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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>I have always heard that MSAA doesn't work well with deferred rendering which is why it is not longer used Yes, but is deferred still go-to method? I think MSAA is good reason to go with "forward+" methods.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of...
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Nope, it only affected that one position. Like in the previous example it would go 104->105->107->108.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
> They're almost certainly not storing a static list of numbers. Probably. But I wouldn't bet on it. I once borrowed a car that would glitch if you pressed the cruise control buttons too fast. Normally + and - buttons increase
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Fun fact: SD write lock is just a switch wired to host controller, it doesn't actually prevent writing to the card.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>However the Microsoft WaitForSingleObject and WaitForMultipleObjects did not have an efficient implementation, which is why they had to add WaitOnAddress WaitForSingle/MultipleObjects wait for kernel objects, similiar to poll. Wait
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Keyed event is older thing, somewhat similar but lacks value comparison.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Benaphore is a kernel synchronization object behind atomic counter for uncontended path. But the kernel object needs to be always here, initialized and destroyed when appropriate. Futex doesn't need any kernel initialization, and from
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
> Many people won’t worry about crashed threads, as they often will crash the whole program. However, you can catch the signal a crash generates and keep the overall process from terminating. That doesn't help if the entire process
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Neither CRITICAL_SECTION nor SRWLock enters the kernel when uncontended. (SRWLock is based on keyed events, CRITICAL_SECTION nowadays creates kernel object on-demand but falls back to keyed event on failure)
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>If the person in the capsule had a medical emergency, it's hard to see how any of the crew survive. They could spacewalk and open CM hatch from the outside. Wrench for opening the hatch was stored in the lunar module.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>If that manufacturer key is known, it only takes two samples from an authenticator to determine the sequence key. Not if seed with appropriate length is used. Though I don't know how common that is, back in 2008 authors noted that
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
They do, one reason is postprocessing effects like motion blur, another is antialiasing like TAA or DLSS upscaling.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
It feels like overly forced sequel. "Your Last First Day" have definite ending, but then "Five Five Five Five Five" brings ghosts in order to have story with happy-end.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Stupid thing with sales is that "regular" price ends up being overpriced.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
I'm confused. The trouble with "colored" functions is that they either do processing on the stack, or unwind the stack. They claim defeat of function coloring, and describe that IO implementation can use blocking/thread
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>The new value was available earlier if it was a cache miss? Apparently so. Maybe the logic is that it is available one instruction later if it's a hit, but when it's a miss it's stalls entire pipeline anyway, and resumes
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Even without faults, some SO answers indicate that on R2000 new value might be available in delay slot if it was a cache miss. As for SuperH I don't think they cared too much. Primary use of handling faults is memory paging, and MMU wa
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Load delay slots doesn't seem to need special fault handling support, you're not supposed to depend on old value being there in the delay slot. One more thing about branch delay slots: It seems original SuperH went for very minima
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
I think program counter is backed up and branch is just re-executed. Though it's annoying if handler wants to skip over faulting instruction (eg. it was a syscall), as it now needs to emulate the branch behavior in software. Most of th
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Eh, he's old man sitting in prison probably spinning tales to anybody who will listen. He didn't tell them anything that wasn't publicly available, and on details that they needed to dig for into archives actually contradicts
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
I'm contemplating about building 32-bit CPU from 74AUC family (fastest CMOS logic available, second only to ECL parts) and register file in asynchronous SRAM. I think the trouble with FPGA implementation is that some tricks I want to u
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
>The Command Module for Apollo used a completely different FDAI (flight director-attitude indicator) that was built by Honeywell. That's surprising. Was there any requirement that necessitated them to be different parts, or it'
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Still no drop shadows though.
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
"Mission 3B is designed as payload retrieval mission with both shuttle launch and orbiter landing to take place at the Western Test Range (WTR). The mission is designed for direct rendezvous with a passive satellite in a 100 NMI circul
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by garaetjjte 1y ago
Brightness would be hard to discern in the sun. Cars have center stop light strip, it would be cool if amount of illuminated segments would be proportional to deceleration. Probably not legal though.
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by garaetjjte 2y ago
>I don't know for certain how true it is, but there's a legend that ELWRO prepared a design based on their best, but compatible with S/360 and thus rest of ES EVM - just way faster in smaller frame (effectively imagine top
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by garaetjjte 2y ago
>However, it does leave us with no way of finding out the logical block size, which we may care about for various reasons There's SEEK_HOLE and fiemap ioctl.
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by garaetjjte 2y ago
I think the difference is that in "illiberal democracy" there are still non-falsified elections, so the leader can technically lose.
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by garaetjjte 2y ago
Situation in Poland wasn't magically fixed by one election. Institutions take years to gain authority. Constitutional court is still a joke, judiciary is split into two warring worlds. Additionally supposedly centrist coalition is runn

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