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by DominikD 5y ago
You don't have direct line to every successful developer on the planet when you work on a GPU. And even if you did, why would game developers drop everything for bugs in YOUR hardware?
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by DominikD 5y ago
Maybe. But it's more likely they're replacing shaders with game- or engine-specific workarounds for hardware bugs. Used to do exactly that in my first GPU driver job. The goal wasn't to cheat, but to fix issues in popular gam
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by DominikD 5y ago
If or when this happens, I hope we don't end up with millions of people who got the frist AZ shot and are left without access to the second dose.
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by DominikD 5y ago
Logo programming language was translated into various natural languages (as AC Logo into Polish for example) and this was the only reason kids w/o foreign language skills (and English in particular) could wrap their heads around it and
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by DominikD 6y ago
Mainstream UK press has serious problem with TERFs, so my question was genuine: is my understanding correct, that the issue stems from someone linking to misgendering, dead naming article?
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by DominikD 6y ago
You could but you, obviously, don't have to. The problem is not about the content though, it's about linking to it. So someone linking to this old article if there are recent, better sources could very well be doing it malicious
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by DominikD 6y ago
I seriously doubt that. This is a claim I've seen in many places (unsubstantiated) but I find it hard to believe that her name is triggering bans. Dead name? Sure, I can believe that and, again, I have no problem with this.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Someone was banned from Reddit for linking to an article dead naming a trans woman. Did I get this right? If I did, what's the problem here, really?
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by DominikD 6y ago
If you have beefy objects representing, say, characters, and you only care about their position, you'll use 16 bytes of a 64 byte cache line. So for the "move everything to the right" use case you're wasting 75% of the b
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by DominikD 6y ago
Total Annihilation (1997), Thief (1998), Dungeon Siege (2002), and many others used ECS and their developers wrote about it long, long before Minecraft and others.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Short story: data is aligned in a way that favors batch processing. Less branching, great setup for SIMD or GPU processing.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Again, that's not the point. The point isn't that something has to be for the masses but that there's nothing in crypto that's appealing for the masses. ASN.1 is used by everyone but that doesn't mean it's appe
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by DominikD 6y ago
You're missing the point, which was "there's nothing for the masses". Interesting technology is not a selling point for the masses. Strong fundamentals are not a selling point for the masses. Whether there's a get r
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by DominikD 6y ago
Found two bugs, reported them, sent patches. It was as easy as it gets. The idea that forking a repo, pushing changes to your own copy, then posting a PR is simpler than posting a diff on a bug tracker is bizarre.
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by DominikD 6y ago
That page is from 2012, parent comment even mentions that this is old and unmaintained (but fun nevertheless).
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by DominikD 6y ago
Lazarus is great.
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by DominikD 6y ago
No it doesn't. It gives examples of both.
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by DominikD 6y ago
I like it a lot. The only thing that stops me from using system like this is the fact that I don't care that much if I can find stuff. Or I didn't until recently but I still don't want to acknowledge that this has changed, du
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by DominikD 6y ago
I like the idea a lot. In terms of the results, it seems to me that many more data points are needed. My bubble escape route contained a lot of authors and titles I know of, I've read, or I'm very familiar with. FWIW my sample tri
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by DominikD 6y ago
Is this representative of the state of SRT? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sharabayko-mops-srt-01
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by DominikD 6y ago
Only later ports of Q1 engine interpolated between model key frames. Initial release of Quake didn't. And it didn't matter given the resolution people were playing at. For the same reason the crude LOD for models Q1 had was more t
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by DominikD 6y ago
Ubisoft, Epic and Embark are funding Blender. Not sure about Epic but Embark Studios do use Blender for sure. From their blog: "Many of us at the content team at Embark use Blender daily, and our long-term ambition at the studio is to
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by DominikD 6y ago
AAA studios also use Blender. FBX is most common which sort of necessitates Autodesk apps, but some of the studios are very OSS friendly.
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by DominikD 6y ago
I used to like web development some 15 years ago. Ever since frameworks became a thing, I stopped doing any web development. I simply couldn't get myself to setting up a bunch of tools just to process some byzantine file formats to a u
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by DominikD 6y ago
> If you have a software engineer being promoted to senior software engineer (1 -> 2) without at least intermediate knowledge of the codebase, that'll make other seniors suspicious/wary. She clearly did. Without that she wou
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by DominikD 6y ago
> First, I don't get why diversity is given passing mention when there's nothing related specific to diversity or gender politics in the solid idea discussed by the article. It links to the paper describing how non-promotable w
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by DominikD 6y ago
So I have to assume that the GPU is another PowerVR offspring?
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by DominikD 6y ago
There was a very popular yet useless trick in the late '90, early 2000 where you'd combine two images in a checkerboard pattern: one at regular intensity, the other very bright (so it doesn't stand out that much upon regular
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by DominikD 6y ago
Problem is - nng is also hardly being updated. I was really hopeful for a C library that would by on par with ZeroMQ but every time a new project comes along that needs some sort of message bus and I have the time to evaluate the technology
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by DominikD 6y ago
He changed his mind over time. ZeroMQ is still maintained and nanomsg is pretty much dormant.

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