- Heard of one production needing to do a one day reshoot on something. Something that could easily have been done in LA. It was cheaper to fly everyone out to some European country for 3 days and do the pickups.
The business side of Hollywood has been imploding for the past few years. It just costs too much to film there vs other places. Tariffs will not change that. The tax incentives are gone and the must have on set is too high.
Not sure how netflix is going to digest that pill they just swallowed. 83 billion is a lot. Is is about 3x their total gross per year. I do not think they can raise prices too much with out shedding subscribers. WB has already taken out AOL, ATT (recovering), and Discovery. Netflix could be next.
The deal also spins out the linear TV into a different company. Can that company survive? Its going to be tough going. Havent looked but I would bet a good portion of the debt they took on to do the divestiture from AT&T is being pumped into that company.
- Considering WB was once the champion of that format too. Guess that is end of DVD now. Netflix has no interest in that format.
- Most of the other ones at the time it was pop and the data was gone. You had to jump thru some hoops to make it work as persistent. Not 'hard' but just more annoying. Kafka has that out of the box. Where kafka starts to come apart is how to set it up. Its configuration is a bit tedious to setup.
- I see the msvc arm compiler has not improved much in 20 years. The msvc arm was pretty odd when we used it in ~2003. We did not trust it at all. Think we had to get 4 or so compiler fixes out of MS for that project plus 3 or 4 library fixes. The x86 one was pretty solid. We were targeting 4 different CPU platforms at the same time so we could find things like that decently quickly. Most of the the time it was something we did that was weird. But even then we would find them. That one looks like maybe the optimizer back filled a nop slot?
- MS needs a 'windows xp sp2' moment. Where they stop jamming new things in and just fix as much junk as possible. They still have a mixed control panel situation. Things just randomly work/break for no real reason. Camera here one day gone the next oh look its back again. Hey my sound is broken again. Linux/MacOS in many benchmarks is faster. Hundreds of old programs now just flake out for random reasons. But then will work again sometimes. Backwards compat is a reason to stick with them. But if it doesnt work, why am I here? SteamOS is going to remove one of the large reasons people keep windows.
MS is losing the people who cared about using them. Those people are migrating to linux/macos. I dont blame em.
- pretty sure scummvm pulled in one of the ultima remake projects. Think it was exult but I could be wrong.
Do you need to play the prev ones? hmm I would say if you play 6 and 7 together you should be ok. You could get away with them standalone probably. I would not play the expansion packs of 7 without playing the base first though. the extra 6 ones you could play standalone. But you would probably want to play savage empire before martian dreams.
Out of those my personal fav was savage empire for some reason. A remix from origin using the ultima 6 engine.
- Wait play the game? I am fiddling my config.sys and autoexec.bat just right and making sure I could get to 610k. Using 4DOS to have a pick a path adventure of which configuration to load as it was starting up to run each game. Then I might play a game here and there.
- Also to add we are already rounding. When you do taxes it does not come out to a full penny. There is a fraction of a penny (hi there office space and superman 3). That fraction is already rounded. Also many transactions are with credit cards. Those can just keep going the way they are and no rounding needed.
- Projects like eXoDOS and DOSBox (and its derivatives) have basically allowed most of DOS and win31 games to be in a very playable state. GoG is doing the detective work of finding out who owns it and trying to monetize parts of it as well as fixing some of their own stuff. When it comes to many of the late 90s win9x/winxp games those are in the territory of 'maybe runs'. Due to the way windows is subtly changing the API and what a standard windows install comes with. Also APIs that now return even more stuff than what they tested with. Such as a video caps function may now return 500 items when it was tested to run with 60 and the input buffer maxes at 256. Never mind many of them act totally bugged out if you hand it a 4k screen and you have scaling turned on.
Had one game from a few weeks ago that I could not get to run. Turns out it was an intel video driver bug. Really old intel driver worked. One from 2 years ago didnt. One from a few weeks ago did. Old nvidia worked, newer ones broken. One windows box worked the other didnt. Shims like dgVoodoo2 and dxwrapper help to a point But still have lots of issues. Then on top of that if there is a online component the game will at best hang/timeout at worse crash out. Have one game if I open the leaderboard on it will crash the game. The board was apparently turned off 15 years ago.
- Think windows only supported one machine type declared with big endian from what I can see in the docs with the PE format. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-for...
There may have been others in the NE format. Also pretty sure the older power pc mac 7/8 machines were big endian.
- That comes out to about 1.5 hours faster per week for many tasks. If you are running full tilt. But that seems like an ok easy win.
- Kafka and other message systems like it have their uses. But sometimes all you need is just need a database. Now you start doing realtime streaming and notifications and event type things a messaging system is good. You can even back it up with a boring database. Would I start with kafka? Probably not. I would start with a boring databsee and then if if my bashing on the db over and over saying 'have you changed' doesnt work as good anymore then you put in a messaging system.
- what? windows 11 was just for new features right? ... right?
- oh absolutely reducing any of those spots can change the dynamics of the formula. 'zero copy memory' is another local item many drivers can use. It is just one of those things that also change as tech marches on. What used to be the gold standard on speed is suddenly rendered moot because one of those variables changes. Or suddenly something new will become possible. It is kinda cool but you need to keep an eye on it.
- That is application of the formula
Pre-work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + post-work time.
All remote work has these properties. Even something 'simple' like a remote REST call. If 'remote work time' plus all that other stuff is less than your local calls then it is time wise worth sending it remote. If not local CPU would win.
That in many cases right now the GPU is 'winning' that race.
- Many companies idea of a disaster plan is to make it after the disaster.
You have to build it in. That takes time money and training. Do you do failovers? Do they work? What is your backup situation? What is your list of work items to do during the failover? How long does it take? Do you even HAVE a failover plan? Can your services handle being in 'split brain'? Do you have specialty services that can only run in one place?
The unfortunate reality is this planning happens many times too late.
- I get what you are saying. But I am not sure that is happening.
It has totally leveled up the people I am working with. They have a fairly decent expert they can bug all the time. The types of questions my jr people are bringing me now are no longer 'xyz doesnt compile right' to 'if I am using this pattern the crap doesnt come from the right place'.
My mentoring has turned from basic trouble shooting to fairly higher level how to design things. How to really break something and tear it apart and put it back together. How to find that one inscrutable bug that is doing something weird.
I am digging it.
- Then to add to that I see every single day people walking doing silly things and walking into the roads where they should not be. One dude I saw just a few days ago was crossing an interstate (see that about 2-3 times a month in the same place). I see jwalking pretty much every day. I see people walking when the signal says to stay put. I see people darting out from between parked cars. I see this every day. Sure they have priority. But a car doing 55 does not care. Keep your head on a swivel. I make sure I cross at the places designated to do so and also make sure there are no cars coming at that moment because some fool decided that was the perfect time to play with their phone.
- That is exactly where I am. The value prop on synology has fallen off. Esp since they have let their kernel rot. There are tons of perf they are leaving on the table. The default external ports are usually 1g and most others have moved to at least 2.5g.
I just wanted something I just didnt have to mess with a lot. And could pop in an external USB drive here and there. Other solutions will fill that need just fine too. Just didnt really want to fiddle with DIY.
QCOM in this case probably could make a standard ARM PC. The problem will be QCOM corporate structure will probably strangle it. They will want to create a patent license stream. The interesting bits would be behind NDAs. It is their bread and butter.
The reality is no one wants to be IBM in the IBM/PC clone market. Basically the ones who did the expensive work to make the board but everyone just copies it.