Microsoft is looking for it and it wouldn't surprise me if they are paying a decent penny for it to try to stop the Linux gaming momentum the deck is driving.

It's entirely irrelevant to me. I don't care what the specs are if it's just running Windows.

It's all data, whether that data is text, an image, audio, or a binary containing computer code.

Raw audio data is just a series of amplitudes. It has a bit depth (which says how many bits are in each amplitude sample) and a frequency (what is the change in time going from one amplitude to the next). Using those, you can convert it to an analog signal that can be played on a speaker. And if you use the same values to convert that signal back to digital, you end up with the same input signal (though with some random noise added and if you get unlucky and your sample phase lines up with the player's transition phase, you won't be able to extract the original signal, though it might sound similar). The multiple recordings help mitigate these issues.

Given that data format, any arbitrary file can be treated as raw sound that can be transmitted as analog audio.

The only real difference between this and other transfer methods we use to transfer files is that this involves a less reliable conversion from digital to analog back to digital because it wasn't designed to do that like USB, COM, wifi, etc connections are.

I just hit the little up arrow. It was pretty easy, actually.

I believe PlayStations tend to become profitable a few years into the cycle.

Sometimes they do, but they usually have a golden parachute that makes it still a win for them.

His kid is doing really well, too! He's in high school now, his English isn't that great but he's very assertive and confident. Harambe is raising him well. Even that brutal murder of the zoo employee didn't cause so much trauma that Harambe couldn't counsel him through it. They never did catch the killer...

What specifically about this post triggered your hatred?

On the other hand, I saw it on gamepass when looking for interesting looking games to try this weekend and passed it over. So even though I didn't have to pay anything to try it, I didn't. Maybe that's a trend they are seeing on that platform, that interest is low even though it's free access. Though it's also competing with starfield and lies of P on there.

You can have missing objects with real ray tracing. Like the player object itself generally doesn't need to be rendered so it might not even be added to the scene. Unless the player is looking down. If their arms are holding a gun or reloading, it might just be disembodied arms if you could move the camera to see it from another angle.

Or, different game, but in GT7, the ray tracing doesn't include vehicles' self reflections. Which is probably an optimization because every reflection ray trivially intersects with the object it is reflecting from, so it makes sense to skip the reflecting object, but then you miss cases where it should be reflecting another part of itself.

Well then I hope the West continues to provide that help and that Ukraine makes improvements in the areas it needs to so it can launch attacks into Russia without that help. Assuming it really does need western help. Given Russia's track record for honesty, it might be more likely that Ukraine is doing this with Russian help.

Anecdotal, but I haven't known a single person that reversed their journey to obesity by replacing their sugar with artificial sweeteners. At the very least, it was encouraging them to continue (or increase) overeating because this stuff was supposedly not as bad.

But it looks like research is starting to indicate that it's the same end result, just maybe involving some different biochemical pathways to get there.

Too bad his only other passengers weren't that lawyer and head engineer.

Tbh that safety guy that got fired and sued pisses me off, too. His legal fees were being covered but he still settled out of court and allowed the problem to disappear for them.

Though the real villain is the legal system that allows a lawsuit about a safety director disagreeing that something was safe to proceed or one involving the wife who wasn't otherwise involved. Which is also why I wish the lawyer, that said "ok" when the piece of shit asked him to file that lawsuit, was on the sub when it imploded.