Ben Golus

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?

With the Xbox Series X|S, I also thought if they did a refresh of the X it should be the Xbox Series XS (pronounced "excess").

Still sad they didn't take my suggestion for the letter they used for the "fastest" version of the console to be an R instead of an X so it'd be Xbox One R instead of Xbox One X.

So people could have called it an Xboner.

Also because it goes perfectly with Xbox's numbering / naming scheme.

Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox One S / X
Xbox Series S / X
Xbox Too

The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix YouTube video by Xbox

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 last project they’d been on before joining us they’d been working on for about 2-3 years already. That project continued for another 5-6 years, and then got canceled.

I worked with someone whom when we hired them to the team had been in the industry for over a decade, and hadn’t shipped a single title because every project had been a multi year long MMO project that got canned before release.

It was created at a time when "GPU compute" was still a new concept for many. Triangles per second and fill rate were the only metrics the business types really knew how to compare, and Larrabee didn't impress there.

But it probably would have made something like Media Molecule's Dreams easier.

A bit of both, and kind of neither.

It failed as a consumer GPU, because for traditional raster rendering it wasn't impressive.

It succeeded for nearly a decade being a significant portion of the overall performance of several major super computers. And informed the design of modern Xeon CPUs.

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.

It's not that they're concerned with the flickering when running a locked 60hz game. They're concerned with flickering when having to handle variable refresh alternating between below 75hz & a higher refresh rate as the compensated pulse brightness might become visible flicker in of itself.

So they must be adjusting the brightness of each backlight strobe based on how much time there was between frames, taking into account how bright the previous strobe was.

That'd also explain why they're so concerned with flickering when going to 60hz.

But also very confused and really want to know how.

The "easy" solution would be to intentionally delay the displayed image so you have a buffer to ensure you know how long before the next frame needs to be displayed before displaying the "current" one. But I'm fairly certain they're not doing that

OLED, FALD, and the few existing backlight strobing implementations that support VRR, like ELMB Sync, all suffer from flickering when there are swings in framerate. Which makes sense for any tech using strobing / pwm.

So if Nvidia figured out how to fix this with Pulsar, I'm extra impressed.

@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?

A screen grab from the Hopper teaser trailer: "This is nothing like Avatar!"

Fuck Kansas.

Samsung said fuck it, we’re doing 5 ̷b̷l̷a̷d̷e̷s̷ layers now!

It also tickles me that both marketing teams have slapped the “tandem” term on the new generation of panels when they’ve literally both been multi-layered “tandem” technologies from the beginning.

But Samsung upped the number of layers in their QD-OLED panels from 2 to 3 just over a year ago. And in the last years LG moved from 3 to 4 layers for their “Tandem RGB WOLED” panels. Now Samsung has announced their own “Penta Tandem QD-OLED” that goes from 3 layers to 5!

The block you see when an OLED is off isn’t because OLED is black, it’s because there’s a black backing behind it. What if you stack layers of OLED?

Both QD-OLED and WOLED have been at least two or three layers of OLED from the start. And they’ve been pushing the tech as much as they can.

On top of that, a single OLED panel can only get so bright. If you push too much energy in, it gets hot, and OLEDs being organic material, that heat is bad and causes them to wear out. So how do you make them brighter?

Well, OLED layers are transparent.

OLED TVs and monitors have the OLED layer act as a single color backlight that goes through filters for each subpixel. This gets rid of the LCD part, but there’s still more than just the one OLED layer by itself.

OLED is self emissive so you just have the OLED directly emit the red, green, and blue for each subpixel! No filters or backlight needed!

But that’s only how it works for OLEDs on mobile phones, laptops, and other small OLED displays.

I kind of love how OLED TVs and monitors have gone about solving the technology‘s brightness limitations.

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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?

It’s to distract you from the fact you can’t open that file to edit unless you pay Adobe their ransom.

Aaand, the order has already been "reversed" and they're no longer suspending the programs.

I DROPPED my slomo camera to explain how gravity works YouTube video by AlphaPhoenix

I loved this recent video by AlphaPhoenix on the topic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rGa...

Star Trek TNG has a pretty darn good ending... which they kind of ruined with the movies after Contact.

Star Trek DS9 was controversial to say the least, but I think well regarded after the fact.

I actually think Quantum Leap had an amazing ending though.

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?