Alex Burrows

- Former Pre-Prod Director for Johnny Gioeli Solo Shows.
- Software Dev.
- Sonic Fan.
- Brony.
- Sonic Concert Guy.

[Alex Burrows @AlexABPerson]

@luciascarlet Like I genuinely think if it hadn't had the perfection impact it did we'd have a lot less stuff in 4K that just honestly doesn't really need to be it. Proper highrate 1080p can look absolutely stunning. And once you start mixing in stuff like HDR it just gets even crazier lol

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@luciascarlet I think the most annoying thing is exactly what you said about DVDs. YouTube basically defines what people think of when they hear these terms. All lower resolution does is make things *blurrier*, but people think of all the artifacting and other stuff instead.

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@oops4041555 @KRR1751 @Windows Unfortunately, not really... The number here is RAM your programs actually physically won't have to work in anymore, it's not counting cached or prefetched data that just "moves aside", which started in Vista so is here. When this number grows to over 2GB baseline it's not great

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@vaxryy Don't install Hyprland for the first time when you don't have fonts on your machine

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@NerdCuddlesSus @XP_Glimmer @db_witch There was content in the show contradicting that?

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IT'S SONIC RACING

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@NeoShadic Will do!

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Anyone around London thinking of checking out the new Sonic run track murals 👀

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@NerdCuddlesSus @XP_Glimmer @db_witch Which things are retcons in that episode?

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@NerdCuddlesSus @XP_Glimmer @db_witch Not the biggest fan of S7 or 8 or so, but to say a season like, say, 5 isn't good is absolutely insane to me, literally almost every other episode is incredible. That's just me tho, I guess YMMV

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@X1ADS4 @db_witch I was literally about to say lol

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@whisperwoIf Guessing you've tried the suggestion about disabling Nvidia audio and all that?

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@goodbyesahil @mrpancakes39 @SambeaCa @teej_dv You're (...kind of) describing a managed language like C#, not C.

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@SEGAInforment Most places are so close here they're literally reachable by the lowest means of transport (a COACH) in a somewhat comfortable time, unless you're going more than halfway across the country (which 2 locations solve ofc, let alone 5). And we have trains and planes lol.

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@SEGAInforment There is no way on god's green earth they announced FIVE uk locations and you're still not happy. Like I'm not being funny here but actually get a map and put the uk over literally any other continent. The lack of EU is the real concern, and I say that as someone in the UK

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@OgGhostJelly @nsg650 Yeah *that* is 100% the case. I'm always really disappointed at how poor even strongly typed language's type systems can be at expressing things. C#, for example, is only just catching up now with Rust-like enums (it has a lot of things Rust has, but didn't have that)

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@drogus @nsg650 Good question tbh. I know it sounds lame to say, but I fully admit it was over a year ago and I've changed *a lot* a developer since anyway, especially when it comes to how I approach architecting/designing big components... I'll take a look

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@OgGhostJelly @nsg650 I also think tbf there's just some things Rust is really good at, and things it isn't. And to treat it like it should be used for *everything* is definitely not the right approach. Like the classic example that very linear processes is something Rust excels at

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@OgGhostJelly @nsg650 I def got way faster at doing things quickly by the end of the project, yeah! But I was really focusing on architecture with my project and trying to use the things Rust promises for it and I started to feel like Rust wasn't _actually_ doing that

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@nsg650 And the kicker of it all? It didn't even perform better than it probably would've in a different language. There was a load of ref counting (slow!) going on, basically impossible to free memory in bulk... Just a lot of things like that. But do enjoy it for what it is, it's fun!

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@nsg650 of all that pain..... My thing still (of course) had logic bugs anyway. Some of which required almost the whole thing to be redone because of how Rust as a language is. The things Rust made impossible for me messing up I'd probably have caught (or just not done) fairly quickly