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by jsheard 8mo ago
The OP refers to 7zip.com, no dash. Those dashed domains directly resolve to the same Hetzner server, but the undashed one heads off into Cloudflare.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
He's always been an odd one, for a long time he refused to enable even basic hardening features like ASLR and DEP because they made the executables slightly larger. He eventually relented on some of those, but last I heard the more adv
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> if you're a casual user (ie you don't follow the development) don't try incomplete APIs that not even the creators of fully know how they are supposed to work Is the completeness of each API formally documented anywhere?
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, Blow started working on Jai in 2014, by which point Rust was already nearing stabilization with 1.0 shipping in 2015.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Vulkano is a somewhat higher level library which aims to be safe and idiomatic. It looks like it generates its own Vulkan bindings directly from the vk.xml definitions, but it also depends on Ash, and this comment suggests that both gener
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by jsheard 8mo ago
The underlying Vulkan API is updated constantly, the last spec update was about two weeks ago. Even if we only count the infrequent major milestone versions, Ash is still stuck at Vulkan 1.3, when Vulkan 1.4 launched in December of 2024.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
WGPU is a much higher level abstraction layer which itself depends on Ash for Vulkan FFI. https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/trunk/Cargo.toml#L264
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> Rust GUI is in a tough spot right now with critical dependencies under-staffed and lots of projects half implemented. Down the stack, low-level 3D acceleration is in a rough spot too unfortunately. The canonical Rust Vulkan wrapper (As
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by jsheard 8mo ago
This text/markdown scheme feels like it's begging for adversarial shenanigans since it lets you serve different content to agents than humans, by design.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I guess so, since the same role is used for anyone with permission to speak up in a stage channel. https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005513722-... Hell if I know why unverified users are allow
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by jsheard 8mo ago
It covers more than that, but it's not strictly mandatory. > Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. > Age-gated Spaces – Only users who
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Eh, the worldwide rollout hasn't happened yet so for now the only people getting sent to Persona after they promised client-side scanning are those who are fiddling around with Discords internals to trigger the age verification flow ea
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by jsheard 8mo ago
That K-ID bypass has already been patched, and even if it's bypassed again, Discord is apparently directing some users to Persona instead now. Persona does server-side classification so that one won't be as easy as nulling out the
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Dwarf Fortress players solve mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion(pcgamer.com)
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> When does steam require age verification? They only enforce it in the "mature sexual content" category, which mainly applies to porn games. For everything else, including the "some sexual content" category, they sti
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Tim & Eric: In our 2009 sketch we invented Cinco e-Trial as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created Cinco e-Trial from classic sketch "Don't Create Cinco e-Trial" https://www.youtube.com&
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> At least in Australia you absolutely can have a debit card under 18 Same in the UK, but Steam uses credit cards for age verification there and refuses if you provide a debit card instead. Evidently the payment backends can tell credit
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Ah right. That's no use for verification then, unless there's a way for payment gateways to distinguish the primary user from their authorized users.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Don't you have to be over 18 to get a credit card in the US? How many wouldn't be able to present a CC or ID?
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by jsheard 8mo ago
They already support ID checks as an alternative to face scanning, if the latter proves to be untenable then it's literally a case of flipping a switch to mandate ID instead.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I wouldn't class the M3 Ultra as a "normal" computer either. That's a big-ass workstation. I was thinking along the lines of a typical Macbook or Mac Mini or Windows laptop, which are fine for 99% of anyone who isn'
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by jsheard 8mo ago
They were originally a GCP wrapper but they started colo'ing their own racks about a year ago. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> The cheapest new mac mini is $600 on Apple's US store. And you're only getting 16GB at that base spec. It's $1000 for 32GB, or $2000 for 64GB plus the requisite SOC upgrade. > And it has a 128-bit memory interface usi
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I think AI may be the only place you could get away with calling a 2x350W GPU rig "modest". That's like ten normal computers worth of power for the GPUs alone.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> It was ASUS GeForce GT710-SL-2GD5 . I see some sources putting at at 2014. That's not _recent_ recent, but it's within the service life I'd expect. That's pretty old, the actual architecture debuted in 2012 and Nvid
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Yeah LLVMpipe means it's emulating the GPU path on the CPU, which is really not what you want. What GPU do you have out of interest? You have to go back pretty far to find something which doesn't support Vulkan at all, it's
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Such is life when built-in laptop displays are now pushing a billion pixels per second, rendering anything on the CPU adds up fast. Sublime Text spent over a decade tuning their CPU renderer and it still didn't cut it at high resolut
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Relevant: Descriptors are Hard from XDC 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpwjJdkg2RE Even on modern hardware there's still a lot of architectural differences to reconcile at the API level.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
https://howtovulkan.com is a recent one which targets the modern flavour of Vulkan that everything supports today. Well, all desktop hardware and drivers at least. God help you if you want to ship on Android.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Yeah, but Half Life 2's Source engine was itself a continuation of Goldsrc which was itself a continuation of the Quake 1 engine. The lineage is there but beyond a certain point it's not really Quake anymore. GZDoom/UZDoom

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