@litherum sometimes I have a feeling that the US is only one tiny step away from a Russian-style oligarchie, just instead of oil tycoons it would be Silicon Valley tycoons.
I, like, honestly donโt understand how anyone could look at what happened today and be troubled by it.
12 random people heard evidence, listened to arguments for and against, and determined that the evidence rises to the level of criminality based on its merits. Like, this is the way lawsuits are supposed to work.
@litherum I can absolutely see how people would feel that way if their only news sources have been shouting "political persecution!" for weeks and they never bothered to look into it further than that. Echo chambers are a hell of a drug.
@litherum no matter what the date is it will be publicized, and he will be there in person. At the very least nobody knew when the jurors would come back, so it was difficult to plan around.
My team added the Vulkan SPIR-V backend to DXC starting in 2017. Vulkan benefitted by getting the latest greatest HLSL compiler. I don't speak for Microsoft but I can guess they benefitted by expanding the audience for and usage of HLSL.
(As I like to say, a programming language is a cultural artifact. Network effects matter a lot.)
@litherum I will admit to throwing random changes into my code and hitting refresh until it looks right, but only for matrix math. And I always feel bad about it anyway.
I think itโs semi-hilarious that thereโs a blog post going around which basically says Metal Shading Language is by far the best shading language (without actually saying it)
Also the author gets bonus points for mentioning WGSL, but the loses them all again for complaining that WGSL isnโt more expressive than the languages it compiles to
That proposal seemed focused on ergonomics but entirely missed the interesting/hard parts of shading languages: uniformity and the implications thereof. We were talking past each other.
(Even today almost all programmers assume wrong things about how subgroup operations behave, including folks who should know better.)
Also nobody wanted a NEW language. I still get flack for this. Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
@kainino0x@litherum After that, watch Aliens, but for an entirely different reason. Basically every sci-fi action trope you can think of originates from that movie, as well as huge swaths of game inspirations.
Watching The Vergeโs super cut of Google I/O, here is what I took away from it:
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