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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by sfn42 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:45PM (#46814566)
And what if I go somewhere then go back there a week later?
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by jsheard on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:47PM (#46814597)
Best they can do is 60 seconds, for now at least.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by autonomousErwin on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:46PM (#46815550)
Makes you wonder what the TTL caching for our universe is.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by dabbz on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:46PM (#46816345)
Whatever the speed of light is I would imagine
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by jacquesm on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:36PM (#46819070)
No, that's just an optimization that saved on computing resources. It effectively allows the party that runs this simulation to have a limited world to simulate. Dark matter is the other half of that trick. Both were invented by one Bebele Zropaxhodb after a particularly interesting party in the universe just above this one...
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by autonomousErwin on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:04AM (#46825197)
That's the rendering speed.
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