25 March 2020

39 links · Wednesday

Binge Together - watch movies together with your friends

Enjoy a movie night with your friends Feel close, even when being miles apart ⏰ Start you movie at the exact same time 📞 Talk about your emotions via voice chat 👍 No browser plugin required! 🤩 It's free Use Binge Together as better N…

Hierarchical Depth Buffers

Overview A hierarchical depth buffer is a multi-level depth (Z) buffer used as an acceleration structure for depth queries. As with normal texture mip chains, the dimensions of each level are generally successive power-of-2 fractions of the full-resolution buf…

Skynet

Mankind is united in celebration and marvels at its magnificence as it gives birth to AI

Getting started with bare-metal assembly — Jonas Hvid

Seeing a program you wrote running directly on the bare metal is deeply satisfying to anyone who enjoys writing software. And it turns out that creating such a program from scratch is easier than it sounds. The hardest part is figuring out where to start. In t…

NVIDIA DLSS 2.0: A Big Leap In AI Rendering

Through the power of AI and GeForce RTX Tensor Cores, NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 enables a new level of performance and visuals for your games - available now in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and coming this week to Control.

Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent

Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.

The man who made the NES

Maybe it's about being in the right place at the right time. How else to explain how Masayuki Uemura, an engineer born in wartime Japan to a humble background, came to change the course of video game history? Uemura is the man who designed the Famicom, a pivot…

Speeding up Linux disk encryption

Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers…

Virtual Meetup #3

Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:00 PM: Join us for another online virtual meetup via Zoom. We've got Michelle Flynn sharing tips and advice on dealing with anxiety, we've got Tess Ferrandez talking about why you

HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media

HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Click 'I agree' to allow Verizon Media and our partners to use cookies and similar technologies to access your device and use your data (including location) to understand your interests, and provide and measure personalised a…

Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory

Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.

Running C# Snake inside UEFI

When I see SeeSharpSnake from Michal Strehovský I was very inspired by possibilities, and that’s again revitalise my interest in CoreRT.

Working with Query Strings in Blazor

In this post, I talk about query strings in Blazor. We start by understanding what they are and why we would chose to use them. Then look at some way to achieve that in Blazor.

Logging in ASP .NET Core 3.1

This is the twelfth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled&n

Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions

You probably came here because your Mac showed a message telling you that software from “Objective Development Software GmbH” (Little Snitch) loaded a system extension that will no longer be compatible with a future version of macOS and that you should contact…

Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features | .NET Blog

The Roslyn team continuously works to provide tooling that deeply understands the code you are writing in-order to help you be more productive. In this post, I’ll cover some of the latest .NET Productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019. Tooling imp…

CO2 emissions on the web

I’ve spent the last month trying to reduce the carbon footprint of the websites I have (some) control over. When talking about this with other people they often look at me blankly before asking “aren’t you taking this a little too far?”.