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Yes, the CS Falcon agent caused a kernel panic on RHEL about a month ago.
Re:C++23: std:out_ptr and std:inout_ptr on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:10AM (#33919270)
While I agree C++ is very verbose, I would argue that modern C++ reduces the amount of code you need to write. The full code above should be : foo* x = new foo(); if (x != nullptr) { ... } delete x;

and the equivalent modern C++: auto x = std::make_shared<x>(); ...

A modern house and heating system will also help cool the house down. This is if you live in an area where temperature oscillates.
The post-incident report found a design flaw in the box that transmits the ejection signal from the back seat to the front seat, allowing it to get damaged. That and one loose screw.
Re:Multithreading for Game Engines on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:18AM (#26578368)
There is no such thing as direct rendering, commands are always buffered by the driver before being sent to the gpu. (and Forward rendering as in the rendering technique ?)

With Vulkan/Dx12 you can record multiple command buffers in parallel. That is not possible in OpenGl/Dx11 (There are 'deferred contexts' that let you do things in parallel but it's really not great).

By 'multiple cores on the GPU', I think you mean the hardware queues ? Usually there are 3 (on PCIe discrete GPUs, that is) a graphics queue to record any commands, a compute queue for compute tasks, and a copy queue for DMA copies across the PCIe bus. I don't know if you can access them independently on older APIs, but on Vulkan/dx12 you certainly can.

Yes. In fact, that's essentially what the drivers are.
Re:DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:13PM (#24699320)
Eurogamer did write a review about playing modern games on a (very good) CRT monitor [1]. It's better than any LCD and even OLED monitors according to them:

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-moder...

Re:French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:45AM (#24614838)
There seems to be some confusion between paternity leave and parental leave. Figure 1 (page 6) in document [1] gives a good comparison between among EU countries., where paternity leave is represented by a black bar.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16676&langId=e...