BearOso

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by BearOso 6y ago
> Can people please stop this latent homophobia? Mozilla fired a person who donated money to a deplorable cause. You can try to hide behind free speech, but we all know what this is about. He quit. And I don’t agree with it, but I wouldn
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by BearOso 6y ago
> that doesn't run nVidia optimized drivers I think that’s the important point to consider. Nvidia is non grata with Apple, and that rift happened way way before Metal. These drivers have no chance of performing representatively.
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by BearOso 6y ago
snesc by lordtech?
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by BearOso 6y ago
As a Linux user, it unfortunately doesn't have a definitive anything. Say you want to write a GUI app. On Windows, you've got Win32. It's old, but it'll still work and look new. MacOS you have Cocoa. Linux, you have Xlib
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by BearOso 6y ago
It feels like lock-in to me. It keeps getting more difficult to develop for Mac, which I think will kill the free software scene for it. Honestly, it's almost like Windows programming in the late '90s. You had only one real option
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by BearOso 6y ago
I concur. The documentation is very incomplete. I know it can do a lot of stuff, but I wouldn’t know how to make it do it. It doesn’t seem to be intended for wide use, more like “here’s what we use, it’s open source, do whatever, but we’re
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by BearOso 6y ago
Part of it is security, part of it is lock-in. Either way, it’s excessive. It contributes to entropy more than security.
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by BearOso 6y ago
Earlier games were written to the bare metal, so copying the hardware was the hard part. More recent stuff is written to APIs, so you can avoid most of that, but the addition of 3D and more complexity means it’s just difficult in a differen
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by BearOso 6y ago
They are expertly-written, but I don’t think these header-only libraries are reflective of most C++ projects. There’s too many tricks and templates that make it hard to read and get a big picture of how it works.
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by BearOso 6y ago
The OpenGL quality problems are strictly on the Windows side. The open-source OpenGL drivers are very good.
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by BearOso 6y ago
Path of Exile was actually broken a few weeks ago and required a third-party Proton build to work. It was sheer luck that Proton 5.13 came out just in time for you to try it.
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by BearOso 6y ago
> On a CRT monitor, the screen is coated in millions of phosphor dots, with one red, green, and blue dot for every individual pixel. Not true. The number of dot triads is usually greater than the number of pixels. The distance between th
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by BearOso 6y ago
To be fair, themes are only grudgingly supported by gnome. KDE has more available configurability for color schemes, but the number of Qt themes that handle everything correctly and look good is small. I think resolution-independence has ma
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by BearOso 6y ago
> Cinnamon with Mint is very stable and tuned Unfortunately not. Muffin, the compositor is based on a really old version of Mutter, and it’s missing a lot of performance work and fixes that make latency lower and output less likely to hi
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by BearOso 6y ago
> Antialiasing: Applying a light shade around the glyph. It is useful at small scale, when you don’t have enough pixels, but it makes the glyph look bolder. No, poor antialiasing makes the glyph look bolder. Specifically, drawing the ant
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by BearOso 6y ago
Actually, in a separate repository, they DID do a custom software rasterizer. Even better. https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/sm64-port/commit/a2bd39595c2759...
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by BearOso 6y ago
It's not as cool or fast as it could be, technically, because they're just using Mesa as a software rasterizer with the existing OpenGL engine port. It's hilarious, though.
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by BearOso 6y ago
Yeah, and in that case the issue is in the opaque NVIDIA drivers that reimplement the whole X server. The NVIDIA Linux driver is laser-focused for areas it does well, and exotic configurations never worked out with it for me. If you might p
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by BearOso 6y ago
> Davila also ruled, over Holmes’s objections, that the examination of the former CEO will be videotaped. Holmes’s lawyers argued the recording would “negatively affect the tenor or the interview,” according to the ruling. Or accurately
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by BearOso 6y ago
I agree with this somewhat. I’d go further and say that colleges should scrap the whole “unwritten rules” system. Why are surreptitious acceptance policies accepted in public-funded universities? If they’re going to be lax on athletes for a
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by BearOso 6y ago
Doing GUIs with Rust is difficult. Gtk-rs lucked out because Gtk has introspection that maps out its C object API. Qt is not so good. Something simple like Win32? Not so good. Maybe I want to write a game. Gfx-rs is deprecated. Its replacem
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by BearOso 6y ago
Few thought it would in the first place. This is just more clickbait—-like those articles that pretend that it won’t be compatible with most PS4 titles. Come on, you know it’s not going to be any less compatible than the PS4 pro. Someone ha
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by BearOso 6y ago
Ditto. But it’s pretty much certain that even if the new AMD cards don’t match the top Nvidia performance, they’re still going to be competitive or better on cost/performance. So you don’t have to worry about missing anything if you go
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by BearOso 6y ago
The 3070 has 20 classic shading module TFLOPs. The 2080ti was 13.5 TFLOPs. I think you’ll see 50% better performance at the minimum.
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by BearOso 6y ago
It has to be out before the new consoles, which are reportedly coming the first two weeks of November. I think the consoles are being kept secretive on AMD’s request as well.
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by BearOso 6y ago
Thanks for the reminder—-don’t accept what I said as fact, because we still don’t know. Your CDC link is a little behind the times, because it’s still claiming saturated fats are “the enemy.” I actually read one of the sources behind your f
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by BearOso 6y ago
> For someone with a family history of heart disease or high cholesterol, fresh cheeses are best due to their low cholesterol content. Dietary cholesterol doesn’t correlate strongly with blood cholesterol. You can eat a ton of it and you
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by BearOso 6y ago
I like vscode. C or C++ coding with it is better than most editors I’ve tried (thanks to clangd), and it doesn’t force you into a complete IDE-based toolchain. What’s to complain about? It’s free and better than your products that sell for
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by BearOso 6y ago
They seem to have assumed it was taking the SSE2 path, but never checked that, just replacing the function at a higher level for the final fix. I’m guessing that the 3dnow! path was still being chosen based on a check like processor brand =
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by BearOso 6y ago
Yes, it changes rasterization. It’s because MacOS has a legacy of dilating the pixel outlines when subpixel antialiasing is enabled. When subpixel antialiasing first appeared on OS X, the FIR filter affected the gamma curve, making the font

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