dneto

dneto, 4 days ago to random

University of Toronto students are protesting the situation in Gaza and demanding financial divestment in Israel and cutting ties with universities in Israel.
The University is willing to give in on the first, not the second, and has given 24hrs to accept the terms and vacate the premises.

This reminds me of the fight against South African apartheid. Students led a 6 year campaign ending in full divestment, including a 3hr occupation of the president's office
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/university-toronto-students-win-divestment-apartheid-south-africa-1984-1990

dneto, 6 days ago to random

Programming languages are cultural artifacts. Their value lies in their usage by a community.

dneto, 8 days ago to random

I use "circle to search" all the time now. It's so much easier.

dneto, 12 days ago to random

I think people get tied up in knots when trying to parse SPIR-V with structured control flow.

You gotta do it in reverse structured post-order.

Once you lay out the basic blocks in that order, the nested control constructs map to intervals over that list. (:galaxy brain:)

For details, see Tint's SPIR-V to WGSL translator.

https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn/+/refs/heads/main/src/tint/lang/spirv/reader/ast_parser/function.cc#72

#spirv #vulkan #wgsl #webgpu

dneto, 25 days ago to random

Interesting article on a novel legal theory about Section 230.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/was-there-a-trojan-horse-hidden-in-section-230-all-along-that-could-enable-adversarial-interoperability/

dneto, 26 days ago to random

SSD stands for "solid state drive".

That makes no sense. What is being driven?
I know it's from hard drive,. or floppy drive, where a disk was being spun.

dneto, 28 days ago to random

Jet lag and food poisoning will flatten you.
Fortunately I have a 284h podcast queue.

Currently listening to episode 4 of the 99% Invisible series on The Power Broker.

https://pca.st/episode/1b7e9505-ca7b-43fd-9627-c3f018e83991

dneto, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Just got back from some business travel in Europe. Nice to see USB-C charge ports showing up in hotel rooms and airport seating.

dneto, 1 month ago to Canada

NEWS FROM CANADA

The federal government announced their budget. It raises the inclusion rate on capital gains above a gain of 250K$, on businesses and trusts. (Ooh, multiple qualifiers there...) From 50% to 67%.

Cue the "brain drain" Cassandra's, just like the 1990s.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-entrepreneurs-investors-capital-gains-tax-reaction-1.7176837

#canada #capoli

dneto, 1 month ago to random

Yes, friends, today I wrote an email beginning with "Yikes!"

dneto, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned there going to be a new time zone... created for the moon.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-moon-will-get-its-own-time-zone-called-coordinated-lunar-time-under-nasas-lead-180984076/

dneto, 1 month ago to random

I watched Dune part 1 last night.
I kept thinking: this is just Star Wars, right?

dneto, 2 months ago to random

Pet peeve: the word "headcount"

I find it reductive and demeaning.

Prefer "staff", "staff level", or "staffing".
Treat people like full human beings.

dneto, 2 months ago to random

Holy cow.

Back in the 80s I bought an album of instrumental music: the Wyndham Hill Sampler album for 1988. (That was a thing record companies did, to generate interest for music that would otherwise not get attention, definitely no mainstream airplay.)
The album had some great stuff on it, and I've missed it.
I could never find it on streaming services...until today. Yowza this brings back memories.
"Climbing into geometry" (!) for example.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7CECD5718BD137B2&si=M_a9vDB_igateOhn

dneto, 2 months ago to random

In my mind's eye the West Wing is on the east side of the White House.
Dunno why

dneto, 2 months ago to random

NEWS FROM CANADA

First rollout of a nation universal pharmacare program: birth control and diabetes drugs to be paid by the government.

Product of the Liberal-NDP coalition.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/against-incredible-odds-canada-is-getting-universal-pharmacare/article_fa69526a-d7ee-11ee-be1d-cf1cf9d24d64.html

dneto, 2 months ago to random

"Do you want six almonds?" Gary, Veep, S7E7

What a genius show.

dneto, 3 months ago to random

Time dilates, it just does.

When I first heard Sgt Pepper "It was 20 years ago today..." it had only been 9 years since the recording.
And now it's been another 48. What the

20 years doesn't seem that long anymore.

Also The Joshua Tree was only 20 years after Sgt Pepper, but 37 years ago.

dneto, 3 months ago to random

TFW you've been to 4 grocery stores and your car is full of groceries but now you're kinda pooped and just wanna sit down.

At least I have everything for chilli and snacks for.thw Superbowl tomorrow.

dneto, 3 months ago to random

Heh. Social science is hard.
Yes, money can buy happiness, beyond 75K$. Probably. Depends.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/money-can-buy-happiness-1.7107592

dneto, 3 months ago to random

Dear NYT Letterbox editor: HOMOTOPY is a word.
That is all

dneto, 3 months ago to webgpu

François Beaufort has written "WebGPU: Troubleshooting tips and fixes", to help you figure out and fix why WebGPU might not be working for you in Chrome.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/webgpu/troubleshooting-tips

#WebGPU

dneto, 4 months ago to random

Vulkan shader maximal reconvergence extension has been released.

This is a deeply technical issue. But your intuition about how subgroups work is wrong.
This cuts across APIs, but Vulkan is doing something about it.

https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v

dneto, 4 months ago to random

Good afternoon Europe!

dneto, 4 months ago to random

NEWS FROM CANADA

Background on our habit of buying milk in bags.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bag-or-jug-why-milk-is-sold-differently-across-canada-1.7071497