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by unsigner 6y ago
"RTX" is NVIDIA's marketing speak for "raytracing". The APIs through which you access raytracing are either DXR (DirectX Raytracing), or Vulkan extensions - presumably both available on AMD RX 6000 series.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Word on the street is that this was a vanity project of a VP, and never resulted in performance levels that couldn't be achieved with a little bit of focused optimization of boring old CPU work (threading + SIMD).
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by unsigner 6y ago
Taste might be a concern if the chemicals pass in the edible parts of the plants.
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by unsigner 6y ago
This has a kernel of truth in it, but only a tiny kernel. Mantle was much, much simpler than what eventually was shipped as Vulkan 1.0. When mobile vendors got onto the bandwagon, it turned into the monstrosity it is today.
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by unsigner 6y ago
It's design by committee, and it is pulled apart by multiple different hardware vendors.
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by unsigner 6y ago
Retsina seems to come with built-in geofencing for me: I like it when I drink it in Greece, and not when I bring it back home - even if I try to drink it in Greek weather and with similar food.
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by unsigner 6y ago
This reads like satire on the culture of trend-chasing, framework-of-the-week young developers that dominate in certain circles. Life imitates The Onion, Poe's law and all that. If you're not one of them, and feel alone and outdat
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by unsigner 7y ago
I'm working on a 15-year old codebase, and I was here from the beginning. I use 'blame' daily to make sense of code - why it was added, for what project, for what feature, to fix what bug, and who added it. It's priceles
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by unsigner 7y ago
Southern Slav with fluent Russian and a bit of Polish here; this is very, very easy to understand.
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by unsigner 7y ago
Electron is not native.
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by unsigner 7y ago
Vulkan _is_ a lock-in API, locking you into Google platforms; the one commercially viable platform using it is [recent versions of] Google's Android with another one on the horizon - Google Stadia. It's not necessary on Windows, n
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by unsigner 8y ago
Theoretically no - we don't know yet the business model of Stadia, only the technical delivery (video streaming). Probably yes, though - paying to "own" something which can't be separated from the service it arrived on w
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by unsigner 8y ago
The best custom UI would have one button, "Launch DeepMind AI and let it win the game". The intermediate UIs would be along the continuum between full micro and this. Maybe developing these AI/UIs would be fun (until Google&#
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by unsigner 8y ago
Thank you. It seems the major difference is that we are fiercely NIH, or as you put it a bit more mildly, DIY. We very quickly switched to our own socket implementation, we built our own IDE based on lua's remdebug and Scintilla (this
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by unsigner 8y ago
> I have written about Lua previously on [1] with a vocal conclsion that Lua cannot really handle a large code base (in the order of 10^5 lines), so I like to hear otherwise (hint: I hadn't). That's why... We have shipped and m
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by unsigner 8y ago
We do serious networking in Lua, but it's on top of C socket code (implemented using IOCP or epoll) that transparently serializes, compresses and encrypts Lua tuples to bytes on one and, and decrypts, decompresses and deserializes byte
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by unsigner 8y ago
Current Celerons would be Gemini Lake ( https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/83915/Gemini-Lake ), if not the generation after that - after all, A76 is not exactly shipping.
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by unsigner 9y ago
How dare they think of their own country! Those are trully irresponsible national leaders.
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by unsigner 9y ago
Pretty fleshed-out, pretty feature-rich, pretty long developed - but not pretty good. If it was pretty good we would be talking about the fort construction mode in PUBG now.
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by unsigner 9y ago
Don't count on it, write it out (unless it's much uglier - in which case, still write it out, but leave the original code in a comment.) New architectures, new platforms, a mess of shader languages, and the practice of customizing
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by unsigner 9y ago
Also it could transfer files peer to peer.
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by unsigner 9y ago
Fantastic, let's hope it vanishes from everywhere!
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by unsigner 9y ago
I was referring to the move towards tile-based operation, and towards more paralellism in the front-end (e.g. for a long time even the most powerful GPUs had a bottleneck of processing one triangle at a time at a certain point in the pipeli
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by unsigner 9y ago
The connection between "AI" and "GPU" in everyone's mind is a testament to the PR chops of NVIDIA. You don't need a GPU to run ML/DL/neural networks, but NVIDIA have GPU tech so they're selling G
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by unsigner 9y ago
Look at it another way: no Intel iGPU is on par with any discrete GPU, because in price segments where iGPUs appear, discrete GPUs tend to vanish in a matter of 1-2 years. There used to be a significant number of NVIDIA Geforce MX420/4
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by unsigner 9y ago
"game streaming services" is a non-market, sorry. Maybe in an investor's checklist of "potentially interesting futuristic-sounding stuff", but nothing that compares to, say, having a chip in every Xbox One and PS4,
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by unsigner 9y ago
A standard of living thing, you Swedes are richer than almost everyone else. At some point, McDonalds here (ass end of Eastern Europe) was a place where well-dressed grandparents took their well-dressed kids on Sunday lunches. Right now Ike
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by unsigner 9y ago
There's a crop of light, cheap Chinese laptops based on Atoms (well, they call them "Apollo Lake") which are the closes you can get to a modern day netbook. Google N3450 (the most popular CPU), or brands like Chuwi, Jumper or
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by unsigner 9y ago
No, the current SpaceX rockets are ICBM enough. This is much harder - ICBM's don't need to land at ~0 m/s vertical speed, and if they carry nuclear warheads (are there conventional ICBMs at all?) they don't need ~1 m lan
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by unsigner 9y ago
The Xbox 360 wired controller is a great piece of kit, easily the best controller ever as a balance of price, reliability, and simplicity of use - the API has literally two functions, "what buttons are pressed" and "set vibra

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