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by kvark 6y ago
Interesting how it first tells you that Forever Project is not about setting goals, while truly pursuing the goal of learning. This becomes especially clear in the end, when polishing is criticized. If there is a goal (learning new things
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There are many safe programming languages that do not rely on extra safety features of the hardware. Calling it "false promise that will be exploited and unfixable" is not supported by the evidence. That is to say, WebGPU is worki
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Today, one of the main drivers of WGSL/Tint is David Neto - the former SPIR-V WG chair. We know very well the problems we are facing, it's not the ignorance.
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We've been trying to design a safe and portable language in WebGPU (called WGSL), but it turns out to be really hard. For example, subgroup ops discussion [1] so far concluded that even the most limited form still has portability conce
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by kvark 6y ago
There is nothing wrong with gfx-hal. I care deeply about it, and wgpu implementation is based on top. It's just for users who need portability and performance, while Ash gives you close to raw access to Vukan.
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Ok, in this case, I think the situation is fairly good. De-facto standard for raw Vulkan in Rust is Ash [1], and raw GL can be worked with GL-rs [2]. It's when you go higher levels where things start diverging more. [1] https:&#x2
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What kind of graphics libraries were you looking for?
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> If they cannot succeed in making Firefox better They can make Firefox better, and have been doing that a lot. The problem is - it doesn't make the users to come. Google, Apple, Microsoft - all own platforms that people use, and
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I'm really worried about Mozilla's participation in standards now, WebGPU in particular :/
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Firefox is the product of Mozilla mission. But mission is larger than just a browser. I'd love to see it extend to trusted email services and search engines, for example, but this requires a lot of engineering. If I understand this rig
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by kvark 6y ago
Well, you have to pick your battles, right? Maybe in some future when Mozilla has their own privacy-oriented open-source search engine, as well as an independent solid source of income, it would cease to sign contracts with Google. We aren&
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by kvark 6y ago
I'm totally with you on "Recommended by Pocket" thing, it's very sad. But I think you are confusing Mozilla with something it's not. Mozilla is not a software company today that tries to be an internet activist. Moz
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That's the last call for anybody who thinks "it's good that Mozilla exists, and its mission is important, but I'm still using Chrome and derivatives". Mozilla can't exist solely because people think it has a go
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It's really hard to resolve this barbaric situation in a civilized way. Communication channels are blocked, people are actively oppressed, and the voting protocol is totally broken. At the same time, people of Belarus want to be indepe
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They do heavily invest in WebGPU, which is an open standard for a portable GPU API.
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In the long term, especially for a use-case like Qt, WebGPU native would make more sense. The timing is just a off by a few years:)
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Didn't realize Qt updates were such a disaster... Interesting to me that they went for "Rendering Hardware Interface" with their own "cross-compile shaders both at compile and at runtime". I wonder about the exact s
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by kvark 6y ago
IrfanView - by far the fastest, most convenient and powerful image viewer. WinAMP 2.95 - simple and effective music player TotalCommander - brings file management on the next level, very smooth and robust. All of these are from 10-15 years
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by kvark 6y ago
Also seeing closures as a universal instrument to many cases, often overused. Problem with them is disrupted control flow and implicit capturing of the context. However, in cases where you have to guarantee something to happen after user co
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by kvark 6y ago
I haven't paid attention to the yearly goals, but the story you are telling is quite believable (and also sad). To me it sounds like a disconnect between people who do planning and people who implement things. Thank you for sharing!
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This is magnificent, thank you for the link! Interestingly, Argdown appears to use a different model: it has statements and arguments, where IBIS has issues, positions, and arguments.
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by kvark 6y ago
Perhaps, not knowing the author of a point is a feature? I'm often engaged in discussions where the authorship hurts more than it helps. Ideas are being referred to as "John's idea", conflating objective ideas with subje
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This is the first cut of the "famous" debate reconstruction using Argdown. Motivation behind this was expressed in http://kvark.github.io/tech/arguments/2020/06/30/technical-d...
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Reconstructed debate about accepting SPIR-V in WebGPU(kvark.github.io)
1 points by kvark 6y ago|1 comments
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by kvark 6y ago
I find the battery life in Lenovo laptops degrading very quickly, comparing to Apple macbooks. I used X1C 4th gen as well as X1 Extreme extensively, and their batteries are pretty close to dead, only delivering ~1-2 hours of work. At the sa
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by kvark 6y ago
MoltenVK is not a Khronos product. It's a product of Brenwill Workshop that is one of the many member companies under Khronos. It moved the code under Khronos github. There is quite a few community / other companies contributions
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Lawyers know how to fight corporate entities. This tech doesn't have to be a corporate product. It could be a separate community repository somewhere, used only by those native gfx/wgpu users who opt into it.
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by kvark 6y ago
I know, I was there. I also think that objection to SPIR-V wasn't completely unfounded. SPIR-V is a nice binary representation of shaders, but it has problems in the context of WebGPU adoption: 1. It's so low level that generating
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by kvark 6y ago
At some point, it comes down to the amount of momentum behind the API. In case of WebGPU, we have strong support from Intel and Apple, which are hardware vendors, as well as Google, who can influence mobile hardware vendors. We are making t
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My recent talk at Fosdem started with a rant about OpenGL/WebGL. Cant express this better still: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/rust_webgpu/

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