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by mschuetz 4y ago
You'd use level of detail structures, like google earth does.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
Since I'm doing 3D graphics in Web Browsers, I consider not having 3D graphics APIs in Web Browsers a broken web experience. The browser is the easiest and safest way to distribute applications with virtually no entry barrier to users.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
You're free to disable features you don't like. For others, this is good news.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
Yeah, WebGPU unfortunately ended up becoming an outdated mobile phone graphics API on arrival. Still better than WebGL, but not quite what I would have liked it to be.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
Unfortunately WebGPU is also an essentially a 5 year old mobile phone graphics API, which means for most desktop features younger than 10 years, you'll still need DirectX, Vulkan, or Metal.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
I hope it takes off, a platform independent alternative to CUDA would be great. But if they want it to be successfully outside of supercomputing labs, it needs to be as easy to use as CUDA. And I'd say being successfull outside of supe
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by mschuetz 4y ago
> Sometimes, like with CUDA, they just have an early enough lead that they entrench. The problem in case of CUDA isn't just that NVIDIA was there early, it's that AMD and Khronos still offer no viable alternative after more tha
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by mschuetz 4y ago
All of the examples look unreadable and hard to debug to me. Why not something like this rather than one massive nested instruction? let keys = Object.keys(envars); let text = keys.map(envar => `${envar}=${envars[envar]}`).join
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by mschuetz 4y ago
I develop programs that take unsorted data as input, and sort them as part of the processing... I haven't touched a database in 10 years, because I do graphics programming, nothing that needs a database. Also, I don't actually use
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by mschuetz 4y ago
> be honest, how often are you sorting things by a number and only a number? More often than not. Sorting by morton code, sorting by index, etc.
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by mschuetz 4y ago
Because its the securest way we have to launch any app on any device. With binaries, any binary might be malicious and therefore I can only trust and run a very small amount of selected binaries. With web apps, I can launch whatever I want
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by mschuetz 4y ago
It's simply fraud. There are laws against fraud.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
That's normal, most papers are written unnecessarily complex, likely to make them appear more impressive than they actually are. Many blog posts that contain just as much information as papers, but presented in a much more intelligible
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by mschuetz 5y ago
You are making a surprisingly good case for browser apps. With binaries, you're restricted to a tiny fraction of available apps that are carefully vetted to _reduce_ the chance of security issues, whereas with browser apps, you can run
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by mschuetz 5y ago
> Desktop apps do have to adhere to the same system security permission that the browser provides. A desktop app on an average users PC has access to most files on disk, including sensitive data. While a browser has that too, apps runnin
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by mschuetz 5y ago
The average user and use case typically has internet connection so you're talking about edge-case scenarios. In a regular scenario, a native app can send whatever it wants about your system to a server, including your sensitive photos
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by mschuetz 5y ago
How is installing a binary supposed to be more secure than a web page? A binary can do largely whatever it wants, especially for an average person that will grant it all the permissions it requests.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
> better privacy/security than a webapp. It's the complete opposite and one of the reasons I prefer to use a comparable web app over a native desktop app. Installing an app requires way more trust into it than using a web app t
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by mschuetz 5y ago
Since when do we not allow children to wander around by themselves? It's perfectly normal in Austria.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
Since when do we not allow children to wander around by themselves? It's perfectly normal in Austria.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
It's not just the boilerplate, but also seemingly noncensical things like stypes.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
I think one of the main issues is that Vulkan is really bad from a usability perspective. OpenGL is too, but there is little incentive to switch from one bad API that you know how to use, to another bad API that you don't know how to u
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by mschuetz 5y ago
True, I do vote with my feet. Which is why I won't apply for jobs with remote teams, and which is why I'm sticking with my current job.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
> Good for you as you can always vote with your feet. If others don't want to come in and work with you, then you must find a new job Sure, that's fine. It's why I'd never apply for remote positions. Luckily, where I
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by mschuetz 5y ago
My view comes from my dislike of communicating via mail or video conferencing, and that I just don't want my home to be a place of work. Communicating online is wildly inefficient and lacks the nuance of doing things directly in person
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by mschuetz 5y ago
I'm fine with people coming in maybe 3 instead of 5 days a week. I'm not fine working together with people who are not here at all. It's wildly inefficient and communication via video conferencing is horrible.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
That is fine, but don't expect us to want to work with people who are not present and can only be contacted via mail/chat/video conferencing. Just as you expect others to respect your wish not to show up, you'll have to
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by mschuetz 5y ago
I prefer working in an office, and I dislike working with people remotely. I'm just glad that things are going back to normal, and that there are also many people at my job who also prefer to show up in office even though they have the
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by mschuetz 5y ago
No, it doesn't. It forces you to use a special extension that breaks the code in browsers.
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by mschuetz 5y ago
There is absolutely no need for a package.json when using ES6 imports without a build step. Package.json doesn't do anything when I'm loading the code in a browser, why would I have to use it when I want to run the same JS code wi

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