[-] weew@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Making shit up as they go along.

They could just release early, with pricing as low as they are willing to go. If they really were trying to "cater to the masses" like all their marketing has been about, they would be comparing themselves to Intel's Battlemage.

They could come out and strike first against Nvidia with an unbeatable price.

Instead they are trying to position it as high and expensive as possible and ride Nvidia's coattails.

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago
[-] weew@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

I've got ogmios tagged, they have a history of espousing bullshit as "fact", usually with some religious bent to it. Their science education likely came from a pastor and I doubt they'll ever sincerely try to actually learn science.

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 114 points 3 months ago

American flags everywhere. Like EVERYWHERE. I get a bit of national pride but holy crap, every other house in the street is flying a flag, clothing has flag patterns, bumper sticker American flag, it's everywhere. And no, it wasn't even close to July 4.

It's like Americans are afraid they might forget what country they're in if they aren't in sight of a flag at all times.

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 79 points 3 months ago

Yes, the bomb travelled forward in time at one minute per minute

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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 99 points 8 months ago

What if they just had an entire zoo where every animal was just a dog with dyed fur

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 210 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.

They've regressed and become Yahoo

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 119 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Every other version of Windows. It's practically a law of nature at this point.

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 95 points 11 months ago

Many birth defects are rare, and require 2 copies of a defective gene to show up. Most "normal" people will be carrying a few defective genes (out of thousands of pairs), but are fine because they have a good copy still working.

Family members tend to have similar genes.

The chances of you and a family member having the SAME defective gene are massively greater than you and some random stranger.

Thus any child would also have a massively greater chance of inheriting 2 identical copies of the defect.

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From my understanding, the P8P's video boost can't be done in the phone itself, but it's actually uploading the video to Google's servers, processing it there, then downloading the finished product back again. In fact, it probably uploads two videos, one at high ISO and one at low ISO to get the full HDR range.

For anyone who wants to take lots of videos, this sounds like it'll blow through your data caps very quickly.

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Big jump for the regular 8 but no increase at all for the pro?

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Looking at the details listed from this leak, it looks like all the previous leaks were wrong. The specs for the main sensor are the same as the P7, the Samsung GN1 sensor.

Also rumors of the IMX787 ultrawide appear to be incorrect as well, only 48MP instead of 64.

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Still waiting for Canoo to produce a consumer version, but at least they've made the vehicles for NASA. Maybe the publicity from this will help them get enough interest for the initial production and sales?

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 94 points 2 years ago

because it's easier.

You have one "frame" where you just do everything: read the player input, do whatever actions, calculate collisions and physics and whatever, and draw everything when all those calculations are done.

Then you move on to the next frame and do everything again. Everything lines up all the time and always happen in the same order. Simple, quick, and consistent.

To decouple calculations and framerate, you don't know when the game will try to draw something. It might be in the middle of when you're calculating collisions, or moving the units, or calculating physics. Or you might end up doing multiple calculations while the GPU is slow and can't draw anything.

So you have to add an extra layer in between, probably saved to some memory somewhere. Now every time the GPU draws something, it has to access that memory. Every time you calculate something, you also access that memory. Let's hope they DON'T try to read and write on the same spot at the same time, that could cause bugs. And so much memory access, you've basically doubled your memory bandwidth requirements.

It's complicated, more resource intensive, and introduces potential bugs.

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I'm guessing it's still a production line test unit, but it seems like the design is finalized and volume production could actually begin by the end of the year

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

or else what? They'll bring in paid moderators to do an actual job?

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 129 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The year is 2082

Hollywood will not take any risks.

The only actors are the reanimated corpses of Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana, Samuel L Jackson, Tom Hanks, and Harrison Ford, all de-aged back to life with VFX.

The only films are Fast 43, Avengers vs The Spider-Verse XIV, Indiana Jones 22, Star Wars Episode XXI: Revenge of the Return, Toy Story 25, Avatar 5, and The Lion King: The Animation of The Broadway production of the Re-animated Live Action: 3D Extended Edition.

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Can't wait to see more of these. I hope that Rivian eventually makes an RV/camper version of this, it would go well with their adventure vehicle branding

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