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by bsder 1y ago
No one at the big companies is developing OpenGL anymore and their support for the GLSL compiler has dwindled to nothing. If you want that extension you're going to have better luck convincing the Zink folks: https://docs.me
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by bsder 1y ago
VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer? If you are using Slang, then you just access everything as standard pointers to chunks of GPU memory. And it's mostly Intel and mobile dragging their feet on VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer ...
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by bsder 1y ago
> Not clear that this would speed things up much today. It would likely slow things down, actually. One advantage that a stack has is that the stack memory is "hot"--it is very likely in cache due to the fact that it is all rig
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by bsder 1y ago
> Vulkan forces you to statically specify a ton of state that's actually dynamic on modern GPUs. Desktop GPUs. Tiling GPUs are still in use on mobile and you can't use the tiling hardware effectively without baking the descr
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by bsder 1y ago
Slang compiles directly to SPIR-V which is now directly supported by both DirectX (as of Shader Model 7) and Vulkan (from the very beginning). Where is the transpilation or abstraction? > For example people on AMD chips seem to be gravi
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by bsder 1y ago
> Vulkan GLSL is the appropriate language to start with. GLSL is ABSOLUTELY NOT an appropriate language to start with anymore for a huge number of reasons, and I dearly wish people would quit using it for tutorials. Anyone trying to ge
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by bsder 1y ago
> Are pointers really that hard for so many people to understand? Yes. Especially pointer to pointer to ... The big problem is that arrays are conflated with pointers because C doesn't do slices. If C had slices, people would natu
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by bsder 1y ago
There were a few technical obstacles which other people mentioned, but I think timing was biggest issue (remember--AFS dates to something like 1983-ish). 1) AFS, IIRC, required more than one machine in its original configuration. That mean
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by bsder 1y ago
Device drivers. A lot of industrial/embedded hardware only ships with Windows drivers. It's super annoying.
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by bsder 1y ago
1) Software can be remote Consequently, industrial employers don't have a local monopoly on jobs like they used to. Any industrial employer is competing against any remote position willing to pay above them. That generally isn't
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by bsder 1y ago
> You will make many times more money as a salescritter convincing people to buy things they don't need than using decades of engineering experience to build the things they do. That's the fundamental problem. The pay for indu
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by bsder 1y ago
> Tesla turned things around by building a factory in Shanghai, and learning how to build a car from the Chinese. That has very little to do with Fremont the facility . The Fremont facility is where Toyota showed GM how to build cars pr
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by bsder 1y ago
In the US, at least, it doesn't help that almost everyone using leaf blowers are using the cheap, loud, stinky two cycle motor abominations. Those leaf blowers put more garbage into the air than a car or pickup truck. They're tha
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by bsder 1y ago
> What I learned though was that NFS was great until it wasn't. If the server hung, all work stopped. Sheds a tear for AFS (Andrew File System). We had a nice, distributed file system that even had solid security and didn't fai
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by bsder 1y ago
The funding for the original institutions came from the Community Mental Health Act (CMHCA). The funding for the alternatives was also slated to come from the federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Hea
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by bsder 1y ago
> but when it comes to emitting great assembly, it is almost unbeatable. "Proebsting's Law: Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years" The implication is that doing the easy, obvious and fast optimizations is
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by bsder 1y ago
> That model clearly isn't working in SF where they spend >$100k per homeless person per year. That borders on irrelevant when 33% of your homeless population qualify as having a traumatic brain injury, etc. Hospital stays are a
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by bsder 1y ago
> These same assholes want to go back to the 50s because it was very good for white male americans I really want to know when this was because all the men (white or not) who worked the mills and the mines in my memory were effectively fu
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by bsder 1y ago
> Companies also don't like dealing with cash because it requires extra accounting, security, and transportation. At least in the US, individual businesses don't like dealing with credit because of the transaction fees but are
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by bsder 1y ago
> - Staff/student ratio about 1:5. No teachers from bottom quartile of teacher population. This is the known formula to accelerate teaching and learning. Even the Gates Foundation (whom I loathe) documented this. Every single one
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by bsder 1y ago
> You've answered it yourself? 'imported from France'. This is no explanation at all. This does not explain why expensive bottles of wine imported from France aren't as good as basic bottles from Carrefour (even from
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by bsder 1y ago
> Genuinely curious: what concrete negative consequences are there from appearing in the background of other people’s photos/videos, in a full face mask no less? How about if you're overweight, doing airsoft to try to get into
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by bsder 1y ago
> Never pay over say ~$30-40 USD for a bottle of wine if all you care about is taste. Change that to 30-40 EUR from Carrefour? Sure. In the US, not so much. I do not understand how I can spend a minor fortune on wine in the US and not
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by bsder 1y ago
> I think I can refresh a lightly dull blade in 10min or so, and speaking as a non-pro. This is the same assumption (and problem) that every YouTube knife sharpening video makes. The people who need those videos, by definition, have kniv
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by bsder 1y ago
I would amend that to "Pay a local knife nerd that you trust ". Most "sharpening services" use some kind of grinder and they can damage the edge temper as well as do other stupid things. Funny story time ... my problem
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by bsder 1y ago
Questions missing from this list are: "Can I spend some amount of money and be done ?" "Is this worth spending some amount of money to be done ?" I have had innumerable projects where they just languished and languis
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by bsder 1y ago
No argument. All the "modern" JBL soundbars were just as crappy as the rest of the "modern" soundbars. I remember buying that soundbar (back at Fry's!) and all the soundbars were pretty much just as good (well, t
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by bsder 1y ago
> While I don't disagree, I find that small speakers are dramatically better today than they were even 15 years ago. Then why is what comes out from my "modern" soundbar so crappy compared to the one I bought 15 years ago?
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by bsder 1y ago
> What’s obvious to the audience of HN isn’t necessarily obvious to anyone else. AI amplifies the problem. Before AI, the idiot who accidentally has too much access probably doesn't have the ability to actively exploit it. Given how
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by bsder 1y ago
That's wonderful, but the AI bots are costing me money or taking my website down at this moment I don't need a solution tomorrow ; I need a solution today . And Cloudflare is the "today" solution.

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