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litherum, to random
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I think I’m going to create a new Mastodon account where I watch old GDC presentations and review them (according to my own arbitrary criteria)

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@litherum I'd read that!

litherum, to random
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I, like, honestly don’t 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.

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@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, to random
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What the fuck is he even saying

🎃 committed a crime, and today he was found guilty of the crime that he committed

Anyone else who also commits a crime is absolutely at risk of a similar fate, as they should be. That’s why they’re called “crimes”

Also this “trivial matter” is 34 felonies, so there’s that

If anything, my faith in America’s legal system is bolstered because today we reaffirmed that no one is above the law

litherum,
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

It’s mind-blowing, and perhaps very telling, that Elon thinks it’s a problem for people to be found guilty of the crimes that they committed

floooh,
@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@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.

litherum, to random
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I do not envy Judge Merchan now. He has to decide "do I send a former president to jail" and the decision is squarely on his shoulders alone

litherum,
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@tojiro yeah, though that date is up to him. He can reschedule it at his own whims (more or less)

But, yeah. He must be feeling so much dread

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@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.

litherum, to random
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What I want to know most from the news media: if someone was found guilty of these crimes, and they weren't the president, would they go to jail?

litherum, to random
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I, for one, am really excited for the new Snapdragon X chips, because the more GPU vendors breaking up the Nvidia / AMD duopoly, the better

Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was actual competition among

  • Nvidia
  • AMD
  • Intel
  • Qualcomm
  • Apple
    … all of whom design GPUs?
litherum, to random
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

I remember it took me literal days to figure out the “umount” command doesn’t have the letter “n” in it

I kept reading online about people saying “use umount” and every time I tried, it said “unmount: command not found”

I felt so stupid when I figured it out

And then I thought, no, it is not me who is stupid, it is whoever named that fucking command and deleted a random letter from the middle of it

litherum,
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

LETTERS IN A COMPUTER ARE NOT EXPENSIVE

WE DO NOT HAVE TO CONSERVE THEM

WE WILL NOT RUN OUT OF THEM

USE AS MANY AS YOU WANT

ahem. code is read way more often than it’s written.

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@litherum

You know about 'creat' right?

litherum, to random
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

You know what GLSL needs?

Inline assembly. So you can write snippets of SPIR-V in your GLSL shader.

(I'm only mostly joking)

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@litherum

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.)

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@litherum
Also the SPIR-V feature was clearly only for Vulkan, AFAIK

litherum, to random
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

only in C++ could there simultaneously be:

  • rule of 3
  • rule of 5
  • rule of 0
litherum,
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

@dneto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(C++_programming)

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@litherum figured it was that.

litherum, to random
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An all-screen MacBook with a foldable screen sounds like a terrible fucking idea

Just try typing with 2 hands on an iPad and you’ll see what I mean

litherum,
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

@kainino0x @tojiro how do you keep it from sliding around on the glass?

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@litherum @kainino0x Magnets? It's always magnets.

litherum, to random
@litherum@masto.ai avatar

I still can’t get over the idea that some people view “prompt engineering” as a technical field of study

😫

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@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.

litherum, to random
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I think it’s semi-hilarious that there’s a blog post going around which basically says Metal Shading Language is by far the best shading language (without actually saying it)

https://xol.io/blah/death-to-shading-languages/

Also the author gets bonus points for mentioning WGSL, but the loses them all again for complaining that WGSL isn’t more expressive than the languages it compiles to

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@gob @litherum

The machine readable grammar is in the WGSL spec source.

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/blob/main/wgsl/syntax.bnf

I even wrote a strict LALR(1) verifier to make sure we never broke that property. That's also in that source subdir. Written in Python.

dneto,
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@litherum @gob

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/

litherum, to random
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For a population of people who grew up up watching Alien movies, “Hugging Face” may just be the worst name a company could possibly have

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@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.

dneto,
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@tojiro @kainino0x @litherum

+1 Alien is so good. Nails the creepy aesthetic.

litherum, to random
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Watching The Verge’s super cut of Google I/O, here is what I took away from it:

AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI

tojiro,
@tojiro@mastodon.social avatar

@litherum To be fair, that was the takeaway from the longer version too.

litherum, to random
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I realize that this may be obvious, but the Microsoft story seems to be:

  1. Spend 7.5 billion dollars buying Bethesda
  2. Spend 68 billion dollars buying Activision
  3. Lay off thousands of people in the gaming division
  4. Close 5 or 6 game studios

This story suuuure makes them look like they don’t know what the hell they’re doing

scott,
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@litherum makes it look like they wanted to buy out the IP and not the people.

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