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Because old graphics APIs were very high-level, drivers had a lot of compex code to optimize specific games and game engines on case-by-case basis, and every driver changelog would have a list of games with improved FPS. To my knowledge, Vulkan generation of graphics APIs meant to give a lot more control to programmers, specifically so that drivers can remove all of this bloat. However, Vulkan's VkApplicationInfo has fields for game/engine names and versions. Why is it needed? So that the driver can have special cases for it built in? If so - doesn't it kinda defeats the purpose? Can anyone who actually knows what's the deal here explain?

George R.R. Martin explains how his Game of Thrones characters wielding power badly is his answer to Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Burroughs, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. A Princess of Mars had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the oxygen would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Burroughs can say that John Carter became king and got yeeted off Mars at the last minute, and he was wise and good. But Burroughs doesn’t ask the question: What was John’s slave girl policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of black pirates from the moon? And what about all these green men? By the end of the war, the gods of Mars are gone but all of the greenskin mf’ers aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did John pursue a bro above hoes policy? Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with. Just being a good guy was not the answer. You had to make hard, hard decisions. Sometimes what seemed to be a good decision turned around and bit you in the ass; it was the law of unintended consequences. I’ve tried to get at some of these in my books. My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a propa Martian king."

🚨 CHILE SIDES WITH ARGENTINA ON THE FALKLANDS Chile has officially declared its support for Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands. This came in a joint statement after a meeting between the two countries’ leaders. The Falklands are British territory - defended with British blood in 1982. Now more countries are openly testing us because they sense weakness in London. Britain must make it crystal clear: The Falklands are ours and will remain ours forever.

READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. Calling the DIGNITY Act “amnesty” isn’t just wrong. It’s a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you’ve defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago. No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That’s law and order. That’s DIGNITY.

Under the Eye of Yuttahih Oil on linen. Mark Maggiori.

Something feminine about a man using spreadsheets. You were meant to trade grain in ancient Sumeria

The amount of money in that rifle is insane

This isn’t a burger. This is the stuff you clean off of the grill before you make a burger

The European Migrant Crisis began in 2001 when the USA began its wars in the Middle East as part of the Global War of Terror. Oh wait. No it fucking didn’t. Migration actually decreased during that period. It began in 2015 when European leaders suddenly welcomed them all in.

As Matt Yglesias rightly says, this is a worrying signal of declining state legitimacy: even the centre-left parties don’t believe they can make the case for the state raising taxes and spending them on public goods

Reading through a truck crash deposition. Question: Who paid for your training at Star CDL [truck driving school]? Truck driver: US Government people.

novelist tom clancy with a beretta during target practice in his private underground pistol range (1989)

Watching AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett's press conference on the allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith I'm reminded she claimed the Islamist terror attack at Bondi Beach was "not motivated by religion".

🚨holy shit.. the CIA just used a tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find an American pilot hiding in a mountain crevice in Iran.. by detecting his heartbeat.. not his phone.. not a tracker.. not a radio signal.. his heartbeat.. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works built it.. the same classified division that built the SR-71 Blackbird.. the stealth bomber.. the U-2 spy plane.. every secret aircraft America has ever denied existed until they didn't.. it uses quantum magnetometry to pick up the electromagnetic pulse your heart makes every time it beats.. then AI filters out everything else.. the pilot.. callsign "Dude 44 Bravo" was wounded.. alone for two days.. hiding in a crack in a mountain.. while Iranian forces searched for him on foot.. and America found him from the sky.. by listening to his chest.. here's the part that should rewrite everything you think about privacy and power.. this was Ghost Murmur's FIRST operational use.. meaning it's been sitting in a vault.. tested.. ready.. waiting for a moment important enough to reveal it.. they didn't show you this to impress you.. they showed you this because the next person they use it on won't be a rescue

I was impressed by the U.S. rescue of the downed airman. It is a rare remoralizig action, an elevation ritual, something good in modern society so bereft of such gestures. Great expense and effort to rescue fighters who might otherwise become prisoners further shows a high level competence. It elevates the prestige of a fighting force and its soldiers with good reason.

TRUE STORY 90,000 nuns immediately left their convents following the adoption of the revolutionary changes of Vatican II; the changes were read out in every convent; everything that made the convents holy places was removed; TODAY, there is nothing but desolation!

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