I'm out of the loop -- how so?

One approach is using CUDA and SYCL, for example OTOY uses CUDA based rendering.

https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render

Other is making use of mesh shaders, which you need a recent graphics card for it, still making its way across the ecosystem.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introduction-turing-mesh-s...

Basically the idea is to throw away yet again the current set of execution pipelines, and have only two kinds of shaders, mesh shaders which are general purpose compute units that can be combined together, and task shaders which have the role to orchestrate the execution of mesh shaders.

So basically you can write graphics algorithms like in the software rendering days, with whatever approach one decides to do, without having to try to fit them into the traditional GPU pipeline, yet running on the graphics card instead of the GPU.

This is how approaches like Nanite came to be as well.

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...

Straight facts, thank you:) but one small nitpick: mesh/task shading only replaces the vertex pipeline (VS/TS/GS), the pixel shader is still a thing afterwards...

I know it’s in active discussion on GH, but I wish clients would solve (non-text) UIs from MCP servers rather soon. It would 10x the power of these chat extensions.

can you give an example of what you're talking about? do you mean not having a "chatbot" UI and instead sending a camera feed to your mcp client or something?

Here's someone experimenting with what I mean: https://github.com/idosal/mcp-ui

Is this sort of like how, when iPhone touch-screen came out, it allowed for dynamic regeneration of UI for each specific app instead of "hard coding" hardware inputs/buttons as the one interface to all apps? So here, AI can dynamically generate a context-dependent UI on the fly that can be interacted with, influenced by user input, API reponses etc?

>There's a lot of evidence that the costs of government go up as local journalism recedes, because there is no one to objectively report on waste, corruption, and inefficiency.

Never considered it, but it seems to make a lot of sense. Would you mind pointing me to the evidence about this you mentioned?

Here's the study I was thinking about.

"Local newspapers hold their governments accountable. We examine the effect of local newspaper closures on public finance for local governments. Following a newspaper closure, we find municipal borrowing costs increase by 5 to 11 basis points in the long run. Identification tests illustrate that these results are not being driven by deteriorating local economic conditions. The loss of monitoring that results from newspaper closures is associated with increased government inefficiencies, including higher likelihoods of costly advance refundings and negotiated issues, and higher government wages, employees, and tax revenues."

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Murphy-...

This is such a great project. The potential here is just immense. I wish dwhly and everyone at hypothes.is the best of luck.

P.S. This url - https://hypothes.is/register - accessible from most pages by clicking "sign up" in the top-right corner, presents an error and doesn't redirect anywhere. https://hypothes.is/signup works fine, however.

There's Rocksmith. It's essentially Guitar Hero just with a real guitar. So you do actually learn to play the instrument.

Yep. My favorite games are pretty much: anything by Zachtronics, Rocksmith 2014.

Rocksmith does have its annoyances at times, though (the note recognition isn't perfect, so if you don't play absolutely perfectly it's going to miss notes occasionally, making the more difficult songs very hard to 100%).

Rocksmith looks really cool, I will check it out - thanks a lot for sharing!

If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side. Try using shortcuts instead.

> If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side.

I expect that if this were the problem, OP wouldn't be mentioning it.

When you attempt to use the right-click menu to copy and paste, you get a clearly-worded message box that tells you that you need to use the keyboard shortcuts, and which keyboard shortcuts to use.

Do you by any chance have links to those studies? I'm building a crowdsourced platform, so that info could be super-valuable to me.

It seems like a case of the fallacy generally known as "poisoning the well". You can start there.

Sorry, I don't. I recall reading something very intelligent about the edit war between Israeli and Palestinian sympathisers, but google didn't yield it up. (In general terms, it's quite hard to google stuff /about/ wikipedia.)

Is there a resource that goes into detail on differences of various in-memory databases? Where do I start learning about these things?

While things described in the second paragraph are true, calling Baltic States as being at the forefront of IT tech is a bit of a stretch.

Except for Estonia (Estonia actually doesn't like to be associated that much with Baltics, their mentality is more in line with their northern neighbors.), governments here don't really know how to approach IT. They're just as much out of touch with modern technologies as US gov. It's quite chaotic and unregulated. Plus, silly amounts of corruption.

And the regulations that they do impose end up hurting the countries instead of helping them.

Plus, we are tiny countries (population-wise) that have 2nd world living standards. Not many people can afford to start startups.

So how does it work?

To my knowledge: Google requires that you can't serve different content to its bots than a user can reach from the search results. So the link from a Google search changes the Referrer to Google (since it's a redirect) and WSJ gives you the content.