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Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

www.theverge.com/policy/88634...

“You should try making the game run well and look good instead”

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Every part of this makes me just hold my head in my hands

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You have my blessing

May your D3D devices remain not removed 🙏

C++ has exceptions?!? 😅

Unshelving on another stream definitely works, so I’m not sure what’s up there. 🙂

A gold bag on a glossy surface

Path tracer test scene, or real life? 🤔

Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking? Americans do not like masked secret police.

Sarah Jeong is on a tear lately
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Indeed it was SIGGRAPH 1997: cgl.ethz.ch/teaching/for...

After finishing Dark Souls 3, here is my updated official FromSoft rankings:
1. Sekiro 🥷
2. Bloodborne
3. Elden Ring
4. Demon’s Souls
5. Armored Core 6
6. Dark Souls 3
7. Dark Souls 1

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Interesting framing of “centaurs” vs. “reverse centaurs” in this essay about AI

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Add missing IID checks for creating ID3D12CommandQueue1 by TheRealMJP · Pull Request #3759 · baldurk/renderdoc Description Calls to ID3D12Device::CreateCommandQueue and ID3D12Device9::CreateCommandQueue1 were failing with E_NOINTERFACE when passing the IID of ID3D12CommandQueue1. The 1 version of the interf...

I made my first contribution to RenderDoc! It's tiny, but it's something. :)

github.com/baldurk/rend...

I saw one the other day which generated a notification, but then it immediately disappeared. I’m not sure if something automated kicked in, or the bot just un-liked it really quickly.

The largest differences IME between games and “normie” programming stuff is the crazy amount of art content being thrown around. I’ve seen many gaming outsiders completely underestimate the scale of that side of things.

lol yes we push new builds all day long, you just submit to a certain stream and off it goes. Once a week we do a much heavier release of everything accumulated in the programmer stream, which is mainly bottlenecked by human testing.

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Yeah I was fooled for a bit at first by the cool visualizations, but after reading it some more I would actively tell people to avoid this article because of the misinformation.

Legacy barriers are the original resource barriers that shipped with D3D12, where everything is modeled as resource states and there’s confusing promotion/decay rules. Enhanced barriers are supported on pretty much all GPUs that still receive driver updates.

I just order a switch tester and played with all of them until I found one I liked 😆

If it helps I really like my Keychron Q6 Max with Gateron Blue switches, but I would never bring that into an office because my cubical neighbors would *hate* me.

lol yeah that’s some creative keeb speak right there. Some of those folks are deeply invested in their choice of switches. 😆

But of course if it's just a pure curated list of functions, I'm not sure I can avoid exposing root signatures too since you really need them to do anything. So far anything I can think of too hide them would turn into a real "wrapper", or require some explicit helpers.

Thanks Chris, that all makes sense and echoes what I've heard from some other people about bringing people up-to-speed using wrappers. For my thing I should probably avoid the word "wrapper" entirely...mostly I just want it to directly expose D3D functions, but with a curated list of functions.

Yeah I agree, and “wrapper” is maybe not really the right word I think for what I’ve been sketching out. It would roughly just be alternative interfaces with the same D3D12 methods and parameters, but skipping older non-useful methods.

Anyhow, interested to hear if anybody has thoughts good or bad so feel free to share.

The one I’ve been thinking about the most is whether root signatures should be exposed, or to what degree. They’re a pain point for beginners, and if you assume bindless you can skip nearly all of it. But that would make the wrapper more opinionated, and it’s not clear how exactly it would work.

There’s plenty of design questions so far, some minor and some more major. The largest probably being which features to exclude. Some are less controversial, like dropping legacy barriers or vertex buffers. Others are tougher, like whether geometry shaders or descriptor copying should make the cut.

It’s not at all clear to me yet that this a good idea that would have value, and be worth my time. But it does seem intriguing to me, especially since D3D12 has changed so much and there’s plenty of “traps” for beginners to fall into by using legacy approaches.