Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@LukeAlmighty
Yeah, but my pseudo-OCD doesn't allow my computers to do guess work. Nvidia's DLSS 3 alone is enough to make me scream inside.

I've learned to be more accepting of DLSS 2, but only as a more complex and fancy upscaler, and nothing more. 4K DLSS is not 4K and it never will be.
The same goes for AMD's FSR, though I prefer it over DLSS, simply on account that it doesn't try to shove AI generated "magic" (or at least that's my understanding of reason behind the difference in quality).

P.S. Attached is basically my reaction to anything AI generated that people try to push as "the real thing".

@moffintosh @djsumdog @icedquinn @dhfir
>cites covid
Warehouse & delivery work is gonna be harder during a time frame when the economy abruptly switched to everything being delivered at home.
If you can't understand that, you're free to go at any time.
Just like a firefighter needs to be able to deal with an increase of forest fires during random droughts, someone working in the delivery business has to understand that the risk of sudden increases of demand comes with the job title.

As for the backbreaking work, that's what warehouse work is about. You're doing manual labor, not sitting in a silk armchair. If your back doesn't hurt in the first week of doing something like this, you haven't worked hard enough.

>Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at twice the rate of rivals
Amazon has NO real rival. It's a beast unlike any other. There is nothing that comes close to it's size and diversity of products it handles. Maybe the Chinese Alibaba, but I doubt we have accurate information about that.

>lack of information about the coronavirus
I'm sorry, is your boss your nanny or something? I don't think a company is obligated to fill you in on world news. Maybe there's a complain to be made if Amazon didn't have a covid policy in place.

>mandatory overtime
Happens all the time, in all sorts of fields. Most often in the video game industry it seems. In Amazon's case, it's what you get when you have a sudden market demand shift. You literally can't hire and train staff fast enough. You either enforce overtime, or your company fails.

>“It’s very easy to lose an arm,”
It's very easy to lose lots of things in all sorts of jobs. The employee is first and foremost the one responsible for his own safety. There's only so much an employer can idiot proof a worksite. Doesn't matter how much an employer does safety training, if the staff doesn't take it seriously. And low paid workers much too often have a tendency of not taking work safety seriously (but then complaining when something happened to them).

>and two- and three-hour commutes
I don't get how that's Amazon's fault. You live where you live, and you chose that job. You have two options: you move or you commute. Amazon doesn't get to make that choice for you, and Amazon isn't obligated to offer you a home to live in.

My conclusions is that Americans are simply too entitled, and too many of them simply haven't worked nearly hard enough in their lives.

@emilis
Well, if you DON'T need a vtuber math tutor, you can't go wrong with Gura, cause she definitely won't teach you how to do math.

@djsumdog @moffintosh @icedquinn @dhfir
The issue might be that people taking a job at an Amazon warehouse think they'll be treated like the top payed software engineers. They overestimate the value of their work probably.

Only concerning thing I even remember about Amazon warehouse worker conditions was that they weren't allowed bathroom breaks. But the details seems so vague, that I don't know if there's any merit to the claim/rumor. It might be true that workers are very limited in their break time, but then again... is it really unreasonable that low skilled job positions have a limit on break time, so people don't intentionally procrastinate on the toilet, instead of being productive?

This talk about anti-aliasing in games made me think... remember when people actually had the rigs to do super-sampling AA? Now the resolutions have increased so much, we can't even play at native anymore if you have a 4K screen. Let alone use the holly grandfather of AA. We actually regressed into doing the opposite of SSAA. We're undersampling during rendering, and upscaling. I find that absolutely insane.

@matrix
That article seems pretty good. I don't need a deep rundown into the details of every technique, just enough description to remind me what the acronyms stand for. I sometimes think I know them, but then I see SMAA vs MSAA and my brain goes back to square one.

I managed to find a good article too, but it's not as neatly organized imo.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/pc-graphics-settings-explained-msaa-vs-fxaa-vs-smaa-vs-taa/

P.S. Also for some reason when I see SSAO my brain jumps to SSAA.... I'm starting to hate these acronyms...

Does anyone know a good article that describes all anti-aliasing technologies? I keep forgetting which one does what, and I keep needing to search for references. I'd rather have 1 article bookmarked, that contains info and comparisons with all of them.

Remember when people actually cared about "keep it simple stupid"?

@thor
Only skimmed through it, but it reads like a pile of bs cope.

They try to make it sounds like Twitter is a living entity, a being with a consciousness of it's own that likes to be fickle and act randomly. It's not. It's software.

Sure, software can have bugs, but it doesn't "develop bugs" in time, it always has them since someone programs them in, and they'll remain the same up until someone updates the code. They don't generate spontaneously out of thin air.

The reason Twitter is buggy is not because it just decides to chaotically break. It's because they kept adding code to censor people, topics, or to control discourse. Just think about how many checks the software must do these days to just load in the replies to a post. Just from the things we know, it needs to: check for users you banned or muted, check for accounts banned by Twitter, check against various shadowbanning algorithms, check against "safety and security" bs, check for and load in "fact checks", group replies in threads, sort by Twitter's prioritization algorithms instead of displaying chronologically. And I'm sure I'm missing stuff, and that there are things we're not even aware of that Twitter is doing behind the scenes.

Point is, Twitter has become buggy because all those pieces of code, that do all those different tasks, were created by different people, and the interaction between all of them is probably not seamless. I wouldn't even be surprised if some of the code is self contradictory. Twitter has become buggy because they over complicated the code. Remove all the manipulative bs, and I bet you can get a stable Twitter back.

And let's be honest, Twitter was severely overstaffed. They had enough staff to remake a new Twitter each year. You don't need that much for maintenance. If there was any sign of actual active development I would have cut them some slack. But how many years have they struggled until getting an edit function? Let's be honest, Twitter's staff was doing jack shit. Then Elon breaks in with a sink in tow, and in just a few weeks they manage to code in $8 verification. If that isn't proof they were lazily wasting their time before, I don't know what is.

@a1ba
I thought the ports were handled by Gearbox, not Valve.

@Arcana
Huh... I don't have the toxic waste option... I need to have a talk with my admin.

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@Awoo @Terry
I mean... it would obviously be incredibly funny and entertaining, but it won't be productive in making a Fedi government.

@Humpleupagus @NEETzsche @e @ShariVegas
Bringing smoking into the discussion is kinda weird, cause in the early days of covid it seemed like smokers had less severe inflammatory reactions to Covid, and their lungs were less damaged because of it. The hypothesis at the time was that, because of smoking, the lungs were already partially damaged and the immune response was weaker there than in the rest of the body. Not sure how things evolved since though.
But cadmium is indeed a old known problem. And it's one of those metals that can just concentrate in your body and then randomly fuck you up when you don't expect it.

@Humpleupagus @NEETzsche @e @ShariVegas
Considering scientists have literally found nanoplastics in people's bloodstream, lungs, and I think even placenta, I think we've been underestimating the impact of environmental waste and pollution.
It might not even be because of a new substance, it might just be that we're closing in on a lethal concentration of plastics and other byproducts in our environment.

@NEETzsche @Humpleupagus @e @ShariVegas
It would be funny if it turned out the "world government" let people believe the covid vaccine killed people on mass to hide something else they distributed to cull the population.

@NEETzsche @Humpleupagus @e @ShariVegas
Anti-vaxxers would say that since they're caused by an intentional vaccine, it does count as murder.

My stance is that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. People have died, of all sorts of causes, including heart failures, for millennia before Covid or it's vaccine. People now jumping to conclusions that someone or other died because of the jab is just mass hysteria.

@thor
Insane people do exist. There was a woman like that in my town, that I saw a few times as a kid. She was probably locked up.

@Terry
This is so retarded... by what means would you force instances to even agree to send representatives in the first place, not to mention abiding by any rules created by such governing body? Are they gonna start a Fedi civil war? Good luck with that.