "remaster". Ubisoft's now-cancelled Sands of Time project was described as a "remake" [1], which g…

Rtings publishes charts in abundance, but the subjective quality of a monitor is more important. For example, a chart will tell you a monitor has low color deviation from sRGB afte…

Steve Burke from GamersNexus tested eight games from their benchmark suite on Linux last month. Although his conclusion was generally positive, there were problems with nearly ever…

The app I most regret losing in the 64-bit transition is Disney Animated [1]. App Of The Year in 2013, and gone completely a few years later... [1] https://mashable.com/archive/dis…

I would loosen the memory timings a bit and see if that resolves the ECC errors. x265 performance shouldn't fall since it generally benefits more from memory clock rate than latenc…

Your first link doesn't seem to be about introducing noise, but removing it by averaging the value of multiple captures. The second is to mask quantizer-correlated noise in audio, …

Grain is independent frame-to-frame. It doesn't move with the objects in the scene (unless the video's already been encoded strangely). So long as the synthesized noise doesn't hav…

The article points out the masking effect of grain, which hides the fake-looking compression artifacts, and also the familiarity/nostalgia aspect. But I will offer an additional ex…

Idle power almost always goes up with higher resolutions and refresh rates [1], and AMD cards typically raise their idle clockspeeds more drastically than Nvidia cards [2] when res…

Puffer channel changes are near-instant. https://puffer.stanford.edu/

I clicked because of the bait-y title, but ended up reading pretty much the whole post, even though I have no reason to be interested in ZFS. (I skipped most of the stuff about log…

Chips and Cheese most reminds me of the long gone LostCircuts. Most tech sites focus on the slate of application benchmarks, but C&C writes, and LC wrote, long form articles about …

2D animation traced over live action is called rotoscoping. Many of Disney's animated movies from the Walt Disney era used rotoscoping, so I don't think it's fair to say it results…

Correction: Itch.io lets developers choose their own revenue split. It's 10% by default but sellers can choose any amount, even 0%. https://itch.io/docs/general/faq#why-buy-on-itch…

Some of these platforms are less closed than others. Steam, for example, will give developers "Steam keys" for free to sell on other platforms or through their own storefront. So a…

Anyone interested in Caltrain operation should check out the Caltrain HSR blog, https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/ . It's not just about high-speed rail. For example, last week the…

iPhone 14's sold in the US do not have a SIM tray. They are eSIM only.

Andrej Karpathy makes this same point, using the same book reference, in his "[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models" video from Nov. 2023. Here is a link to the relevant part o…