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I guess the debate then comes down to if Apple, as an insider , had already committed to development of Metal before they knew AMD was up to something. With the public announcement…

I'm purely a hobbyist. But I was under the impression that D3D12 is so different compared to D3D11 that this would be a good time to consider both D3D12 and Vulkan. Is the choice f…

I don't believe that Apple did not know about these initiatives before committing to building Metal. Apple was using the OpenGL graphics API (governed by the Khronos group) and AMD…

Maybe you're thinking of this incident? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/1xkAB1KmLrh5g3v9ZE... . It was a few days earlier and took almost 2 hours.

It would be a huge undertaking, especially if the DirectX types leaked into the rest of the application. DirectX 7 is from 1999, games like Half-Life 1 used it. This is when GPUs w…

I don't understand how NFTs or blockchain in general helps in any way for this, or many other examples of this. All an NFT is is an encrypted hyperlink in the blockchain. The hyper…

Is this a quote that comes from somewhere? I see multiple people talking about this 'analogizing a list of funny names to genocide'. I think its been properly debunked multiple tim…

Note that when you're poor your surroundings are usually also poor. So even if you are young and not yet burdened by health care costs and maybe even have free/good education you m…

"Is anything with future value being build by European companies?" Ehhhhh, the machines that are going to be in the chip factories mentioned here for example (ASML).

I don't know. How can you gauge the effectiveness of your model without good data? A model can be wrong, but it can also be changed/redone/rebuilt. Without data you can neither dev…

All you need(ed) was an e-mail address that ended in @myuniversity.tld and use that in the registration at the shop.

To me ComputeSharp looks a lot more accessible. I could understand how to use it instantly from the readme file. While I've gone over the documentation for ilgpu now and it mostly …

> My suspicion is that the concern with machine learning over racism is rooted in two things. The first is just the general modern trend of accusing anything you don't like of bein…

Is this entirely true? Isn't the UK now trading with Europe at World Trade Organization tariffs? Or was a better deal made? The EU has trading agreements with a significant part of…

Indeed, people struggle with? Adam Savage (53 years old) navigates that pile of rocks without problems, while controlling the robot. Never even needing to use his hands. The work B…

How do you conclude that from that PDF? It shows almost all of the states in the US in yellow (low mask usage). While almost all of Europe (except for the UK and Scandinavia) in bl…

In the Netherlands we have signs like the one below. Telling you to stay on the highway and turn off your GPS. Because Google Maps and other software makes you take all these weird…

That should be about 360MB of uncompressed data (1024x768x88x4 bytes) which should fit into the memory of most IGPs, which generally reserve 1 or 2 GB. Compositing 4 images at once…

I'm not sure your data rhymes with your interpretation. Having 0.5%~1% of people having a positive corona test in the last two weeks means that every week 3.2~1.6 million people ar…

This is on a phone managed by your employer I assume? Intune protects the data in your employee accounts from leaking outside of those apps. In a regular Outlook without Intune ins…

I find this an extremely weird set of argument. Opening the task manager or explorer takes less time than I can measure on both Windows and Linux... what kind of metric is this? As…

Not sure why this is showing up on HN today. But Dear ImGui is absolutely amazing. And its not just for C++. I use it myself in my C# game engine. (There's a C# port that uses Syst…

DLSS is trained with a much higher resolution version of the game. So when it 'upscales' 720p to 1080p its not just using the 720p data as input but also the knowledge of how the g…

In my experience its absolute junk. There is too much friction throughout the entire systems. So it often slips the filament when extruding or retracting. Leading to clogged nozzle…

I work for a large webshop. I was amazed by how many engineers work here. But now, after two years, I understand why we need them. Handling millions of customers, sending millions …