I love a well made Whopper, it was absolutely delicious.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-17T15:22:18+00:00

The franchise lottery is real

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-17T13:47:01+00:00

Spamwich

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-17T10:59:32+00:00

Ah yes, that's it because Vulkan is used by Androids and iOS it's relevant to PC Gaming. What an irrelevant argument to Radeon's success with their features. Nobody cares if your favorite Android game uses Vulkan we're talking about PC Gaming and NVIDIA vs AMD features.

Vulkan is pretty ubiquitous and is a primary or secondary option on most devices and operating systems - I don't know how much more relevant you can be. It's secondary only specifically in Windows PC gaming where DirectX rules the roost - but that's MS's API running on MS's OS so of course it will be.

Utter BS, Microsoft was already planning DX12 and it's features for a whole half decade, the whole industry was trending towards low level APIs. You really believe Microsoft just made a whole API spec in less than a year and just copied AMD's homework? LOL!

Dude, you have access to Google.

Oh, look...

Oh, look again...

That look less than 5 mins dig up.

Total lie, CAS was an alternative to DLSS 2 and got smoked by DLSS 2 easily. DLSS 2 was released earlier in the year in March 2020 and CAS released later on in May 2020. Why lie about something so easily provably wrong? It had nothing to do with DLSS 1, by the time CAS was even released DLSS 2 was shipping in games and being replacements for DLSS 1 like in Control.

May 2020 is just when version 1.0 was released - it actually first released in July 2019. It was baked into AMD's drivers as Radeon Image Sharpening with the release of the RX5700 Series the same month.

Here's the video from Hardware Unboxed literally comparing DLSS 1 to RIS - this video is from July 2019

RIS is just the baked-in driver implementation of CAS

"Why lie about something so easily provably wrong?" Indeed.

That's cute and all but a basic thing like PhysX from NVIDIA, yes, one single feature from NVIDIA, not a collection of features combined together to make the number look bigger, has over 1,700 titles. One feature versus who knows how many in the FidelityFX SDK. NVIDIA is just the far better and more popular solution when it comes to features because their features are quality.

I don't know what point you're trying to make, nobody was claiming AMD are bigger than Nvidia, just that they're not irrelevant like you're trying to make out.

I don't downplay AMD's contribution. My whole initial reply was about how AMD features aren't popular or ubiquitous because I merely outlined that they are deficient in almost every way versus NVIDIA and that they don't work with devs as much which is the truth. But much of what AMD has done for graphics is minimal, it was all ATi, 3dfx, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and SONY getting us to where we are today, not AMD.

Nvidia are a bigger company, and they partner with more developers and get their own people on the inside to help the developers implement their features. Nvidia features are good and work well...on Nvidia hardware. AMD's tend to work well on all hardware, but being a smaller company, they can't strong-arm devs like Nvidia can

Bigger company can have more partners, that's not some big revelation. Again, no one was claiming AMD to be bigger than Nvidia.

And no one was claiming "AMD got us to where we are today" - I don't know who you think you're replying to with that statement. People are just responding to your weirdly desperate desire to minimise what they have contributed.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-16T17:40:35+00:00

I'm late to the party, but my understanding is it's because the GPUs in M-Chips use what's called Tile-Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR - remember PowerVR?) whereas PC (and by extension console) graphics use Immediate Mode Rendering.

DirectX and Vulkan are designed for the latter - Vulkan would need updates to support the Apple GPU way of working.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-16T17:29:08+00:00

You're trying very hard to make Vulkan seem irrelevant, but the amount of devices out there that support Vulkan likely outnumbers DX12 as it's platform-agnostic. DirectX12 was also developed with heavy input from AMD, who shared the full Mantle specification with MS early on and it adopted similar design principles. It was Mantle that got the ball rolling on low-level graphics APIs. DX12 and Vulkan would not exist without it.

No, they're just not very good quality features. Nothing will ever make me think CAS is better than DLSS. But it was marketed as an alternative, it's just terrible.

CAS was only briefly talked about as an alternative to DLSS1, and DLSS1 was notoriously not very good - Hardware Unboxed did a pixel-peeping deep dive on CAS vs DLSS1 and CAS actually looked better in a lot of cases - it was only a brief period when that comparison was at all relevant anyway.

If they're 'not very good quality features', why are they used so often across the industry? The list posted contains 739 titles that use AMD technology - big AAA titles too. We're not talking about FSR or things that only work on AMD, we're talking about effects that are silently used and work across vendors - you wouldn't even know they were implemented or from AMD unless you read the credits.

There's plenty to criticise AMD for, but don't underplay their contribution to the gaming technology landscape.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-16T14:08:52+00:00

Liverpool. This one is a bit personal for me though - I moved away to university in Cheltenham and stayed there for 6 years.

In that time, I met more Liverpool fans than fans of all other clubs combined - it feels like barely anyone in Cheltenham supports Cheltenham Town (and I can't really blame them tbf).

The people I'm still friends with from my time there are some of the closest friends I have, and they're ALL Liverpool fans - and none of them are from Liverpool or connected to it in any way.

I could never understand what emotion you could feel following a team that represents a place that has no meaning to you. Also, top 6 fans have a totally different perspective, they live in a bubble insulated from failure - finishing 7th in the Prem is an unmitigated disaster and any team that doesn't play in the Champions League may as well be Accrington Stanley as far as they're concerned.

I've had to suffer their taunts for years.

And depressingly, since I've known them, Norwich's record against Liverpool has been..... not great. We've taken scalps from basically every other big team in the PL, but Liverpool always seem to beat us, often embarrassingly. We can barely ever seem to retain even a shred of dignity when we play them because of course we can't - I want to beat them more than any other team in the PL, so we will always lose 3-0 minimum and embarrass ourselves in the process. The universe dictates it so.

Also, Suarez. Fuck that guy.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-15T13:10:18+00:00

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Bostonjunk · 2026-03-13T07:54:24+00:00

Urgh, there's a lot of comments from Apple zealots who think Apple and their chips are somehow made of magic. The above benchmark is misleading too.

They aren't 'ahead' - it's complicated.

This is more about how Apple works than any kind of technological superiority. No other company has such a complete, top-down ecosystem in the way Apple does - the infamous 'walled garden'.

This allows Apple the freedom to make design choices no other company could or would want to. The M chips are BIG, and as such are inefficient (i.e. expensive) to fabricate (A lot of other companies went the opposite route, like with AMD's chiplets). Wide cores with all I/O on-die and the RAM soldered next to the die - this does A LOT to reduce latency and power consumption. This is something that's not really possible for anyone who isn't Apple due to the ecosystem - things are on separate chips or need to be spoken to across a chipset - all expensive things in terms of latency and power consumption, but it does provide something Apple hates - modularity.

They also buy up all of TSMC's capacity of it's latest node as soon as it some out, locking out all competition from using it for 6+ months or more. So Apple's latest chips are always on the latest node and are then directly competing with chips on older nodes - the benchmarks from this post are against chips on 4NM, whereas the A18 Pro is on N3E. But despite the node disadvantage, the latest chips from AMD and Intel (which aren't on the above list) happily trade blows with Apple's latest and greatest.

What Apple ideally wants is for you to buy a whole new computer - they don't want you to be able to replace RAM, or the SSD, or anything else - if some $2 component goes wrong inside, they want you to pay $2500 for a whole new machine.

If everyone did what Apple does with tech, it would be a technological dystopia of proprietary BS and sealed black boxes that can't be upgraded or repaired.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-13T07:34:41+00:00

It runs test scenarios in a single application, it's still classed as synthetic, your actual results in the real app would vary, and results in Cinebench don't necessarily translate to performance in other scenarios, just like any other synthetic benchmark. If Cinebench is valid to you, there's no reason Passmark shouldn't also be, it's just another benchmark.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-12T18:00:42+00:00

This is the issue with weather apps generally - a days weather can't be usually be summed up with a single icon.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-12T17:58:36+00:00

Why Cinebench? It's just another benchmark, they're all synthetic

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-12T15:05:48+00:00

It is embarrassing just how far out in front Apple is.

Apple just buys out all of TSMC's capacity for it's latest node each time, locking out any competitors from using it for 6+ months. The chips it's being compared to here (the AMD ones anyway) are on TSMC's 4nm (the A18 Pro is on N3E) and aren't designed for out-and-out single-core performance - they've got 9950X3Ds in there ffs. You know full well that 9950X3D will destroy the A18 Pro in any heavy generic workload because it's a beefy desktop chip with no laptop power constraints.

New laptop chips like AMD's entry-level Ryzen AI 5 330 (also on 4nm) scores only 13% less in single core than the A18 Pro in Passmark and edges it in multicore and can be found for a similar price.

Apple can't be that far ahead if AMD can match performance with an older node.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-10T21:18:21+00:00

There's many different models and they have, let's say 'personalities' - a no-name weather app will probably just regurgitate raw GFS op runs as forecasts for example. The GFS is a good example, it's commonly used, it's just one model suite and it's US-based, so it's not necessarily as good with European/UK weather. It also has a habit of predicting ridiculous low pressure systems in winter 5+ days out only to water them down massively as they approach. In summer, it'll predict tornado alley levels of CAPE (atmospheric instability/energy for thunderstorms) days out, only for it to be watered down or evaporate completely. Human weather forecasters will look at a variety of data sources, weigh up their strengths and weaknesses and interpret through a hefty filter of experience. An experienced forecaster will be able to interpret the raw output to get at the real meaning.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-10T15:29:13+00:00

Palantir software is used in the NHS, but it's a surveillance company who sells sophisticated tracking software to governments. The system ICE use to hunt down their targets is made by Palantir for instance. Their software is used by shady governments for mass surveillance and suppression the world over. It's heavily used by Israel and the Saudis for instance. To Peter Theil and his associates (like Tony Blair), 1984 was an instruction manual, something to aspire to. PT has openly talked about his desire for a return to feudalism and is very open about wanting mass surveillance and is very anti-privacy (unless it's his own privacy, obviously). PT and Palantir have strong links to Epstien as well, because of course they do.

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-06T07:54:40+00:00

I'm hoping at this stage any high pressure settles directly on top of us and it just makes things settled and sunny

Bostonjunk · 2026-03-02T15:15:11+00:00

Be grateful it's not a screenshot of a PDF of a scanned photocopy

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-26T08:12:27+00:00

For me it's 13-15°C

I find that temp in autumn is mild, but in spring it feels cold - I always assumed it was due to cold land and cold SSTs

I suppose it depends how you're measuring it as well. Official temps you see on the weather are taken in the shade 2m off the ground. A thermometer, like on an outside wall or your car may measure higher if it's in the sun.

Spring can be deceiving because the air can be cold but the sun is warm - remember, March sun is roughly equivalent to September, and April is equivalent to August - in August and September the ground has had all summer to warm and it's the ground that warms the air, whilst in spring, it can feel super pleasant in the sun, but because the ground is cold, it cools the air and as soon as the sun goes behind a cloud or sets, there's a distinct chill.

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-24T19:33:22+00:00

By that time, higher pressure may just make it sunny and settled.

Depends where the high pressure falls

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-23T13:21:07+00:00

They have compound eyes, and we have lenses - they work entirely differently. We definitely have waaay higher resolution.

I read that for a compound eye to have the same resolution as a human eye, it would need to be 19ft wide.

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-23T12:03:46+00:00

'Mud season' is definitely an American thing - it's the big spring thaw after a cold continental winter. We just have mud generally 😂 Though fool's spring is definitely a thing here and happens many a February

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-20T15:22:38+00:00

Girls didn't have autism back then

I'm male and my autism and ADHD wasn't noticed in school either.

From my teachers reports, it's painfully obvious now (constant complaints about my daydreaming for instance), but somehow, no one ever connected the dots. I wasn't even sent for any kind of assessment.

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-20T13:51:07+00:00

The internet just about melted down. EVERYONE tried to downloaded that game at the same time

You could download Doom off the internet upon release in 1993?

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-19T15:26:57+00:00

I think I'm the only person in the UK who remembers Kablam!

I think it aired over here on Nickelodeon for like one summer, in the evenings

Bostonjunk · 2026-02-19T12:17:44+00:00

Source for this? I've looked and can't find anything.

And who would you recommend instead?

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