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- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 day ago:
No worries, I get it. I was pretty brusque too.
I think it’s fair to phrase the performance hit that way, since you can turn it on and off with the same hardware. With it off, you get (X) frames per second. With it on, you get (X * 0.6) frames per second, or even less. That’s a pretty clear performance hit, and one that tells a fairly meaningful story about what’s actually going on. Now, that’d be one thing if the results were good, but nothing I’ve seen from DLSS5 has looked good enough to make that kind of a hit feel reasonable; in most cases, I think it looks actively worse.
The argument that it’s an evolving technology seems somewhat reasonable. But DLSS is at least seven years old, and has had four releases that actually do work in that time. And really, all technology is evolving, it’s just that most other companies still release what feels like finished products.
Or at least products that don’t accomplish the opposite of what they were intended to do; DLSS was intended to improve framerates by allowing the GPU to render a lower-resolution frame and have it cheaply upscaled to a higher resolution. With DLSS5 making framerates worse, it seems like they’d have been better off calling it something different.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 day ago:
Your rage is brainless, and proof that you know you don’t have a real argument. It’s hilarious to me the nonsense hills that people will die on.
The story says “50-60%”. You don’t like that math? Take it up with Nvidia. The length of this conversation is already way out of proportion to my interest in it.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 4 days ago:
“50-60%” is literally “a majority,” I don’t know what to tell you. Math.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 4 days ago:
oh no way
all I have to do is tank my gpu performance, and I get a non-deterministic result, plus it looks substantially worse?
dang yo, where do I sign up
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
English and German derive from a common root language, so I’d honestly be surprised if there weren’t some that do.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Rich people do that sort of funny math all the time when stating their wealth, though. It’s all fake and made up.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Yeah, we poor folks would have to do that, but rich people live on fractional reserve income and stuff, and they never subtract their liabilities from their assets when reporting their wealth. I’m okay with fudging the numbers for the point.
Definitely agree that $10m is the new bar for this.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Oof, allergy season, eh? I get it.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
That’s a fantastic word. I’ll take that, thank you.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Rich people ignore their debt when making their wealth calculations all the time. I’m just following suit.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Agreed. I’m actually pretty close to being a millionaire “on paper,” since my house is worth $600k and I’ve got about $100k in retirement. But the house is mortgaged, and I can’t touch the retirement for another 25 years. If I had three very good months, I could probably just barely become a millionaire. But if I had three moderately bad months, I would likely default on my mortgage.
Replace the "m"s with "b"s and this is spot on.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
I’m about a kilometer from the ocean right now (I’m standing in front of the window through which I can see it), and it’s a partly cloudy day. When the sky is clear (as it was five minutes ago), the ocean is a rich, saturated blue or even teal. When it’s cloudy (as it is currently), I can see that it’s a cool gray color. I might call it a very dark, desaturated cyan at most. So from my observation it has to be the opposite: the relative blueness of the ozone and the water must be the less dependent factor, and the color of the sky the more dependent one.
It’s tricky, though. I guess I might be in a place with weird salinity or plankton or something.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
You’ve got it partially backwards. The sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering, but it doesn’t reflect the ocean; the ocean is blue because it reflects the sky.
Incidentally, I’ve heard it said (I think it was xkcd) that we use the term “Rayleigh scattering” because it sounds silly to say that the air is blue (via the mechanism of Rayleigh scattering); so maybe that’s part of it?
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 2 weeks ago:
Seconding this explanation. It’s exactly right.
Rich folks can likely influence any situation but magnet != private school for rich kids.
That’s not to say there aren’t private schools for rich kids. There definitely are. But that’s not magnet schools, and it’s not where Spider-Man goes.
There was a whole scandal a few years ago where a bunch of people, including Aunt Becky from Full House, was caught paying to get her kid into Stanford. That’s university, not secondary; and maybe someone who wasn’t so splashy about everything might’ve done better. But it illustrates the point: we at least try to maintain the illusion of being meritocratic.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 weeks ago:
The characters in the comment are “LBRY.”
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 weeks ago:
You must be fun at parties.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they know what it’s designed to stop. Seems like this is pretty clearly just a piece of conspicuous legislation passed just to make it look like they’re actually doing something.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
Any such algorithm would be patched out of a jailbroken version of the firmware in minutes. 3D printers are already running on FOSS, so this is worse than useless. Anyone who wants to print a working gun will be able to do so trivially.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
Because they’ve made her a distinct target. They attacked her for wearing a borrowed dress to the Met. They’d leap at the opportunity to tear her down if they had any evidence that would survive scrutiny (since they’re already doing it with evidence that doesn’t).
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
I absolutely did. There’s no way to reasonably guarantee that the people who are making laws that affect companies and individuals aren’t using that power for their own enrichment.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
The previous commenter’s question stands, though. Where would she have this mythical money that the current regime couldn’t find?
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
I am pretty confident there’s no such guarantee. Source: the last 250 years of American politics.
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
To the food? Not usually much. To my brain, though?
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
Relatedly, adding an extra second to the microwave time so that you get the full cooking time and are still able to stop it early is also self care.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 4 weeks ago:
Start with something.
- Comment on Theft 4 weeks ago:
They briefly got some actual traction when Walz was calling Republicans “weird,” but then some idiot strategist stepped in and told him to stop. The campaign fell back to being anodyne and uninspiring after that, and then they tried to bring Liz Cheney in and everything just felt like it was going through the motions and expecting to have the thing handed to them on a silver platter.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 5 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions and compose a poem about earning half a million dollars a year
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 1 month ago:
Personally, I don’t think the patent should’ve been granted in the first place, so either way I think it’s totally stupid.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 1 month ago:
Actual meaning? Being “awakened” to the incompleteness of civil rights, aware of the long and difficult social justice work that needs to happen to make oppressed peoples equal, and willing to learn and act in response to that knowledge; particularly as it pertains to the position of Black people in the United States, but generalized more broadly to oppressed peoples outside that group.
But today? It’s been co-opted by the Worst People You Know to mean “anything not regressively conservative,” and synonymous with “socialist” (the definition of which they also don’t care about). It is often a red flag that the person you’re talking to holds an extremely propagandized view of modern life; and at best thinks that civil rights is done, and at worst thinks that people of color are subhuman.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 month ago:
I also have no idea if it’s accurate, I was just granting that premise. As the other person noted, with the definition of percentage being what it is, it necessarily has to be a different number of beers for people with different volumes of blood.