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This is actually a feature of the .inf by design, an AddSoftware directive. It can even link to apps from the store instead of bundling them with the driver. This is designed to install settings panels like the ones for GPUs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...

I guess that from Microsoft's perspective, the driver itself wasn't suspicious, but it installs a questionable sidecar app they would have never vetted anyway.

It kicked me out on Firefox 152 over Android 13, but only until I enabled desktop mode. Actual desktop Firefox seems to work too. And others say Safari works even on iOS.

So they're effectively just blocking non-Chrome Android. Not sure if that's all they intended to block or simply all they're succeeding at blocking.

Splinter Cell Conviction did this well, ambient occlusion got baked for pretty much all models, even dynamic. The dynamic occlusion for characters was solved by approximating them as a bunch of ellipsoids.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012326/The-Rendering-Tools-an...

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The UI of git - for better or worse - directly reflects its internals.

I think about that too. Had I grown up thinking that I need to pay a subscription to build software, I wouldn't have tried to get into engineering at all. As a teen I wanted to learn electronics and robotics, but I couldn't afford the parts to build anything so I taught myself programming and CS instead, and that's the only thing that helped me slog through academic education.

I can't imagine making the same choice again today. Nowadays I worry that software engineering is about to become short-lived right after I've entered the workforce, in which case I'll regret the time I spent to get to this point based on a false hope.

I guess it stands for gameplay loop, but I agree it reads weird.

46 of 53 Greens/European Free Alliance MEPs voted to reject this, 3 abstained. Which greens you mean?

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775

Check the political groups tab. Yes means reject here.

We already had two votes to renew it before it expired, and both failed. The second one was forced by the EPP immediately after the first, and then they voted against it too because they failed to amend it even stronger before the vote.

Not quite, the EU parliament can't propose new laws nor repeal existing ones, only amend them and vote on proposals from the commission.

The Stop Killing Games campaign, for example, has noticed that the EU commission keeps repeating lobbyist lies and has no expectations of new laws actually passing, so they're focusing on amending existing law through parliament.

It's not even a game by a Microsoft studio, but a Sony one.

Not even their studio, his example is from Sony.

xAI is discounting the first few months of their rental to Anthropic, which will help them seem profitable for a bit longer. We'll need to see if that lasts.

It's functional but in place

This is an abuse of this term, which refers to immutable transformations that reuse memory, as in Roc and Koka, not to hiding effects within a function.

It's the code you would write in Python with types you get from OCaml and no monads.

It's also the code you could write in OCaml itself.

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Having used OCaml 5 effects, I'm convinced that the trend of globally scoped effect constructors, dynamically scoped handlers and effect-typed functions are the wrong approach. They couple too many orthogonal features.

Handlers should be consumed as (records of) functions that can't leak from their scope (see 'local' in OxCaml, 'ref struct' in C#) and are passed down as a capability. Now you're using two more general mechanisms to express your effects, and other forms of dynamic scoping or dynamic dispatch can be made orthogonal to effects themselves.

Proton itself doesn't exist for macOS, but CrossOver already existed instead, which is mostly the same tech, and indeed supports D3D either through DXVK over MoltenVK, or through Apple's D3DMetal.

Fable should take credit for porting to iOS with a touch UI. But that's about it, looks like the renderer and macOS port were already done, in which case I agree that OP is paltering.

Technically there're just 3 layers: DXVK over MoltenVK over Metal. D3D8 and Vulkan here are just the APIs implemented by those adapter layers.

There're some D3D implementations over Metal that could skip the Vulkan layer but none implement the old D3D8 so you'd still need another layer that implements e.g. D3D8 over D3D9-11. Also, DXVK and MoltenVK have got a lot of traction and fixes on their own, so they're probably the most accurate pipeline for D3D on Metal.

He forked GeneralsX and added just the last few commits.

You take credit for porting it to "Apple Silicon" macOS, both here and in the title, but that already seems to work upstream? On a quick look I didn't see any commit message of yours addressing macOS rather than iOS. What exactly did you add there?

It builds on a similar paper from 2011 by the same author, though. They've just found something very specific that they enjoy analyzing.

Here's the 2022 release announcement for Podman 4.1 claiming support for compose v2. Your distro may have been stuck with an older Podman version for much longer though.

https://podman.io/release/2022/05/09/podman-release-v4.1.0

See my answer to your sibling comment. Podman supports v2 but not with Buildkit.

Podman has supported plugin compose (v2) for years now, and I believe that's the version I used before I switched to Quadlets, but I must have not needed Buildkit features back then because those are apparently still unsupported over v2.

That's a separate series of JEPs known as "final means final", also starting to land nowadays.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/500

You can use actual docker-compose with podman, the -compose projects are separate from podman/docker.

podman-compose never worked well for me but docker-compose on podman did.

nothing I've ever read from him ever seemed particularly offensive

You may have missed the "retroactively aborted" one.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495

To be fair, he's got much more self-control now.

I know, and those can keep using Framework 4.8, but the topic here is attracting developers to Windows, and the primary toolchain for that today definitely isn't Framework 4.8, so the top comment is moot.

The .NET that comes with Windows is the ridiculously outdated .NET Framework 4.8. But most greenfield projects should have been using the newer .NET (previously .NET Core) for several years now, which is installed separately or deployed as self-contained apps.

the crowds are not made of die hard football fans, the majority of people there are normies that don't give a hoot about football during the 47 other months of a WC loop

I think you heavily underestimate how much normie men care about football here. Most coffee chats with my co-workers devolve into football if they last long enough, and around three out of five of my coworkers under 30 play football with friends every now and then. I'm the only man at my extended family which doesn't care about football, and I need to look amongst my most geek friends to find some men that don't either.

Now, most won't be die hard football fans, but they are definitely into football.

An open source kernel doesn't prevent attestation mechanisms. Anticheats on Windows increasingly require Secure Boot, and all others drivers to be signed/whitelisted; they could try to put similar restrictions on supported distros.

This one is admittedly very natural compared to how cringey they usually get in gaming ads. Which says more about the industry than about this particular clip.