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by kvark 3y ago
I wish we had a TL;DR easily. Those lengthy scientific/history articles are doing a good job at killing any excitement about the core ideas.
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by kvark 3y ago
They missed the 3rd(!) bug in those few lines of code? The normalization was done before zeroing out the Z component, so the resulting vector isn’t actually normalized.
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by kvark 3y ago
Where C++ stands out is being wide and leaky at the same time. It allows high level programming, and yet you have to know about all those tiny low level nuances in order to avoid shooting yourself in the foot. In comparison, Java and JavaSc
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by kvark 3y ago
Reminds me of the famous “you have to be this tall to write multithreaded code” poster :)
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by kvark 3y ago
The CSS engine as well as new renderer from Servo has made it into Firefox successfully. Servo has served well.
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by kvark 3y ago
If doing cool stuff at home is what drives you, there is only so much time you’ll spend aimlessly binge watching Netflix or playing games, before this drive wakes up and brings you back to do interesting things again.
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by kvark 3y ago
Related - this was published exactly 3 years ago on a similar topic: http://kvark.github.io/web/gpu/native/2020/05/03/point-of-we...
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by kvark 3y ago
As often, the guessing about historical reasoning could be all over the place. And not just about WebGPU (oh that never ending “why not SPIRV?” discussion). Claiming that Vulkan and D3D12 were kicked off by a GDC talk about AZDO sounds ridi
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by kvark 3y ago
Religion you say? Here we go - https://kvark.github.io/ideas/knights-of-the-order
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by kvark 3y ago
Especially annoying when this shows up in Firefox on iOS which doesn’t even support plugins (uBlock) to begin with (since it’s on WebKit there).
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by kvark 3y ago
Gecko engine looks pretty healthy to me overall. And WebGPU in particular is the least of a concern, given that Firefox's implementation is based on wgpu [1], which has great community and a lot of users within and outside of Rust ecos
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by kvark 3y ago
This isn’t correct. All 3 parties had prototypes. Mozilla’s first prototype was based on Metal and implemented in Servo. Then we (Mozilla) proposed a Vulkan-like API and had another WIP in Servo, but it was also thrown out.
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by kvark 4y ago
Don’t expect to see immediate benefit from Rust by writing a small Pong application. Rust gives you confidence at scale: the ability to depend on many 3rd party blocks without compromising stability or performance, the ability to grow and m
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by kvark 4y ago
GPU compression formats are still well subjected to entropy encoders such as LZ family.
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by kvark 4y ago
There are small teams that are highly effective without PRs, given how little their owned areas intersected. Forcing the PR reviews there would only harm - any knowledge sharing is more effective at the whiteboard, anyway.
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by kvark 4y ago
Is it really? If I see a game written in, say, Haskell, this grabs my interest. What’s wrong with looking at Rust written software?
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by kvark 4y ago
I wonder what RMS would say. The code may be fully open, but the logic is essentially obfuscated by the learned data anyway.
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by kvark 4y ago
It’s not clear where the line to draw about calling corporations behavior to be anti-consumer. Was this falsely advertised? Did anybody promise the online games to live long?
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by kvark 4y ago
John have strong beliefs about how a business should operate. I bet he also has strong beliefs about politics, music, you name it. I love the act of software preservation, playing old games, seeing longer product cycles, but what ground do
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by kvark 4y ago
Or maybe the bug was closed as a duplicate of one they were already aware of? Still impolite of them, of course, but we shouldn’t assume the worst.
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by kvark 4y ago
To follow-up on this, it’s a good habit to never personalize your projects in the first place. Don’t say “my project” unless specifically asked for history or ownership of it. Be “we” everywhere.
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by kvark 4y ago
Love this article for how precise its description of the suffering is. I am of the people mentioned who disappear, and now trying to slowly find my way back in, but without burning out. One strategy that ought to be mentioned is “scratch th
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by kvark 4y ago
Tried Zed editor and never switched back to Sublime. Looking forward to see Zed on more platforms! Currently, it’s just macOS. https://zed.dev/
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by kvark 4y ago
It’s very similar for Khronos, the github org of which contains projects that aren’t official Khronos products, but just something related and made by one of Khronos members.
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by kvark 4y ago
Sounds like they are just trying to set up the expectations by drawing the analogy to 3.0 release. It’s happening, it’s going to be slow, incomplete, rough, etc, but we hope to see the community helping to fix it.
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by kvark 4y ago
Every time, every time I wrestle with C++ compiler on the move constructors/semantics, I open this post[1] by Herb Sutter saying that C++ moves are simple and misunderstood. It's humiliating to read. Finally, somebody dissected a
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by kvark 4y ago
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers Not true if you consider transparent objects. Rendering with order-independent transparency is still a hot topic without a clearly winning solution
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by kvark 4y ago
> I didn't build this for conformance I just wanted to program OpenGL on the MacOS platform That's a bit of a red sign. It may work on your machine for your application. Conformance tests are a great mechanism to understand how
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by kvark 4y ago
When would you actually need to not have the max regen braking? You can always just push the drive pedal slightly to let the car know you aren’t slowing down, instead.
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by kvark 4y ago
In some ECS in Rust (like Specs) there is a concept of a “resource” for this. System declare their use of resources, which allows the scheduler to order them.

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