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  • DigDougtoAsk LemmyWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?
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    3 days ago

    A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.

    Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.

    If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.








  • There are only a few reasons I can surmise that this would be the case:

    CRTs don’t add any input lag

    There’s no extra latency from being connected to the internet

    There’s no latency from bluetooth/wireless on the controller

    Because most older games are extremely badly optimised by today’s standards. The original Metroid slows to an absolute crawl when there’s more than about 4 sprites on the screen; the dragon boss in Mega Man (2, I think) was such a laggy, slippery mess that I gave up trying to beat the game; Ocarina of Time runs at 20FPS (worse if you’re in a PAL territory like I am), and that’s one of the better playing N64 games.

    I think you’re either noticing one of these extra sources of delay, or you’re blinded by nostalgia.



  • DigDougtoMicroblog MemesAstigmatism
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    2 months ago

    I mean, it’s certainly better if they’re dipped properly, but each individual LED is still far too bright.

    A scooter with a ring of single LEDs on it drove past me once - I guess they were some sort of cosmetic thing - and they were still dazzlingly bright in full daylight.