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by TinkersW 1y ago
From the article I got the impression Singal was some far right loon, but after looking it up.. nope, he is a liberal that said something mildly out of sync with trans activists opinions...
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by TinkersW 1y ago
I don't that that is true, it is more that electric cars still have pretty serious downsides, especially in rural areas or if you do long distance driving.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
8 bit is not absent in x86 SIMD, it is a slightly less covered than 32 & 16 bit, but you can fully implement all the common 8 bit ops and most are 1 instruction(with AVX2). There are even various horizontal ops on 8 bit values(avg, dot
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by TinkersW 1y ago
What type of solver is mujoco?
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by TinkersW 1y ago
The slowdown can be enormous if you use SIMD, I believe MSVC emits a write to memory after every single SIMD op in debug, thus the code is incredibly slow(more than 10x). If you have any SIMD kernels you will suffer, and likely switch to r
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by TinkersW 1y ago
They never mention std::weak_ptr which makes me think they aren't aware of it.. yes this looks pretty useless and unsafe(isn't everything multi-threaded these days..)
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Mobile games are 99% shovelware
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Critical sections are very old, and bloated version of a mutex, but there isn't a good reason to use them today. Today you can use SRWLock or WaitOnAddress on Windows(or std::shared_mutex for portable impl, but not std::mutex because r
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by TinkersW 1y ago
You should see the C++ threads
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by TinkersW 1y ago
He passed a major bill that drove up the debt massively recently, he clearly has zero interest in reducing the debt, just convincing rubes that he does.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
No it isn't, I grew up in NorCal with earthquakes, a 4.6 is a complete nothing burger, you shrug and continue about your day.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Yes this is fairly easy to write in AVX, and you can track the index also, honestly the code is cleaner and nicer to read than this mildly obfuscated rust.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
You can choose to bake, and your skin will harden up and deal with it, but it will also cause long term leathery skin, which many find unattractive, and increased skin cancer risk. Tho I agree with economist article, sun exposure is very go
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Often living in a different climate zone, US is well south of Europe.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
std::array [] is checked if you have the appropriate build settings toggled, which of course you should during development. The same applies to many of the other baseless complaints I'm seeing here, learn to use your tools fools.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Maybe x86 should add a flag to toggle the weaker memory model on
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Is there a C++ port of ipnsort?
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Hardware level safety will arrive first(see Apple support for Memory Integrity Enforcement ), not as fool proof as SafeC++/Rust but no need to change code...
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by TinkersW 1y ago
That looks like alot of work, am surprised they built a custom build system, tho given the state of C++ build systems I can't really blame them. Also why do OS devs seem to have a thing for making browsers? Shouldn't browsers be m
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Nine stories anywhere in the state near a bus stop seems abit much, most small towns don't have anything over 2 or 3 stories(nor do they have a housing shortage). CA lawmakers seem to pass laws focused on cities, and ignore the fact th
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by TinkersW 1y ago
MSAA doesn't do anything for shader aliasing, it only handles triangle aliasing, and modern renderers have plenty of shader aliasing so there isn't much reason to use MSAA. The high triangle count of modern renders might in some c
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by TinkersW 1y ago
On the CPU side, yes 64 bits is a good idea, but when transferring to the GPU you simply make the camera location 0,0,0, and transform everything relative to it, thus you can easily use 32 bit float and have no z-fighting or any other preci
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by TinkersW 1y ago
Yes the two extremes feed off each other, and make everything worse for the rest of us. Personally I think there needs be laws regarding social media, perhaps limiting the number of followers/viewers for anyone engaged in social or pol
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by TinkersW 1y ago
I do see many comments at the bottom that appear to have been deleted, but I can't see what they said, so it isn't possible to know if it was deserved.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
I don't think most people are on either extreme, but the media does make it seem that way, along with reddit/twitter/bluesky etc.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
I wonder why the idle power is so high(55 watts), I have measured a beelink mini PC with an 8 core Zen4 when idle, and it was 10 watts.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
A single channel SDF can be encoded to BC4 with fairly good quality, and it can actually represent a wider range of values than a u8 texture... but with the downside of only having 8 values per 4x4 block. So if the texture is small I'd
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by TinkersW 1y ago
I don't think any current games use megatextures-- it takes too much memory, and you can compose tiling textures at runtime for good results, that additionally supports dynamic modifications.
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by TinkersW 1y ago
There isn't even a definitive definition of conscious, but you are somehow positive that bats don't possess it..
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by TinkersW 1y ago
When I was put under anesthesia they told me it would be like no time had passed when I woke up, but this wasn't true for me. It felt like time had passed the same way as sleeping.

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