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- Comment on The Art of the Deal 4 days ago:
Bring the money to Canada and build it here!
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 4 days ago:
Thanks for informing us that you’re rich, I guess?
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 5 days ago:
And also have their AIs read another 100 emails for them.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 1 week ago:
TAA as in temporal anti-aliasing? Is that not frame generation? It’s interpolating between frames to create a frame that wasn’t previously there. Just like how spatial anti-aliasing generates pixels that weren’t previously there.
I think maybe we have a different idea of what “generation” means. I’m guessing your idea of “generation” is when it surpasses some threshold of information added through the process.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 1 week ago:
Upscaling = artificially increasing the sampling rate through some sort of inter/extrapolation.
Temporal = it’s happening on the temporal axis.
Samples on the temporal axis are frames.
Therefore, temporal upscaling = artificially sampling more frames = frame gen?
- Comment on Genius. 1 week ago:
I was just talking about the bread that one tier up from the basic grocery store sliced white bread. But yes, when you have actual good bread, the crust is an essential part of the experience.
- Comment on Genius. 1 week ago:
I think this might be correlated with the type of bread. When you have the really sweet highly processed white bread, the crust tastes very bitter in contrast. With higher quality breads, the crust is just a little dryer, but not too different from the rest of the slice. I never liked bread crust as a kid, nor did my partner. But my kid never complained about crust and this is my hypothesis as to why.
- Comment on Genius. 1 week ago:
You can just leave milk out at room temperature for a few days and you’ll get yogurt. There’s tons of lactobacilli floating around in the air and on every surface. You might need ants for a specific strain, but you don’t need them if you just want any yogurt.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
Probably makes more sense to kill their dog or something like that. Hint that there’s more where that came from.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
Costco does for clearance items.
Stores also don’t prominently advertise everything that’s cheap. Sometimes, you go in and see that detergent is cheaper than usual, and even if you aren’t low on detergent yet (hence not looking up the price), it makes sense to stock up anyway.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
I interpreted it as meaning they decide on the specific brand when they’re at the grocery store and are able to compare prices. They’ve already decided beforehand that they needed detergent.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t this save money?
- Comment on spoopy figs 2 weeks ago:
You could say the same about humans working exploitative jobs. You can be unhappy and still stay because the cost of quitting is too high. It’s only when it gets really bad that it becomes worthwhile.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 2 weeks ago:
It does rhyme. The e in second and best are assonant.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 3 weeks ago:
It does taste like a block of earthy butter. It’s absolutely delicious on its own. Even more delicious if cut into thin slices; that somehow intensifies the flavour.
It sounds like you’re just not into that flavour. It’s not for everyone.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 5 weeks ago:
Multiple different accounts and their posts are all formatted exactly the same, so this does seem to be the case.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 5 weeks ago:
Definitely. For the average home cook, that convenience is much more valuable than making your knives extra sharp.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 5 weeks ago:
Do the diamond stones need any kind of maintenance? I’ve read that you need to regularly flatten the surface of your typical whetstone.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 1 month ago:
We have both of these things in Canada.
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 month ago:
There are parts of plants that aren’t edible. One definition of vegetable is the edible part of a plant.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 1 month ago:
I don’t think lack of intelligence is the reason most people are fine with eating animal meat and not human babies. It’s usually that humans just value animal lives less than that of other humans.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 1 month ago:
Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.
- Comment on BASED? 1 month ago:
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
So much tech support has moved to Discord. That’s worth keeping around.
- Comment on BASED? 1 month ago:
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
Then you’d run into the same problem you have with insurance where they refuse to fix/replace your appliance because of “misuse” or something like that.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They’re profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer.
Think of your monthly spending as a probability distribution. They provide value by reducing variance of that distribution at the cost of increasing the mean.
Consider at a more concrete example. You’re provided with two options:
- You get $100 a month guaranteed
- Flip a coin each month. On head, you get $200. On tail, you get nothing.
The expected value for both are the same, but option #1 is predictable. It’s the better option of the two unless you’re in a situation where getting $0 is effectively equivalent to getting $100. You would need to increase the amount you get in option #2 to make it worthwhile. Similarly, you can decrease the amount you get in option #1 and still have it be the better option.
By default, life is like option #2. The value proposition of insurance and the like is to give you option #1 with an amount lower than the expected value of #2, and in exchange, they get the difference as profit.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 1 month ago:
I think they’re referring to random mutations. There’s no evolutionary pressure to get better at any of these skills, so at a population level, we’re unlikely to see any change. But at the individual level, it’s still possible through these mutations.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 1 month ago:
Not malicious in the sense that the intent isn’t to cause harm to us regular people. If buying those properties raised our prices and didn’t help them keep their money, they wouldn’t do it. If it didn’t raise our prices and helped them keep their money, they would still do it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 month ago:
But does his boss have the authority to allow it?