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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#752Earlier quoted context omitted.
RISC-V is probably going to be the Linux-Desktop of the future. Ultimately I think a lot of people hyping don't necessarily grasp that the ISA itself doesn't have a huge amount to do with a CPU in your pocket.
The future is still unevenly distributed:) - Typed from my Laptop running Linux
It wasn't meant as a pejorative. Just as Linux dominates the datacentre, RISC-V will carve out a slice of it's own, I just don't think we'll be playing Cyberpunk 3089 on our RISC-V gaming machines.
Personally, I don't particularly care whether my computer runs RISC-V or not (for the reason above, it's only open source at the edges) - I'm more concerned with the openness of the rest of the machine
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#753Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very much looking forward to Emily Wilson's forthcoming translation. She translated the Odyssey a few years ago, still in verse but with less stilted language, definitely makes it more accessible. Looking forward to reading it to my children when they're just a couple years older.
Emily translated the first line of the Odissey as " Tell me about a complicated man ". She almost went with " Tell me about a straying husband ". Neither complicated nor straying husband appear in the original text. Pope's description ( The man for wisdom’s various arts renown’d... ) is closer to the epithets we are taught at school ( ricco d'astuzie or dal multiforme ingegno ). πολύτροπος means resourceful, of many…
I also found her Introduction and Translator's note very good. She acknowledges her goal was not the most direct word for word accuracy but from what I remember more the general feel to how things would have been interpreted by the audience at the time. After all, these were oral works enjoyed by not just "intellectuals" in ancient Greece. The idea of having a single best translation isn't really the right goal to seek and it really wasn't her aim.
From reading her notes (and her twitter account) I've definitely gained an appreciation of how much an art in itself translation is.
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#754DooM 1993. I’ve played it on and off for decades, but it had been a while. After playing Doom 2016 I got curious how the original would stand up. With gzdoom, it was one of the best games I’ve played in recent years, better than Doom 2016. The navigation, movement speed, sound effects, enemy ai, map design are just brilliant. Lots of features don’t look impressive today, but judged from a “how fun is it” perspective, even the buggy ai is fantastic and gives massive replayability - decades of it apparently as long as you take 5 year breaks here or there and add mouse look
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#755AMD's Zen microarchitecture. At the time, AMD was years behind Intel in both performance and power consumption. There were constant jokes about the Bulldozer cores burning people's houses down. The few remaining 'team red' loyalists had been hyping Zen were largely ignored. Then, boom. Over night AMD leapfrogged Intel, and now on the third generation has a firm lead in mid range desk top all the way up to high end se…
RISC-V is probably going to be the Linux-Desktop of the future. Ultimately I think a lot of people hyping don't necessarily grasp that the ISA itself doesn't have a huge amount to do with a CPU in your pocket.
I'm curious why you think RISC-V is the future and not ARM. I guess part of it depends on how far into the future we're looking, but it doesn't seem like ARM license fees are so high that they're prohibitive.
ARM generates less than $2B in revenue. Apple posts $275B in revenue. Are ARM's fees just a rounding error to anyone with scale? And ARM knows that it needs to remain competitive on its licensing fees to make sure that people don't move to RISC-V.
I'd guess that a lot of ARM's revenue actually comes from the processor design, not the ISA. ARM will license you cores. RISC-V won't license you cores since they're not designing them.
It's possible that RISC-V will see great things, but I'm kinda thinking that ARM's license fees probably aren't much. Apple especially wouldn't be paying much since they're not licensing cores. Anyone that is licensing cores would need to replace that R&D with their own - which might be more expensive than it's worth. Qualcomm seems to still lean on ARM's designs.
And I think there's certainly a big head start in optimizing things for ARM that will be tough to overcome.
I just think it seems unlikely that current customers will drop ARM to save 0.1% of their revenue - especially if they need to start taking on the costs of designing the chips themselves, contributing to compilers, etc.
The exception I can see is China. China might want a free-and-clear route to their own processors without worrying about other nations denying them access to IP.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#756Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…
Maybe technology-wise, but the games are all super expensive and there aren't enough of them to justify a subscription.
You don't need a subscription, it's free to play games you buy. The subscription gives 4k and surround sound + free games.
The current sale matches steam for the games I checked.
Library size is still a concern.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#757Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…
Respectfully I disagree. I tried Stadia a couple months ago. Note: I’m on a Gigabit connection.
I found the library of games generally unappealing. I did play a few titles, including Player Unknown. The stuttering and lag in the game reminded me of playing Quake 3 Arena on a 56K circa 1999.
Also, graphically the game wouldn’t run at my monitors 1440p. The graphics generally looked washed out. I thought it was just a poorly built game, but then I saw gameplay (non Stadia) on YouTube and realized the Stadia version was itself awful.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#758Electric toothbrushes. I always saw ads for them but they were expensive and I thought, how much better can they be? Finally listened to my dentist’s recommendation to buy one and my teeth have so much less plaque now to where I barely notice a difference after getting my teeth cleaned and the dentist takes much less time to do it.
+1
I got one at my dentists recommendation. Manual toothbrushes are ruined forever.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#759Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was chess hyped though? The question was not, which things are good and stood the test of time, it's what lived up to hype, and for me it doesn't seem like chess was really ever hyped all that much.
Chess is becoming an e-sport and as the other comments mention there is also the series queens gambit. Chess is growing in popularity on sites like Twitch and Youtube.
Becoming? Chess was an e-sport before we knew what an e-sport was, with observers dissecting tournament games on rec.games.chess.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#760Electric toothbrushes. I always saw ads for them but they were expensive and I thought, how much better can they be? Finally listened to my dentist’s recommendation to buy one and my teeth have so much less plaque now to where I barely notice a difference after getting my teeth cleaned and the dentist takes much less time to do it.
How do you actually see plaque? I feel like I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I got an electric toothbrush. Are you saying it actually makes your teeth look whiter?
I don’t think he can see it. But you know all that scraping the dentist does when you visit? That’s plaque. If you floss and use an electric toothbrush you’re in and out of a dental checkup in half the time.. with very little scraping.