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by slimsag 5y ago
Wow, TIL! Can't believe I missed that, thank you.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Arguably, casual dabblers is what gets you increased support costs and does not land the big contracts. I wouldn't be surprised if AWS and GCP _intentionally_ do not do this because they'd rather focus on large enterprises "w
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by slimsag 5y ago
Not true. Good luck exporting the issues, pull requests, comments, discussions, wikis, etc. and bringing those to another platform. Ironically (and I am not defending them), Slack[0] is the only one of the three that has an official way to
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by slimsag 5y ago
I agree with you. At the same time, people use GitHub and see no issue with it.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Very cool introductory article! Game hacking techniques have gotten even more advanced and cat-and-mouse than this in recent years, though. My brother is really into this stuff and I hear a lot from him. For example, nowadays anti cheats li
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by slimsag 5y ago
Isn't this DigitalOcean's whole business model, basically?
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by slimsag 5y ago
From kvark himself, big fan of your work :) Very interesting, thanks for saying this, I wouldn't have thought SPIRV->Target could be faster than or near the same speed as WGSL->Target. I guess with compression probably being quit
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by slimsag 5y ago
Right. Nintendo cares about NVN[0], the lower level API for the Switch (not Vulkan, which they added much later as an option) Sony cares about GNM and their custom shader language PSSL[1]. Seems unlikely they'll support Vulkan anytime
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by slimsag 5y ago
Google's native implementation of WebGPU, Dawn, has DirectX/Metal/Vulkan backends, as well as fallback to OpenGL when not available. So it's already ubiquitous today, you just can't use it in the browser (yet)
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by slimsag 5y ago
I think that is a reasonable statement. SDL includes other functionality like image loading, audio, etc. whereas GLFW is primarily focused just with getting a window with a graphics context for OpenGL/Vulkan/etc set up.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Author here, sorry for the missing context. GLFW is very popular among game developers for opening graphics windows in a cross-platform way. This helps just Zig game developers for now, it's not a major contribution to game development
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by slimsag 5y ago
I agree with you about Web Shading Language not needing to exist. But I also don't think it's the end of the world, either. Google's Tint can translate between SPIR-V/GLSL/etc -> WGSL and vice-versa pretty well.
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by slimsag 5y ago
In my view, WebGPU is the future of cross-platform graphics. I wrote about this and why we chose it for a game engine we're developing in Zig[0] It's the one API that Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel can all agree on.
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by slimsag 5y ago
It's not so clear-cut, they're pouring a lot of resources into WebGPU and Safari.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Concentration could make a huge difference, though. Paint is in enclosed spaces without ventilation, often. Aeroplanes are not in the context of suburb effects.
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by slimsag 5y ago
I'll say I am definitely biased in favor of WebGPU up front[2]. WebGPU is focused on landing 1.0 currently, so yes, more features are not on the immediate roadmap. But they've been considering/investigating adding support for
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by slimsag 5y ago
The replacement filter (4in by 14in metal can filled wih activated carbon) is only $38. The up-front cost $100 is the price of the filter, plus a cloth filter which goes around it, and the duct fan. From what I understand, activated carbon
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by slimsag 5y ago
I would stay far away from Ozone, dangerous AF. > Relatively low amounts of ozone can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath and, throat irritation. It may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma as well as compr
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by slimsag 5y ago
All people will do is switch over to Medium.
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by slimsag 5y ago
You left out the best part: > We were expected to hit precise deadlines on multi-quarter projects (within two weeks), and when that inevitably didn't happen, we had to track all the time we spent on anything in 30 minute increments.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Interesting! Thank you!
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by slimsag 5y ago
I suspect one could fill an inner tube with a soft silicon used for mold making, I wonder how it would compare?
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by slimsag 5y ago
We also use it at Sourcegraph (to run arbitrary LSIF code indexers in a sandboxed environment)
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by slimsag 5y ago
very cool work :) If you like, add a screenshot or two and I'll include this in the next zigmonthly.org article you might also be interested to know about stub dynamic libraries, e.g. `.tbd` files on MacOS. That's what is in the M
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by slimsag 5y ago
The project is only 4 months old :) I will get to those bits and explain my vision there once the groundwork is done. In general, I have a preference of providing (1) solid groundwork, (2) libraries, and (3) extensive tooling. We're on
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by slimsag 5y ago
Oh, you're right. I feel a bit of a doofus now :) It's been a year since I looked at the Loop-Blinn paper, I had forgotten they did this. That's not a good excuse, I should've shut up or spent the time to actually look i
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by slimsag 5y ago
My understand is that Loop-Blinn performs constrained Delaunay triangulation prior to uploading an actual display list to the GPU, in effect turning its cubic curves into quadratic ones, from the paper: > The overlap removal and triangul
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by slimsag 5y ago
Yep, you probably read my comment before I edited and clarified, but you also need to eliminate overlapping geometry. Basically just build your graphics around non-overlapping convex and concave quadratic curves represented as triangles. Th
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by slimsag 5y ago
Interesting to hear, thanks for the info! I imagine Zig's SIMD is still very immature, I haven't tinkered with it at all yet either - so what I said above is pure speculation about the future.
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by slimsag 5y ago
It'll be a bit before I can publish the paper, libraries, tooling etc. around this - it's been maybe 8 years in the making but slow - the general idea is: 1. GPUs are actually _ridiculously and stupidly_ excellent at natively rend

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