Doug McNabb
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Doug McNabb
@mcnabbd
I don't know what to think. I'm trying to figure it out. that's why I'm thinking!
Katılım Eylül 2010
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They never thought any of this would ever be exposed.
First, they thought Hillary would be elected and we'd never know about the Operation Crossfire Hurricane, at least insofar as to how it was all concocted out of thin air.
Then, they thought Trump would be put in jail and/or Kamala would be elected, and we'd never know about Operation Arctic Frost.
Nothing else explains the pure bravado of so completely spying on and otherwise subverting political opponents with no restraint whatsoever.
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party. To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.” This makes Watergate look like CHILD’S PLAY. Accountability is not optional. These people MUST be held accountable.
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
An early/mid career graphics programming opportunity out in the DFW exurbs if you have some flight sim background and a Secret clearance:
careers.rtx.com/global/en/job/…
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
The thinkers are set free and that’s a problem for the manipulators.
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@ChadSigmaRizz @the_geeko1 if you want high perf CPU code, ISPC is the best. ps, i was the first one to use it, after Mart Pharr
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@mcnabbd @the_geeko1 Woah, that's cool. This is the first time I'm hearing about Larabee.
I've heard about IPSC before, but I haven't had the time to learn it.... In your opinion is it worth learning and using IPSC or a similar language ?
I've also never done gfx stuff apart from raylib......
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I don't understand why graphics is being held back by APIs what do u mean I can't just malloc and send a pointer .. why can't I write in C and have to use random ass languages.
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i remember high school in the early 80s. apple panic made the dish seek noise like 14 times when loading. so, i counted and waited and popped open the door just after the 14th.
Enough time to load everything but not start. poked around memory with a disassembler. figured out where the number of lives was stored and "beat" the game
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5.25 inch floppy drive seeking
shayla@callmeMaharani
What is a sound or smell that doesn’t exist anymore, but 30 years ago was so common it was considered background noise?
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
Real communism exists in the horror stories of communist countries, not in the fairytales of communist textbooks.
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@MsMelChen i just want the state to prioritize liberty. but that's as naive as thinking communism will work
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Growing up means abandoning the childish fantasy that sees liberty as a natural phenomenon that emerges only once the State is minimized and individuals are simply left to their own enlightened self-interest.
It means finally coming to terms that liberty is only possible within strategic bounds, built on a substrate of constraints.
Balaji@balajis
Libertarianism in theory requires Lee Kuan Yew in practice. Order and borders are prerequisites for liberty and prosperity. Tolerance and internationalism enables trade and capitalism. Pragmatism about the scope of the state minimizes the scope of the state.
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yes. there are languages with compilers that can target both cpus and gpus. like ISPC. the graphics apis are at a higher layer of abstraction. and graphics primitive are first class citizens (textures, shaders, vertices, etc).
i should add i worked on larrabee at intel. i'm a huge fan of using the compiler. but there are issues, like making sure you write the code generally so it can map to any of the complex gpu architectures.
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@mcnabbd @the_geeko1 Isn't this what the compiler should do ?
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The big lie of “gov sucks at everything “ , is that they suck the most at enforcing performance and costs.
You know what’s worse than the gov running a service? Private companies knowing that the gov entities they contract with can’t do shit to stop them from fucking up everything and making a fortune.
I’m not saying this applies to every private company. Many do have ethics. Not all. And as an entrepreneur, it’s embarrassing to us all.
Need proof ? Look at the Noem ad contract.
Look at healthcare. Taxpayers provide 70pct or more of the revenue of the largest insurance companies.
Those same insurance companies get fined and found liable for ripping off taxpayers, again and again and again. And they still get to do business with the gov, knowing they can effectively steal money from us all. The fines are a nuisance.
And this is healthcare. When they lie, people die.
Maybe when we are smart enough to pass laws saying that gov contractors get one mulligan. Two fines from any government entity and you are blacklisted from Gov contracts at the state and federal level for 10 years. That’s when things will change
Until then the concept of privatization of gov services like the tsa or post office or .. is just a license for a private company to abuse taxpayers and face next to no consequences.
depressivehacks@depressivehacks
Mark, why do you think government intervention into the free market is the answer here over an economic solution? I would argue that there is too much government intervention in healthcare and insurance, which has led to a lot of the costs being driven up in the first place. The fact is that if there was a more direct relationship between customers and cost, prices would decrease. Nobody is paying six figures out of pocket for their medical expenses. The only reason those expenses remain so high is that insurance companies boost the market rate and inflate costs. Certainly, I am not advocating for people to not receive essential care that they need to survive, but from a market philosophy perspective, I can't see how more government intervention leads to anything but exacerbation of the outcomes that they themselves have gotten us into to begin with.
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One falling tree makes more noise than a forest that grows.
Branko@brankopetric00
the engineer who quietly keeps everything running gets less recognition than the one who fixes the outage they caused
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew, and the layoff wasn't a performance-based "rightsizing" as companies call it nowadays. It's a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the top few percent of their discipline.
Dean Takahashi@deantak
Sad news for Epic Games. Hope the efforts to turn things around can work. gamesbeat.com/epic-games-lay…
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John Thune isn’t stupid or weak.
He knows exactly what he’s doing.
He’s cunning.
You don’t rise to Senate Majority Leader if you’re stupid or weak.
If he doesn’t get the SAVE America Act passed he’ll allow the Dems to cheat and destroy America.
Worse than Benedict Arnold.
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i think i pooped my pants a little watching this video
まだ面白い@madaomoshiroi
クマ避けスプレーなかったら終わってた クマってこうやって距離詰めてくるんだな怖い
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
Excellent 3d artist just hit the market. Epic only hires the best, it's a shame we couldn't keep them.
Give Alix's portfolio is a look.
Alix Newton lLooking for Work!l@AlixNewton3D
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@TheAliceSmith and they're all thousands of pages long. each page has hundreds of carve outs and special considerations to the politically well connected
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A class of professional, full time politicians has nothing else to do but pass thousands of laws that no one wants or needs.
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Windows 11 on a 16GB machine is useless to me, even 32GB is questionable. Its memory management is broken at a fundamental level.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Microsoft announced plans to lower the baseline memory footprint of Windows 11. They want to reduce idle RAM usage by optimizing the operating system itself. On a clean Windows 11 25H2 install, the OS typically uses around 3.3 GB at idle. Real-world usage often climbs to 6 GB or more on 8 GB systems and over 10 GB on 16 GB systems due to background processes and features.
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Doug McNabb retweetledi
We have a role in Orlando for a graphics engineer position on the frostbite engine. Reach out if interested.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Epic Games is laying off over 1,000 employees. Tim Sweeney: "I'm sorry we're here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded." This comes shortly after Epic raised V-Bucks prices The company is also implementing over 500 million dollars in additional cost savings.
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How difficult is it to read the text in red?
(A) Can read at a glance, no effort
(B) Can read if I take a few seconds
(C) Can read, but very difficult
(D) Can't read at all
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