dotstdy

dotstdy, 10 months ago to random

Internet forums are like uranium. If you store them too densely they become supercritical, trigger a singularity, and manifest god. The tech bros are right to be scared.

dotstdy, 3 months ago to random

The way the mail has to split US and UK here is fun.

"For those of you in the US, all impacted employees will be notified today."

In the UK it goes via collective bargaining.

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/difficult-news-about-our-workforce

dotstdy, 8 months ago to random

one of the most important parts of programming is the theatrical sigh

dotstdy, 8 months ago to random

It's not like hardware security keys are a panacea, but they're such a huge advantage to both practical security and usability that it makes me very sad when big companies who should know better, and should have the budget to do better, don't use them.

dotstdy, 7 months ago to random

Not to dunk on anyone or anything, but it is kinda funny the difference between what the general tech world thinks is a "big repo" and what constitutes a "big repo" in game development. Firefox 7GB repo with history? xd. Windows monorepo at microsoft! Surely that's big? A whopping... 300GB... Well it's getting closer I guess. If you squint.

dotstdy, 7 months ago to random

Days since fixing a performance issue caused by overzealous spinlock usage: 0

dotstdy, 6 months ago to random

cbloom on patching https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2023/09/patcher-part-1.html

dotstdy, 1 month ago to random

So my talk is now available on the gdc vault, if you have got access there. I try to go over how the game works, and give some insight into what things look like when building a game with Snowdrop. https://gdcvault.com/play/1034279/Upgrading-the-Snowdrop-Engine-for

dotstdy, 10 months ago to random

Every time there's a Google kerfuffle a bunch of weirdos show up and start pimping brave. I would like to assume they're being paid but I suspect there's just a lot of asshats out there.

dotstdy, 4 months ago to random

This Year In LLVM (2023) https://www.npopov.com/2024/01/01/This-year-in-LLVM-2023.html

A whole year out of date now but lots of interesting stuff.

dotstdy, 9 days ago to random

I bet a lot of people think of themselves as important game development influencers, but the simple truth is that in the last decade or so the single most impactful game development thought leader is the "can you pet the dog" twitter account

dotstdy, 14 hours ago to random

subgroup ops are a mindfuck on top of the existing mindfuck of work groups, local work groups, dispatches and invocations.

dotstdy, 1 day ago to random

Anyway I'm curious whether I can move the coarse bitmap to LDS, merging the two culling passes. Basically dispatch a "coarse" tile, which loops over all the incoming primitives, writing the bitmap to LDS (16KiB per tile, too much?), then switch to one invocation per "fine" tile, looping over the data in LDS and writing out the final culled tiles.

dotstdy, 6 days ago to random

It's always fun when you remove a parallel foreach and do some basic re-organization and end up with a result that's 25% faster on a single core than the old version was spread across 10 cores.

dotstdy, 4 days ago to random

To be honest I'm surprised the "one small rock a day" diet hasn't caught on outside of Sweden. Arguably it's one of the biggest reasons swedes are all so healthy and attractive. The rest of the world could learn a lot from Europe.

dotstdy, 4 days ago to random

Anyway here's the two level binning code. https://github.com/jsimmons/narcissus/commit/a2f73579cd48f1fec26503a170f02e50719ee7d2 And as usual it has been written following the "copy pasta approaches from themaister" methodology. https://themaister.net/blog/2019/10/12/emulating-a-fake-retro-gpu-in-vulkan-compute/

dotstdy, 3 days ago to random

I find it funny the way people give away their own lack of understanding sometimes. Reading this comments on this (why i do this) https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/ and there's the classic "[RE: meeting women on the trail] Never in my silly mind crossed the thought of me making them uncomfortable."

If it has never crossed your mind that you might be making somebody uncomfortable - that's a you problem - and specifically one of the core issues the whole damn piece is talking about!

dotstdy, 2 days ago to random

Has anyone ever made a good system for gameplay queries? (of the "give me all the apples nearby" or "trigger when x happens" style) I'm somewhat of the opinion that any generalized approach here is going to end up in tears, but I'm also of the opinion that gameplay scripting in particular wants to have a pretty generalized approach to help with auditing content (e.g. you want to tightly control what data scripts can access, and when they can access it).

dotstdy, 8 days ago to random

I feel like the most difficult part of subgroups and GPU programming in general, is getting all the terminology straight in your head. Sometimes it seems like it would be easier just writing rdna asm directly. :')

dotstdy, 8 days ago to random

CPU optimisation guide: You should try vectorizing
GPU optimisation guide: You should try scalarizing

CHOOSE A LANE

dotstdy, 2 days ago to random

I wonder why the performance counters don't work in RGP captures on my APU. I guess something isn't plumbed up yet for RDNA3 :'(