Trying to get Omarchy to run in a VM seems...difficult.

FRIGGIN'... No wonder my OS project couldn't get into 32-bit mode. I have an off-by-1 error in the memory protection.

Yesterday, I pointed out to my friends that Intel beat earnings per share by 81.51%, which is crazy. Today, their stock is down 17.75%. Nothing makes sense.

It is both neat and annoying to watch my ISP fail over live. The yellow dotted line is latency to Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare servers. It has consistently been around 18ms. Then at 10:10pm ET it jumped up to 27ms and has stayed there for about 2 hours.

Huh. Neat. Looking at my disassembly for an odd performance case, I see: movzx ebx, bx Easy way to clear out high bits.

JR East has a game where you drive a train?? Neat. Whoooaa each additional line is a $27 DLC?? I guess that makes sense. The graphics are insane and they seem to have modeled every building. WAIT! It's a video!! store.steampowered.com/app/2111630/...

Color experts, suppose I have an image in X color space that I'm displaying on a monitor with Y color space. I think scaling each component independently isn't quite correct. The triangle of the primaries might be "rotated". But maybe close enough?

I feel like some UI problems are well solved, buttons, scrolling... But others seem unsolved still. Like mode changes, for example. Suppose you are driving along and your engine develops a problem. A modal dialog covering your speed is no good. Designated notification area?

Every step of the way I thought "Yep, I do that."

Friggin'! My vertex shader had: pos = vector * matrix; The translation looked like a rotation. Because the order matters there and I needed: pos = matrix * vector;

Golang has for i, val := range values { ... } I want that so bad in C++. It's so simple and so useful. Please.

I finally got around to watching this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT... Immediately, I thought "Wait, I know of him! He offered to help open source projects with their design." Watching him speak gave me some insight into his thought process and intentions. New role model. Thanks @jenson.org

So I knew in C++ you could spread a string across lines. "This is" " one string" " with no newlines in it" But I didn't know you could insert comments. Neato. "Hello " // Is "World" appropriate? "world"

Been learning Go through boot.dev . (I've wanted to do something like this so happy to see their implementation and support them.) I like several things Go does. The multiple named returns is nice.

HDR is difficult. I have a XB273U NV. It supports HDR 400. When I play PQ content on it, it seems fine. I also have a PA32U which is a MUCH better monitor for HDR. Better color accuracy, 1000 nits... PQ content is too dark on it unless I put it in HLG mode???

That was cool. I just matched up with Post Malone, Shroud, and xQc in a game. Got a headshot on PM :D

Remember a little while ago when China was buying GPUs and putting more RAM on them for AI servers? And now we have a massive RAM shortage. China is pretty good at seeing what they need and making it happen.

I friggin' love @tsoding.bsky.social . I've been a graphics programmer for years and didn't fully know what you taught--step by step--in your last video. Thanks, friendo. Also, somehow I only just noticed your i3status: Tea, Leaked IP.

Things like the NORAD Santa Tracker warm my heart. But uhhh any chance some of us graphics programmers and artists can contribute? Look at the way those reindeer animate. "Skinning" has been around since the late '90s.

This might be a spicy take, since everyone hates AI... but I'm okay with AI for iterating on ideas. Not for final production things. (Although, I could see it becoming good enough some day. And we'll have have to face what that means then.)

<me, a year ago> 1Gb networking is fine for me. 2.5Gb or 10Gb would just waste more CPU I think. <me, today> RDMA is making a lot of sense to me. And 10Gb just isn't enough.

That whole Amazon using keyboard lag thing... That means they basically have a keylogger on their worker machines. Which I guess is ...fiiiiine. But wouldn't traceroute have worked, too??

If you write to the AX register, the high bits of EAX are preserved. Same when you write to AL--the high bits of (E)AX are preserved. But when you write to RAX, the high bits of EAX are zeroed. TIL

Interesting Notepad feature I'm sure all us programmers will hate: I wanted to break up a line. I accidentally pressed backspace one too many times, turning the word "reason" into "reaso". Then I pressed enter. Notepad put the "n" back to complete the word.

Steam Replay time. 97%ile, 98%ile, and 95%ile. Ashamed but proud.

Compiling shaders...

No SR-IOV on the B580. Bummer.

Ohhh food delivery automation. Refrigerate items quickly? Brother, it is colder outside than in my fridge. They're fine out there. No rush.

I think I bought AoE 3 on the XBox Game Store? Which is shut down and now I no longer have access to it? It wasn't transferred to the Microsoft Store, I think. (Possibly because only the Definitive Edition was added to the Microsoft Store?) If correct, strong argument for GOG or Steam.

Look at that RAM usage. Loading up an AI model? Nope. WoW Classic. (What the...)

Google Antigravity is pretty dang impressive. AI coding still has significant hiccups. I have to know what it should be doing and guide it when it makes mistakes. Said another way, I spent more time debugging and less time coding. I'm not sure that is a great tradeoff. Debugging is harder.

I love digging into music theory and seeing songs do amazing things. You all know KPop Demon Hunters by now. Did you know their music flexes HARD on theory? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTsd...

I know this will be a hot take, but it was the right move IMHO. I think Facebook's usage has been declining. Instagram is still strong. But should he hold onto a dying platform or try to make the next Insta? How much is that worth? To not die?

AI data center networking is a whole beast unto its own. Fascinating, the problems they're facing. Load balancing is entirely different with that workload.

My main computer died while I was on vacation. I had a second computer I was working on water cooling and getting a top 100 in the world rank. But it wasn't ready for sustained usage. Blessing in disguise? I guess now I know the VRAM isn't getting enough cooling.

Most people aren't computer nerds, so they wouldn't have noticed... RAM prices are SKYROCKETING. There is a long story why. But the short version: AI datacenters demand RAM.

I need to change my Visual Studio shortcuts. F10? F11? That shit needs to be F1/F2. Or maybe something better.

Do I know anyone (through extended connections) who works at GitHub? This bot spam is annoying. github.com/0tn3d6367291...

I'm back from a long vacation. I wanted to see Tron: Ares. It isn't in any theater near me. It isn't on Disney+ (which has horrible stream quality, btw...is this 720p?). It isn't for sale on bluray. Disney, I'm trying. Work with me, here.

You ever just pause and recall how INSANE it is that we have satellites in space to monitor weather?

Today I learned RDMA (Remote DMA) is a thing that exists. This is wild to me. Apparently, it can be secure. But I'm skeptical. Anyway, with it you can write to another comp's memory without either CPU being involved.

JPEG-XL likely coming to Chrome? groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Patting myself on the back here, but I'm proud of the investigation I did here and the solution I came up with. github.com/ProgramMax/F...

I don't think, therefor I don't am

Aaaaarg. Someone make a motherboard with two temperature sensors already so I can do coolant vs ambient. Actually, heck...maybe I'll just make my own USB device to do it. "Be the change you want to see", right? But the BIOS still won't recognize it. I guess it needs to control fans + pumps then.

The PNG group was rechartered until Nov 21st, 2027!!

I just gave my PNG presentation and I think it was well received. The part I thought would get a lot of push back (new lossy PNG format!!) actually got support and contributing ideas. Crazy stuff coming around the bend for PNG. www.programmax.net/talks/png-5t...

If you are at TPAC 2025, come to the PNG meeting on Friday! We have some interesting updates. www.w3.org/events/meeti...

I am done with a first pass on my slides for Friday's presentation. I am confident I can get buy-in to improve PNG compression. But to REALLY compete, we need lossy PNGs. And I think that will be an uphill battle. www.programmax.net/talks/png-5t...

Oh my. First time I've received an email from "GitHub Staff". There is a CVE being filed against libpng. I'm at a conference in Japan where I am giving a presentation. Not a great time to be reviewing patches...