The biggest recent event is the Samsung S95B, which everyone raves about. Apparently it is the first delivered batch of their next-gen display tech, and quite impressive? It was enough to convince me to upgrade. https://t.co/aUuVUC9rfR

Interesting to check stats for the LG C2 and measure how much OLED displays have improved from 2016 - 2022. Looks like overall brightness is the big one (e.g. the "OLEDs work best in a darker room").. about 1.6x better?

@ShortTheFOMO oh yeah on delivered performance per watt Apple is absolutely destroying everyone out there, it's not even close. Heck, even on performance by itself they are knocking it out of the park.

@dekkagaijin why? wasn't 2080 twice the speed of 1080? I have a hard time remembering which generations weren't at least 1.5x improvement

"new GPU release day" has always been exciting (even going all the way back to 3dfx days) because the performance increases are so, so dramatic. For example, in Plague Tale: Requiem .. 2x frame rate! https://t.co/nDIX0HDkZV

@NikhilVerma I never played Witcher 3 and now I get to play the remastered version which looks even better! https://t.co/Q0PvylRF5Q

new performance patch for the game, which was great, and a super detailed technical deep dive on its graphics by the always excellent @digitalfoundry https://t.co/6jK7RbceQr

@JasonDFW Ah, the Mr. Rogers strategery!

@pomeranian99 @tuexss Also at @discourse we found customer demand for "list of banned words in typical conversation" which of course varies by country/language

You might have to explain the clippy sweater to people under the age of 30? Fully removed by 2007. https://t.co/tgDvpD4z9X

@DamselflyPhotos So he deleted no tweets at all? It was an excellent and true theory though!

@Carnage4Life oh it's absolutely true that free is a hell of a drug -- and not always a bad tradeoff. But it's also shocking to me how mainstream adblocking has become, and what percent of users run adblockers.

@cgyrling @therealjonwebb @Naughty_Dog yep played through it with my son alternating places hotseat style, great experience! I especially enjoyed the expansion, which was like the complete opposite of Bechdel's Test..

@obiwantoby @cherylaimee @seesharp Wow it really does look exactly like that. Well done @cherylaimee

@paulg I wouldn't say "know how to run better", but "know examples of bad management when they see it", and they're right: https://t.co/pp8d1gI7IM -- after all, everyone has had a manager at some point, unless you were born very very rich.

@cpaik The classic example: https://t.co/g88wHY6DZe

@jwz @textfiles I can get behind some greyscale even 2 bits, but just one little ol' bit per pixel?! ouch

@JamesMcCormack @GamewithDave https://t.co/VfWarlZ7Ui

@eviltrout @Hanzo55 Yes exactly. I get that adding the open world was a good thing, so you can wander around and take on fights at your own pace, and that a lot of people *really* liked it (and prev games in this style). But I also feel it deserves a giant warning label for the average gamer!

@ZaidJilani I think they should offer spots by lottery, completely at random, with some baseline (not extreme, let's say "very good" versus "outstanding") checks for academic rigor

I personally can't wear sweaters or even undershirts, I get boiling hot. If I've ever owned a sweater it was by accident because someone gifted it to me.

@cpaik interesting to contemplate what truly "decentralized" services, of any kind, have prospered and survived to date.

@Carnage4Life https://t.co/hh2NgHLZy0

@Carnage4Life @langdon Lol his account is hidden now. He can't use Twitter any more either. Ironic?

@Carnage4Life People don't consider Apple the bad guy here, and this is 100% on brand. It reminds me of when Apple went after AT&T and all the other cell network providers with the iPhone. "oh no, don't beat up the bullies!" https://t.co/5i5Yi9HOuS

@jamiequint It's more like "move randomly and break things" from.. well, everyone else's perspective https://t.co/pp8d1gI7IM

@eviltrout @Hanzo55 And maybe it's just a From Software "thing" but I found the movement and controls to be so janky, like 1998 Tomb Raider. It wasn't satisfying moment to moment, even as a newbie.

@fredbenenson @aphid23 hmm, no, file systems have had it coming for a while https://t.co/9SLx0xYsP8

@jamiequint conversely, if you are suddenly encountering a lot of resentful a-holes, maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't with them?

@jlericson donate $ is the only real way

"JavaScript is the computer language that is spoken by all microcomputers." https://t.co/e5qt8Gl4fj

@ClipperChip aw ya got me!

@ClipperChip Amiga 500!

@ID_AA_Carmack (taps at blog post date) https://t.co/inqDXmh4Sn .. I'd argue the two biggest mistakes in computer science are unrestricted pointer use and case sensitivity by default https://t.co/esoYyeh4NN

@Hanzo55 @eviltrout oh god I *hated* Elden Ring. I feel like every review of that should come with a warning: this game is extremely difficult and may be frustrating. I can't imagine putting that game in front of someone new to games. They'd quit for *life*.

@marcin_kw different concepts in engineering vs show biz though

I initially brushed off these "AI upsampling" 🙄 things as marketing weasel speak sharpening upscaling filters, but there are lots of times where even in static screenshots you can barely tell the two apart... and the peformance uplift is *huge* 🤔 https://t.co/2OkIkT2sDt

Here's 7950x/4090 MW2 4k ultra, with DLSS off and then with DLSS quality. This isn't DLSS 3 and I'm not sure it's even the latest 2.x version of DLSS (please correct me if you know). But you ~almost~ get 120fps minimum with it! https://t.co/TBqTS9QT4c

@Suhail @UnbroductMgr This is why Qualcomm is setting the entire industry back a decade.

@otter_eli If ps5 was sold at msrp it is great deal for what you get. Say the same for Xbox series X and steam deck!

@Suhail Headwinds on Android / Qualcomm you mean? We’re a JS app and see massive perf increases each apple SoC gen, but Qualcomm is stuck at about 1/3 the perf

Darn close to an overall doubling of performance by the 4090! 🤯 And balanced/basic/min product almost the same results! The name of the game is identifying which graphics settings, specifically, are responsible for the most performance drop w/ultra and tuning them

The above ☝️ results were from 5950x / 3090. What happens when you switch to 7950x / 4090? Let's start with the four graphical presets at 4k: ultra, balanced, basic, minimum. https://t.co/zTAeuyk7bG

@RickWilliams84 well yeah, considering how powerful the A13 is, it could easily be an iPad with mouse and keyboard.. and iOS supports that stuff now!

He seems to be a good natured guy, and I appreciate the lighthearted and generous tone of his videos, but.. where does this all end? How do you constantly one-up yourself? (two recent were giving iPhones out as halloween "candy", and last person touching a jet owns it"

@cshirky I thought EM would do badly, but I must admit he has exceeded my expectations thus far

@paulg the point that "nobody really knows the actual value of stock, so it's difficult to tax it" is a fine one to make, and applies to everyone that holds stock, not just this one person

495 votes at time of writing. 1.4% of 495 is 7. I'd like to hear from these seven folks.. what did you think of this movie, and how did you hear about it?

@mjstoner The idea of collecting a dna sample from my cat terrifies me

@sh4na This is why I like to always have backup computers nearby!!

Is now a real thing! https://t.co/zdZP9xVvVr

@mattbrowndev the original account is https://t.co/XB1RjngdAT

@derobins @Carnage4Life I remember asking a few years ago and most people said they used them to set timers, or when driving and needing hands-free.

@chrisjohnson_nz @Carnage4Life how is it shut down? It's here in Windows 11. I guess it's not in the toolbar by default? Maybe this is the best explainer: https://t.co/wAw4iUYien

@wilshipley buy the framed version! https://t.co/LaJ0fiR2nR

@paulg @maxdesalle @elonmusk I think it's much simpler than that; E.M. makes quite a few questionable bordering on trollish decisions and often doubles down on them after they are clearly mistakes. It's not good leadership.

@Carnage4Life isn't Cortana pretty much the same? I never use it, and I run like ~12 machines with Windows in the house? Not disparaging MSFT here I genuinely think "voice assistants" are 99% useless no matter who is building them

@beingapinetree @mmasnick @krmaher Perhaps it's aus/nz, but the UK dictionaries are showing it as impostor to me and that's how I've always seen it in traditional print. https://t.co/Y9Bt1oKTRy

@beingapinetree @mmasnick @krmaher "The term impostor phenomenon was introduced in an article published in 1978, titled "The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention" by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes"

@mmasnick @krmaher no one will be able to spell impostor correctly ever again https://t.co/xnTbqA5UUU

@merrittk Well, there's your problem right there.. as we all knew, PHP creates knife-wielding killers! https://t.co/qVFb9jkopx

@GordonMcGregor I'm impressed it works at all! But yeah Apple has the right idea long term, I checked and the fastest M2s are probably around the same gfx perf as the highest powered GPUs that can draw all power from the PCI slot with no additional connectors

It will be interesting to see if anything changes with thunderbolt 4. Another quirk, due to the massive amount of bandwidth involved, is that the cable quality matters *a lot* and "I would not recommend over 1-1.5m"

But there's no denying a 20-40% perf loss compared to a direct motherboard connection: https://t.co/BcpdbxISTZ

Thunderbolt 3 delivers a theoretical 40 Gbps. https://t.co/51FPBrHKXB

and if you can't get the Cadbury Mini Eggs it is also acceptable to fill the pit with mini stroopwafels

@jasonpurdy I watched Tenet recently. It was like someone came up with a genuinely cool sci-fi concept and hastily tried to prop up an entire movie around it with duct tape and foam

@stuinzuri @jasonpurdy well, I did watch it all. There are moments of OK-ness in later seasons but nothing like S1

@Cyanbane Yeah it's such an extreme nosedive that you wonder what happened, how were they able to make S1 so damn good and everything after that SO DAMN BAD?!

@jasonpurdy Believe me, I wish they had picked a sensible direction and produced amazing seasons! But recommending anything beyond S2 (and S2 is a "keep your expectations low" recommendation at best) is .. cruel. Anyways, I am happy we had an amazing S1 and some character resolutions later

@jasonpurdy Rotten Tomatoes is more along my lines of thinking, though the minor critical bump for S4 is .. weird https://t.co/qIepsDYpbv

@jasonpurdy Here's metacritic for all seasons, in order.. sample size is a bit low for my tastes but S4 deserves a trashing https://t.co/c31WasIlaN

@mattbillenstein Season 2 was OK-ish, but 3 and 4? unmitigated disasters

@merket @johnolilly Reddit's more like the sketchy guy in your neighborhood who probably deals drugs on the side..

@johnolilly I'm happy I got to speak at the 2020 Twitter world meetup. They really did make great strides in improving the product from 2016-2022. https://t.co/KyWkh8pePK

@kevindente I'm 99% sure Zuck is gonna do that himself with the VR / metaverse obsession

@_natewilkins “SunPower by Hooked on Solar?”

@runxc1 God no!

@doekezanstra If Tesla can manage to deliver them.. they are overdue

It’s happening! I figured now is a good time to jump in, 8 years later.. https://t.co/ckWUozlXHf

@prahladyeri @wilshipley @discourse distributed is many orders of magnitude more difficult to do; better to have lots of diversity on the web, lots of smaller communities in addition to the big ones.

I will miss this place if things go south. Still giving it more time, for now.

@paulsabana @lexfridman I mean, I appreciate positivity and I think it is best to err on that side when you can, but all positive with no criticism isn't right either.

@MrAlanCooper many videogames violate this rule, e.g. choose which "realm" you want to play in

@GroundedRaptor Sure; it's been reliable for us. Remember Discourse is largely JavaScript though, running in the browser.

@lexfridman It's OK not to be relentlessly positive about every change, no matter how bizarre and questionable those changes are.

@Lee_Holmes Possible that it's just random coincidence, wouldn't be the first time, I was mostly surprised I saw so many reports

@westondeboer It is back, that's S2E1

@runxc1 @discourse Well, there is "log in with Google", "log in with Facebook", "log in with Twitter", and others..

It is possible to get stable guaranteed 120fps with balanced settings and “ultra performance” DLSS upscaling. Note the render resolution of 1360x720 though 🙃 .. anyways, full bore 120fps is expensive in every sense of the word. https://t.co/zUqi36NroM

Ultra settings are usually silly in terms of framerate cost vs. visual difference. So let's offset that silliness with DLSS! Here's Ultra with DLSS set to Quality mode https://t.co/YeFKwa1XnQ

@Powiuke it's from a product no more than 1 year old

aaaand it was true 🤯 https://t.co/pYQ455VAne

@johnolilly even better, the comedy writes itself! https://t.co/pYQ455VAne

@johnolilly Channelling this energy https://t.co/nzWnT2SWBI

Conveniently enough, Call of Duty / Modern Warfare is adding all the interesting large battle modes *plus* the gadget stuff that was in Battlefield: https://t.co/jti1u3MSXS

@alberto_VO_5 @discourse @discord Odd how the words are similar but have such completely different meanings. Discord is about fighting, which I guess makes sense for a gaming app? https://t.co/24TJJxX6ux

@Snowden The one that isn't a russian citizen, comrade!

@wongmjane @Carnage4Life Tim Apple is a real CEO who would never do the kind of childish stuff Musk does every day..