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OBS has no Vulkan renderer. Only OpenGL, DirectX 11 (on Windows), and now Metal.

Their 14th generation CPUs are just overclocked 13th gen. They are raising the thermals and increasing the clock speeds correspondingly.

Even Turkey?

Could easily be someone in the EST time zone. There aren't that many events that would be earlier than 8am EST.

That doesn't mean that the entire population of those countries is actively hostile to you.

Very few, however native desktop applications are becoming a rarity these days anyway. A small number of professional apps and games, but game engines are already targeting ARM due…

But you can purchase a Spotify subscription on a different platform (say, Web), and then use your account on iOS, enjoying the same experience as every other iOS user. The only par…

How many Muslims did China actually kill? I mean, what's happening in Xinjiang is obviously very concerning, however I don't think anyone has ever produced any evidence that a lite…

Why won't 350 million American citizens do something about their own government first, before engaging in moral grandstanding in respect to other countries? No, this doesn't mean j…

Yes, also impoverished and displaced several million people. Consider the impact of all the regime change operations undertaken under the patronage of the United States in countrie…

Not every decision is going to be entirely rational, especially when it comes to giant corporations with thousands of stakeholders and various internal incentives that may not be v…

Palantir is just a minuscule part of SV ecosystem, entirely insignificant in the overall picture.

Do the intelligence agencies actually agree on this as unanimously as you're saying? Here's a quote from the testimony of James Clapper on Russia/Wikileaks connection: "The evidenc…

No one is arguing Google's revenue is mostly ads. It just doesn't mean Google is a one-hit-wonder. There are different advertisement products. You could generalize any company that…

Direct democracy isn't automatically good. Just look at California.

SF welfare system is the reason there are so many homeless in that city.

Even if there is a bigger reason for wanting her out, there is no reason for them to expose PRISM that way. Immigration officers already have rights to deny anyone without explanat…

> the US authorities may have been reading her private Facebook messages for weeks. That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on h…

There is no reason why Go can't quickly catch up with Java. It's memory model is better suited to optimization vs. JVM.

He said "as much as possible".

Schmidt already tried telling people this would happen: "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the …

Skype was actually developed in Eastern Europe (Estonia).

Youtube is porn-free though.

Seriously? Why is that on Hacker News?

I would imagine Valve making more money from Steam now than from their own games. Remember they sell a lot of third-party stuff there and take their cut on those sales.