Omar Rizwan
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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."
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![thewebcount on March 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebGPU Shading Language
That seems a bit harsh. Isn't WebGPU to WebGL what Vulkan is OpenGL? It's the next generation of more efficient 3D rendering pipeline.
ericflo on March 10, 2020 | next [–]
Yes, but if you follow the discussions, the clear consensus was to use SPIR-V. Except Apple, who came up with all kinds of technical reasons not to use it, before eventually admitting they have a legal dispute with Khronos group. Now we get this weird language that is SPIR-V in text form but not by Khronos, and suddenly there is consensus.
shmerl on March 10, 2020 | parent | next [–]
> before eventually admitting they have a legal dispute with Khronos group.
Interesting, that's the first time I hear about it. Do you have some links on the topic? What is the essence of the dispute?
ericflo on March 10, 2020 | root | parent | next [–]
From the meeting notes [1]:
MS: Apple is not comfortable working under Khronos IP framework, because of dispute between Apple Legal & Khronos which is private. Can’t talk about the substance of this dispute. Can’t make any statement for Apple to agree to Khronos IP framework. So
1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6ns6I3zs-2JL_dT9hOkX_25...](https://social.omar.website/fileserver/01PG4R73NMJC888MJM2KBM4CFF/attachment/original/01TSDNYSEA4JR9YX2KJWHPMCTA.png)
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long essay about coroutine philosophy(!) that I just saw https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/coroutines-philosophy/
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social media https://searchhistory.site
Omar Rizwan
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"heating is really easy, and cooling is really hard, which is a general unfortunate engineering reality of all systems"
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sort of a C++ energy here https://front-end.social/@matuzo/114075968615875947 -- where for historical reasons you end up with 200 ways to do anything that are all slightly different from each other
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https://www.are.na/omar-rizwan/when-we-understand-that-slide-we-ll-have-won-the-war
(this feels like sort of a cheap shot, though, like when people complain that it's hard to make a formal grammar for Markdown or a formal semantics for C)
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i was talking to maxbittker about this https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html reading it now it feels like the predictions are totally wrong even though the observations are correct -- if anything the opposite of what it predicted has happened
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remembering when my code worked on Linux (radio) but not on macOS (my laptop) because I forgot to initialize a pthread_mutex_t, which apparently means the mutex still blocks properly on Linux but it doesn't do anything on macOS
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sort of annoying realization that the Tcl notion of immutability is not really the same as the thread-safe notion of immutability -- Tcl immutability still lets you arbitrarily shimmer the internal representation of a value so you can efficiently operate on it (as long as the value would still serialize to the same string), which is obviously not thread-safe