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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Latin mass bollocks is gone

Unfortunately not, there's a fairly sizeable (and growing) subset of Catholics still doing everything in Latin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Traditional graphics code works by having the CPU generate a sequence of commands which are packed together and sent to the GPU to run. This extension let's you write code which runs on the GPU to generate commands, and then execute those same commands on the GPU without involving the CPU at all.

This is a super powerful feature which makes it possible to do things which simply weren't feasible in the traditional model. Vulkan improved on OpenGL by allowing people to build command buffers on multiple threads, and also re-use existing command buffers, but GPU pipelines are getting so wide that scenes containing many objects with different render settings are bottlenecked by the rate at which the CPU can prepare commands, not by GPU throughput. Letting the GPU generate its own commands means you can leverage the GPU's massive parallelism for the entire render process, and can also make render state changes much cheaper.

(For anyone familiar, this is basically a more fleshed out version of NVIDIA's proprietary NV_command_list extension for OpenGL, except that it's in Vulkan and standardized across all GPU drivers)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only if the old software happens to have drivers compatible with the new hardware, which it almost certainly doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

JetBrains IDEs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Not the same person, but in my case I'm 182cm and my waist is 76cm. If I were 40cm shorter I'd actually (barely) be in the green area!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Conjunction Junction (What's your Function)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"Better" in the sense that it actually has the ability to check for corruption at all, as all metadata and data are checksummed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

25% of millions of people is still many people, they didn't say "a majority of people".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I hate sunscreen, the only thing worse than being sweaty all day is being sweaty and oily and sticky.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • An object at motion stays in motion
  • An object at rest stays at rest
  • Don't push the big red button
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

In Switzerland, at least where I am, people normally use rakes on their yard and they send a street sweeper along every road/sidewalk at least once a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You've made me uncertain if I've somehow never noticed this before, so I gave it a shot. I've been dd-ing /dev/random onto one of those drives for the last 20 minutes and the transfer rate has only dropped by about 4MB/s since I started, which is about the kind of slowdown I would expect as the drive head gets closer to the center of the platter.

EDIT: I've now been doing 1.2GB/s onto an 8 drive RAID0 (8x 600GB 15k SAS Seagates) for over 10 minutes with no noticable slowdown. That comes out to 150MB/s per drive, and these drives are from 2014 or 2015. If you're only getting 60MB/s on a modern non-SMR HDD, especially something as dense as an 18TB drive, you've either configured something wrong or your hardware is broken.

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