nightlily
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- Comment on European wine, chocolate and cars to become cheaper in Australia amid landmark trade deal with EU 1 week ago:
Australian spiders don’t make as good Fryders as NZ ones but beggars can’t be choosers.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 1 week ago:
Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Unfortunately it’s the best option in Germany after Google threw a tantrum over privacy laws here. However OpenStreetMap is getting better.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 1 week ago:
Who is the Asterisk in this situation?
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
This guy is clearly speaking from a place of technical ignorance. It can’t do any of that because it’s a screen-space post-processing effect that only works on final pixel colours and motion vectors. It does not have depth, material, or lighting information. It is purely a generative AI filter and in the demo gets so much wrong with the lighting and material properties. There’s one scene from the Hogwarts game where it turns a cast-iron cauldron into flat ceramic or plastic. It makes up reflections that are effectively screen-space because it can’t „see“ detail off screen and overrides actual RT reflections with them. It’s bad for faces and bad for backgrounds.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
They already have the RTX Remix stuff but it’s a manual process because at least back when that technology launched, people at NVIDIA realised it needed a lot of human intervention.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
Unless you’re a Berliner, but then you have to wonder why your baked goods are talking, and why they insist on being called Pfannkuchen instead.
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
It was also a work in progress. This was just meant to be colour blocking before details were added.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
A tech YouTuber ended up following up with Nvidia engineers directly and it’s exactly like I said. Not even the depth buffer is part of the inputs.
- Comment on Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive 1 week ago:
ShotCut is my personal favourite of those. Simple but powerful, though the UI is admittedly clunky.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 2 weeks ago:
The inputs from everything Nvidia has said, are simply the final pixel colour values and motion vector information. It’s meant to sit in the same post-processing stack as the upscale. It’s effectively a screen-space post-processing filter over the final image. Nvidia have said that the artist controls are masking (blocking certain areas from it), intensity (so a slider value), and some kind of colour re-grading (since it destroys the original grading). It’s extremely limited.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 2 weeks ago:
Studio quality headphones tend to be a flat response curve, which is not what professional music producers master for - so no, that’s a poor argument.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 weeks ago:
It’s a post-processing screen space effect. At that point, there’s zero control the game can have over the geometry. If the AI model wants to change it, it can. It fundamentally can’t only operate on lighting like the marketing claims, it can only make a hallucinating best-effort statistical guess at what the geometry in the final image should be.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 weeks ago:
So this dumb fuck’s own marketing material has said this operates off final pixel colour and motion vectors (for temporal stability presumably) - that says to me that it’s not working with actual geometry info at all. It probably has a step to infer geometry but it’s still just a fancy Instagram filter working with limited data and an obviously ill-suited training set.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
If my job ends up being reviewing AI code spammed at me by vibe coding juniors all day, I’m joining a nunnery.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Disclosing Anime Viewing Habits to Third Party 3 weeks ago:
Other than piracy, not anymore.
- Comment on Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub 3 weeks ago:
The Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy if you like JRPGs.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that deep, it’s a meme.
- Comment on 'EVANGELION' New Anime Series written by Yoko Taro Officially Announced at the end of 'EVANGELION 30+'! 5 weeks ago:
His gacha game (SINoALICE) was pretty bad.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 5 weeks ago:
I‘m switching hobbies to gunpla. No one has managed to put DRAM in an airbrush to the best of my knowledge.
- Comment on Website 1 month ago:
I‘d sooner use a 25 year old pirated version of Macromedia Dreamweaver.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 1 month ago:
With what money? If you haven’t been paying any attention, there’s almost zero investor interest post-COVID contraction in gaming unless its massive controlling buyouts. The little there is requires sacrificing yourself on the altar of gen AI. No one working in games has enough money to self-fund the initial funds for a studio unless they have rich parents (Sandfall) or are one of the problem executives.
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- Comment on a man of many minds 2 months ago:
Nah „sceptics“ were instrumental in starting the modern TERF movement. They’re as bad as the fundies.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 2 months ago:
Jecklenburg-Jorpommern
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago:
Have you talked to people who use LLMs regularly? They’ll acknowledge hallucinations but will downplay them as much as possible - saying they’re low frequency and they can support them, while telling you about how they’re using it in an area they’re unfamiliar with. Dunning Kruger strikes again.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 months ago:
It was more that graphics hardware got a lot more flexible. Less fixed functionality meant that DXVK (DirectX 8-11 to Vulkan translation layer) was a lot more viable as you were able to emulate old behaviour on the GPU through Vulkan.
Graphics APIs are a lot more „thinner“ these days as well. Creating a Vulkan renderer from scratch is like „first one must enumerate the universe“. But it means that DX12<->Vulkan translation is relatively straightforward, and all the crazy stuff is done in shaders which can be recompiled for different APIs.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 months ago:
Speaking of carbon, did scientists give up on lengthening carbon nanotubes at some point? They were supposed to be a miracle material as well.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 months ago:
Never stopped hating being forced to use that piece of monopolistic trash ever since I was on dialup when HL2 released. I buy everything I can on GOG.
I especially resent how closed off the Steam Workshop has made the mod ecosystem for a lot of games.
- Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 2 months ago:
Quantum computing can’t achieve better outcomes for general computing problems than classical computing can. It’s just possible to do particular kinds of algorithms with it (like Shor‘s Algorithm for factorising prime numbers) that classical computing can’t do. It’s still a lot of smoke and mirrors at the moment though.