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Building a Terminal in Zig and Swift with Mitchell Hashimoto

Software Unscripted

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How to Fix a GPU Driver Bug

I was like, Do I get to stop? Soon, hopefully. Hopefully, officially next year is the year Apple deprecates and tell her something. It's pretty brutal now. And I tweeted about some of the workarounds. They're super funny. One of the GPU driver bugs was that if your shader structure wasn't aligned, if it's on certain alignments, it just crashes. So I just added a nice, like, comp time tests with annoying comments explaining why the comp time check the alignment. But I want to get rid of stuff like that. Because it's pure mental overhead for me as a programmer that functionally doesn't affect things enough to matter.

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