I see you saw me desperately trying to finish my presentation 😂

Got to see some northern lights over Iceland which was really cool and unexpected

Right?! Who wants this? Is it just the shareholders or is there actual demand from customers for any of this? Almost makes me wish for the days when everyone was adding blockchains for no reason, at least those stayed (mostly) out of my face

I had NO idea. In fact, that dialogue has annoyed me so much in the past. This changes everything!

Something about drinking water out of a mug just doesn’t feel right. Plus I’m more or a Mate drinker, but I’m not insane enough to request an ABI Mate Gourd (but if you were going to make one…)

As a graphics programmer I have to say the effect is really good. I love slow scrolling and seeing it run in real-time is sooo cool. As human though, what the actual fuck? Why is my UI a tech demo now?!

This mug is making me wish I drank coffee. What about a poster version with all of the ABIs?

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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?"

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

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

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.

I too used to be young and dumb. Now I'm just dumb. Although I have weirdly fond memories of working late and unnecessary hours, if nothing else it was a tremendous learning experience. I wouldn't want to do it anymore, but I also don't regret having done it.