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Once one is over the odor of the headline, the announcement reads:

* Neural Super Sampling (NSS) reconstructs higher-resolution images from lower-resolution renders, reducing the amount of conventional rendering work needed to produce a high-quality final image.

* Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU) generates intermediate frames to increase frame rates and deliver smoother gameplay.

* Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD) combines neural upscaling with denoising to improve image quality in demanding ray-traced scenes with complex lighting and shadows.


So, image processing and no intelligence.

And nor is reconstructs true.


So yeah, more uncanny valley garbage. Yuck.

Thank you. And it is a shame I had to scroll down this far in the comments for someone to point out the obvious. Even a weather app that uses "only" 250MB of RAM should never have been delivered by a semi professional software shop - 250MB is enough to store whatever they can display in full screen on a 5k display as a bitmap - 5 times.


It was the top comment for a few hours. Others have discussed why it makes sense for apple to ise 250 mb in a weather app (heavy graphics and animations). Someone did an audit on the app.


I think you are doing the post injustice by hijacking it. FOSS maintainers can get a burnout even without toxic users - hard deadlines and the understanding that people really rely on your project can do that to you.

e.g.: About 25 years I had developed some blogging software in the style of usemod (single executable, data stored in ./data) for coordination of and reporting about protests on throwaway VMs. This initially was a weekend project but spiraled out of control when it made its way through Europe and people called me for setups or features for other actions. My burnout was the result of trying to help grass root organizations while also being politically active myself and having a full time job. The solution was basically what the article says:

* invited more maintainers by dumbing down the implementation so that one does not need a black belt in perl to hack on it

* created minimal docs

* I found hoster in the scene who was competent and willing to do pro bono hosting in exchange for me being available in case of problems (he never called me).


I think not.

I believe that post is bullshit written _by_ the oppressor (if you allow me to use that lingo which you won't but I don't care). Hence this is on-topic.

But interesting, isn't it? The moment someone questions the root narrative, someone instantly tries to shut it down with "ackschually unrelated!!11 You're hijacking by not having the desired response" + lots of text I didn't read.

As I said. It seeped into the default thinking of people so that they will defend it even if it is actually against their own best interests.

___

That post is no heartwarming story of resilience or healing or whatever. It's just PR for Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Joyent, enabling them to continue to extract value out of volunteers.

Framing a structural problem as some sort of personal failing that can be solved by just doing even more of what the corps benefit from.

sigh


> I think not.

> [...] if you allow me to use that lingo which you won't but I don't care

> [...] + lots of text I didn't read

Understood.


This is ideal for large argument maps, thank you!


If those "many successful services" are FOSS, you are a very rare breed of developers - one I have not yet encountered in almost 30 years of FOSS development.

Could you please link some of your projects? I could use some inspiration how to deal with entitled FOSS users who do not understand that they already got much more than what they paid for.


Every compiler in any language for any language has at the very least educational value.

On the other hand, demeaning comments without any traces of constructive criticism don't have any value.


My initial reaction was that I have to use this just because of the buzzword density in the title. But after reading up, it looks like the author was pretty successful in moving the bloat from code to announcement title. I'll give this a try!


They should name their team DNS because that is what will be shown on scoreboards of all tournaments to which their players will have to travel with DB anyway.

Their reliability is so abysmal that I fly multi-hop flights from Berlin or to airports a few hundred miles off my destination if that allows me to not rely on them. Boats that go up and down the Amazon have not let me down the way DB reliably did.


This is regular reporting using end-consumer market rates to inflate numbers.

Just as you could not sell 127,271 bitcoins all at once at market value, you could not just sell cocaine worth $1.4 billion but still confiscated drugs, even in large quantities, are reported with end consumer market rates. Nowadays, if a report mentions that is talking about "street value", that is already a big plus in my book.


> I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.

Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.

> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.

They do. Adapters are about $2.


Why do that when bluetooth keyboards are cheap these days too? For like $11 you can get a bluetooth keyboard, which would most likely just work...

I could also see some of them using a cheap tablet for the larger screen, but I've also run into teens who use their phones exclusively.


It may be $11 here in the US, but it might be harder to get and more costly in a developing nation. In which case, if it is easier to get that $2 adapter and an e-waste keyboard, that likely makes sense for them


You can get bluetooth keyboards on aliexpress for under £2.

If dealing with that type of budget then scavenging is probably the better route especially as online payments may also be out of reach.

In general, as a frugal person, buying "converter" type hardware is rarely a win because mass produced things are so much cheaper than more trivial but niche things.

However, converter type things are often unused clutter someone would happily give away. Just yesterday I came across some ps2 to usb converters. I can't imagine ever needing one again...but imagine the horror of not having one if you did! I probably didn't need to keep two though...


Sure, I don't discount that, I guess my real point was that bluetooth might still be viable depending on country.


Pretty sure the people who have to choose between eating and a $2 adapter and not eating and a Bluetooth keyboard have a better understanding of the trade offs and what’s viable than you do. Not sure what real point you’re trying to make here


$2 makes sense if they have a computer already and a keyboard for said computer, otherwise it doesn't make much sense to me.


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