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Well, for example, Apple Weather has several different animations that are displayed behind the temperature for various weather conditions, such as rain, window, and snow, and those will need to be hi-DPI animations.

When?

That was standard practice in the 90s. Track 1 on the CD is the data track, and subsequent tracks are standard CD audio tracks that happen to be played in the game.

If the game didn't require accessing data on the CD after installation, you could even swap the CD with a different album and listen to what you want.

It was just a standard way to play CD-quality audio tracks (by actually playing CD audio tracks!).

The author claims no AI was used.

They've updated the article to state that no LLM was used.

The same people? Who are they? And since when is Microsoft removing half the features in "any control panel" in every release?

What is the current pace of progress?

Snow Leopard was so buggy that it had an infamous data loss bug: https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/snow-leopard-bug-d...

People forget these things after they get patched out and time passes. What's left behind as memories fade is a feel-good mythology about a bug fix release that never really existed. The truth was that engineering resources had been shifted to iOS, which delayed Leopard, and the "no new features" marketing was a way of justifying the lack of resources.

I lived that era too, and Snow Leopard was no less buggy than any other release. What actually happened is that engineers had been shifted over to iOS, which delayed Leopard. By the time of Snow Leopard, to put a positive spin on that lack of resources, Snow Leopard was a "no new features" release...even though it actually did receive new features as well as new bugs.

There was even an infamous data loss bug involving guest accounts (https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/snow-leopard-bug-d...)! But people have forgotten about that and only remember the marketing now.

I'd say Snow Leopard was as buggy as any other typical OS X release from that era, as covered by the Jeff Johnson article. The reality is that the "no new features" marketing was most likely a positive spin on the shift in engineering resources toward iOS, which had previously caused Leopard's release to be delayed.

That's not how I remember it. In fact, Snow Leopard was no less buggy than any other release, I'd say. As explained in the article, that mythology of a stable release was formed over time later on.

What software would that be, and how do you know there have never been memory-related bugs and vulnerabilities in it?

That change is happening. Microsoft has been rewriting parts of Windows in Rust, Linux is accepting Rust code, and Apple is using Swift for core parts of their OSes.

Wavesfactory Cassette does exactly that for several well-known models.

U-he Satin emulates Dolby encoding/decoding.

For what it's worth, which may be nothing, I remember being told that by NFT people.

I must say, "great financial engineering" serves as an amazing spin on "scam."

The policy reads:

"The use of AI to contribute to Godot is discouraged, and contributions made entirely by AI are prohibited.

We acknowledge that AI can be useful, but we are convinced that human effort results in better and more relevant contributions.

If you do use AI, we expect that you put in effort to proofread and improve anything it generates, and that you disclose what you used AI for. As maintainers spend significant time reviewing your code, please make sure that the code you submit is well-tested and functional. Please be respectful of their time and only submit something you have put thought and effort into."

If you read the whole article, you'll understand the context and how its relates to Wikipedia. The fact GingerBill accuses Wikipedia of having a political bias against Odin when (spoilers) it was actually a "constitutional conservative" who triggered the deletion is amusing.

I'll toss ya a few!

What unexplored frontiers does he wish game developers would pay more attention to?

How does he feel about the state of science education for children today in terms of schooling, television, toys, internet, and so forth?

What are his thoughts on the effects of current AI trends on culture and education?

What games, if any, has he been playing lately?

Does it? I'm skeptical. In fact, we apparently have more than enough money for it because we suddenly have billions to spend on war in the Middle East.

Yet we apparently have money for military parades and wars and ballrooms. Go figure.

So far, here isn't sufficient evidence that anyone has such reliably golden ears.

Even the cheapest consumer DACs oversample into the megahertz range.

Oh, dear, that AES 2014 paper from Meridian (which was trying to push its controversial proprietary MQA audiophile system the same year) was widely criticized on audio forums when it came out, ranging from the rectangular dithering method to the use of a hard metal tweeter that could cause IM.

Do you have more convincing sources?

Do you have citations for this claim? The "golden ears" argument is often employed by audiophiles, but even the cheapest converters oversample by up to several hundred times as well as employ antialiasing filters.

Is there evidence that a trained ear can reliably perceive these artifacts in a blind test of converters? I'd be interested in reading those links since converters typically oversample into the mHz range. At 11.29 mHz (256x 44.1 mHz), Nyquist will be at 5.64 mHz. Even the cheapest consumer converters are performing this type of oversampling.

> Decades ago, I was treated to an ABX test in my brother's recording studio. I easily recognized and preferred a 24/192 master he played versus the 16/44.1 down-mix. I honestly don't know whether there was something wrong with the down-mix, but qualitatively it did feel like it was "muffled" and coming from speakers, while the master really felt like live performance. He was surprised that I could tell them apart.

As referenced in the article, a common explanation for those audible differences is that the high-resolution version of the album is sourced from a different master.

Megatexture caused a lot of problems. In fact, it was such a hindrance that it was removed from the engine in Doom Eternal.