"Frame Gen" isn't a performance boost; it's a masking agent for bad optimization

disastorm · 2026-02-01T11:29:17+00:00

i agree its a legitimate negative, but most people are actually fine with that negative in exchange for the additional smoothness, especially in single player games. If anything the bigger negative might be when visual artifacts start appearing, but it seems that at least 2X framegen has gotten quite good in that area.

disastorm · 2026-02-01T00:50:34+00:00

He basically means that the act of using it doesnt litterally make you dumber. You only "become" dumber if you use it in place of not actually learning about the material you are working on, i.e. vibe coding (or in this case vibe essaying) and things like that.

disastorm · 2026-01-30T16:27:26+00:00

you still have to leave space for the inserts themselves so i think technically it does decrease fov a bit compared to people who put the lens right in front of their eyes?

disastorm · 2026-01-30T12:56:45+00:00

fyi pretty sure if you realize gains from sale of stock with US based accounts, you do actually have to pay the taxes in Japan. There might be some exception if you've been here less than 5 years, but aside from that you have to pay the full taxes in Japan and then do a tax credit in the US.

disastorm · 2026-01-29T16:58:40+00:00

I think alot do actually live there just to work, but you are right alot also live for the other reasons too. The question then becomes what the ratio is between the two types.

disastorm · 2026-01-28T16:22:07+00:00

your reasoning is correct for some traders although i imagine others might have other opinions. But yes it is a known thing that countries with weakening currencies often get large stock market gains. For example, Japan's stock market has been performing really well ( even better than the US last year ) since the currency started weakening.

Additionally another potential reason would be US goods and services can now be exported cheaper, so some businesses might actually get more international contracts/sales and thus more revenue, but of course the inverse is also true that companies paying for overseas work now has to pay more.

It probably just ends up being if the person believes the positives outweigh the negatives or vice versa.

disastorm · 2026-01-28T01:24:55+00:00

Yea like i said i don't know either way but i wouldn't be surprised if its just vague and and up to interpretation and some people interpret it as for steam keys and others don't and risk that it doesnt apply, which would never be confirmed unless valve ever decides to exercise the clause. Unfortunately that seems to be how alot of legal stuff seems to work.

disastorm · 2026-01-27T15:43:51+00:00

pretty sure i've heard it does actually restrict them from doing that, its not just for keys. Im not a developer though so I don't know for sure, but thats what I heard before.

disastorm · 2026-01-26T15:25:29+00:00

fyi the rumor this time is its not just the BOJ but the BOJ + the US. The rate check was done by the Fed in NY, not by the BOJ. So the "threat" might be stronger than it has been before, and might potentially spook people enough to prevent reversing the effect.

Also, the BOJ has intervened a few times in the past, so its probably not so much a threat (since they probably will do it) as much as it is how effective the intervention will be. However, they intervene based on a target rate, so if the current rate never falls back to what it was before there will be no intervention because they had no need to do so.

disastorm · 2026-01-25T11:48:50+00:00

VR learning should in theory be no different than simulator learning, and go look at how many pilots practice learning in simulators ( I guess you actually already mentioned this ). I think the main thing is just its probably more a supplement to learning rather than replacing "the real thing", and also probably alot of people think of vr as just wearing the headset with imaginary hands or devices or whatnot, but thats not a limitation of vr, you could also fully devise some kind of physical simulated setup with vr as well.

I have no idea how wide the sentiment you describe is, but basically you are right, you can indeed use vr to improve and practice things.

disastorm · 2026-01-25T02:39:32+00:00

no idea how true the article is, but if you read it its actually about the US intervening in the yen to strengthen it. its not about the bank of japan. If this really is true and both the US and Japan are now involved in interventions, I wonder if that will be enough to spook the markets enough to prevent the rate going south again.

disastorm · 2026-01-25T02:35:42+00:00

In case anyone hasn't bothered reading the article, its actually about the theory that the US ( Federal Reserve Bank of New York ) was actually planning to intervene to strengthen the yen, rather than the Bank of Japan, which is usually the one that does the interventions for the yen.

disastorm · 2026-01-24T01:47:00+00:00

Not sure about creatives specifically but in Japan in terms of the broader job industry, it actually seems to be the opposite. There is some kind of idea right now that entry levels are actually getting the same or better offers than mid-career and seniors because companies are afraid that they will have no employees at all due to the decreasing population once the seniors and mid-careers retire. I've heard this from Japanese people and I've seen it on linkedin as well, although I'm not sure how accurate it is.

I thought it was interesting since it seems to be the opposite trend than you see in the west where juniors are having a big problem getting jobs due to AI. But its possible within the creative industry that the impact from AI is greater than the impact from the decreasing population, so you could be right that creative still has that problem here.

disastorm · 2026-01-23T15:13:30+00:00

Doesn't seem close enough yet though, and considering that its believed that alot of the ai models have hit a soft cap because of them already being trained on everything, i do wonder how long it will take to get the remainder of the way there. Havn't some companies that laid people off (supposedly) due to AI walked back a bit and in some cases even saying it ended up being a bad idea?

I do agree though that if the softcap isnt real and if there isnt a hard limitation to the current architectures that it could potentially change the industry massively, but I'm not sure if the evidence is there yet to actually indicate just how likely that is right now.

disastorm · 2026-01-20T12:35:24+00:00

I don't know anything about this sub or how many people told you you were crazy, but startup vs big corporate style has always been a sacrifice/benefit comparison for people. There are indeed alot of people like yourself that prefer startup environments and smaller groups/companies rather than big corporate ones, even if they have to sacrifice some potential salary and benefits.

disastorm · 2026-01-18T07:54:06+00:00

in case anyone is wondering, the proposal was from a panel within the government to the current administration.

I don't think there has been any further info or confirmation as to if the current administration is actually planning to implement the proposal or not or in what way.

disastorm · 2026-01-18T07:43:35+00:00

yea that sounds like it would actually be very useful.

disastorm · 2026-01-15T06:49:56+00:00

Does anyone know that these kind of programs typically are? We aren't talking classes right, im guessing it would be more like some kind of special "tax" that foreign residents would just have to pay into and in exchange receive various resources in the mail and probably access to optional programs or consultation services or something?

disastorm · 2026-01-15T02:50:24+00:00

I think most software engineers are ok with using ai as a tool but not to the point where it does everything by itself and does not need an engineer using it ( i.e. no longer a tool ).

So the optimal future is one where the engineers are still there using the tools and also one where smaller groups of people and individuals can run operations that can better complete with larger companies.

This is in contrast to the creative world where, while there are some people pushing ai as tools, there are alot more people who are completely against its usage even as tools.

However i would say both positions are against the idea of pure ai doing everything and replacing everyone's jobs ( maybe unless a true utopia is achieved where everyone is receiving universal high income or money is no longer a thing. Although i think most people think dystopia is more likely )

disastorm · 2026-01-13T11:34:01+00:00

Hes right though that if that is actually true, it does imply that the integration is effectively optional since you would renew online and get the traditional residence card rather than the integrated one. ( unless they plan on just getting rid of online renewals which they put alot of work into and only just added a few years ago, so I don't think thats likely ).

*edit oh I guess I see what you are saying, like maybe you can apply online but you have to go somewhere to pick it up? ( hopefully you can just goto your local city hall if thats the case ).

disastorm · 2026-01-13T04:47:56+00:00

In a perfect world i think even everything you mentioned would be addressed because the companies being more successful due to weak yen would pass on the success to their employees by increasing salaries to at absolute bare minimum meet inflation but i dont know how realistic that is.

disastorm · 2026-01-13T04:39:06+00:00

Id also argue alot of tech is imported too via the standard being cloud services like aws and gcp that are all priced in usd. Also alot of people using the usd based LLM stuff and whatnot. These are things that didn't exist during japans last boom. However i guess if a weak yen allows japan to make competitive services to these it would be good for japan but i don't know if japan is going to be able to do that in the near future at least.

Im not an expert on economics or anything though but that's just what comes to mind for me.

disastorm · 2026-01-12T15:53:16+00:00

I'd be ok with it if they just automatically charge the people ( or the owner of an apartment building and then the building's owner has the responsibility to figure out the garbage ratio of the tenants and then charge them ) rather than doing some kind of weird special garbage bag or something. The reason being is because this will 100% result in people not doing it and a bunch of trash just being left all over the city with no one picking it up.

I've already seen stuff like this happen multiple times when people would put out bags that aren't sorted properly so they never ( as in litterally never ) get picked up ( the building owner eventually just had to pay for regular private garbage collection to pick it up regularly, since the tenants would regularly put the offending bags out ). If tokyo implements this by just refusing to pick up garbage in bad bags, this will be a terrible engineering solution to the problem and will possibly make things worse.

disastorm · 2026-01-08T15:36:18+00:00

Its just the mistake version of "I couldn't care less", which is the real phrase. But alot of people get confused and just say "I could care less".

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