That’s anticheat, not drm

Yeah, it’s probably not something I would have chosen if I had the option but I don’t really care about the curved screen.

Yea, I got the op 12 because it was just $50 more than the r on Amazon at the time.

It’s definitely powerful enough but I’m slightly disappointed by the software, arcore is just completely broken, and hdr is fairly spotty (works in yt app and photos app but doesn’t work in chrome or Google photos)

Yeah, they announced they’re basically killing science funding yesterday (for everything except like AI and a few other buzzword topics)

We have a couple good cs universities right now, I really hope that’s still true in four years

As an American, cutting edge tech manufacturing isn’t something we do much of. In semiconductors for example, Intel is currently still working on their new node (probably made in the US and Isreal), but new Intel CPUs you buy are going to be tsmc made until then. And AMD and Nvidia, apple, etc are all making their chips at TSMC as well

A lot of tech companies are US based, but very little of the actual production process is done in the US. I guess that doesn’t matter if you just care about the money going to the US though, since buying an Nvidia made chip will still give money to the (us-based) company.

Can an LLM be sad, happy or aware of itself and the world? No, not by a long shot.

Can you really prove any of that though?

They train it on basically the whole internet. They try to filter it a bit, but I guess not well enough. It’s not that they intentionally trained it in religious texts, just that they didn’t think to remove religious texts from the training data.

If it wasn’t the LLM it would be random letters on license plates that drive by, or the coindence that red lights cause traffic to stop every few minutes.

You don’t think having a machine (that seems like a person) telling you “yes you are correct you are definitely the Messiah, I will tell you aincient secrets” has any extra influence?

We have ai models that “think” in the background now. I still agree that they’re not sentient, but where’s the line? How is sentience even defined?

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CPUs are 100% efficient if they’re also replacing your electric space heater

honestly if you can 3d print something you can make something almost as strong out of wood, it just takes more effort

one could also easily make a disposable mold for a low-melting-point metal alloy, those are much stronger than 3d prints and many can be melted on a normal stove

I think the problem is more that information on how to make guns is now easily available, rather than the specific usefulness of 3d printing as a manufacturing technique

a court case also draws out media coverage, possibly more than an extended search would

antialiasing and denoising through temporal reprojection (using data from multiple frames)

it works pretty well imo but makes things slightly blurry when the camera moves, it really depends on the person how much it bothers you

its in a lot of games because their reflections/shadows/ambient occlusion/hair rendering etc needs it, its generally cheaper than MSAA (taking multiple samples on the edges of objects), it can denoise specular reflections, and it works much more consistently than SMAA or FXAA

modern upscalers (DLSS, FSR, XeSS) basically are a more advanced form of taa, intended for upscaling, and use the ai cores built into modern gpus. They have all of the advantages (denoising, antialiasing) of taa, but also generally show blurriness in motion.

“the garbage trend is to produce a noisy technique and then trying to “fix” it with TAA. it’s not a TAA problem, it’s a noisy garbage technique problem…if you remove TAA from from a ghosty renderer, you have no alternative of what to replace it with, because the image will be so noisy that no single-shot denoiser can handle it anyway. so fundamentally it’s a problem with the renderer that produced the noisy image in the first place, not a problem with TAA that denoised it temporally”

(this was Alexander Sannikov (a Path of Exile graphics dev) in an argument/discussion with Threat Interactive on the Radiance Cascades discord server, if anyone’s interested)

Anyways, it’s really easier said than done to “just have a less noisy technique”. Most of the time, it comes down to this choice: would you like worse, blobbier lighting and shadows, or would you like a little bit of blurriness when you’re moving? Screen resolution keeps getting higher, and temporal techniques such as DLSS keep getting more popular, so I think you’ll find that more and more people are going to go with the TAA option.

I think modern graphics cards are programmable enough that getting the gamma correction right is on the devs now. Which is why its commonly wrong (not in video games and engines, they mostly know what they’re doing). Windows image viewer, imageglass, firefox, and even blender do the color blending in images without gamma correction (For its actual rendering, Blender does things properly in the XYZ color space, its just the image sampling that’s different, and only in Cycles). It’s basically the standard, even though it leads to these weird zooming effects on pixel-perfect images as well as color darkening and weird hue shifts, while being imperceptibly different in all other cases.

If you want to test a program yourself, use this image:

Try zooming in and out. Even if the image is scaled, the left side should look the same as the bottom of the right side, not the top. It should also look roughly like the same color regardless of its scale (excluding some moire patterns).

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If you have multiple ports driven off the same internal hub, they will share bandwidth.

I’m usually happy with increased efficiency as it represents an increase in performance in the future. Cost is something that seems much more inevitable to go down than performance is to go up, so the two metrics I look for in the state of the CPU market are peak single core performance and performance per watt. Of course, this only applies to observing the industry from outside, I’m sure if I was actually in the market for a new CPU right now I’d probably be happier with a worse performance per watt chip as long as it was cheaper.

Populism isn’t necessarily bad, business antitrust regulations and the 8 hour workday were historically populist policies. Dems shouldn’t go all out on populism, but they should do something to become popular. Elections are a popularity contest after all.

I think a big part of this might be the Democrats not wanting to take the populist pro-worker anti-rich stances due to campaign donations.