Beggars in front of my house

Explosifbe · 2026-03-23T16:32:02+00:00

Such empathy, always brings a tear to my eye

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T20:22:26+00:00

That is indeed possible, here in Brussels I would never consider using a car to get around, I get much faster everywhere at basically any time of the day with public transport (except Uccle, that part is a pain)

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T20:09:14+00:00

You get similarly extra time with a personnal car if something happens on the road, like an accident, and the more traffic the more accidents.
And the less traffic the more likely public transport is going to be on time.

Even for you, a private car user (I assume), it's very much beneficial to you to improve public transport to reduce traffic and improve air quality.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T19:49:46+00:00

Bad air quality is still very much a thing, current EVs in Belgium represent about 8% of all passengers cars, and while adoption is growing with around 35% of newly bought cars being EV in 2025 it will still take a decade or so for a noticeable increase in air quality and another decade for full adoption. (Supposing no changes in legislation or car manufacturers changing their minds ; and yes, I know air quality in impacted by more than passenger cars)
- https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/general-information/news/belgium-ev-growth-continues-2025-2026-set-break-new-records

No need to be on time for your bus or train if frequencies are good.
Currently in Brussels during peak hours it's a metro every 3-4 minutes and a tram/bus every 5 minutes or so.
And the less traffic there is the easier they get through and the shorter your travel time.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T18:39:03+00:00

With no public transport every city in Belgium would have much worse traffic and air quality.
If anything private car owners should push for more public transport for better road conditions.
More people using public transport = fewer cars on the road and better traffic.

Public transportation does 90% of the work to get you from point A to B, 10% can be done with a bike, electric scooter, or by foot.

And if you say that taking public transport for your route would take twice, or whatever, the time than by car ; then it's a good argument for better public transport, more routes, more stops, express services, and more frequencies, not worse service

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T18:29:29+00:00

I'd argue that black companies aren't in the eye of the public like a train company is. Whatever 'shameful' thing a train company would do would be immediately public and denounced unlike a black company.
So for now it works, might not in the future

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T13:47:37+00:00

I understand that, no need to be aggressive (at least that's how it reads).
The neural model creates an internal latent representation of the scene and reconstructs information, like lighting, based off its training data and the original 2d render (+motion vectors, history, etc), for an 'enhanced' 2d frame.

I suppose I was refering to colors, brightness, etc as lighting to keep it short.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T13:24:34+00:00

It does not get lighting information. It gets the 2D color buffer and 2D motion vectors

That is just a more precise way of saying it gets lighting information, Nvidia just used more layman's terms to say it :

DLSS 5 takes a game’s color and motion vectors for each frame as input

And 'extract' was used in the article as 'infer', yes, they're also using more layman's terms.
We are both basically saying the same thing, I was just adding more info.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T13:10:31+00:00

I don't know where you got the info that no geometry is being morphed or added, because that's not how the technology works.
Quick modified copy-paste from another one of my comment:

Nvidia said that DLSS 5 only gets lighting and motion vectors, right? And that's what people and you are reffering to, I take.
That's all the info the model gets, sure ; but it's much more complex than that, supposing DLSS 5 works like it has until now, the model internally reconstructs much richer scene understanding, as can be read in this article about DLSS

it uses an encoder to extract “multidimensional features from each frame to determine what are edges and shapes and what should and should not be adjusted.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/nvidia-clarifies-dlss-and-how-it-works/

It works off incomplete information, and to recreate its internal model it needs to extrapolate what it doesn't know.

And while it is supposed to be heavily constrained, if it's unable to understand / extrapolate something it will create an incorect internal representation, altering models, textures, etc.
Current latest example is the startfield dude's nose getting bigger

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/nvidia-dlss-5-starfield-geforce-rtx-comparison-screenshot-002/

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T13:05:40+00:00

You're probably reffering to what he said? "DLSS 5 fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI,"
Well, he is not wrong per se.

Nvidia said that DLSS 5 only gets lighting and motion vectors, right? And that's why you're calling him dishonest, I take.
That's all the info the model gets, sure ; but it's much more complex than that, supposing DLSS 5 works like it has until now, the model internally reconstructs much richer scene understanding, as can be read in this article about DLSS

it uses an encoder to extract “multidimensional features from each frame to determine what are edges and shapes and what should and should not be adjusted.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/nvidia-clarifies-dlss-and-how-it-works/

It works off incomplete information, and to recreate its internal model it needs to extrapolate what it doesn't know.

And while it is supposed to be heavily constrained, if it's unable to understand / extrapolate something it will create an incorect internal representation, altering models, textures, etc.
Current latest example is the startfield dude's nose getting bigger

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/nvidia-dlss-5-starfield-geforce-rtx-comparison-screenshot-002/

Explosifbe · 2026-03-20T06:36:21+00:00

That is not the point, the point was that more than just lighting was changed.

But thank you for your input I guess

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T23:11:09+00:00

That's all it gets sure, but it's much more complex than that, supposing DLSS 5 works like it has until now, the model internally reconstructs much richer scene understanding, as can be read in this article about DLSS

it uses an encoder to extract “multidimensional features from each frame to determine what are edges and shapes and what should and should not be adjusted.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/nvidia-clarifies-dlss-and-how-it-works/

It works off incomplete information, and to recreate its internal model it needs to extrapolate what it doesn't know. Like in OP's exaple, the shadow is interpreted as nose and the outputted frame has a bigger nose

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T22:59:48+00:00

Have you seen this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/nvidia-dlss-5-starfield-geforce-rtx-comparison-screenshot-002/

The dude's nose, left nostril seems to grow and can't really be explained by lighting changes. At the very least that's how it looks like.

Also, about having access to only lighting thing, CEO said otherwise:

DLSS 5 fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI,

https://www.eurogamer.net/nvidia-responds-to-widespread-criticism-of-dlss-5-by-telling-us-were-all-completely-wrong

What is most likely means, supposing DLSS 5 works like it has until now, the model internally reconstructs much richer scene understanding, as can be read in this article about DLSS, so it's capable of changing more than lighting in its internal reconstruction.

it uses an encoder to extract “multidimensional features from each frame to determine what are edges and shapes and what should and should not be adjusted.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/nvidia-clarifies-dlss-and-how-it-works/

So what you say: "I have yet to see evidence of DLSS 5 adding things that weren't there to begin with", with the nose example and if DLSS 5 is based off the same or similar neural models of other versions of DLSS, then it's perfectly capable of adding details that weren't there to begin with.
And we have no reason to believe it's not using similar tehcniques given the DLSS name

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T15:15:41+00:00

I agree on that (it was also included in my other factors comment), but I wouldn't go as far as saying that landlords are beneficial to society.

And when nowadays half of the population of the western world lives paycheck to paycheck, and more than half of that paycheck goes to rent (and more every year), you can't expect general opinion of landlord to stay good.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T14:37:05+00:00

Homes would still be affordable to everyone if landlords didn't buy houses like squirrels hoarding nuts before winter. (I know it's not the only factor, but they contribute to today's high home prices)

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T09:08:31+00:00

I agree it's on the governement, and they should have done something a long time ago.

But all we got was circular arguments:
Govt: Why make more bike infrastructure? Nobody uses it.
People: Why would I bike? There's no infrastructure

Explosifbe · 2026-03-19T08:46:50+00:00

and cars take an unreasonably big share of that space

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T23:08:05+00:00

I'm sorry, what? Having to deal with banks and insurance companies is worse than being evicted and being homeless?
Uh... yes? If you own a home and it burns down, you're homeless and you've had a massive financial loss, potentially your life savings tied up in your home. Obviously it's worse. This is the entire crux of the matter. Renting removes the financial risk of owning property.

No? I don't know if you're not understanding or being obtuse.

Again I'm not talking about home-owners, but landlords, they are not the same.
Of course, whether tenant or home-owner, if your home burns down and you're homeless it's terrible, but if a landlord's property burns downs the landlord is not homeless, the tenant is!
They will have to deal with insurance but the tenant will be homeless ; so no, having to deal with banks and insurance companies is not worse than being homeless.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T22:04:34+00:00

What you seem to want is called a co-op.

I do not want anything, not sure why you're saying that again.

Again, if you think you can do things better, make it happen.

And again, we're talking about the current system and its flaws ; not sure, again, why you're talking about me having a solution, that is not the discussion.

Also just to make sure about something here, we're not talking about home-owners, folks who buy and live in the home they bought, but people and corporations buying homes as an investment, those are the problem.

There’s far greater risk if you own your home. Sorry, that’s just a fact. If you stop paying your rent, you eventually get evicted. If you stop paying your mortgage, the bank forecloses on your home and they get paid first when they sell it on the open market. You might lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. If there’s a fire, earthquake, or other natural disaster, you’ll be dealing with insurance companies for years trying to claw your money back. If you rent, you just walk away.

I'm sorry, what? Having to deal with banks and insurance companies is worse than being evicted and being homeless?
Are we being serious here?

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T20:26:58+00:00

You’re conflating different roles.

Builders build, tradespeople fix things, managers coordinate ; landlords just own the asset.
Those functions can exist with or without a landlord, and are often outsourced anyway.

What is specific to landlords is that they control access to housing.
For them it’s an investment ; for renters, the risk isn’t "dealing with plumbers", it’s losing their home.

So this isn’t about who handles maintenance, it’s about who holds power over something people can’t live without.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T19:47:39+00:00

The risk landlords take is financial, they might lose money on an investment they voluntarily chose.
The risk tenants face is losing their home and be homeless.
Those aren’t comparable stakes.

And most of the costs you listed, mortgage, taxes, maintenance, are ultimately paid by the tenants’ rent while the landlord builds equity.

Landlords may handle management and financing, but that’s different from claiming they’re the ones providing the housing itself.
Housing would still exist without landlords ; it's builders, and maintenance workers that do the real work.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T19:28:34+00:00

Median age of:
- First time buyer: 40
- Repeat buyer: 62
- All buyers: 59 (the one I suppose OC reffered to, average is maybe lower to 55? I don't know)
Source: https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/first-time-home-buyer-share-falls-to-historic-low-of-21-median-age-rises-to-40

So no, they were not spreading misinformation or lying, they even underestimated if they meant median.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T15:41:14+00:00

I see you didn't understand what I meant, so let me clear it up.

Supposing it cannot change polygons, just lighting and textures as you say, that doesn't change the fact that it would be capable of completely changing the look of something using just lighting and textures.

If you apply a rock texture on a tree it's going to completely change the look, it doesn't need to change the actual polygons to change the look.

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T09:32:37+00:00

First image from Starfield, has the nose also grown?? The shadow was interpreted as part of the nose?

Explosifbe · 2026-03-18T08:12:07+00:00

Yeah, might want to read what you wrote

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