Fuck!

I knew I couldn’t count on a classics major to appear out of nowhere and correct me!

=P

jk jk, its appreciated, I’ll fix it, lol.

It is absolutely true that many ancient or even fairly modern bits of ‘common wisdom’ have been innacurate, or wildly utterly wrong.

… but, at the same time… some of it actually does hold.

I grew up with an alcoholic dad, basically all his brothers and sisters and mom and dad were as well.

They’ll all tell you how they really feel when inebriated…

Yay for Italian heritage, rofl, I am a keeper of this ancient wisdom, it courses through my very veins.

… and by that I mean oh lord, I also get drunk very easily, fortunately I’ve had enough self control to not ever develop an alcohol addiction…

To steal another Greek phrase and render it in Latin:

modus omnibus in rebus

Hey! HEY!

For many calibers, we often still call them by their size in inches.

All of these are named by the diameter of the bullet in inches.

eg: .22 means .22 inches.

-rim fire-

.17 hmr

(basically a .22 WMR necked down to .17. rising in popularity as a kind of… more powerful, faster thus flatter trajectory, replacement for longer ranged .22 shooters)

.22 short

(early revolver round, early semi auto round, still used fairly widely for both, today)

.22 long rifle

(still widely used today in carbines and revolvers, as well as down caliber’d variants or kits for ‘meaner’ looking semi-autos)

.22 WMR

(.22 lr, but magnum. big boy .22)

-center fire-

.223

(the 5.56 before the 5.56 was NATO standardized. very short summary: they basically just put more gunpowder in a .223, and called that 5.56x45. many in the US still use weapons that are made for .223… but you’re gonna want to upgrade your barrel to something that can handle the greater gun powder in 5.56 if you are not a fan of your gun exploding in your face when you fire it)

.38

(many variants of this exist, most notably the .38 ACP for semi autos, and the .38 special for revolvers)

.40, or ‘forty cal’

(early attempt at making something meaner than a 9x19mm, led by the FBI, less generally popular today, but was very popular with the FBI for a while)

.45 ACP

(the caliber of the iconic Colt 1911)

.300 blackout

(an ‘intermediary’ round that is between the NATO 5.56 and 7.62, often used with suppressed weapons)

.357 magnum

(very, very common revolver round. Sig Sauer actually at one point made a .357 sig for use in semi autos… don’t think anyone really uses those any more)

30-30, or ‘thirty thirty’

(lever action carbine round, been around for over 100 years, like the .357, probably not going away anytime soon, as the lever actions that shoot them have not only remained fairly popular, but also are currently having a bit of a rennaissance with many gun makers in more legally restrictive states offering ‘tactical’ lever actions with modern housing, collapsable stocks, optics mounts etc)

30.06, or ‘thirty ought six’

(basically, a 7.62 NATO that’s 12 mm longer, used to be standard in military springfield rifles, also used in the BAR, still used by many hunters today in some kind of rifle)

.338 Lapua Magnum

(specialized sniper rifle round… if you don’t count 50 BMG or even larger, anti-materiel rounds, the lapua has the longest recorded, confirmed sniper kill in history… though this may possibly now be incorrect as of the RussoUkraine conflict… point is, its a very capable sniper cartridge, good deal of wealthier US hunters and long range target shooting enthusiasts love it as well)

.410

(for some estoeric reason, this skinnier shotgun round is not referred to with the standard ‘gauge’ nomenclature)

.44 magnum

(dirty harry’s revolver caliber, which will take your head clean off, assuming you do not feel lucky)

45-70

(older, fuck off huge revolver / lever action round)

‘50 cal’

(can refer to either the .50 AE, famously used in the Desert Eagle, or the .50 BMG, used in the ‘Ma Deuce’ M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun, and the Barret M82 Anti Materiel Rifle)

…

I’ve almost certainly missed a good number, point being, us American gun nuts… and/or gun nerds… yeah we learned metric, but we still use inches/imperial all the damn time.

We really only call NATO standardized rounds by mm. 9mm, 5.56mm, 7.62mm… and I guess the 6.8 grendel, and newer 6.8x51mm round the Sig Spear / M7 uses… and also I guess we size grenade launcher rounds in mm, but uh, …civillians generally don’t get live grenade launcher rounds in the US.

We had to draw the line somewhere rofl, and apparently it is grenade launchers, hahahah.

WHY CANT I LOOK AWAY

The ancient Roman/Latin phrase for what OP describes is:

En In vino, veritas.

In wine, there is truth.

(thanks to antonim for the correction)

The phrase goes back even further to the Ancient Greeks, the exact same meaning in Greek ( en oino, aletheia ), but the Roman/Latin phrase is more well known.

People have known for literal multiple thousands of years that… people do not say stupid shit because they are drunk, the alcohol made them do it… people say stupid shit when they are drunk because they have these stupid thoughts and beliefs all the time, but are normally smart enough to not say them out loud.

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Chronic homelessness also causes drug addiction and severe mental illness, and even physical disability due to being mentally and physically traumatized every day, starving, lacking for water, being assaulted, being robbed, being harrassed / arrested for existing while homeless, being exposed to extreme heat and cold, wearing through your shoes and walking everywhere… etc etc.

(Look up the Grants Pass decision from last year. It is now literally illegal to exist in public while homeless, almost every state and city in the country has used that to justify cracking down on the homeless… it is now literally illegal to exist while homeless)

The vast majority of people who are, or at risk of becoming homeless… well the most common causes are losing a job and not being able to find a new one, having a sudden unexpected massive expense (rent getting jacked up, medical bills, etc), or fleeing domestic violence.

Source is me, I used to be a data analyst / db admin for a large network of homeless shelters.

You are 100% ass backwards wrong that the main problem is ‘drug addicts and the mentally ill become homeless.’

Yes, that is a significant chunk, but only about 15%.

The other 85% is fleeing domestic violence, getting kicked out or fleeing a bad home situation because you are as queer or trans or being abused by culty religious wackos, and then all the financial root causes.

They are the people who are infact temporarily down on their luck and just need a safety net.

Further, the proportion of this 85% who just needs a safety net and doesn’t need total rehabilitation?

It is growing. It is getting larger as the economy collapses.

Its just that the most visible and most problematic and most ‘newsworthy’ homeless tends to be in the ‘needs serious, long term, complex help’ category, so thats what people think it is.

You’d be amazed how many people and families live in their cars, or bounce around to a new motel every 3 weeks… while also working a or multiole jobs. If you just give them a few thousand bucks, chances are quite high that they’ll be able to escape the trap they’re stuck in on their own.

It is something like 10x to 20x more cost effective from a big picture standpoint, accounting for all org costs… to just give people emergency money to pay their missed rent for them than it is to house them in a shelter you operate.

… In summary, sure, yes, for some, the problem is significant mentall illness and/or drug addiction that necessitates a more hands on, intensive solution… but for the vast majority of homeless and at risk of becoming homeless, the most effective direct solution literally is ‘pay their rent and help them find a job untill they get back to stability.’

…

The actual most effective solution to homelessness is to build affordable housing by taxing the rich and upzoning or completely reworking economically wasteful districts (single family home neighborhoods), and also investing in public transit so that cars (which are massively unaffordable for the poor) are no longer a requirement for having a job or interacting with the rest of society.

Oh right, that and wiping out our private healthcare system and going universal, medical debt is the most common cause of bankruptcy in the US.

(The next two are losing a job and rent/mortgage hikes)

Personally, I am a fan of a progressive tax on rental rates that is legally mandated to be directly reinvested into:

Building new, non-profit, government agency run, affordable housing

&

Taking over existing buildings and converting them to the former

&

Maintianing such properties.

If idiot apartment developers and homes built to rent developers only want to build ‘luxury’ units and charge ‘luxury’ rates, if small time landlords want to rent out their second or third home, or airbnb it…

…tax the landlord directly via a continuous, not tiered, progressive metric anchored on area median income and area median rental rate, which climbs in severity the higher the rent rate is.

This causes pass through cost to the renter, but that’s the point. ‘Luxury’ units become even more expensive, the consumer/renter either balks at this at rents a more modest place, and then the landlords and developers learn to build more modest places or charge less… or the renters/consumers pay the stupid high rent, and directly fund affordable housing for those below area median income by doing so.

Its functionally similar to rent control in desired and actual effect, but with less downsides, and massive upsides.

Its also maybe actually politically possible to pull off in some American cities, unlike a wealth tax that would have to be done at the federal level, which is currently a clownshow of senile/corrupt/cult sycophant demons.

You can run FSR natively on many games now, but they don’t all support it in the same way, nor the same version, and it also varies by your hardware.

You can also hack FSR of various versions into various games via … well, the FrameGen addon on Decky, for the Steam deck, is really a collection of a whole bunch of other hacks/mods/implementations for other games, and you can run a lot of those independently on linux or windows … but there are a lot of variables when you get this specific.

They did in fact say that, and that is in fact nonsense, verifiable in many ways.

Perhaps they misspoke, perhaps they are misinformed but uh…

Yeah, it is fundamentally impossible to do what he actually described.

Intelligent temporal frame upscaling is getting better and better at producing a frame that is almost as high quality as a natively rendered frame, for less rendering time, ie, higher fps… but its never going to be ‘better’ quality than an actual native render.

No upscaling algo produces a ‘more accurate’ image than native rendering, that’s absolute nonsense.

It produces a (slightly to significantly) lower quality, but same res image (significantly to slightly) faster than native res, but never ‘better quality’.

The SNR of a native image is… 1, 100%, no loss.

The SNR of any upscaler is… some smaller number, there is always lost quality.

If you mean to say that intelligent temporal upscaling produces only slightly lower quality images a good deal faster than native, enabling a higher fps… than yes, I don’t think anyone disputes that…

But the cost and literal wattage powerdraw of cards capable of doing that, with modern high fidelity AAA games, at 4k… such GPUs are essentially as expensive on their own as a well cost-performance-optimized 1440p entire PC.

The whole point of this tech was originally marketed as being able to enable high quality, high speed gaming at 4k, by essentially branching the proverbial tech tree … and it hasn’t worked, the result still is that such GPUs are still massively expensive and only attainable for a tiny % of significantly wealthy people.

Eh… The latest versions of DLSS and FSR are getting much better image quality in stills…

But they also still are not as good image quality as actually rendering the same thing, natively, at full resolution, as was the quote you are disputing.

Further, the cards that can run these latest upscsling techs, to reach 4k60fps, 4k90fps, in very demanding games, without (fake) frame gen?

Its not as as bad with AMD, but they also don’t yet offer as high calibre a GPU as Nvidia’s top end stuff (though apparently 9080 XT rumors are starting to float around)…

But like, the pure wattage draw of a 5080 or 5090 is fucking insane. A 5090 draws up to 575 watts, on its own.

You can make a pretty high powered 1440p system if you use the stupendously high cpu performance per watt, high powered 9745hx or 9745hx3d cpu + mobo combos that minisforum makes… and the entire PSU for the entire system shouldn’t need to exceed 650 watts.

… A 5090 alone draws nearly as much power as basically the one resolution step down system.

This, to me, is completely absurd.

Whether or not you find the power draw difference between an ‘ultra 1440p’ build and an ‘ultra 4k’ build ridiculous… the price point difference between the those pcs and monitors is… somewhere between 2x and 3x as expensive, and hopefully we can agree that that in fact is ridiculous, and 4k, high fidelity gaming remains far out of the reach of the vast majority of pc gamers.

EDIT:

Also, the vast majority of your comment is comparing native + some AA algo to… rendering at 75% to 95% and then upscaling.

For starters, again the original comment was not talking about native + some AA, but just native.

Upscaling introduces artefacts and innacuracies, such as smudged textures, weird ghosting that resembles older, crappy motion blur techniques, loss of lod style detail for distsnt objects, sometimes gets confused between HUD elements and the 3d rendered scene and warps them together…

Just because intelligent temporal upscaling also produces what sort of look like, but isn’t actually AA… doesn’t mean it does not have these other costs of achieving this ‘AA’ in a relatively sloppy manner that also degrades other elements of the finished render.

Its a tradeoff between an end result at the same res that is worse, to some degree, but rendered faster, to some degree.

Again, the latest versions of intelligent upscalers are getting better at getting the quality closer to a native render while maintaining a higher fps…

But functionally what this is, is an overall ‘quality’ slider that is basically outside of or on top of all of a games other, actual quality settings.

It is a smudge factor bandaid that covers up poor optimization within games.

And that poor optimization is, in almost all cases… real time ray tracing/path tracing of some kind.

A huge chunk of what has driven and enabled the development of higher fidelity, high fame rate rendering in the last 10 or 15 years has been figuring out basically clever tricks and hacks in your game design, engine design, and rendering pipeline, that make it so realtime lighting is only used where it absolutely needs to be used, in a very optimized way.

Then, about 5 years ago, most AAA game devs/studios just stopped doing those optimizations and tricks, as a cost cutting measure in development… because ‘now the hardware can optimize automagically!’

No, it cannot, not unless you think all PC gamers have a $5,000 dollar rig.

A lot of this is tied to UE 5 being an increasingly popular, but also increasingly shit optimized engine.

Many… most?.. games that can do DLSS/FSR… also have TAA forced on by default. You can find out by digging through their config files and/or console commands, its often the case that basically half of the game’s graphical pipeline explodes or glitches out if you hack in and force it off.

Because the DLSS/FSR algos hook into the motion vectors that the game’s TAA give them.

TAA is very often the foundation layer that DLSS/FSR is built on top of.

A few games actually let you turn TAA off, but a good deal of them don’t, because they never bothered to set up a standalone motion vector pipeline that is seperate from the AA part of TAA.

It continues to amaze me that people don’t just generally know this.

DLSS/FSR are literally built off of TAA, and a lot of game devs are lazy, or are told by management to not bother, whichever.

1: How is talking about weird quirks of English vocabulary that differ regionally and among different groups of people… off topic?

2: Many people online pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of different pronounciations of the ‘o’… at least in part because there is much regional variation in the US as to how all vowels are pronounced in just all words.

Some pronounce it with the same sound as ‘low’, the long o. Other pronounce it as ‘lawl’, others pronounce it as ‘lahl’, the way uh… Data’s sort of android adopted daughter’s name is pronounced in TNG.

I have heard Brits, Aussies and Kiwis pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of vowel sound variations as well.

Pronouncing it the same as in ‘lolipop’ is a very common pronounciation, amongst many different regional English dialects.

Yep.

The contentious but somewhat agreed upon story of how this happened is roughly: US troops discover ‘fries’ in restaurants in Belgium, after WW1, but in an area of Belgium with mostly French speakers.

Americans appreciate alliteration, and don’t care so much for actual accuracy, so… ‘French Fries’.

Yes, ours are all limp.

… Are you aware that ‘loli’, pronounced the same as ‘lollie’… is art (usually drawn) that depicts sexualized or nude children, and … fans of, or viewers of loli… are called lolis?

I am reasonably confident this is widespread internet terminology across the entire English speaking internet at this point, but you being Australian and… possibly not being aware of this… makes me question that assumption somewhat.

That or perhaps you’re older than me?

… Uh, anyway, in America we have ‘fries’ or ‘french fries’, but seemingly every other English speaking country calls them ‘chips’.

Which is confusing to the hungry, overweight, American brain, because what we call chips, ya’ll tend to call ‘crisps’.

But at the same time, we can’t even agree on whether or not a sugary, carbonated beverage is called soda, pop, or just coke, used to refer to all soft drinks, not just coca cola.

Microplastics in your blood?

Pff. AMATEUR!

Serve me that shit on a platter, a la carte, bespoke cuisine!

Entirely seriously:

I once dated a person with diagnosed schizophrenia.

Obviously I cannot diagnose someone from their truck alone, but my first thought here is that this person is convinced their dog is being fucked with by their ‘handlers’ or ‘gang stalkers’, who have magic nonsense technology and tens of millions of dollars dedicated to fuck with him and his dog in particular, capable of using some kind of DEW to project thoughts and memories and voices into their had, beam cancer at their dog, etc.

… Or, that is my own CPTSD from having had a fairly longterm relationship with a schizophrenic talking.

__Surprised no one has mentioned this yet but uh, erhrm…

tugs collar nervously

Maybe not such a great idea there, OB Wan GYNobi…

EDIT: oh NO.

I just remembered the newer Obi Wan show exists and is unfortunately mainline canon now.

No, No NO!

I can pretty much solely thank my family dysfunction for all the tech skills I have.

Just shutup in my room, headphones on, listening to radiohead, doing school work, learning how all things computer work, seeking out various knowledge sets because learning is fun!

I’m in my 30s now, and it wasn’t untill a few years ago I finally realized that … that is not a normal or average childhood.

… But its also more common than a lot of other people from functional families seem to think.