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by gary_0 2y ago
While using SDL for drawing is optional (and seldom done if you're doing 3D) I would like to add that its drawing API is useful to have out-of-the-box so that new/basic users can get stuff on screen right away without having to wr
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by gary_0 2y ago
SDL2 was not "just SDL1 with explicit window handles". There were a variety of changes and new features all over the API, including (like SDL3) major changes to the graphics subsystem (SDL1 used software rendering, SDL2 added hard
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by gary_0 2y ago
See dottrap's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397198 SDL needs to be able to render graphics efficiently, but the SDL2 way is no longer sufficient. Since SDL3 is a major version change, it makes sense t
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by gary_0 2y ago
Anyone remember the movie Brazil ? This fellow better watch his back. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dht_3NziwSw
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by gary_0 2y ago
That's not exactly it; quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math, and branching instructions can often take more than one clock cycle as we
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by gary_0 2y ago
> but that's what Box64/box86 already does with some Linux libraries: intercept the api calls and replace them with native libraries. Not sure if it does it for wine Yeah, that's what I meant. It's simple in principle
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by gary_0 2y ago
It should be theoretically possible to build Wine so that it provides the x86_64 API while compiling it to ARM/RISCV. Your link doesn't make it clear if that's what's being done or not. (Although I suspect providing the
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by gary_0 2y ago
As I've heard it explained, RISC in practise is less about "an absolutely minimalist instruction set" and more about "don't add any assembly programmer conveniences or other such cleverness, rely on compilers instea
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by gary_0 2y ago
In fact, Intel already tried and failed to buy SiFive for $2B. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-failed-to-buy-sifive
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by gary_0 2y ago
> I don't think that is hard to replicate. Oh, sure. Heck, I can do that for you. I'll just need a few billion dollars to pay for the design, hardware and software engineering, manufacturing and QA, and to pay for the massive a
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by gary_0 2y ago
It's so delicate, too. Drop the squishy pink thing and its ancillary support-meat on a random part of Earth and most likely it drowns in an ocean, freezes on a mountainside, dries out in a desert, or starves in a wasteland. That's
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by gary_0 2y ago
And visual and thematic motifs that should seem heavy-handed but somehow just glide past behind all the action (Distorted mirrors! Distorted mirrors everywhere!) Arguably bullet-time was another form of visual distortion. Remember how in th
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by gary_0 2y ago
Just in case you don't know, the person you're replying to is the author of the blog post, and they mention in it that being stressed out by (potential) unexpected large bills is something they are aware of. Although even then, &q
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by gary_0 2y ago
Even if the price wasn't secret, maybe when you hit $10M revenue 3 years later, they'll have raised the price 300%. Maybe they've changed the license again and now its priced per-seat or per-cpu-core or per-employee-tooth. Ma
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by gary_0 2y ago
I did like the little CSS animation, though. The fish bounces without JavaScript!
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by gary_0 2y ago
Ah, I was wondering what would happen if you're using a type from lib-v2 and an intermediary library passes you that type from lib-v1, and the type has changed internally. Good to know the Rust compiler is set up to catch that. (I&#x27
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The First SpaceX Spacewalk: About the Upcoming Mission(cnbc.com)
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by gary_0 2y ago
Unless things have changed, the survey is opt-in and thus it's a statistical sampling. Over the many, many years[0] that I've run Steam, I've gotten the survey pop-up maybe 4-5 times, although I'm not a heavy gamer so St
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by gary_0 2y ago
I just found it surprising how dead it is (according to Steam, anyways). Apple will have to do something drastic (and uncharacteristic) to recover. > Does that 2.08% Linux include the Deck btw? [edit] I think I was wrong, see sibling c
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by gary_0 2y ago
There are more Steam gamers on Linux than there are on MacOS (2.08% Linux vs. 1.37% Mac)[0]. Gaming is pretty dead on Macs. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
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by gary_0 2y ago
If this turns out to be a dead end, Intel will be in even deeper shit. They've been buying up all of ASML's High NA machines before the technique has been completely proven. It's a bold move.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Intel is all-in on High NA EUV to try and regain the lead. TSMC and Samsung also have plans for High NA, but not as aggressive, because High NA is not a proven technology, but it will be required to prevent Moore's Law from grinding to
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by gary_0 2y ago
> And should RISC-V turn out to have been a hype Over 10 billion RISC-V devices have shipped, including microcontrollers in millions of Western Digital storage devices, nVidia GPUs, etc. They have no reason to go back to ARM; in many cas
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by gary_0 2y ago
(2022) I remember this one because of this part: > Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (
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by gary_0 2y ago
> it's traffic we don't have to serve Call me old-fashioned, but if JavaScript is a large portion of your server's HTTP traffic, you're doing something wrong. (Unless the JS is only comparatively big because your webs
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by gary_0 2y ago
It makes me feel like Scottish pornography: off-kilter!
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by gary_0 2y ago
It's not just Linus. I use C++ daily for a variety of things, but I understand the hesitance to use it in real-world kernels and embedded code. For instance: The switches to disable features like exceptions are generally considered &qu
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by gary_0 2y ago
Doesn't Rust's `no_std` make it easy to throw out idioms you can't use (or don't like) and just keep the syntax and most of the tooling? I recall that one of Linus's preconditions for inclusion was that Rust's
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Skyscrapers that are 3000-ft-high batteries(cnn.com)
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Intel shareholders sue after job, dividend cuts cause stock plunge(reuters.com)
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