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I am looking forward to the Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing. I'd love to compare the experience Apple is creating against existing AR/VR competitors. I think a lot of people still vastly underestimates the potential here due to the existing underwhelming experiences we've had going into the space.
This is what iPhones have done for a long time?

Edit: OK, not quite, thanks for the correction.
It is true. One of the things that stroke me the most when I first visited England is that, at least in Hove and Brighton and Eastbourne, all streets had houses, no flats at all.

This also made distances longer.

Written from a flat :)
I think there's something to say about how we tend to define an intelligent system as... able to work and satisfy an employer.

Not judging, this is actually my answer as well, but it's interesting. We could define AGI as "someone" (for lack of a better word) fun to talk to, or interesting on many subjects, or with a good personality, or we could use it to teach kids, or even all students, or as a shrink, or as a replacement for a friend. But we choose "able to please a boss" for this definition of "intelligent".
"Places that value that shit speed at any cost eventually go bust"

That has not been my experience...
I mean it's not just prices.

If my income and benefits had tracked with inflation and promotions I wouldn't mind.

But I got promoted and lost 20% of my purchasing power in real terms.
You mean like the constitution and two other laws prevented it?
I'm going with Apple Vision Pro, though technically maybe it should only count for 2024. Maybe I'll expand to say "the real beginning of consumer mixed reality", so I can kind of count the Quest 3 that launched a few weeks ago.

I was an early backer of the Oculus (backer ~200, if I remember correctly) and have been a big fan of VR since then. But it's had its challenges, and while it's a fun escape, for me it hasn't been ready for prime time and has been relegated to occasional workout Beat Sabers.

But I thought Apple nailed it with their AVP approach. Targeting MR _first_, with eye tracking and the pinch interaction seems like a smart approach to begin this new visual medium and UX. I think MR will be here to stay, as the tech miniaturizes and matures, and that the AVP will be looked back on as the Apple II of this tech universe. In the same way that my grandparents have sort of been left out of the "information economy" and the move to everything online - booking hotels and flights, interacting with customer support, banking, shopping, etc - I think people who don't have a MR headset will eventually be left out of the "ambient information economy". Stores will have prices virtually displayed over their goods, people will have profiles associated with them that you just see when you interact, etc.

I think a lot of people will see this as a dystopia, but my prediction is it will be coming. And I'm excited for it. Being able to "zoom in" at will, put screens and panels wherever I need them, redecorate my house, add hovering timers of my stove, have real-world ad-blocking, etc.

I'm pretty excited about being able to film my kids growing up with a spatial video camera (say, the iPhone 15 Pro), and then watch them in an AVP. I expect it will be a qualitative jump up in remembering and reminiscing, like going from paintings to black-and-white photographs, to color photos, to videos. Right now, the quality probably won't be great, but it's akin to watching those grainy '80s home video VHS clips you see from time to time.
Schengen allows for border crossings with no checkpoints just like US states. Which means the "different states have different laws" canard is no different than Europe. What's to stop someone from leaving Switzerland or Czechia with a firearm until they get caught?
I agree, it's great to see people rummaging through old game engines to find the "right medium to express their thought", the way one might rummage through a pile of art supplies.

The only thing I personally think is a shame, is that the structure of interactive experience inherently lends itself to collage — to a potential for different "scenes" made from entirely distinct "media" — but that it's prohibitively difficult currently to (seamlessly) weave together different game engines into one game art project; especially when some of those engines aren't open-source engines, but only exist in the form of old games that are usually turned into art through ROM-hacking.

An artist should be able to have me walk through a door in an RPG Maker game end up playing a Quake level! And then, upon killing a certain enemy, be suddenly in a bossfight in a SMW ROMhack! And then, upon succeeding or failing in the boss fight, I should be able to either end up in their custom Unreal-engine-coded finale, or back in the RPG Maker "space" from before! All without loading times or futzing with the display settings!

I've been working on a "solution" to this "problem of artistic collage" — a runtime that supports custom (i.e. zero-installed from the internet on demand by a game) sandboxed cores wrapped in realtime-per-frame in-memory-state import/export logic, where "a game" is actually a set of sub-game modules, with each module being expressed in terms of its own core, and having either a plain API call (for open engines) or a RetroAchievements-like memory-watch rule, to trigger state-transitions over to other modules.
> If you want a keyfob as a status symbol, it's $175. (Mine is a desk ornament, it doesn't get used.)

The keyfob is super-useful. It fits perfectly into that small jeans pocket (that was originally meant for watches), so you can trigger the trunk/frunk opening without taking the fob (or phone) out.
If I use a usb-c - usb-c cable on a PD charger nothing happens. When i use a “Dumb” usb-A to usb-c cable charging works.
Agreed. Our garages have always had three entries: one from the house, one via garage door, and a side door. Side door was always locked, garage door always closed (never locked though), and the door between house and garage not only almost never locked, but often flat out open because that's where we put the litter box.
Serious question: did you try pexels? for most of my stock photo needs they are okay (not great but okay), and all pictures are public domain and free of charge.
They don't have stock video tho. :(
> These shifts are occurring in an environment that has been stripped of many of the credibility signals that once helped users — blue ticks that indicated notability; fact-checks by the Twitter curation team, which was laid off last November; and labelling of deceptive content by the platform. ... Tracking the way these sudden reversals are affecting discourse on the platform can give us important insights into what could happen if others follow suit.

I’m disappointed that Nature has gotten into the business of dishonest hit pieces, but so be it. Blue checks were never a signal of credibility. When it comes to fact checks and labeling of deceptive content, Community Notes has done a much better job than the previous system, but isn’t even mentioned here.
And pi squared if it is a new team doing something new...
It's nuts. The sensor can dump 6GB/s of data!!!!

I can't wait for a digital back based on this tech - Phase One has an industrial body with a global sensor but it's dynamic range limited sadly.
That people do not understand very basic concepts is scary.

> The root of what’s going on here can feel obvious: blame inflation, which picked up in mid-2021 and throughout 2022. But that isn’t really the issue anymore, at least not at the current rate, because inflation is coming down. The actual problem here is prices.

Inflation going from 10% to 5% is "inflation is coming down" - but it means that prices are rising at 5% a year instead of 10% a year.

If you want prices to go down - the inflation number would have a negative sign infront of it. Then they would be writing about how scary deflationary spirals are.

The problem is inflation - and inflation like all returns compound year after year.
Everyone's different. I did IF for 6 months and lost to the point of being gaunt, so I had to stop. It seems to have changed my metabolism for the better, because now I can eat what I want (mostly pizza and ice cream) without gaining weight. Of course, I don't overeat, or I would gain weight.
The Effect of Hard Particle Wear on Diesel Injectors [pdf]
The U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database
People hate the short battery life, and all the high-powered parts of a premium phone (to the extent that they do take more power) are thus even worse suited to the small battery. Incidentally, I'm starting to want something with less battery; mine lasts over two days, so it seems like I should get something smaller. Problem is, from what I understand, iPhones still do slow charging in 2023.

Re:iPhone SE, the newest one was announced March 2022, a refresh from the 2020 predecessor, so I think you should consider them an active product line with slower refresh cycle fitting a lower-price device.
It sounds like you're not addicted to Wikipedia, you're addicted to imposing your particular point of view on everyone else, and all the messy Internet drama that results from that. Things don't go your way in a collaboration and so you "vandalize" other people's contributions, and then blame the platform that "addicted" you?

It sounds like if you joined any open source, open collaboration project, or volunteer organization, you'd be a huge pain to work with unless everyone agreed with you all the time.
This reads like a person who has walked past a couple of turns in the road from the starting point, and is looking back to describe the totality of a grand journey to the his naive uninitiated inferiors.

Kid, you're just at the beginning.
This.

SEO has become a real current day Paperclip Apocalypse, just through ads instead of paperclips. And to think we’ve barely introduced AI to it yet!
America pays more but has less of a safety net. I moved from Palo Alto to Stockholm and while I’m paid far less, everything else is cheaper or free. And I get twice the holiday. And I get a years paternity leave. And I don’t have to live in the Bay Area. So many perks, I’m happy to pay ~$80k for them!
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/lasd-statement-forthcoming-on-...

Do you think anyone is going to be held responsible for this?
OP means mentally/intellectually hard, not physically hard.
That probably incentivizes selling accounts to bot farms, usually in social media you give more weight to people who have stuck around longer rather than the accounts that have less activity and might be fake.
Do you have a link to the fact check?
Building My Own Firewall/Router, Part 1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02644-8 ("Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States")

https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IA3TUS
One of the best things about Youtube (and now TikTok) is the growing popularity of videos that reveal the shocking extent of police misconduct.

Thanks to camera phones we have all become outraged at the way may police treat black people, and I credit camera phones as the driving force behind the social movement now known as BLM.

But the creators on TikTok and YouTube who focus on police misconduct are going beyond BLM and focusing on the routine, institutionalized bullying of citizens of all ages, races, etc.

We should all be very outraged by this, and we should all rally to support these creators, BLM, etc.

This is what the internet was supposed to give us. Better transparency into government misconduct, and defense against oppression committed against citizens by government.
Like, young enough to still be enjoying things. Sure, I felt the same way for first decade. This is all fun.

But later.
Not old enough yet to have done 24x7 support for a few decades, sleepless nights, 80 hour weeks, working on Christmas Morning, to be ground down by angry and demanding users. ( no fault of their own because of their own turnover. ).

Lack of sleep and stress takes a toll on health. So 'age' becomes a factor, because the body gets ground down. Seems like the 'optimistic' takes remind me of just starting out.

But, it is probably more of which industry you are in. Results vary.
Yes! I've noticed this too. If I have a carb heavy meal at dinner, I'm much more hungry the next day than less carb heavy meal.
Same. Pixel 5a will be my primary until it's unusable. It's the most perfect phone there is right now, and I've tried a lot of them.

Rear fingerprint sensor is amazing, especially with the case. I don't even have to think about it because my finger naturally lands there and it unlocks quickly and accurately while I'm lifting the phone. The in-screen fingerprint sensors are a giant pain in the ass that I have to think about and work for.

The camera notch is in the perfect spot all the way to the left so it doesn't interrupt the top bar. It has a headphone jack. The camera is pretty good and the phone size is good.

It would very much so be a downgrade for me to move to a newer phone.
Fascinating - thank you!!
How do you feel about science? How is science different than Wikipedia? The scientific method is just a method for taking down hegemonic statuses quo, and honestly, doesn't seem that different from how Wikipedia works.
Instruction set specs are not a strategic technological advance that can be weaponized. They just say what a chip should do. They don't help you make one that's more sophisticated than a basic unoptimized microcontroller, and "basic unoptimized microcontroller" is something you can get random college graduates to do.
Tesla workers don't want to strike so other workers are blocking them from work. That should be illegal.
Which is why solidarity strikes have been illegal in the US since 1947's Taft-Hartley Act.
> At the end of the day, OpenAI is just an API, so it's not an incredibly difficult piece of infrastructure to have a back up for.

The API is easy to reproduce, the functionality of the engines behind it less so.

Yes, you can compatibly implement the APIs presented by OpenAI woth open source models hosted elsewhere (including some from OpenAI). And for some applications that can produce tolerable results. But LLMs (and multimodal toolchains centered on an LLM) haven't been commoditized to the point of being easy and mostly functionally-acceptable substitutes to the degree that, say, RDBMS engines are.
https://discord.com/invite/eu9B2Jv - Quake for newbies

https://discord.gg/EyPV44hpPz - Quake 1 community
The processor is faster when compared to a 2017 phone and the camera is much better when comparing images side by side. I wouldn’t have noticed but I put a Motorola Android 2017 next to a iPhone SE 2020 and it became very noticeable.
You have a very incorrect build of what modern American construction is like. Yes it is mostly timer-framed, but we have fire codes which means walls are not as thin as you seem to think. Sure if you look at an apartment built in 1950 your summary is valid, but that isn't done anymore.

5 over 1 refers to section 1 and section 5 of the building code and not the number of floors built for each. It is coincidence that with section 5, five floors is about the max you can have - but that is an about (sometimes 4 is all, sometimes you can get 6 - see a proper civil engineer for details). Section 1 is a lot more expensive to build, but it is also higher strength (and other features that make is useful for a parking garage)
We are living in a global society that has been structured around the singular principle of individual enrichment, and have been for about 230 years, depending on where you live. The answer to almost all modern mysteries of human behavior will lie in that incentive structure one way or another.

Why do people steal of defraud? The potential individual enrichment is higher. Why engage in corrupt short-termerisms like accepting bribes? individual enrichment.

This is all the result of "greed is good" ^1 and its not sustainable.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/greed-i...
'She wouldn't be here': woman says Apple Watch saved her life
CAR-T and PTCy (posttransplant cyclophosphamide) treatments for cancer have huge potentials for treatment options and positive outcomes for patients. Unsure if is qualifies as "tech" but hey, it sure required a lot of it.
Yeah most phone sensors have high enough readout speeds that this is the best way to handle shutter lag and also computational photography needs. To my the best of my knowledge though, all cellphones still use rolling shutters, just fast ones. This is a single freeze frame capture, all at once, 120 times per second.
I have one of these garage door openers, and their MyQ software is absolute garbage. I set up Home Assistant specifically to avoid it and now they've gone out of their way to break that.

I' absolutely pissed - I just called the folks who installed my garage door and explained the situation to them, and recommended that they look for a different brand for anyone that wants wi-fi access in the future.
Whoa, this is unsurprising, but surprising/unfortunate.

I'd love to read a tutorial of how mapping every business process is done in practice. Do you have any pointers?
Teams definitely refine and alter estimates as new knowledge of the problem space is discovered. It’s a management (and team) failure if this does occur.

Also, on the negotiation side of time it will take, I absolutely know for myself that I can code things fast and functional but a bit hacky, or beautiful and elegant and will take much longer.

The negotiation should be about when to do which.

At a higher level, you put your teams together within their temperaments in mind and match that to the work.

Some code will be a nexus of changes and interaction with other code (invest early), and some code will get written once and never seen again (go fast and forget).
Right, I think I misunderstood what you were saying earlier.
I think GTK+4 is to be the end game of "mobile ready". But I am a raw wayland/x11 user, cannot know.
This is where I've landed too. No need to give up the capabilities of a smart phone; some of them are legitimately very useful at times (maps, driving directions, being able to look up business hours or a phone number while on-the-go, authentication stuff). I just stopped using it to browse the web for entertainment. Having a very limited data plan, like 500 MB, helps with that and saves money. In his book Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport advises adding friction like uninstalling apps, not remaining logged in to websites, etc.
I always find it deeply hilarious when people online expand on their definition of "diversity of thought." Mostly because it always means more of exactly one single type of "thought".
Can't disagree with that. But it is amazing the kinds of things that go on in large corporations.
I guess this might be true if all goods are commodities but if you look at the details pretty much all goods aren't. If you make a pair of shoes that lasts twice as long and looks twice as good, you can charge twice the price and people will happily buy it and that's a good thing.
I think parent comment was saying the door exists, but many people leave it unlocked. I grew up leaving that garage-interior door open because that's where we put the litter box, at several different houses.
It is a ton more when the parent states how much cheaper and easier they are to manufacture. 100x fewer parts and yet they cost more? How does that make sense.
Two AIs have negotiated a contract for the first time – with no human involved
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"O no, the mail fell behind the shelf and we couldn't find it, we'll try again tomorrow and hopefully it doesn't fall behind the shelf again"

The benefit of a union, is nobody will say otherwise ;)
I think they meant the search bar at the bottom
I agree. At one point pixel art or lowpoly 3D was the best you could do. Now it's an aesthetic choice. I'm actually using raycasting (ala wolfenstein 3D/rise of the triad) for a hobby project because I think there's still interesting things you can do in it that haven't been explored.
I used to think like this, but after getting a wife and kids, there’s just no way a corporate job can be continually rewarding like you describe.

Everything is always mired in unpleasant bullshit and emotionally detaching like the above poster suggests is the most pragmatic way to handle work.

I’ve lost all desire of proving myself and working on interesting problems, because at the end of the day, I’d just rather spend time with my family and do fun personal projects. Work is work and it will be never live up to an idealized concept that you have in your head.
Reading this thread reminded me to check my Pixel 5 (primary phone, purchased new just over 3 years ago) for updates. And to my surprise, there was a Android Security Update available which, now that it has been downloaded and installed, is dated Nov 5, 2023! Maybe that'll be the last one this phone gets, but maybe not.

Anyway, I'm perfectly happy with my Pixel 5 (aside from slightly declining battery performance, it's "as good as new"); I even bought a "excellent" refurb'd Pixel 5 9 months ago to use on a second/backup line (I was also thinking to use one or both for anticipated trade-in's on Pixel 8's, but with nominal updates all in the rearview mirror, Google's trade-in value has declined to negligible, so I plan to just keep using the 5's; the cost of the 8 vs it's value add was not compelling). 8GB RAM and 128GB of local storage is plenty for my needs, and I certainly don't want a bigger phone!
I'm not trying to argue that most people upgrade yearly. I don't have any knowledge or opinion about that. I'm also not saying people only buy iphones for status. I have one myself, for pragmatic reasons. I'm just pointing out that a majority of people owning a particular brand doesn't mean people can't signal status with that brand. They can still do it by owning particular models. You see this all the time with cars. The a new high-end Lexus conveys status even though you see a lot of old beat up Lexuses being driven around by poorer people. The subtle design changes of iphones from year to year, I would argue, are meant to provide that same effect.
Exercise routines are difficult to establish like starting/replacing any new habit. The best advice I’ve seen—and it worked for me-is to tie one activity to the next and stick with it. All it takes is to at least show up and do something for a few weeks to set the routine. For many people, waking up and then exercising is the easiest way to get exercise into their day. Good luck and enjoy the journey.
SE has become (for a while now) the Platonic Form for RTFM.

It doesn't matter how much effort one puts into researching and troubleshooting (including reading many F (man)uals and forums) before asking, nor does it matter how much detail you provide to show how X (which is supposed to do Y, and does on many machines), does Z on yours for some reason, and, BTW, here's my logs and output for foo[1-5], all you get is "asked and answered RTFM, n00b."
> For example, they have made the case for textualism so strongly that even liberal judges feel the need to fight on that turf.

The "so strongly" part comes solely from what Justice White's Roe v. Wade dissent grumbled was simply "raw judicial power."