I do really enjoy the rabbit hole that is people making their own clocks that set their time automatically… but also find it funny it usually takes a few hundred dollars because they invariably make them sync via the internet with some small computer instead of spending $5 on a radio clock chip.

Reminds me a bit of the Larrabee (or more specifically the productized Xeon Phi) and CausticOne. These were "GPUs" that focused on programmability and raytracing performance with limited to no raster support. And both were crushed by Nvidia (and in some respects even AMD). youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?...

A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA

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What direction is this mask spinning?

I think we need to stop calling them Billionaires and start calling them Villianaires.

Disney did a preview opening for the refreshed Rock n' Roller Coaster and Disney World's Hollywood Studios park. This version removes Aerosmith and replaces them with Electric Mayhem from The Muppets. And holy shit that Scooter animatronic is fantastic! youtu.be/F6t6c6WhrGg?...

FULL RIDE POV Rock'N'Rollercoaster starring THE MUPPETS - DSNY Newscast

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The history of the modern burrito has always fascinated meme. As a kid I had a Spanish teacher who grew up in Mexico complain that it wasn’t a real Mexican dish and that it was an US invention. In his mind it was just a standard taco that gringos made up a stupid name for.

I really like @timschiesser.bsky.social 's reframing of frame gen as "fancy motion blur". Not so much in how it looks, but how its used. And the fact either used without moderation looks like utter shit. youtu.be/Dn9zNs0XZDk?...

Frame Generation Doesn't Fix Bad Performance!

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Why did they call it an integrated GPU instead of a discreet GPU?

Being an adult means knowing you can have your kids' sugary breakfast cereal for lunch whenever you want, but choosing to acknowledge it's a really bad idea hen you do.

Every few months I see a post on the dead bird site about how someone vibe coded a game in a few hours and released it to show how easy it is to do. And if you actually try said "game" it's really obvious why games are still so hard to make... (because all of these vibe coded examples suuuuuck).

With the legal battles surrounding the "Prediction Market" betting sites being ruled as "futures trading" rather than gambling, I wonder how much of the gambling world will start rebranding themselves as such before people realize the futures and swap markets are just gambling.

One of my favorite old school rendering tricks is the abusing mip maps for fades and Fresnel. At this point perhaps most famously done in Mario Sunshine for the ocean water sparkles. blog.mecheye.net/2018/03/deco...

Melon Husk has announced he has plans on building his own chip fabrication facility to produce 2nm chips; Terafab. I have no doubt they'll build out some giant facilities... but, uh... literally only ASML is currently capable of building machines that can make chips at that size.

Valve changed Counter-Strike 2's reload system so that you don't keep the unused bullets that are in your magazine, but instead loose them entirely. Years ago someone I knew argued that CS was _not_ a "true" tactical shooter because of the way they handled ammo.

One thing about this whole DLSS 5 debacle that I kind of feel like a lot of people are missing: It was shown at the start of the Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote. The GTC keynote is mainly a way for Nvidia to show off to investors and executives. And that group _loves_ generative AI.

Valve has changed their time frame for the Steam Machine from "later this year" to "soon". I guess that means it'll ship in about 5 years, or be officially cancelled in 10.

Corridor Crew have gotten a lot of flack over the last few years for their AI exploration videos. Most of them have been explorations of existing tools... which each have had various levels of ethics behind their creation. But their latest video seems really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Plo...

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve this VFX Problem

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So, the US Supreme Court ruled you couldn't sue a President for anything falling under their "core constitutional duties". So if the President does something that they rule he doesn't have the constitutional power to do, does that mean you can sue him for it?

So Microsoft announced the codename for the next Xbox console. From here on I'm going to refer to it as the Xbox Too. Not two, too. As in "This is an Xbox ... too". www.youtube.com/shorts/3xy9E...

The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix

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The Macbook Neo is fascinating for one very simple reason. It's using a A18 Pro SOC instead of an M chip. I think this is the first time we're seeing MacOS running on an A series SOC.

@dark1x.bsky.social In your video on Nvidia Pulsar there's one thing I don't think you ever directly talk about. VRR flicker. You did make a comment about the double flash existing to help with refresh changes, but that seems to be about it. But does Pulsar have any VRR flickering problems?

Fuck Kansas.

I kind of love how OLED TVs and monitors have gone about solving the technology‘s brightness limitations. … Modern OLED TVs and monitors work a bit more like LCD panels than many people might expect. LCDs have a white backlight, color filters, and the LCD part to block light at each subpixel.

Apropos of nothing in particular, did you know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be 39 in 2028?

Thinking about how the ending of Stranger Things disappointed so many, how much people hated Game of Thrones, and how dumb the ending of Lost was. Has there been a long running well loved TV show with an ending that people actually liked?

This is a great video to send anyone who still thinks humans can only see 60hz. There are some minor pedantic things I could nit pick about it, but it does a really good job showing clear examples of why it's not remotely true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_7...

The human eye can see 39,620 Hz

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CEOs explaining the benefits of AI for increasing profit the same thing as South Park gnomes explaining stealing underwear.

What are some of your favorite short lived music groups you feel like no one else seems to know about? Ones that you feel came out hitting strong, and then disappeared into obscurity?

One - Album by Kate Boy

One is the debut studio album by Swedish recording group Kate Boy, released on 6 November 2015 by Iamsound Records.

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I’ve been using Perforce for over 20 years, and having used many other version control systems over the years, its still the best. But it still sucks in some really silly ways.

LTT WAN Show talked briefly about some scummy thing Best Buy was doing on their website. The short version is they're showing a "Comparable Value" for some items to make them seem like they're a great deal, and sometimes they're products that aren't even actually on sale.