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• Post #2721333

  Going through the "getting a triangle on screen in Vulkan" ritual again and the latest version of the validation layers show a bug in how semaphores are used across multiple frames, which appears in both the vulkan-tutorial and apparently was in vkcube from 2014-2025. I'm not trying to bash either of these sources at all, but I do think there's an argument to be made that if the hello cube sample project from Khronos wasn't able to use Vulkan's s...

• Post #2721332

  Scene 1 (Laurie, coffee mug in hand, is sitting in front of his computer, a clock widget on the desktop shows it is 9:30 on a Monday morning) Laurie: (talking quietly to himself, slowly raising mug to take a sip) Oh look, a PR came in over the weekend, well I guess I'll start my morning by getting that reviewed and then I'll (camera zooms into the PR metrics, +12,000 -2, camera shake effect, cut to shot of Laurie spitting out coffee)

• Post #2721331

  I don't want to be churlish about this because I do think the government's reforms to leasehold are a lot better than nothing, but seeing them try to explain how their manifesto commitment to "finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end" didn't actually mean that they intended to abolish the leasehold system is just infuriating.

• Post #2721330

  It's great how we have a terrorism threat level system that accurately predicts what the likelihood of a terrorist attack yesterday was.

• Post #2721329

  Hard not to feel left out with all the UK folks posting about going to the polls today when there's no election in my area. I would have enjoyed the opportunity to give the government a good kicking and to do my bit to keep Reform out. I hope everyone who does have an election today makes the most of it!

• Post #2721328

  Since the rise of AI coding, I've seen non-ascii characters in source files become completely normalised in English language codebases, primarily in comments but also in string literals (I've not seen it in identifiers yet). I wonder how many compiler bugs this has surfaced? Or maybe non-English codebases already flushed out all the UTF-8 bugs?

• Post #2721327

  Breaking: Starmer and Badenoch cite The Black Knight from Monty Python as their political role model

• Post #2721326

  In case it becomes relevant again, just a reminder that Andy Burnham voted consistently for the Iraq War, consistently against an investigation into the Iraq War, and for all Blair's surveillance state shit like ID cards.

• Post #2721324

  Brought to you by me remembering again that Ikea is a fully paid up promoter level member of the Khronos group, the answer to the question: what if Ikea made the Vulkan tutorials?

• Post #2721323

  A few years back I set myself the challenge of learning enough Old English to have a go at translating Beowulf. I started my attempt at a translation back in January, and am about a third of the way through the first draft. I had particular aims for this, specifically to do a colloquial translation with a focus on readability. Anyway I really depressed myself tonight by giving the free version of ChatGPT the first 20 lines or so and asking it to do a translation in a colloquial and readable sty...