Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

I may have shared the link but even I don’t know how it how it works.

It’s like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it’s a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

Source for bitshifting

PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I’m wrong.

I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

He also does not “become a samurai”

Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

but you never see the character on screen again

I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?

I might be terribly incorrect.

But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.

“Given the chance, they would definitely lock lips with the dominant male”

tl;dr

You don’t need antivirus on Linux in 99% of scenarios

I’m gonna ask my wife if she wants to be rammed tonight and then give her these cookies.

Nice cookies 🐏🐏

American Resistance? Just give Eggs pls. Thanks

A: “Hey, did you just download all the movies of 2024?”

B: “Yeah”

A: “That’s illegal”

B: “No no, it’s not illegal. I’m gonna train my AI model. So it’s fine”

A: “With your i3 PC with 4 GB of RAM?”

B: “I’ll get better hardware later on. I might have to watch them to understand what to use for training”

A: “As long as you use it for training, it’s fine. Make sure to not watch it for your entertainment”

B: “Yeah sure, bye”

Next post, AI tells user to “get a job”

I have bypassed this issue by exclusively using open-source terminal software. If my softwares aren’t launching in 2-3 seconds, i usually try to find alternatives.

Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.

As long as your GPU isn’t too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.

Check your DMs

My man! 🤝

I don’t need any details.

It seems this particular game key can only be activated on MS store as it’s not a GOG key :(

If you are willing to activate the game on MS, I can DM you the key.

Can you write to Mojang as ask for a account migration?

I remember that i made a separate MS account only for Minecraft specifically for this reason.

Keeping the giveaway alive for another day. Given away some of the games. Please check your DMs everyone.

Do you have a Microsoft store account?

Also, it has controller support (slightly dodgy though)