JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

One technical reason for why FSR 1 isn't very good but works in everything is that FSR1 is the only one that just takes your current frame and upscales it, all the newer ones are all temporal - like TAA - and use data from multiple previous frames.
Very simplified, they "jiggle" the camera each frame to a different position so that they can gather extra data to use, but that requires being implemented in the game engine directly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the fine.
The original issue was not taking down illegal content in X even though there was a court order and a fine to do so, and withdrawing their legal representation from the country when they were expected to legally represent the company (i.e take responsibility for X breaking the law). Brazil requires companies to have that in order to operate, so X got blocked, and now the fine has been taken for their assets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unless your "full resolution and reasonable framerate" are 4k and/or 144fps, you mostly can, games these days just tend to make the sliders go up to 12 so that the Super Ultra WTF Ray Tracing preset runs at like 5 fps unless you have two RTX 4090 cards. A low/mid-range cards need to use low/medium settings, that's all.

And DLSS on Quality preset is a rather wonderful AA implementation, it gets rid of jaggies while making the game run a bit faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yup.
The previous family share was gathering your library of games with the "console" in a single box and giving that entire to your friend. If you want to play anything, you need the box back.
Steam Families is now a common bookshelf, grab a game if it's there and play.

Now we just need a way to use that shelf with the same account so I don't get booted from my steam deck games just because I left something running on my PC and vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And at rather ridiculously fast paces, as demonstrated by comparing the different versions of Midjourney
The difference in being able to generate realistic humans is even more striking.

The question is where do the current LLMs fit in that kind of a timeline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So does PLA, both materials are amorphous polymers so they are never "truly" solid unless they are frozen - nor are they really ever molten either. That is why screws and bolts etc always seem to "work" loose on 3d printer parts - they don't, the material just flows away from them.
It's just that at the glass transition temperature is when they go from slowly getting softer the hotter they get to suddenly completely rubbery and floppy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

PETG will not, the glass transition temperature is 80-85C. For PLA it's 55-60C, so those will go floppy if you go at full tilt, though you should dry PLA at 40-50c-ish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hanasaari shut down last year and Salmisaari is going to be closed by april next year, after that Helsinki will have no coal or pellet power plants left.

Electricity generation isn't the main problem, but that those plants were responsible for a huge majority of central heating in Helsinki (iirc they were designed on purpose to be so inefficient they generated 2/3rds of their output as heat for that use). That's why they are building wacky solutions like huge underground lakes and stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just use the bus, it comes twice in the morning so you are either an hour early or hour late from work, and leaves half an hour before your day ends and then once more at midnight.
Convenient!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, yes, when you are the legal representative for a company, that is what might happen when the company breaks the local laws and refuses to comply with court orders. That's kinda the whole point.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

It is when the law says that for a company to operate in Brazil it has to have an appointed legal representative, and you close down your offices and refuse to re-appoint one when the judge demands you to.
Musk entered a "No pants no service" restaurant, took his pants off, was told to put them back on and refused, and is now surprised he gets no service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

E-paper is the category for any display that looks kinda like paper. E-ink is a specific technology (by a specific company, yes,) that uses blobs suspended in oil in small capsules that are controlled by magnetic fields.

Pebble uses a Sharp memory LCD, which as the name suggests, is a liquid crystal display. If you categorize pebbles as a "eink watches", then a gameboy is one low-power memory chip away from being an eink handheld gaming console, the display tech is otherwise identical - a transflective lcd.

 

I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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