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It's not a cult, 40 is just a sweet spot between performance, battery life, and comfort for a large number of demanding 3D games. If you often play in docked mode, the battery life…

The bigger the display, the easier it is to visually detect a difference in refresh rates

Why would users need to re-purchase everything just to adopt a different store launcher as their primary platform? GOG Galaxy for instance interfaces with most existing stores and …

That Steam was a first-mover is basically irrelevant. PC gamers are a particularly demanding audience and they will abandon your product in a heartbeat if a vastly superior one com…

The cost of translating input calls from Linux to Windows APIs through Wine/Proton is so much less than the cost of rendering a single frame that it's effectively 0. The only real …

What features does Windows have that Linux doesn't? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is HDR support, but that wouldn't affect these benchmark results.

That's just because no one actually uses HaikuOS or RedoxOS (no offense to these wonderful projects of course). If these came even remotely close to the popularity of Linux, you'd …

The Link hardware just wasn't necessary anymore once the software became good enough to run on any device as an app. I have Stream Link on my TV as an app now.

This is news to me. What is an example of a portable gaming PC that has flopped? I'm honestly just not aware of any major company trying to make one. As for Valve hardware, the onl…

It's a 7" screen, so this resolution is comparable to an Apple Retina display in terms of ppi.

Playing PC games on a cell phone is painful. You can't even see half the game because your thumbs always obscure the screen to operate the touch controls.

The mere fact that NVIDIA Shield Portable didn't take off doesn't tell us much. It had poor design sensibility (i.e. it looked like ass, like some kind of portable Xbox designed in…

> However an optional is really just a list constrained to size 0 or 1. What?

You wrote on ihateracket.com: > Which language should be used in a CS1? There isn’t very much research to suggest conclusively what makes the biggest difference in a classroom, and…

I would argue that some research is better than none, and that some intentionality in the design of a curriculum is better than an ad hoc curriculum. The design recipes give you an…

I agree. I have been a very regular user of Webflow for the past eight months and it has given me a 10x productivity boost despite being capable of coding it all by hand. It does h…

The way this article described Salesforce makes it sound like generic database frontend software, like a more powerful, complex, and customizable Airtable. I'd love to read a compa…

> Note: I've applied for SIBR funding in the past. Huge waste of time. Similar to an RFP, by the time a SIBR request is written, the preferred vendor has already been chosen. This …

VC funding is completely inappropriate for early stage startups, and it's a last resort even if you're mature enough. Aside from that, there are entire industries that VCs don't to…

I backed this. Visual data should be edited visually.

"Open process" might be a good term for everything else that goes into producing open-source software. Free software is not about licenses; they're a very limited means to an end. …

I don't understand why they shut this down before they even attempted to start charging money for it.

Even if treating this not as a roadmap to becoming a web developer, but more as a map of what an expert-level web developer might be familiar with, it's still scary. Why does moder…

This is a question of margins, so you're neither right nor wrong. It normally isn't just 0.1% of sales when developers do get everything right, although whether or not the usual 1-…

I mention the Steam runtime because this affects the Linux version to this day: I am unable to launch the game (on a fully supported system and OS, mind you) without deleting some …