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- Comment on Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series 2 days ago:
Yes, developers work at companies that have org charts
- Comment on Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series 2 days ago:
If you’ve ever worked in a big company you know that’s not how this is going to work, it’s going to be requested by executives or higher ups that are not involved in art direction at all.
- Comment on Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series 2 days ago:
The characters just end up looking like different people and I highly doubt the lighting of the scenery actually looks how the artists somehow originally intended.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 2 weeks ago:
Just gotta wait for people to write custom firmware for these things, it’s cool hardware but yeah I’m not going to run a Facebook OS on my own hardware
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- Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ 4 weeks ago:
That guy who was in love with his car was just ahead of the times
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 4 weeks ago:
OpenAI is reaching the point where they’re big enough that things move slowly. They might have been working on something like this but it was obviously not done because they were thinking about security implications.
The ClawdBot guy did not care about security implications and just shipped a terrifying piece of software because he could
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 4 weeks ago:
You’re gonna need to sit down for me to tell you about NAND prices
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 4 weeks ago:
The more I work for tech companies the more I genuinely end up believing that stuff like this being removed is in fact just incompetence at least 50% of the time
- Comment on Start-up idea 5 weeks ago:
Speed Queen is also quite good, and honestly LG does pretty well in my experience. A big problem I think is people really wanting matching appliance sets.
You should look at the most reliable brand for each category and go that way, because just because Electrolux makes good washers for example doesn’t mean their ranges or dishwashers are going to be any good.
Embrace the mismatched scratch and dent appliances and you will achieve happiness
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 5 weeks ago:
There’s a little guy in the hub and as it gets hotter he begins running trying to escape which creates rotational energy to spin the blade
- Comment on IYKYK 1 month ago:
This is also applicable to guys shaving around their mouth
- Comment on Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says 2 months ago:
- Comment on China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal 2 months ago:
I honestly feel like our best route to competition at this point is the big players being forced to license technology to eachother and smaller companies.
The reason CPUs don’t suffer from these issues nearly as badly as graphics is that Intel and AMD are effectively stuck having to share technology with eachother.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 months ago:
Yeah I think Windows 8 in general is just what happens when you don’t have proper user testing and go entirely based on what the shareholders think the next big thing in computing is going to be.
At the time everyone thought that touchscreens and tablets were going to take over everything, at this point though it’s become pretty clear that tablets are for media consumption and some creative work. For productivity they just aren’t as good as a full on desktop environment.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 months ago:
Not sure why it would be unexpected? 8.1 was not a good OS from a UI perspective, but it was the last version before Microsoft went all in on making Windows a service and not a product you paid to use.
They still had the incentive to make the OS better and faster. I remember videos from Microsoft at the time showing how fast Windows 8 could get to the desktop compared to 7. They don’t really even try to work on stuff like that anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 months ago:
It seems like the actual windows kernel isn’t that bad, it’s mainly all the stuff on top of it at this point that is killing the OS
- Comment on Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production 2 months ago:
Has Moore’s law is dead ever actually leaked something that ended up to be accurate and actually sourced from him originally
It seems like every time a tech leak is wrong you end up seeing his name with it
- Comment on big tobacco stopped paying 2 months ago:
It’s less what’s in the chicken nugget and more what isn’t in the chicken nugget
Not really any nutritional value mixed with a lot of sugars and fats
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 3 months ago:
The NAND market is an effectively monopoly that has been caught price fixing in the past. They desperately want to keep prices as high as they can so they tightly control supply to prevent having any excess product. This screws everyone over as soon as there’s a spike in demand that they failed to account for.
Instead of just keeping a consistent supply and allowing prices to drop from competition, we end up with price rollercoaster that peaks every few years then crashes back down again. The severity is just higher than usual due to the higher demand from data centers.
The market desperately needs a new player that just consistently creates supply instead of playing stupid games, but the barrier to entry is too high.
- Comment on Palantir and flock are your enemy. 3 months ago:
I like GN but Steve is definitely a little smug at times, but he’s earned it considering how often he’s correct.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 4 months ago:
If I’m going to lose the main things I like about Android, like customizing things and installing my own software. Then yeah I would actually jump ship to the alternative because the chips are faster, the battery life is better, and the software would effectively be on par.
The point is that the jump would no longer be from a somewhat open platform to a closed one. It would be a jump from a closed platform to another closed platform.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 months ago:
It’s been long enough now that I can’t really remember off the top of my head. I want to say I started using Photoshop about a year or two after CS6 came out? And I would have been using GIMP for at least a few years prior to that before I had ever even seen the Photoshop UI.
- Comment on Question on TV's 4 months ago:
Basically any TV out there you can get rid of the annoying post processing. But none of them are going to be that way out of the box.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 months ago:
I’ve used both Photoshop and GIMP, in fact I used GIMP first and that’s what I learned on. Then I tried Photoshop and it was immediately way more intuitive as to where things are and how the UI works, same with Affinity based on my little experience with it.
Older FOSS stuff tends to struggle quite a bit with UX, which makes sense cause it’s mostly programmers and not UI designers working on it.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 months ago:
Oh for sure, I’m never paying Adobe anything. More just speaking on some frustration that GIMP seems to be sitting in the exact same location it has been for so long.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 4 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but GIMP honestly just kinda sucks from a UX perspective nowadays. The core of the app seems to be fine, but it’s just not particularly intuitive to use compared to the commercial offerings.
Maybe that’ll change one day, but it really does feel like the interface has been the same for the past 15 years at least.
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 4 months ago:
I’d generally agree, the industry itself seems to be high risk for exploitation because of the very nature of it.
Realistically though this isn’t going to help that much, most AI generated content that tries to look real ends up quite uncanny. So this is probably more likely to cannibalise some of the least problematic parts of the industry like digital art.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 4 months ago:
Right after I upgrade my omada setup…
- Comment on Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs 6 months ago:
It’s really quite insane, I’m from Canada and want a strong manufacturing industry here because it became clear during the pandemic that the manufacturing industry here is insanely anemic. The current admin however is just running on the most insane premise possible.
