Vulkan tamer

A pretty wild debugging story:

When updating Dawn (Chrome's WebGPU lib), I saw a +50% jump in GPU timings for most/all of my GPU timers (measuring draws, dispatches, etc.).

I bisected Dawn's commit history to find the commit where the perf regression happened, and it ...

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"Yeah I'm part of a culture that really cares about family and food. We even have a celebration around it. Its called Thanksgiving"

😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.

🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!

🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will

It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value

It's as old as the NES was the day it came out 😉

NES was as old as the 360 is today when the 360 was released.

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"

Odin Programming Language

Hbomb, take it from someone who does game/graphics programming and has been through this before, check out Odin
odin-lang.org

It may not be what you're specifically looking for, but it is the simplest systems programming language while still being fully featured. Coding in it is dreamlike.

To avoid a situation where Silksong wins every award in the same year, we're introducing a new award category: Most Insect Pornography Created. 2025 nominees are Silksong, and some gacha phone game you've never heard of that isn't available in english and also shut down 8 months ago

Guess this needs to be updated

@SFdirewolf X.com This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

Gutted. We have lost a brilliant voice in the world. Rest in peace Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social you were so inspiring to so many of us. Thank you for sharing all your words and for always shining a light on the disability community.

I regret to inform you that VR has _already_ happened, you just aren't paying attention to genAlpha playing on their Meta Quests

new york today:

so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?

trump wins because he honestly and transparently tells you what he sincerely believes: the entire system is corrupt. i am corrupt. by definition i will punish my enemies and reward myself and my friends and this will be a great spectacle and profitable for those who are my friends. be my friend

Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

In their defense gaming has a discovery problem of historic proportions and basically all organized games journalism has been recently defunded

It won't be long before AI convinces a noob that double-normalization is necessary. You know, bc floats are imprecise 😉

Worse than a busier family?

Notification Center Dad 16m ago It's your father, otherwise known as Bob, give me a call. I got some little news for you. Love you

Was putting my face on and missed a call from my dad. Saw this text and called him back. (This is a nice story. Also his name is not Bob. That’s what the grandkids call him. Long and unrelated story.)

imagine this MF calling you "young sapling"

Is that any way to talk about your newborn?

As an aside, I _love_ how predictably liberals repeat fascist terminology/rhetoric when they start talking about communists. The old saying about scratched liberals is true to a person.

It seems counterproductive to respond to Cuomo's anti-muslim racism with "well Mamdani _did_ deserve it tho", but maybe I'm just not strategy-pilled enough to see how legitimizing your opponent's slander helps you win.

Is this a joke about the double-standard applied to left candidates regarding media appearances, or is Hasan somewhere in this picture?

I've been trying to ask a simple question on the Odin discord for a few days, but no one is reacting to my posts whatsoever. It feels like I'm shadowbanned, but I don't think that's even a feature on Discord so wtf 🤔

welcome to linux, please pick your starter distro:

- difficult linux
- racism linux
- backdoored linux
- bloat linux
- slop linux