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This seems like it's implicitly painting a false dichotomy between an implied autonomous Spez that is causing damage and a subservient Spez that is just a name attached to board action. How about this, if Spez is being asked to do stupid things by the board, he's failing extraordinarily to even cushion them with PR, which is the actual least he can do.

I built this and the other rocm packages from AUR (some removed now) along with pytorch build-flagged for rocm. It did eventually work, but It was a real pain in the ass and cost a whole lot of time. After that though, something broke (who knows) and I ended up rebuilding everything again just to get it back to a working state. I'm currently too afraid to update to these community packages, partially because I don't know if the build flags I used are the duct tape keeping my builds functional (I have an rx590-8gb which is maybe at the edge of supported gpus). Instead, I just added every rocm package to my IgnorePkgs, which isn't a great sign.

I really did loath the removal of SMS. It went like this for me: I would set up non-techie family with signal and that would be SMS and secure messaging for them. Then Signal removed SMS, so I had to explain to them that I had actually set them up with something "unstable" and needed to change their apps around. As a consequence, they're more hesitant to try things I suggest and I can't blame them. As for the actual messaging, inevitably they'll forget to juggle apps and just default to SMS and there's only so much I can go against the stream here.

This is cool, but I think being the default in the mainline app is critical. Also, iirc signal doesn't like modified apps, so this might be on shaky ground.

A related video on the topic that I found pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWlqxGQXZx8

It goes over an older Ketchup recipe and gives some related history. If you like historical food recipes and/or culinary history, you might want to check the channel out.

At first, I was a little put off by how "batteries not included" the standard library was in rust, but I ended up preferring it. The quality of the rust community has generally made library selection pretty easy. There's usually a tacit first choice and often one or more optimized alternative for a particular situation or preference. When there is community disagreement and library churn, I think it ends up evolving better, more liked solutions; I truly believe this wouldn't happen as easily if it was enshrined in the std. Case and point, I've seen standard library implementations in C++ and python that just rot away.

The case sensitive visibility/privacy sound terrible to me. I dislike having to type pub as much as I do, but that seems worse for readability and clarity on top of throwing a wrench into the established rustfmt naming system.

About "Memory management", they already made some progress with non-lexical lifetimes in the past which did indeed improve the end user experience. I think "Polonius" aims to reduce the friction further, but I haven't looked into the specific improvements it might bring in user experience.

Yeah, wgpu isn't updated for the new attributes yet apparently. I looked it up and it was just changed in the 2022-01-19 revision. Definitely a "working draft" as stated.

Wow, WGSL looks different from the last time I checked it out (not too long ago iirc). I've been playing around with wgpu and vulkan, but I disliked the wgsl syntax so much that I didn't bother pursuing it any further at the time. I'm actually going to give it another look now since I don't really like glsl syntax much at all either.

Unlike most others, they updated this one with care. I guess it's a somewhat notorious dev joke, so it makes sense.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2246626-grand-theft-auto-the...

For those interested, this is a previously streamed speaking event in the CHAZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7nDkd3V2V0

Comcast, not AT&T, but my mom recently discovered that her Turner Classic Movie channel was not longer activated. After talking to someone on the phone (who suggested a service technician visit), she independently discovered that TCM was being moved to a sports package along with a military history channel and a country music channel.

It was a watershed moment for her. Apparently, there are online services that provide TCM, and now she's considering downgrading her cable service rather than upgrade it and getting an online service to make up the difference.

I actually set this up just the other day for my Windows 10 VM. To be clear, the idea here is to run a Windows VM (with near native performance by passing it a hardward graphicical device), then take the output directly from the VM graphics card's memory and feed that to a Linux host where it can display that output natively.

The primary demographic seems to be gamers that want to ditch Windows for Linux, but don't want compromise on performance. I can attest to the performance angle, but it has a number of rough edges.

This project seeks to solve input and output management. For example, I've been used a second monitor and a hardware USB switch, which is attached to my keyboard and mouse, for interacting with my VM. Looking glass actually performs excellently for input capturing for me, but I'm finding the video output just a touch too slow and find myself just switching my monitor input instead. I'm thinking that might have more to do with my using Intel integrated graphics on my host though, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty excited to see where this goes nonetheless.

Not so much a question, but I wanted to thank you for the project. It's hit a sweet spot of configurability, stability, and performance for me, all without the baggage or caveats alternatives have. It's been my terminal of choice for a while now. Keep up the good work.

Jessica price has a history of saying pretty offensive stuff (e.g., and in particular, a mean spirited comment about a youtubers death [0]), but she wasn't ever fired for those. I think she was fired this time because she was on social media talking specifically about work, then going on to insult Guild Wars fans and beyond that, multiple 'partners'[1]. Derior in particular has a named NPC in-game [2].

To give some more context in general, this takes place right after an AMA on the guildwars2 subreddit [3] -- which she starts her twitter thread by referencing -- where she was acting in an official capacity as a GW2 developer. She later goes on to say she doesn't have to pretend to like people in the context of twitter [4], which I took to mean as in contrast to the AMA.

And in case there is any question about if the streamer was coming from a negative place and that she was at least right about his intentions, he was praising her in particular on a stream just before the exchange [5]. It's almost tragic. He probably only engaged with her because he thought so much of her.

All this said, I think it more sad than anything. Jessica actually gave some pretty great answers in the AMA, and I was impressed just like Deroir. I was very surprised to see this rash behavior right after her measure responses. And to also lose Peter Fries, who has been with the franchise since either the beginning or very near it, is disheartening.

Also, I think the article is avoiding posting Derior's entire original comment since he ends it very politely. You might want to check all 4 tweets yourself [6], or even the entire thread. Keep in mind that Jessica Price goes on to make other tweets outside the thread though. I guess it's also worth mentioning that the reddit comment referenced in the article had negative karma and was deleted [7].

[0] https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048

[1] https://welcome.guildwars2.com/en/partner-program

[2] https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deroir

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/8vm8jv/living_w...

[4] https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/101458143393798144

[5] https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticMistyStingrayDxCat

[6] https://twitter.com/DeroirGaming/status/1014280605599748096

[7] https://archive.fo/lt0wU

He is having an existential crisis about finding self worth while working in an entertainment industry. He then blames everyone else for not having the exact same values as him.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:API_key

I should also specifically note that you don't need to manually change the signature anymore. It's built in now.

That's why I put it in quotes. It's pretty clear the original intent was to push people to get Quattro cards for using in VMs. My impression is that they gave up on the idea for normal users and are trying to play it off while suggesting they aren't going to fuck with people any further.

This will be considered suboptimal by some, I'm sure, but the solution I went with is to reserve the dedicated GPU for the VM and use Intel integrated for Linux, in my case from a skylake i5-6600. Aside from that, you can get a cheap, low power second GPU (if you're using an AMD CPU for example). This is fine for me since I'm gaming on the VM, and not really doing much graphically intensive on Linux.

The idea of getting another high end card seems pretty absurd when you're putting windows in a VM specifically to deal with those situations. I recognize some people have special use cases, but they're just that, special use cases.

Really, overall, I don't consider it to be too bad of a trade off for what you get.

I was pretty apprehensive about the concept, but hopeful enough to get a new mobo/CPU just to give it a shot. It does definitely seem to good to be true.

I went for it, and it actually ended being significantly easier and better performing than I expected. I did have to take a few days and learn a bit about qemu, but I'd expect that much.

I will say that older motherboard (perhaps some new ones too) might not have firmware that fully support what's being done here. It's hard to say which, but you can see what people have had success with if you search around (Asus z170a works for me).

This is a little light on details but is a good resource for the steps involved: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

I'm currently passing though a GTX 760.

It was apparently a hassle in the past, but the bypasses are basically built in to the tools now. Nvidia is calling the blocking behavior a "bug", but the have no intention to act on it.

You should seriously look into running a VM with pcie passthrough if you've got a desktop.

There's a lot of talk about complexity and dead end edge cases, however, having now done it, I can honestly say it was significantly easier than I was expecting and absolutely stable and fast thus far. I can't speak to edge cases (conversely, I can vouch for the Asus z170-* motherboard line), but my impression was that there is less and less of them as motherboard BIOSs advance.

It seems to be an area where things are developing fast. You'll find a lot of out-of-date resources telling you things like, for example, most nvida cards will not work or require effort to get working. The reality now is that it just requires a single argument in qemu to bypass the nvidia issue.

In my opinion, it's a significantly better solution than dual booting and basically indistinguishable from normal Windows performance-wise for gaming.

Link you might want to check out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

Yes, exactly. I've stalked around VR communities for a long time, and control fragmentation is a serious and persistent concern. There's also a perception that a lot of people with a $1000 gaming rig will have gotten a gamepad at some point -- part of why the "XBone" controller was seen as a joke when announced (but also because it was the same event they reeled in Oculus Touch launch time frame expectation).

I've done some 'scanlations' work. I couldn't imagine doing it for a job though.

On one hand, there's some pressures and social issues to grapple with when doing scanlations. For example, You can essentially start turf wars by taking on certain projects, even if the 'maintainer' is grossly neglecting the project or non-communicative. Also, the readers are very passionate people, and they have a direct line to air their grievances with the translation/typesetting/rate of release/etc. There's also, of course, the moral issue of enabling what is essentially just piracy.

On the other hand, you're able to work on a manga you're passionate about, or at the very least interested in without worrying about licensing/etc. And being unbeholden to anyone on the level of accuracy-versus-fluidity and offensiveness is definitely very valuable.

Even just doing it for fun was pretty brutal though. I have a lot of respect for the ancient groups and members that've been plugging away at it forever.

There are a lot of people in this thread who are taking about the morality of killing a character while not understanding how death is framed in the game. Things that happen when you die:

You need to WP (way point). It costs a negligible amount for most player and is instantaneous (sans load times). In towns, like in this case, it's free. They cover all maps, and are normal two minutes or so walk apart from each other. In the videos, the character would literally have been alive and where he was in less than a second at no cost.

If you're in combat when you die, you're armor will slowly break (after numerous deaths one piece eventually will). This is free to fix and not a difficult NPC to find. Aside, falling to your death when not in combat will not cause this effect.

Another point to bring up is that players are falling to their death nonstop everywhere. The game has hidden areas, "jumping puzzles" and generally encourages players to make risky jumps just for the fun of it. Seeing a player fall and die, even in the middle of a town, would go fully unnoticed unless maybe by a few who might resurrect the player on a whim.

Finally, I didn't see anything of real in game value on that account and the player only had one other low level character. I'm guessing they purchased it during the resent 75% off sale with the sole intent of hacking. Further, it was probably an alt account that the person was expecting to get banned eventually.

In other words, the videos doesn't really show in game value being destroyed or lasting damage being done as punitive cruelty. Rather, it's a just a funny twist on the normally mundane task of banning. This scares no reasonable player and, rather, actually is reassuring to know they're dealing with hackers.

I'll throw my hat in by saying I noticed I had this sort of reaction before I ever heard about it. Certain sounds would just cause a reaction I can best equate to getting a scalp massage. The sounds that trigger the effect are pretty widely varied.

It was actually pretty bizarre when I realized it wasn't a universal thing. In fact, I think the most interesting facets of the whole thing is this divide. It makes for one of those weird situation where if you don't experience it, you just have to take people's word that it's not something akin to a placebo effect. And I fully admit it sounds like it's made up, and I probably would be skeptical if I didn't have firsthand experience.