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The "8-Bit" era of the late '80s brought video games into the home with systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Game developers of the time produced iconic games and introduced genres that are still with us to this day, while working with hardware that had serious limitations. This talk will explore how NES developers created more with less, looking at techniques used in professionally-developed NES games to handle physics, collision detection, randomness, data compression, and more.
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Candid
Kevin has been an NES fan since he first played "Super Mario Bros." in 1989. He learned to program out of a love of video games, and ended up with a career in web development. Kevin is currently an engineering manager at Candid and explores programming for old game consoles in his spare time.
Recorded at Strange Loop 2021
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Old HVAC industry practices are holding us back and costing us money. But we can fix it.
More Pumping More Now
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Links 'n' stuff:
How heat pumps actually work:
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The video I did on home electrification:
https://youtu.be/CVLLNjSLJTQ
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00:00 Intro
02:19 This video is about sizing equipment
04:03 My home and its oversized system
08:49 So many homes have the same problem
10:41 Oversizing needs to stop
13:31 Price gouging
15:56 A note on duct sizing
18:12 How a smart thermostat can do all the work for you
23:00 LOAD CALCULATIONS
29:34 An experiment to validate those calculations
40:06 RESULTS
42:12 The impact for me
43:17 A rant on ductwork design
48:57 Why the heck is my furnace so big?
50:00 My parents (wrongly!) got told they'd need a giant heat pump
55:08 Debrief
1:01:11 Bloops