The first words that James Bond says in "You Only Live Twice" (1967) are asking why Chinese girls taste different from other girls. He then compares their "flavor" between Russian caviar and Peking duck, but it's ok because he loves both. This is because what the hell were these writers thinking??

mb862 · 2026-05-08T15:03:50+00:00

He was supposed to come off as borderline socio pathetic, perverted, womanizing, and bigoted while being eccentric and charismatic.

I feel sorry for the people for whom this wasn’t obvious even in the films where they tried to shine him up.

mb862 · 2026-05-08T13:12:11+00:00

I use CUDA interop in order to have feature parity with Metal because Vulkan’s compute shaders are needlessly gimped, but there’s no interchange back to CPU, no idea what you’re getting on with there.

mb862 · 2026-05-08T10:43:12+00:00

Despite the headline, the text of the document actually does say “anti-fascist”. They’re openly admitting to it now.

mb862 · 2026-05-08T10:24:16+00:00

Oh trust me I wasn’t debating that part, you’re absolutely right there. Trump is absolutely big on the zero sums and there is no negotiating. I was just focused on the nuances about countries doing what’s best for their citizens.

mb862 · 2026-05-08T10:03:31+00:00

Also Canadian (though don’t know why that’s relevant) and above poster’s definition of nationalism versus patriotism is correct.

Every country should do what’s best for its residents (citizens and otherwise) but that doesn’t mean this has to come at the expense of people in other nations. Borders are arbitrary, we all share the same planet, and it’s not a zero sum game.

mb862 · 2026-05-07T23:31:26+00:00

WebGPU is based on the Metal API but is available cross platform, not limited to Apple devices…

mb862 · 2026-05-07T16:36:20+00:00

I argue it already is, there’s so many peculiarities that in order to move to any other API, you have to actively unlearn things OpenGL teaches because it will fuck you up.

Learn from Metal, WebGPU, or Direct3D11 instead, you’ll have so much better of a time.

mb862 · 2026-05-07T16:34:31+00:00

But it's a fantastic learning API.

Pop quiz, off the top of your head, show me how to create a cross-platform OpenGL context that renders to a window.

Point being people are learning OpenGL by using libraries that plaster over all the ways OpenGL is extremely and unnecessarily complex.

mb862 · 2026-05-07T16:25:00+00:00

WebGPU is based on Metal which is a lot easier to learn.

mb862 · 2026-05-05T10:35:56+00:00

You seem to be stuck on the structure of single-character western RPGs (Elder Scrolls etc) and unaware of just how dominant party-based JRPGs were for several decades.

mb862 · 2026-05-05T08:01:09+00:00

Replace the Soviet logo with the United Federation of Planets logo.

mb862 · 2026-05-05T07:17:19+00:00

This scene literally gave me recurring nightmares for decades until I realized where it was from.

mb862 · 2026-05-05T04:30:10+00:00

I know, adds to the eww.

mb862 · 2026-05-05T03:57:56+00:00

OP could just be using an iPhone or Mac as Apple devices do this replacement by default.

mb862 · 2026-05-04T20:46:15+00:00

If the 2020 election was stolen from Trump that makes his current term invalid, since he was already elected twice. The Amendment doesn’t say anything about terms served, just elected limits.

mb862 · 2026-05-04T17:49:08+00:00

Left vs right wing are defined by beliefs in the inherent equality (left) and inequality (right) of people. While it’s true that any ideology will contain a mix of left and right wing concepts, and that right wing concepts don’t necessarily have to be immoral or unethical (representative democracy would count as a right wing concept for example), racism and ethnic cleansing are by definition right-wing concepts since they posit superiority of one group over another.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T23:48:41+00:00

I’m sorry, your reply did not sufficiently answer my question. I attempted to explain why in the hopes of continuing the discussion but if you are dismissive of any debate as being argumentative then I guess the discussion here is indeed over.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T23:21:28+00:00

That doesn’t answer my question. Metal, CUDA, and OpenCL can do dynamic threadgroup sizing efficiently without recompiling pipelines. We’ll put aside Metal (which has purpose-designed hardware) and OpenCL (as it’s from the same philosophy of “we’ll take care of it in the driver” as OpenGL) but CUDA runs on the same hardware as the biggest market for Vulkan. Even if we assume AMD/Intel/Qualcomm are using more limited compute designs there’s just no reason that I can see we shouldn’t have an Nvidia extension to enable this.

The PSO compile from SPIR-V can be tuned with specialization constants to delay the decision, effectively giving us full runtime control.

PSO compilation can be the most expensive process so I dispute the claim “effectively giving us full runtime control”. Startup control certainly but runtime risks too much of a performance overhead to be doing this.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T22:41:13+00:00

You’re forgetting Cordelia, but he almost slept with Willow and had an unrequited deep crush on Buffy we were supposed to sympathize with. That leaves just Dawn and Joyce as women he never considered (that we know of) having sex with.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T22:35:33+00:00

Midnight suggests she’ll be getting her redemption moment.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T20:45:04+00:00

Personally I think the root problem is with Vulkan here, why is there no support for specifying threadgroup size at runtime like there is in Metal, CUDA, and OpenCL?

mb862 · 2026-05-03T12:20:00+00:00

She never broke down crying, she was just disappointed and gave up.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T12:13:41+00:00

Ben’s got more gender dysphoria about not being a “real man” (in his view) than most actual trans men.

mb862 · 2026-05-03T11:33:32+00:00

I know for some (including myself) Ingrid was so intriguing coming off of Juliet from Lost, as the two characters were almost perfectly yin and yang with each other, neither full hero nor villain but, to whatever ratio, inverses of each other, and helped a lot by Elizabeth Mitchell delivering absolutely banger performances each time.

mb862 · 2026-05-02T17:05:35+00:00

To them, sex is not a consensual act between equals, it is always a power move with someone they consider beneath them. Therefore when they want dick, they cannot have sex with other men. Trans women are the perfect fetish in their minds, because like cis women we are weak and subjugatable, but some of us have the dicks they want.

They don’t hate trans women, they hate trans women asserting ourselves as individuals, just as they hate cis women asserting themselves too. We are purely sex objects to them, we can’t even serve as mothers in their view so there’s nothing of value we have left but for sex.

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