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kvark commented on The Burrows-Wheeler Transform sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

kvark · 2 months ago

I've spent years playing with BWT and suffix sorting at school (some work can be found be names of archon and dark). It's a beautiful domain to learn!

Now I'm wondering: in the era of software 2.0, everything is figured out by AI. What are the chances AI would discover this algorithm at all?

kvark commented on Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7cta9... · Posted by u/mdtrooper

echelon · 7 months ago

> Recently, with Zed ported to Vulkan, we saw the variety of half-broken platforms and user configurations.

Thank you for sharing this! It'll be good to prevent others from following down the same path (my team included).

How is life at Zed? Have y'all raised capital in line with Windsurf / Cursor? Are you bootstrapping instead?

It's phenomenal that y'all are working natively in Rust rather than building on kludgy web tech.

kvark · 7 months ago

I'm not employed by Zed, so I can't answer these questions. But the product itself is great!

kvark commented on Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7cta9... · Posted by u/mdtrooper

ChocolateGod · 7 months ago

on Linux it seems the direction is to drop the OpenGL drivers and run a compatibility layer on top of Vulkan.

kvark · 7 months ago

Sure. Maybe that's the forcing function for them to nail down all the kinks. Example: https://github.com/kvark/blade/issues/205

kvark commented on Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7cta9... · Posted by u/mdtrooper

kvark · 7 months ago

Shipping Vulkan in production on Linux is a challenge. Chrome was dealing with it for a while. Recently, with Zed ported to Vulkan, we saw the variety of half-broken platforms and user configurations.

I'd recommend Blended to not close the door on OpenGL and instead keeping it as a compatibility fallback.

kvark commented on Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control pluralistic.net/2025/05/0... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames

kvark · 7 months ago

Oh irony. The article talks about exaggerated attention to success of individuals, like Zuck, being an issue in Silicon Valley. And yet the article itself talks about this AI Ad direction as something invented by evil Zuck. This isn't really about Zuck. Ultra-convincing ads will happen soon regardless of what Zuck does.

kvark commented on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-c... · Posted by u/vquemener

ksec · 7 months ago

I am thinking if Firefox could adopt any of these.

kvark · 7 months ago

Firefox rendering is based on WebRender, which runs on OpenGL. The internals of WebRender are similar to gpui but with significantly more stuff to cover the landscape of CSS.

kvark commented on The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death nautil.us/the-animals-tha... · Posted by u/dnetesn

kvark · 8 months ago

Those rotifers might have inspired the 3-body problem's concept of dehydration/rehydration as a skill to survive cataclysms.

kvark commented on Googler... ex-Googler nerdy.dev/ex-googler... · Posted by u/namuorg

atotic · 8 months ago

Agreed, Adam really is one of the best at what he does. His talks, demos, were always so interesting. My guess is that he'll be at Microsoft shortly.

What Google is saying with this layoff is that they no longer care about web developer relations. Chrome has not been well funded for years.

Firefox did the same thing five years ago, when they fired David Baron, who was one of the top 5 engineers in the world that understood how HTML layout works. He got instantly hired by Chrome.

It is kind of crazy that the core group that moves web standards forward is around 150 people. And most of them did not get rich off it, and have been doing it for decades.

kvark · 8 months ago

David Baron was a distinguished engineer at Mozilla - not someone you fire at a whim. What makes you think he didn't leave voluntarily?

kvark commented on GoboLinux 017.01: the most experimental Linux's first new release in about 5Y gobolinux.org/release_not... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

kvark · 8 months ago

Super excited to see this reviving! We need more exploration into Linux structure: this world of hundreds distros barely different by their desktop environments - is too borong.

kvark commented on Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib github.com/David-OConnor/... · Posted by u/the__alchemist

kvark · 9 months ago

The gamedev ecosystem appears to be split between nalgebra (for Rapier users) and glam. Where does lin-alg fit?

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