tormeh

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by tormeh 3y ago
Tore it down against the will of the people living there. And the building height was constrained by an overhead airport approach. KWC could have been even denser. I don't think going full KWC density is a good idea, but comparisons to
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by tormeh 3y ago
> because users won't need to download a desktop app to do so Not only that, WebGPU is OS and hardware neutral. It'll work regardless of what machine you have. Currently it's Nvidia or get lost.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Easy to keep banks out of crises during good times.
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by tormeh 3y ago
Loads of people have stated why easy GPU interfaces are difficult to create, but we solve many difficult things all the time. Ultimately I think CPUs are just satisfactory for the vast vast majority of workloads. Servers rarely come with an
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by tormeh 3y ago
Agree that Unreal Engine is a powerful force. But it's not FOSS. While the licensing terms are attractive to gaming companies, I'm not sure how well that goes over in other sectors. In particular FAANG seems to prefer Apache/
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by tormeh 4y ago
The iOS app store has way more trash than the Android one. Android has lots of open source software. iOS has a bajillion crappy $2 apps instead. I got an iPad from work, and not only does it not have a calculator from Apple, it's reall
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by tormeh 4y ago
Any way to run this kind of thing outside the browser? Chrome hasn't enabled WebGPU on Linux yet.
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by tormeh 4y ago
We're talking short flights here.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I get it, to a certain extent. But it’s not quite that simple. Many rural hobbies have pretty intense initial capital outlays, while urban ones tend to have higher running costs. Making tools that end up basically unused in suburban sheds i
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by tormeh 4y ago
> we'll cling to tradition I think this is mostly a matter of old voter bases.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Isn't it the other way around? People have to stay in the suburbs because they can't afford to move to NYC?
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by tormeh 4y ago
Most industrialized countries have abundant food and access to cars. That's not the issue.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Google has the same data-slurping business model, they just aren't quite as big dicks about it as Facebook.
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Octo Browser(octobrowser.net)
4 points by tormeh 4y ago|0 comments
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by tormeh 4y ago
The older I get the more I disagree with this POV. All other things equal, a single open source implementation is superior to several ones. Several implementations lead to duplication of effort, both for those developing them, and more impo
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by tormeh 4y ago
Vulkan doesn't run on Apple platforms. And Apple refuses to upgrade their OpenGL drivers. So no, they don't count. Then there are the consoles, which also have their own APIs. Expecting all vendors to implement a common API is a f
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by tormeh 4y ago
Can't fault that logic.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Which is fine, IMO, as long as there are user-friendly abstractions on top of those foundations. I'd "just" like to write high-level code that runs on GPUs without having to worry about vendor/OS differences (yay, WebGPU
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by tormeh 4y ago
Good and valid point. Effort will naturally focus on the lowest common denominator. Any new features would have to be implemented in software in the WebGPU layer for targets without API support. That's probably going to slow developmen
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by tormeh 4y ago
Anyone know the reason Google created Dawn instead of going with Wgpu? Attachment to C++, or NIH syndrome?
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by tormeh 4y ago
It becoming a stale standard is maybe the biggest threat, yes. It has the issue all standards have since several actors have to play along, except this time it isn't Nvidia, Apple, and AMD, but Wgpu/Mozilla and Google. Their incen
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by tormeh 4y ago
I believe the LibreWolf browser does this. It's basically Firefox with all the fingerprintable features turned off.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Not really. I don't see how any of the vendors could break it without being extremely overt about it. And it has no direct competition. Nothing else runs on any OS and any GPU, except WebGL, which is abandoned.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Wgpu is the foundation for the Bevy game engine (on native, web is still WebGL), and is also used by some games and UI frameworks.
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by tormeh 4y ago
This is HUGE news. Webgpu solves the incentives problem where all actors tries to lock you in to their graphics/compute ecosystem by abstracting over them. It's already the best way to code cross-platform graphics outside the brow
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by tormeh 4y ago
This is mostly true of the small European countries. The bigger ones like Germany, Spain or the UK have considerable internal tensions.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I've checked, and nowhere on earth has more immigrants than Toronto. So I agree.
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by tormeh 4y ago
No, caning is something you can be sentenced to.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Very few rich cities, formally speaking. I know Singapore uses formal physical punishment. In worldwide practice, however, police will often be a bit rougher than they perhaps have to (or have the right to) be when arresting if they feel so
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by tormeh 4y ago
Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to put up the new panels somewhere else? Are panel costs such a negligible part of solar farm costs that expending doesn't make sense?

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