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My understanding was that dxc lacked support for compiling various HLSL features to SPIR-V (hence SM7 now), so there are still a bunch of Vulkan-focused projects like Godot which only support GLSL.

But yes, the games industry has been almost entirely HLSL since forever, and this is going to help remove the final obstacles.

People have been wishcasting the end of dedicated GPUs for like 20 years now.

It's nice that they're slowly improving, that every Apple Silicon Mac has a half-decent integrated GPU, that ML upscaling is pretty good if you want "4K". But they really don't come close to an NVIDIA card at 200-400W.

Because Ars Magica is a really good game.

"YouTube", like "Twitter", has never been one thing, one culture. There's a zillion long tail creators making all kinds of unmonetized stuff because they want to.

Everything that describes itself as "endpoint security".

Extremely basic agency would be required to pass the Turing test as intended.

Like, the ability to ask a new unrelated question without being prompted. Of course you can fake this, but then you're not testing the LLM as an AI, you're testing a dumb system you rigged up to create the appearance of an AI.

The reason for doing the runtime fee in the first place is that they're bleeding cash despite being the engine behind many highly lucrative games.

From a long term perspective this is very good for the future of Unity, their stock price is even up on the news, but they're going to have to do something about their cash flow situation. The 25% increase for Unity Enterprise is significant, but it doesn't sound like enough.

It's an obvious cliche, but that "someone" is very frequently you. It's really easy to forget why you made some non-obvious decision and waste time poking at the exact same stuff you already did a year or two ago. It's happened to me several times.

When you figure out something tricky, leave a comment.

It's a lot of work, but not particularly more work than a scribe would usually do.

People have always been people, we've always been creative and intelligent, and I really think the best explanation is that this is just an odd creative work. We'll never know the exact details.

You're free to renounce American citizenship to escape future tax obligations.

Anyway it's not an issue for non-rich expats, you just have to file a tax return which shows you owe $0.

Unless you're running Gentoo or similar, you're trusting your distro maintainers to produce clean, non-malicious binaries any time you install anything from the package manager.

Sure, but that's just the price you pay for having fancy portable gadgets. You want longer battery life, there are tradeoffs.

Personally, "it's finally a little thinner" is the thing that has me planning to buy an Apple Watch for the first time.

It depends on what you're doing, but after many years I've just settled on consistently using UTF-8 internally and converting to UCS-2 at the edges when interacting with Win32.

There's just too much UTF-8 input I also need to take, and converting those to wstring hurts my heart.

Smartphone development was super fast from the iPhone 2G to the iPhone XS, give or take. Now the technology has basically caught up to the vision.

It's just a portable computer, and people don't buy new computers every year or two.

The core developers are too enamored with GDScript, but that's fine, C# and C++ (GDExtension) support is excellent. There are only a handful of API functions which are hampered by their need to support GDScript, so it's something you can basically just ignore.

You don't even have to use Nodes much, though they're great for lots of stuff. For real performance, you can drop all the way down to their thin wrapper over Vulkan and do whatever you want.

Babylon 5 remains almost unique in its particular tone of melodrama, its very theatrical acting with larger-than-life characters. I love it for that, despite one or two actors who aren't very good.

Midwinter's episode ratings are a pretty good guide to which ones are skippable, though there's only a handful of episodes that are truly disposable filler. It's a remarkable achievement for 90s TV.

The linked DOJ press release lays it out pretty clearly, in detail.

It's straightforward fraud, not really different from sending fake invoices to random companies.

So what's the problem? GitHub gives you a bunch of free stuff that would be pretty annoying/expensive to self host. Seems like a good deal.

If they remove some of that stuff, that would be worth complaining about. Until then, seems smart to take advantage of what GitHub is offering. Their CI isn't even super proprietary, you can basically just write bash scripts.

GitHub prompts you to save backup codes when you set up 2FA, and every so often when you log in. I don't think that's a terrible job, it's pretty much the standard.

They also nudge you to set up multiple 2FA methods. I have the app, a passkey, etc.

Sleep deprivation is one of those last resort options that psychiatrists will consider if the normal treatments persistently fail. But yeah, do the normal stuff like SSRIs first.

Backwards compatibility is pretty much a given if they're making something Switch-like with a new NVIDIA SoC, as expected.

But Nintendo loves gimmicks, they don't do straightforward spec bumps, so the real question is what new weird thing they've added this time. Everyone else has already done VR accessories with minimal success, so it's probably not that.

Nothing is going to be a 1:1 replacement because that's boring, but the unique thing about Twitter was/is that it's a place where just about every person and organization of note has an account, from your favorite niche author to your local government to A-list celebs.

By that metric, Threads is now a serious competitor. I don't like it, but it's the alternative that a ton of people have chosen.

So what are those reasons?

I mean I ship commercial non-game software on Windows, and the easy solution is just static linkage. Microsoft's preferred solution is that everyone should have an enormous installer which includes their entire redistributable. It's not great.

Yeah, that's the normal thing to do. But it is crazy that Microsoft still won't just include the CRT as part of the OS, updated with Windows Update. You have to distribute the stupid thing yourself if you want the dynamic runtime.

Ben Eater's 8-bit projects are the easiest place to start if you don't already deeply understand how such computers work. He starts with the hardware and eventually builds up to writing non-trival assembly for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBy...

Tons, but by far the most rewarding reread has been Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle. Which is unfortunately still incomplete, but on the other hand if you're the type of person who likes to dig for clues between every word, the most interesting time to do so is before book 3 is (some day, hopefully) released.

They're books which work on so many levels, with layers of subtlety and literary cleverness and even little buried jokes. There's truly nothing else like them in fantasy fiction.

This really just reads like an idiot misunderstanding and/or bullshitting about what might be theoretically possible, but isn't actually happening.

> Here’s a quick example prompt

You almost certainly should not be updating the character.position both every frame (in _process) and in response to a MouseMotion event. That makes no sense.

Writing bits of Vulkan or D3D12 really isn't that bad if you're working within an engine which does most of the setup for you, which is nearly always the case for practical work. If you're doing everything yourself from scratch, you're probably either a hobbyist tinkering or a well-compensated expert working for a AAA game developer.

The actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

It certainly sounds like the first plausible explanation for the signal, though if this is credible it's remarkable it took nearly 50 years.