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Is there a good self-hostable FOSS version of Canvas/Blackboard?
Re:Modern Rendering Culling Techniques on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @12:35AM (#47844563)
Roblox just gave a talk at this exact intersection of topics (user generated content and high performance culling) last month at GDC.

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/optimizing-a-large-time-...

Re:The AI Industry Is Lying to You on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:45PM (#47507321)
Someone please correct my math.

The article says 240 Gigawatts of capacity is allocated for AI datacenters.

New York City draws about 10 Gigawatts in the hottest months of the year due to extra load from AC use.

So am I understanding correctly that these people want to foist upon the power grid 24 NYCs?

If I have to deal with even the mention of another package manager in the cross-platform dev ecosystem I am going to snap
Re:I Hate: Programming Wayland Applications on Sunday March 22, 2026 @12:40PM (#47479314)
Writing 1300 lines of non-cross-platform windowing code sounds like masochism. GLFW is right there.
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:07PM (#46583020)
I am too lazy and not enough of a snob to write several paragraphs on why Aeropress is objectively better and different from French Press, but it is, and I hope someone can step up and do that here.
Re:Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:07PM (#46522458)
It's just the "dev kit". Snapdragon for the laptop form factor is alive and well. You don't need a devkit for a laptop running Windows and QCOM easily figured that out.