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New comment by gmueckl in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"

gmueckl — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:51:09 +0000

The compute shader side of Vulkan is actually fairly smooth compared to graphics. It's not really that different from low level CUDA or OpenCL. The Vulkan complexities overwhelmingly concern rasterization and raytracing.

New comment by gmueckl in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

gmueckl — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:43:56 +0000

The next presidential campaign should narrowly focus on the long term effects of existing policies if not corrected and direct blame with name dropping. There is no more moral high ground in this fight. The ugly needs to be pinned on the current administration in way that it can never be removed again.

But of course the Democrats will try to keep their heads high and try to float over all of this mess instead of throwing the dirt back that gets flung around. It's not working anymore.

New comment by gmueckl in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

gmueckl — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:17:39 +0000

Then publishing it in this incomplete state is just pointless fearmongering and will just make others fill in this information within the next couple of days. And the good guys likely won't be the first ones to do that.

New comment by gmueckl in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

gmueckl — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:57:31 +0000

OK, so this works on AMD Jaguar according to the README. That's a architecture from 2013. There's notes about Zen 3 having a different base address for the memory controller registers, but that's it. What newer CPUs does attack actually work on?

New comment by gmueckl in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

gmueckl — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:53:24 +0000

Corporations are too complex for any single person to truly control. Attention of leadership necessarily dilutes with each additional layer of management. The result is this weird corporate chaos where nobody is completely in charge because everybody has to take charge of something, however small, to progress, or the whole could accomplish nothing at all.

The result is this flailing tentacled monster where each appendix seems to have a mind of its own and sometimes littlw regard for even the other parts of its own body.

New comment by gmueckl in "Is it all just vapourware?"

gmueckl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:02:40 +0000

This is a sifferent point than what the thread started with (speed vs. correct output for hard problems). Yours stands, but it changed the direction of the discussion as I understand it. Hence the pushback.

New comment by gmueckl in "Is it all just vapourware?"

gmueckl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:24:11 +0000

Sorry, but this is just not a complex or hard task in image processing. Image resizing is a staple algorithm as common as bread and butter.

New comment by gmueckl in "Is it all just vapourware?"

gmueckl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:58:49 +0000

The discontent is real. The deficiencies these people mention are real. And it's not actually getting better. Sure, web devs and CRUD app devs may be screwed over a bit harder now, but when it gets into really deep complex stuff, the usability of the output goes way, way down. This cliff is real. I assure you. And it's not getting better.

New comment by gmueckl in "Is it all just vapourware?"

gmueckl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:53:43 +0000

This is still rather basic stuff to be absolutely honest with you.

New comment by gmueckl in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

gmueckl — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:39:59 +0000

The FSF definition can be interpreted in absurd ways; a very uncharitable interpretation would classify any network stack connected to the internet as backdoor because random, potentially misdirected packages trigger code exécution on the target machine, even if only to figure out that the packet must be ignored.

New comment by gmueckl in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

gmueckl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Some of these offers may be part of visa or green card processes. Some require a labor market test in the form of a job ad and recorded response to it. If a suitable candidate applies, the visa/immigration process fails. Still, most companies don't intend to actually hire in this case as far as I understand it.

New comment by gmueckl in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

gmueckl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:41:48 +0000

For example, the VS Code menu bar is broken because the drop-downs clip against the window frame, not the screen edges. The reason is different in this case, though (electron).

New comment by gmueckl in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

gmueckl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:25:16 +0000

Then continue to enjoy your broken popup menus and combo box drop downs, for starters.

New comment by gmueckl in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

gmueckl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:11:52 +0000

Is it? The temptation to start without a thorough design is now much stronger because the implementation osnperceived to be cheap and easy to replace. But if you start building the wrong thing fast, you still get the right thing later than when you had checked properly at the start.

New comment by gmueckl in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"

gmueckl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:20:34 +0000

That might be. I am not a history experts. I just wanted to counter the notion that that one October 1582 was the singular special month where the switch happened. That was not the case and calendars stayed messy until the 20th century because of this.

New comment by gmueckl in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

gmueckl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:17:36 +0000

While providing this information to websites without user permission is probably a longstanding mistake of web browsers, windowing systems withholding proper on-screen positioning from native applications is a bug in that system - a bad one.

New comment by gmueckl in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"

gmueckl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:20:33 +0000

This article presents a grossly simplified version of events. The truth is that only some catholic countries switched in 1582. Britain and its colonies switched in 1752. Prussia switched in 1610. And so on.

New comment by gmueckl in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

gmueckl — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:29:47 +0000

At least for native binaries it's not too hard to write a scanner that extracts symbols from the binaries and checks them against the symbol names of the vulnerable code. If the code is properly dead and got pruned by the linker, it cannot cause any problems.

New comment by gmueckl in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

gmueckl — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:04:37 +0000

The success or value of a solution isn't measured by its quality, but by its utility to the customer. It's a harsh lesson for anyone who wants to build quality.

New comment by gmueckl in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

gmueckl — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:01:26 +0000

The naysayers aren't cooked at all. They have really, really good points that align with my own experience so perfectly It's eerie. Vine coding has a price tag attached that will have to be paid with interest eventually. The trouble is that it takes a whole damn lot of experience see these signs early.

That doesn't mean that LLM slop code can't be useful. But you just can't build a whole business entirely by surfing a wave of vibe coded slop. That wave will break over you and drown you eventually.