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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 5d

Your blogging about ETW wizardry has been absolutely instrumental to my career, so this is great to hear. Also thanks for making UIForETW a thing, we actually use it semi frequently to get performance data from customer machines to fix and/or guide with perf issues. I owe you a lot of beers!

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 7d

TIL that the Discovery tab is just a feed that can be unsubscribed from. Afterwards it no longer hangs around the tab area of the Home page. Dunno about everyone else but mine was an absolute train wreck of terrible hot takes, NSFW content and AI evangelists. Bsky is a lot more peaceful without it.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 10d

Not me over here taking screenshots of everything to OCR them like a caveman. That said, my counter counter reminder: Windows PowerToys (excellent in general) has a built in tool to extract text via OCR from the screen for the times when apps hate you for no reason.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 21d

I used to live close to 3 wind turbines and I kinda miss it. They are super cool.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 29d

From a graphics programmer standpoint, Liquid Glass is so cool. Doing this effect in real time on a consumer phone is so cool. As a phone user though, what the actual fuck? Why are they shipping me a cool tech demo?

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yyyyeah, Android is a different thing entirely. I actually had to bring back our render pass code to make mobile work again. Just in general an absolute pain if you start with a Vulkan 1.3 codebase and suddenly find 1.1 as the common denominator.

Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Sep 13

Wait is that true? We ship with only dynamic rendering on Desktop and no one has had any issues with it. Second gen Maxwell+, Intel ARC and GCN whatever we have as min spec all support it.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Sep 5

Why not go for 6 A’s, it’s GTA 6 after all. Are they all lazy over at Rockstar or what?

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 21

Until then, the difference in the clouds and general lighting is even more noticeable at dawn/dusk. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but compute, yo, it's crazy powerful!

(Once more v12, v11 and v10)

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 21

Can't wait to look at this again in 5 years time and go "Wow, this looked horrible, how did I ever think this was passable?"

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sometimes it's easy to forget how far things have come. I'm putting some screenshots of various X-Plane versions together for no particular reason and the difference between v12 and v11 is wild. The v11 to v10 difference is a lot harder to see in this view but still there.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 20

Needs to be on spinning rust and with random access though to keep it interesting.

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 20

May I interest you in a bit of malloc() in the hot path? All the stutter of PSO compilation without all that stupid API overhead

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · Aug 16

The trick is to find a local dairy that sells fresh cheese curds and then make it yourself. Shout out to Grass Roots Dairy in Salmon Arm, my preferred cheese curd dealer.