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- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
it is also somewhat misleading
…what? No it isn’t. Restricting the premise from infinite to any finite amount of time completely negates it. That doesn’t prove it’s “misleading”, it proves anyone that thinks it does has no idea what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 2 weeks ago:
It was pretty fluid, easy to understand.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 2 weeks ago:
More interesting question - why is ice slippery?
Our best answer (so far): www.youtube.com/watch?v=20zyW0qoSTE
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t read the article, but wouldn’t the site see the phone as soon as it’s taken out of the bag? Unless the plan is to leave the phone in the bag the whole time, at which point it seems easier to just leave it behind.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
Those people sold it to musk. They were tech bros whose goal from the start was to get a massive buyout and bail. They don’t deserve your respect anymore than musk does.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
There are 2 important words there that you’re missing.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
We really need to break our conditioning that employment is the highest priority in our lives. That employers can dictate whether we take live saving action depending on how many pennies it’ll cost them.
And this isn’t to victim blame. What happened to these people is a travesty and the company holds the blame for it, 100%. It’s more to point out that we’re the only ones that can take action on this. Nobody (certainly not corps) is going to break this mindset or norm on our behalf. Look out for yourself and your peers. You’re more important then your employer’s bottom line.
- Comment on Steam players no longer require a Microsoft Account to play multiplayer 1 month ago:
“Worth it anyway” to have autumnal functionality?
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 1 month ago:
In short - a lot.
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 1 month ago:
Most phones have an emergency lockdown that will require a passcode, fwiw.
- Comment on 'let me show you the nether before bed' 1 month ago:
It’s funny when you die in the nether lava ocean ans have to go on a sand excavation to get your stuff back.
- Comment on Instagram has announced it will be removing beauty filters – but the damage is done. 1 month ago:
Instagram has it’s fair share of blame for the trend, but I don’t think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the “old-school” sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
That is interesting. Thanks for the extra info!
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
Huh, I wasn’t aware that 4090s use similar tech. That sheds light on a few things. Thanks!
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
The game is rendered at a lower resolution, this saves a lot of resources.
Then dedicated AI cores or even special AI scaler chips get used to upscale the image back to the requested resolution.
I get that much. Or at least, I get that’s the intention.
This is a fixed cost and can be done with little power since the components are designed to do this task.
This us the part I struggle to believe/understand. I’m roughly aware of how resource intensive upscaling is on locally hosted models. The necessary tech/resources to do that to 4k+ in real time (120+ fps) seems at least equivalent, if not more expensive, to just rendering it that way in the first place. Are these “scaler chips” really that much more advanced/efficient?
Further questions aside, I appreciate the explanation. Thanks!
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
Is there an eli5 on how “ai upscaling” is less (or even equally) technologically demanding than just putting in better hardware?
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 2 months ago:
I’m not blaming employees here, but if GS is specifically marketing older games, they should be taking measures to ensure authenticity. Not that I think anyone should trust GS at this point. Still good to hold them accountable.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company 2 months ago:
He threw $44 billion at it for the right to destroy it. It wasnt worth that much.
- Comment on Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny 2 months ago:
The pauses are there because it’s not a “laugh track”, it’s a live audience. That’s not to say it’s 100% genuine laughter, but they’re pausing so the laughter doesn’t bury the dialogue.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 2 months ago:
Weird how many “false positives” they get. Uncanny.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips 2 months ago:
Not to say that anything about the project is good, but the first human implantee is very much alive.
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 2 months ago:
Trump didn’t cause it, so he had not need to project.
- Comment on The sun, it burns. 3 months ago:
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
The average stay on the iss is 6 months, with the longest being nearly a year. They know how to deal with the effects of these things, so it’s not going to be a huge problem.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
The problem isn’t the search engine - it’s the money.
- Comment on No Carl 3 months ago:
The latest MTG set is all animal focused and it has a snail token (image) that’s made by one of the creature cards. Not 100% sure if it’s supposed to be host to a parasite or if the artist thought it just looks trippy.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
Let him have another term and we’ll see how he measure up. And he’s up to a few 100k so far in my books.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 3 months ago:
Not really implied by the term itself, since after the death of the khal the khaleesi are basically exiled to the capital. Daenerys only brought greater meaning to the title when she used it in her conquests.
