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by kvark 4y ago
There is WebGPU (for example provided by wgpu/wgpu-native, or dawn). Easier to write, portable, and debuggable as Metal on macOS.
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by kvark 4y ago
From Rust point of view, if you have to write these signatures, something may be off with your architecture. I.e. this is a thing that needs to be mutated from multiple threads, abstracted by a virtual table, and be nullable. And for some r
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by kvark 4y ago
While true for most companies, this is not the case for non-profit organizations (FSF, Mozilla, etc). And some for-profits are mission driven (Tesla).
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by kvark 4y ago
For me, it’s a modern equivalent of the soviet stores. There is no 10 kinds of everything, but the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality and at an affordable price. Speaking more modern, it saves the mental effort of resea
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by kvark 4y ago
At the high level, wgpu API follows WebGPU, which is designed by W3C. In your criticism, are you referring to the lifetime requirements on resources used in a render pass, or something else?
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by kvark 4y ago
Nuclear physics “API” allows for wiping the life from Earth. So, we should abandon it at once?
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by kvark 4y ago
I believe it’s the story games that fit under “living” definition of the article - you merge the story experience into your life, making it richer. But online/MOBAs are more of a waste, at least for me.
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by kvark 4y ago
One of the signs of an apocalypse/bloat is latency. Watching the industry from the intel 386 era, I’m only seeing it increasing. Every little action takes longer to start. It feels like we (in a larger sense) focused too much on throug
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by kvark 4y ago
I worked on both games and browsers, and I’ve seen this comparison being made before. Browsers are way more complex than what meets the eye. There are requirements for high quality text, page consistency, lots of different content types, fi
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by kvark 4y ago
I’m not a biologist, but I thought the neurochemical processes can be the results of an emotion rather than the cause of it. Instead, emotions are meta-level states of the system.
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by kvark 4y ago
I feel CLion latencies even on a much smaller project. Sublime Text is faster, and I hope Zed is near. I guess people have different sensitivity for this. It’s not about time waste, it’s just affecting the flow.
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by kvark 4y ago
For all its shortcomings, it was the right game for the time. The feeling of vast universe to explore, ship controls to learn, was unique. Player was succumbed into the game, and had to fight it at the same time, where game bugs were part
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by kvark 4y ago
Most of the discussions on Rust graphics stack around wgpu (WebGPU implementation) happen on the Matrix protocol. There you can find our official rooms for communication both intra within developers and extra with community. It’s been work
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by kvark 5y ago
The beauty of Obsidian (at least) is that it does not matter whether the company is still around. It’s your files in a standard Markdown format.
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by kvark 5y ago
Naga (a community project) translates GLSL directly into WGSL, unlike other tools.
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by kvark 5y ago
Render pipelines use the same compute cores for running the shaders as of long ago. However, they also involve fixed-function pieces (some implemented in hardware) that compute shaders don’t have access to. Such as: rasterizer, blending, de
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by kvark 5y ago
It’s true that WebGPU native could be seen as just another middleware. However, what differentiates it is: 1. Well-thought API with an actual standard 2. Large conformance test suite 3. Trivial deploy on the Web
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by kvark 5y ago
How do you draw the line between exaggeration and whatnot? The problem exposed by the imposter syndrome is not about lie at all. One day you are creating something, shipping products, feeling valuable and knowledgeable. The other day you st
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Shader Translation Benchmark(kvark.github.io)
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by kvark 5y ago
I’m tired of the linux distributions calling themselves different operating systems. Yes, Linux is just a kernel, but the experience you get is largely similar. Unlike, say, running Haiku.
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by kvark 5y ago
I don't think Mozilla is in the right to decide whether advertising should exist or not. Firefox provides a fair choice - you can install adblocking solutions and mess with your content view of the web as much as necessary. But there i
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by kvark 5y ago
Couldn’t stop reading this. My learning style is chaotic, and should leave a lot to be improved. The analogy of city spectator/participant/citizen/architect is particularly nice!
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by kvark 5y ago
I like to include traits closer to where they are used, to help with this. For example, “use cgmath::InnerSpace as _;” at the start of a small function. The “_” is a strong signal that I don’t need the type itself, but only properties of th
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by kvark 5y ago
Apparently, not! I feel old…
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by kvark 5y ago
The old (non-beta) projects were quite useful as a simple kanban board integrated with Github. We used it in Firefox Graphics team with limited success. We use it actively in WebGPU group, and it works well for scoping the work for meetings
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by kvark 5y ago
Power optimization doesn’t improve memory footprint. In fact, it can do the opposite and increase memory allocation. Think tradeoffs between memory and processing, e.g. caching of intermediate results.
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by kvark 5y ago
Reminds me of modern C++, where the language and standard library features all work together to increase safety. And then it backfires because you feel like it's safe, but in reality it's not, and bugs still happen, they just catc
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by kvark 5y ago
Interesting! I’ll try force-enabling it and report back. I don’t recall sublime-3 chugging as much, fwiw.
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by kvark 5y ago
I have a feeling that the recent move to OpenGL rendering for Sublime was a mistake. I know, we did with Firefox and WebRender as well. And yet, when compiling a heavy project on a modern machine, I can scroll fine in Firefox, but Sublime
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by kvark 5y ago
I'm sorry, the game on PC was a crappy bugfest. And as for being "impossible" on consoles... Isn't it effectively GTA in a different setting? GTA managed to run fine, and Cyberpunk could, but they weren't able to re

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