Kudos to Google for moving this along! A few weeks, the HN community picked up [0, 1] on a presentation [2] about the Tint shading language, a WebGPU shading language prototype. It's great to see them formalize their prototype into a draft spec.
Thank you to those who are working hard on bringing WebGPU to the masses!
Qt's licensing for commercial products is something like $500/month/developer. For a small team of 6 developers, that's $36k in licensing a year. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take existing Qt code and "port" it over to the commercial license -- you're required to start from scratch IIRC.
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They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro.
They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on.
Sometimes you gotta bang on something to get it to work!
I would love to buy a beer for the mission operations team member who came up with that idea!
The bit that stands out to me is an e-mail he received from a female engineer:
> While the idealist in me would love to aim for a world where sex was treated more equally and openly, the unfortunate reality of tech is that it has been a haven for misogynistic men and the environment is heavily male dominated. While in an ideal world the name SexMachine would be something that both genders could joke about, the reality is that the tech community is not ready or capable of that today.
Neat! I've been looking around for a comprehensive guide in how to write a custom React renderer for an upcoming project of mine. It's unfortunate that Facebook hasn't had the time to document the process, often leaving folks to have to poke around at how other libraries do it. I'm starting to really appreciate how React can be used to incremental render complex state configurations to mediums other than the DOM.
OP: thanks for taking the time to write this series! It'll definitely help me out with some work I'm interested in doing.
Thank you to those who are working hard on bringing WebGPU to the masses!
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316777 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22351285 [2]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qHhFq0GJtY_59rNjpiHU...