I think you mean monitor their usage.
And to be fair, this is fairly technical. Many parents aren’t very technical. They’re unaware of parental controls they have access to, and I think that’s by design (as it would be unprofitable for social media).
It depends.
There’s a case for some high budget projects, but yes, there’s always a point where a bigger budget starts to hurt.
Jank is alright, as pointed out:
“This is why I love PC gaming,” Zukowski says. “There’s just more acceptance of jank.” Whereas consoles, with their stricter approvals and more cumbersome patch pipelines, have “so much cert to go through.”
But:
“Big publishers charging $70 or $80 might find PC gamers less tolerant of jank.”
That, and mtx spam and being boring.
Like, I can look past a junky storefront if the game is sublimely written. I might run some anticheat. But AAAAs seem hell bent on achieving that miserable trifecta, and charging for it. I think the combination is more poisonous than the individual ingredients.
Yep! Good luck.
Also: I’m not sure if I was clear about this, but you shouldn’t look at this through the lens of conversion.
She’s your sister; you should respect her and meet her in the middle. Any atheist should appreciate morality and family. Buts it’s not going to work if she feels like you’re trying to force her into a ritual that makes her uncomfortable, or coerce her somehow.
Compromise.
Ask her to keep the morale core of Islam in-heart. Charity. Love. Peace. Judging the heart, not actions. Things like that, whatever they may be.
Request, gently and with no pressure, if she would participate in prayer with you when you are together, as a family activity. Because it’s important to you. And acknowledge you would respect her beliefs in the same breath, even if you don’t share them.
My experience is that faith, at its core, is a template for how to live as a good human being. Atheists (IMO) should have no problem with this aspect. Believers in God shouldn’t either.
But you can’t force aspects she doesn’t believe in onto her. And even if you could, you shouldn’t.
Yep.
I have a trail of “almost finished” games. TV, too.
I suspect it’s a neurodivergence thing, as I’ve seen this discussed under AuADHD memes.
Ah, right.
That’s sad. AFAIK Oculus developed more integrated interpolation techniques (and, separately, warping) to reduce perceived latency:
https://www.uploadvr.com/reprojection-explained/
But that’s like black magic these days. Studios can’t even get basic DLSS integration right.
If the rendered framerate is over 60fps (which I’d wager is the case for you), it probably looks great.
Interpolation isn’t psychic; of course its going to look like jello “guessing” what’s between frames at a slideshow pace, especially with the constraint of low latency (without any future frames to use).
But I do have issue with some devs (and some of Nvidia’s marketing) treating it as a crutch. It’s not going to fix 15fps, but it’s a sane way to get from 60 to 165 smoothly. TBH its less wasteful than trying to hit a native 165.
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When I had an RTX 2060 laptop, I had the most jank setup for Cyberpunk 2077.
I’d plug it into an older Sony OLED, which only supported low res HDMI input (can’t remember which res, I think 1080p?)
The RTX 2060 would run DLSS quality (for antialiasing) and output 2077 at low-res 60fps, and the TV would use its big ASIC to interpolate it to 120hz, and up to 4K.
And actually, it looked good! It felt smooth! Input lag wasn’t great, but absolutely playable.
I don’t have a PC that can do framegen (3090 now), but ironically, the DLSS framegen demos I’ve seen didn’t have interpolation as good as the Sony. And I believe Sony/Samsung support “no next frame” interpolation, so they don’t blow up input lag.
I’m not saying it’s a great idea, but there are ways of doing this that aren’t terrible.
See also: Killing in the Name Of
Music is the perfect genre for Getting Crap Past The Radar
not stereotypical religious people at all
Tons of religious folks are compassionate and generous. They live by their religion’s themes instead of obsessing over passages and worshipping demagogues.
It’s not hard to justify. “Love thy neighbor” is the heart of Christianity.
It’s the hateful fundamentalists, “traditionalists” and such that give them a bad name. The reputation is deserved, but it’s not fair to everyone else TBH.
Maybe occasionally when they visit their Mom, sometimes? But it’s not like they live together, no.
It’s not that unusual. I have 30-40 year old cousins that might share a bed with their mom, in gatherings where we’re short on beds. It’s a little odd, but… shrug.
I wouldn’t worry unless you feel like you have to do it.
The Internet Archive is a treasure.
It’s going to hurt when they annoy the wrong person and get sued out of existance.
Yeah. I prefer the idea of a bunch of 9-meters unless they can really perfect a cheap folding mirror to mass produce.
A small upper stage, an ion drive or something could get them to deep space. It’s not worth flying a whole Starship out there and burning more fuel to get it back; the return trip only makes sense for LEO.
I wonder how big you could get the mirror if you did it James Webb style in starship.
Presumably 7x ~8m hexagons folded up?
That is a good point though. And if one were to design a “budget” 9m space telescope, they could amortize the R&D dramatically by launching the same design many times, perhaps with different sensors for different purposes? Amortization is why the Falcon Heavy and such are so cheap, and why the Space Shuttle and JWST are obscenely expensive.
Okay, you’ve sold me. I hope this does happen.
Theoretically, even if we assume SpaceX is overshooting, that’s an interesting thought:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-cost-of-space-flight/
In practice? I’m more concerned about interest in funding astronomy in the first place.
That, and big fat telescopes are fundamentally expensive. And (at least for the optical variety) “swarming” them with a bunch of cheaper units isn’t as effective as building a big one.
I’d love to be wrong though. There are some interesting papers on swarms of optical telescopes for a larger effective aperture, but I’m not qualified to assess them.
Yeah; 100%.
Go go China !
Bops the tankie.
Like, I have a Chinese LLM loaded right this second and follow them closely, but holy moly. Curb your enthusiasm.
Anyway, OpenAI has plenty of compute to train a Sora 2 if they want, but apparently they don’t. My guess is some combination of:
They couldn’t figure out a more efficient architecture, like you speculated. I buy that. OpenAI’s development is way more conservative than you’d think, and video generation is inherently intense, especially if Sora 1 is the baseline.
…Maybe they looked at metrics, saw Sora is mostly used for spam, scams, or worse, and pulled the plug for liability reasons?
They’re focusing on short-term profitability, as other commenters mentioned.
At the moment, in the US, it’s:
“Do you support Donald Trump unconditionally?”
Yes _
No _
My observation is that, in the US, support of the right structurally resembles evangelical Christianity. Or maybe a megachurch. There are exceptions, like single-issue Republican voters over taxes or business things, but a whole lot of it is structured as a communal belief: “are you in our tribe, or are you not?” There’s an imperative for unity and conformance that’s more important than individual issues, hence they tend to consolidate the platform over time.
The US Left, on the other hand, seems more issue focused, and less concerned with consolidation around personalities/beliefs like an evangelical church. But all that self-righteousness is still there. And it’s my belief that social media has brought out the worst of their tendency to swallow ragebait and issue performative purity tests.