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Wasn’t the viewport always part of the available dynamic state from day one? I have not once baked a viewport into a PSO. Even pre descriptor heaps, Vulkan is actually quite nice to use. My only gripe is the mobile ecosystem which is all over the place and there’s a lot of meh drivers.

Dear Microsoft, please add the ability to give an executable multiple names to keep the evil device losses away. You can even name it MS Executables 365 Copilot. Thank you.

Is that the trick? I’ve been staring at Aftermath dumps the whole time like an idiot. Or does this work with D3D only?

I have a hot take and that is that ObjC is an underrated language. The message passing system is pretty neat and allows for some fun dynamic programming. And as someone who doesn’t mind lisp, the brackets aren’t a deal breaker. Swift on the other hand is terrible with none of the ObjC ugly beauty.

Of course Slack also needs to shove AI into everything whether anyone wants it or not. And of course the "Don't ask again" button doesn't work. Not in the sense that it ignores your request, it literally can't be clicked. The state of software these days is absolutely disgusting.

I’ve completely given up on those places, it’s just not worth the hassle and time. I just donate everything at this point.

Finally some text books that I can understand

“For a good time, click this link”

The pot leaning had me really worried for a second there. I was very glad to see that the beans were safe. Also how is this incredibly dutch coded video somehow not dutch?!

I’m very excited but also a bit worried. Please don’t overextend yourself with products, I love my new Pebble and I want one around my wrist forever. Please don’t leave me again!!

Easy, just memorize the icons /s

Had an absolute blast at GPC! Met a bunch of awesome people, all of them super nice. Also really nice to finally be able to put a face to an avatar for some. Really wish I could’ve stayed for the final bash instead of immediately running back to the airport.

I see you saw me desperately trying to finish my presentation 😂

Got to see some northern lights over Iceland which was really cool and unexpected

On my way to the old world and #GPC2025 from the funny number gate

Right?! Who wants this? Is it just the shareholders or is there actual demand from customers for any of this? Almost makes me wish for the days when everyone was adding blockchains for no reason, at least those stayed (mostly) out of my face

I had NO idea. In fact, that dialogue has annoyed me so much in the past. This changes everything!

Something about drinking water out of a mug just doesn’t feel right. Plus I’m more or a Mate drinker, but I’m not insane enough to request an ABI Mate Gourd (but if you were going to make one…)

As a graphics programmer I have to say the effect is really good. I love slow scrolling and seeing it run in real-time is sooo cool. As human though, what the actual fuck? Why is my UI a tech demo now?!

This mug is making me wish I drank coffee. What about a poster version with all of the ABIs?

Your blogging about ETW wizardry has been absolutely instrumental to my career, so this is great to hear. Also thanks for making UIForETW a thing, we actually use it semi frequently to get performance data from customer machines to fix and/or guide with perf issues. I owe you a lot of beers!

TIL that the Discovery tab is just a feed that can be unsubscribed from. Afterwards it no longer hangs around the tab area of the Home page. Dunno about everyone else but mine was an absolute train wreck of terrible hot takes, NSFW content and AI evangelists. Bsky is a lot more peaceful without it.

Not me over here taking screenshots of everything to OCR them like a caveman. That said, my counter counter reminder: Windows PowerToys (excellent in general) has a built in tool to extract text via OCR from the screen for the times when apps hate you for no reason.

I used to live close to 3 wind turbines and I kinda miss it. They are super cool.

From a graphics programmer standpoint, Liquid Glass is so cool. Doing this effect in real time on a consumer phone is so cool. As a phone user though, what the actual fuck? Why are they shipping me a cool tech demo?

Yyyyeah, Android is a different thing entirely. I actually had to bring back our render pass code to make mobile work again. Just in general an absolute pain if you start with a Vulkan 1.3 codebase and suddenly find 1.1 as the common denominator.

Wait is that true? We ship with only dynamic rendering on Desktop and no one has had any issues with it. Second gen Maxwell+, Intel ARC and GCN whatever we have as min spec all support it.

Why not go for 6 A’s, it’s GTA 6 after all. Are they all lazy over at Rockstar or what?

Until then, the difference in the clouds and general lighting is even more noticeable at dawn/dusk. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but compute, yo, it's crazy powerful!

(Once more v12, v11 and v10)

Can't wait to look at this again in 5 years time and go "Wow, this looked horrible, how did I ever think this was passable?"