ilinamorato
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- Comment on ELI5: How does Frame Generation even work? 1 day ago:
Interesting. That makes frame gen sound like “tweeners” in animation.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 day ago:
Conversely, I think Papa Johns (?) has offloaded all of their delivery to Doordash. I remember ordering from their app and a DD driver rolling up.
- Comment on snow isn't real 3 days ago:
My brother in Amerigo Vespucci, there are maps from 500 years ago that show sea serpents on them. Are those real, too?
- Comment on Land where 5 days ago:
That’s true. Honestly I remember being a kid, learning about the Soyuz recovery system and being shocked. A 20mph collision with the ground (without the baking SRs, 5mph with them) doesn’t sound like much, but it can still ring your bell pretty good.
- Comment on Land where 5 days ago:
“Touchdown” on land.
- Comment on Land where 5 days ago:
In fairness, if you can throw a person at a person, one or both of those people are probably going to think twice about crossing you.
- Comment on Land where 5 days ago:
Or if they encounter space-bears before reentry
- Comment on Land where 5 days ago:
Also
We did land on land
For like forty years we did that exclusively
It’s called the Space Shuttle and it’s pretty cool
- Comment on The End of an Era 1 week ago:
The Karman Line’s lowest theoretical point is still substantially higher up than commercial airplanes and its highest is substantially lower than the ISS. Most nations agree on it as the boundary for the purposes of law and regulation. Commercial airplanes fly about half as high as the line, while spacecraft orbit at four times its altitude or more.
It may be scientifically arbitrary, but it’s got a lot going for it as a rough approximation.
- Comment on Ant warhammer 1 week ago:
Amazing. I’d love to be able to see inside his brain.
- Comment on Ant warhammer 1 week ago:
Around the time of the SimCity games, Maxis released a game called SimAnt. It’s pretty much this.
- Comment on Witness 2 weeks ago:
Partially, yeah. Crewed spacecraft by necessity weigh significantly more than uncrewed, because life support is very heavy. But they also want to take that very heavy spacecraft further away from Earth than any crewed spacecraft has ever been before, which means they need to take a lot of fuel; yes, it’s a gravity-assisted free-return trajectory, but it still needs fuel for course corrections and other orbital dynamics. Plus, it’s a two-stage spacecraft, while the Saturn V was three-stage, so it’s got to carry a lot more dead weight a lot further than before.
All of that together means they needed the most powerful rocket ever. The lander mission will almost certainly be even more powerful than that, because while it won’t need to go as far, it’ll be carrying another spacecraft.
- Comment on Sway 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, honestly, this is kind of a banger.
- Comment on Just like me fr 3 weeks ago:
Nah, that’s just a strip of raw bacon.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 weeks ago:
He simply realized that the markup on drug prices was so mind-bogglingly absurd (oftentimes over 2500% markup) that he could undercut the market by thousands of dollars and still make a tidy 15% profit.
When the libertarians tell you fan fiction about the “invisible hand of the free market,” this is what they mean. And the fact that it took this long for someone like Cuban to come along should tell you how viable a strategy it is.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, agreed. This is the sort of thing smaLLMs would be fantastic for: humans can’t do it at scale so it’s not taking any jobs, you can run it locally so it won’t cost any extra energy, it’s not making things slop, just give it a back story and let it do its thing.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 4 weeks ago:
In my opinion, the best case scenario is that the GOP dies (it happened with the Whigs!) and a new, more progressive party (maybe DemSoc) becomes relevant to the left of the Democrats. The Dems become the new Conservatives (since they basically are anyway) and the left wing becomes the moderate left. The overperformance of Abughazeleh (even though she didn’t win) and the shocking effectiveness of Mamdani now that he’s in office make this slightly less impossible than it would’ve seemed even a year ago.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 4 weeks ago:
There is a long list of politicians who have tried to do the Trump thing ever since the stupid escalator. Florida Governor DeSantis made a tiny little bit of headway that ultimately collapsed around him, Marge Greene has been setting herself up as the post-Maga maga leader, and Ted Cruz of Texas has been trying for the longest time to position himself as heir apparent of the current GOP, but there hasn’t been anyone who has been able to capture the same spectrum of blind devotion to grudging acceptance that Donald Trump has somehow managed to unite into the Maga movement.
JD Vance certainly isn’t it, and while he’ll certainly get the Oval Office when Trump dies before completing his term, I think his presidency will be fairly unremarkable and rather short, and afterwards he’ll move into private equity consulting or some such and never be seen in politics again.
But without Joe Rogan and Charlie Kirk, and with a ton of the other influencers either jumping ship or losing face, I don’t think we’ll see the same focus on a single candidate again. Since 2016, we’ve had a historical alignment of domestic influence and foreign interference that focused on Trump specifically, and he has used that (as he always does) to build the Trump brand and only the Trump brand. Nobody else can use it; not even Don Jr., who has tried dipping his toes in and mostly been ignored.
So I think the answer is, the maga cult sputters and dies. Maybe it sticks around long enough to poison the waters for a couple more election cycles, but it won’t elect another president. The best case scenario, in my mind, would be maga breaking away from the GOP and trying to field candidates for a few years that become spoilers.
Either way, the Republicans will eventually put the mask back on and try to pretend like nothing ever happened (though I can’t possibly predict whether that’ll work. My gut says yes, but maybe that’s just me being cynical).
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 5 weeks ago:
Ok wait what? Was the game not called Concord? What’s Wildlight? I’m confused.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, for sure. Definitely agreed. However, the specific examples cited in the article could’ve been done better. You can modify existing assets to make them less-obviously reused.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 month ago:
OMG, a Pokemon All Stars would be amazing. But I do want them to get fancy with it: with every new game that starts, make me start with a starter as usual, but once I get access to trading, let me pull Pokemon that are below the soft level cap out of my boxes.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 1 month ago:
As for the “Constantly being wrong.” At somepoint, these people forgot that “having an idea” does not mean “Having a useful idea.”
Absolutely. They can’t fathom anymore that, just because they want something, it doesn’t mean that anyone else does. Or that they’re not already getting it, even if they do.
You hear arguments about all these flash in the pan bull shit concepts like “People said the same thing about the internet or the iPhone.”
Right, and I always think, “both of those solved actual problems that hadn’t been solved before.” Problems that I remember feeling, as a person who was conscious in the 90s: the need for quick, efficient, long-distance information transfer, and the problem that computers were stuck in your house when a lot of what you needed them for was while you were walking around.
Cryptocurrency didn’t solve a problem that most people feel (and, I would argue, it didn’t efficiently solve a problem that anyone actually has). The metaverse didn’t solve any new problems at all (as you noted, the one thing it could do that anyone wanted was something that was already being done). And AI was already being used for anything it was good for long before Sam Altman convinced a dozen billionaires to give him multiple small-countries’-GDPs.
And since being a good businessman really means finding a solution and offering a product that solves it, they’re just proving how bad they are at business.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 1 month ago:
The tech bros have been disastrously wrong about the future of technology twice since Moore’s Law broke and the endless treadmill of computer upgrades stopped: about crypto and about the metaverse. They’re desperate to not be wrong again, and they think that by spending enough money they can generate a reality distortion field that actually makes overhyped AI financially feasible. So they’re going to keep pumping the money in as long as they’ve got it. But even their wallets are finite.
- Comment on I want to know more of the breen. 2 months ago:
I look some clips of Star Trek Discovery but I didn’t like the first episode of the series
It changed so much in between episode one and the season featuring the Breen that I’m honestly not sure you’d recognize it.
Your mileage may vary about whether it’s better, but it’s absolutely different.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 months ago:
I think I buy this worldwide, honestly. Case in point: one of the most popular video game series for young people recently has been Five Nights at Freddy’s, and that series dropped its first four games in eleven months, and its next four games in four years. Minecraft remains one of the most popular games in the world, and it’s releasing full free content drops every few months. Pokemon is still insanely popular among kids, and there hasn’t been a year without a new Pokemon game release since 2015.
So, yeah. Hey, kids like novelty. Who knew?
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 2 months ago:
Y’all… they were doing this to Millie Bobby Brown as recently as 2020.
- Comment on Hits you where it matters 2 months ago:
I think it’s because they’re designed to look like big ol’ dogs. Their characterizations are also “gentle giants,” which is always an emotional gut-punch when they get weepy or show tenderness.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 months ago:
Because Microsoft owned Skype at the beginning of the pandemic, had 100% mindshare, a practically genericized trademark, and an install base of a gazillion users, and yet still managed to somehow fumble the ball to Zoom.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 2 months ago:
"It’s called socialism. I need a society to do it. You like baseball? Why aren’t you playing it right now?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 months ago:
Strong Badia. There’s probably lots of chocolate.