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Of course it is, we have things like Social Security. Totally 100% attributable to companies.
Fosdem (europen open source)

Everything from the ccc (german hacker org): every year they have a congress called <number>c3 (we are at 38: 38c3; Every 4 year the ccc camp.

Strangloops

Defcon

Edit:

Kubecon (if you do k8s)
I'm on Firefox 123.0.1 on Linux 6.6.19 using Nvidia driver version 550.54.14 and it's working without issues for me.

The later levels are really tough!
Yeah, the last thing I want is the scurge of Apple, Meta, or any other big tech parasite directly on my face.

They are soulless, passionless, sterile companies with only the goal of market dominance and investor growth. VR is never going to flourish here though I'm sure that won't stop the iSheep lapping it up and buying what marketing tells them to, like the Apple watch.
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I don't have any inside knowledge, but I believe it was a mix of wanting to simplify things for users, and to keep users within their system.

I suspect that the rise of imgur as it's own community was seen as a threat, or at least competition, and the question "why are we basically helping our competitors" was asked at least once.
So how do they know it was me who sent the money and not some McDonalds money launderer ?
We fund opposition groups and overthrow entire governments for our benefit. It's no secret.
I'm remote. There are a few of us around, but no community to speak of.

I've tried to build a local network, but haven't had much success yet.
Kind of like how we lament China banning Facebook and X (fka Twitter) and talk about how shameful it is to suppress free speech in the PRC but then simultaneously want to ban TikTok in the US.
Maybe.

Drones are small and hard to detect/target if they fly low. Radar systems have problems when there is a reflector (ground/water) behind the target (hence the term "below the radar").

Also, lasers have problems with certain atmospheric conditions such as rain or fog.
Racing sims are the killer app, because depth perception really helps with sense of speed, and tight corners on a monitor are often outside the field of view and you can't just turn your head to look at them.

Even then, it's not something I can do indefinitely. I've played GT7 on a friend's PSVR2, and sometimes elevation changes in particular tend to mess up the brain for a moment. It's somewhat disconcerting. Also, as someone who wears glasses, there's just no way to make the headset fit entirely correctly, and it tends to slip over time and the view becomes blurry.

Outside of that... control schemes are the major issue for me. You can't just blindly walk around in your room without falling over things, so movement is highly unnatural in VR unless you're in a cockpit. And the various attempts at making the player manipulate something with those hand controllers are just embarrassingly bad. I think this is one of the reason why so many VR games feel like toys you play with once before discarding them as a failed experiment.

The only other killer app are pinball simulations. It's surprising how much depth perception can make it so much clearer what the ball is doing, and the downsides of VR don't matter because you're stationary and only need two buttons.

I like racing sims, so I was interested in VR in the early days, but after experiencing it, I decided for now that I just don't want the associated hassle.
Netherlands is top in Europe overall. Most Berlin people are migrating to Amsterdam.
Yeah it's wildly, embarrassingly bad - to such a point it feels like Zuck must not be using it. Maybe most of his attention is on the AI stuff and the Ray Bans?

There's a ton of half-baked old ideas in the UI, it's extremely confusing. Even basic stuff like trying to add my dad as a friend is super hard to do.

Literally every person I've helped set it up has also had to do a full manual restore (holding down hardware buttons to reset from a boot menu) because they app fails to connect during initial setup or there's some bug with adding payment.

Someone really needs to go into that team and rip lots of stuff out.

Their touch controllers and basic UI navigation are good though.
> the whole idea of disconnecting my main sense - the eyes - from my surroundings is so strange to me that it seems irreconcilable.

to me, this is the entire point of VR. you want to virtually see something other than what your eyes can see in reality. a situation where you want to be fully immersed into this other space. i totally buy into that.

the confusion of use to me is the AR aspect of it. that's where the limitations take center stage. the limited FOV can't be ignored in AR. my brain buys into the suspension of disbelief for VR, but for AR my brain knows it's my real world, just limited.
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Currently the only thing that is stopping me from an insta-buy is that the export quality seems to be pretty low poly, even when the detail slider is all the way to 1.

Of course my trial version is nowhere near there, but watching several videos it appears that even the highest settings still are far from a proper high-poly export.

Since I work with 3D prints, that is a blocking issue for me, BUT the videos are all several months old.

Anyone with a more recent experience with Plasticity has something fresher information about that?
I said that our preferences was for meat, hence "facultative carnivore". Just like dogs really, and incidentally dog owners who feed their dogs 100% meat will tell you how much healthier they are.
You can bet that the franchise fees won't be pro-rated. That explains all of this.
So the fact that some professors changed their names to publish silly time-travel fiction where they just so happen to meet a historical figure means its real? Color me beyond skeptical of this articles basis, and even its title.
I have yet to see an LLM write a novel on its volition.
In the video they use a seasoning that looks like it is more than salt (maybe salt + black pepper?). Maybe combine a big mac patty with that seasoning and you might get close to the original Quarter pounder?

That is a really good question for which the answer has so far eluded me. The texture I have pretty much nailed by adding salt into the ground beef instead of seasoning from the outside, which makes it denser, more meatloaf-like, pretty much like freezing them would.

And the warming bin effect can be faked by wrapping it in grease paper and microwaving them for ten, fifteen seconds.

Thanks for the link to the channel! I'll give some of the other videos a watch. I'm pretty sure though that German burgers have never used preservatives or fillers — the former would not have been legal and the latter because they were always steadfast that the patties were 100% plain German beef.

And the taste test with everything else removed is a good idea, too! I'll give that a shot.

Man, now I really want to make another batch. Maybe together with the beef tallow fried fries I have always wanted to try...
IAM is complicated but it doesn’t have to be, as long as you keep things organized.

- Use AWS Organizations to organize your teams into Organizational Units

- use SCP to limit permissions of the OUs.

- let the OUs create new aws accounts for every project/workload

- now you have permissions and costs organized per project/workload

Don’t be afraid to create many AWS accounts, this is encouraged and considered best practice.
You’re being disingenuous. Just call them hypocrites, it’s okay. You don’t have to pretend you’re a libertarian to make that argument.
I'm very much torn between Plasticity and MoI for my next sculpting project. I've always used Blender but for some stuff I'm finding myself in need of some proper NURBS tool. I've spent a few hours on Plasticity, I'll do the same with MOI and see how it goes! :)
In the near future, large battleships will become known as "high value targets".
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fair points... but I feel like that it is problems that needs to be solved. Emulators and VMs do fix some of those.
That's just realpolitik. The fact of the matter is that we have recognized that a substantial part of a nations war capability comes from their unity and willingness to prosecute a war. Naturally with the Advent of the Internet and mass communication the weapons to begin to wage war on a populations resolve and unity without kinetic action came into being and are now a battlefront.

The TL;DR is that hearts and minds are the new battlefield and technology is the weapons.
Glad you find it helpful! Still a lot of polish to do and I'll happily merge pull requests.
Thankfully this is not about the French hip hop band.
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> But also, in this be situation there isn't much positive to be said about the game. Everything about it is badly done.

Interestingly, this appears to be completely intentional; the 2023 puzzles have the same problems.
Yeah, sorry. Theory of mind failure on my part. Not everybody has my list of acronyms in their head, apparently.
IMO it doesn't make sense to be angry at the other country that's trying to influence your country's politics, since everyone does that, but it makes sense to be angry at (and electorally punish) the politicians who become the tools which the other country uses to influence politics.
The CEO was caught cheating in a Chess tournament.
The demise of coding is greatly exaggerated
> 99% of people who recommend or use Postgres barely know how to use it.

You're not wrong here, although you could just as easily say "99% of people who recommend $DB barely know how to use it."

Databases remain a mysterious black box to entirely too many people, despite the three largest (SQLite, Postgres, MySQL) being open source, and having extensive documentation.

I've come to the conclusion that most devs don't care about infra in the slightest, and view a DB as a place to stick data. When it stops working like they want, they shrug and upsize the instance. This is infuriating to me, because it's the equivalent of me pushing a PR to implement bogosort, and when told that it's suboptimal, dismissing the criticism and arguing that infra just needs to allocate more cores.
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> Loss of people who do creative (graphic) work will have detrimental effect.

The society will benefit. At least 80% of graphic artists, marketers do zero sum work without greater value. Replacing them with AI just saves money.

Maybe those remaining 20% who produce something valuable get a raise.
Chat GPT prompt response? in the start of the second text block.
I visited in 2018, not to build any parts but just to see the sprawling markets. I had no idea about the original guide then -- very neat to learn about it and see that it has a successor!
I am curious: What is Julia's current niche?

I mean, I tried it a few times a decade ago, but the environment was not mature, and performance improvements were not in the places I needed. Though, I guess, things moved from there.

Python has the richest environment for data science. For statistics, there are some tools in R, such as the stunning ggplot2.

For numerics-heavy arrays, we have PyTorch.

For custom low-level numerics, Rust rocks.
you just described the first iPod, iPhone, and iPad. they were right about them. you could see where they would assume the magic would happen again just from hubris.
Bill can sue the shit out of FB for pushing Fakes.
I must be the only person who honestly doesn't care a whole lot. At the end of the day, good programming comes from good design. If you think about what's going on and the interfaces it ought to have, then the style of the implementation is not super important. In fact, insofar as different teams / groups may be quicker at one style than another, it would be better to just go along with it.
Could we summarize that spreadsheets are one of the best practical representations (UX/UI wise) and integration tech for databases? From the technological architecture point of view, don't we should separate Spreadsheets = UX/UI + DAG (directed acyclic graph) + Database + Integrations ?
Kind of agree. I think, though, trying to shoe-horn intelligence into some evolutionary concepts is tricky because it is easy stack hypotheses there.
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In terms of straight VR I'm completely with you. As someone who doesn't game they hold no attraction.

The disconnection is also my big issue with VR.

However, as an AR platform, whether it's pass-through or some future passive system, I can see a time when I might get one. I can imagine a significantly better version of the VisionPro that replaces my laptop as my "big" computing device.

I think the form factor is the feature. In the same way that my tablet doesn't do anything my laptop can't do, but it's form factor makes it useable in different scenarios. I know people who exclusively use iPad Pros as their all-purpose "big" computing device, never touching a laptop.

Before it becomes widespread I can see it being adopted in specialist situations, many of the same things that the Microsoft AR hardware was never good enough for. Hololens was amazing to experience, but no where near amazing enough to actually be that useful. Passthrough AR like the VisionPro might actually manage it.

I don't think it will become something everyone has, but it will fill a slot in the mix of technology for some people, along with smart-watches, phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Each appeals to different people.

Now, whether the technology ever quite gets there is the big question for me. I think a lot has to improve in the hardware if they can ever make it something I would want to use on a daily basis.
Boeing has about 150,000 employees (from the 2022 company report). US workforce is 23% women.

What if one of the 3465 males had its job at risk because of Barnett?

150,000 * (1-23%) * 3% = 3465
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I think there will always be some real meat production, unless the ethical consensus shifts so much that it is banned.
If the FCC had the power to mandate this and they exercised the power its power would likely be curtailed or Internet access would disappear completely, at least temporarily, in certain parts of the US. Infrastructure costs money that companies expect to recoup on a certain schedule (ROI) despite the technology being around for years.

Having said this I wouldn't mind at all having a big fat pipe Internet for next to nothing just like everyone else. I was excited to hear about Google's plans to lay fiber "everywhere." More than a decade later, I'm still waiting in my excited state.
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Even the most idealistic can change their tune as soon as they begin to be negatively affected. A good example might be Oregon completely walking back their drug legalization or San Francisco drug testing for welfare.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/oregons-drug-decriminalization-law...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/drug-test-we...
Agreed, I've had my Vision Pro for a month, and I still use it to watch shows/movies and as my portable external display. It has its daily and weekly use cases
Not sure I would call this a "stick" form factor, it looks quite chunky and I would be afraid of it resting on the HDMI plug.

Although it doesn't even look like it has an HDMI male plug on it. So it would hang off a cable?

I think of the Atom sticks if someone said stick PC.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Windows-Professional-x5-Z8...
Migrated away when they removed the free tier, ended up using https://neon.tech/
Great timing, I was planning to try qdrant tonight for my RAG project. The new Datetime feature will be particularly helpful
Why not? The device has a very similar form factor and the use case is the same, except they’re missing the partnerships with Netflix and YouTube. The Walkman was also an incredibly popular device for years. Not to undersell the iPod, either, but I think the innovation was as much in the distribution channel (iTunes) as the product design.
The first is a joke from Tropic Thunder, the second isn't true, but the third is accurate.
That’s one way, but they would have had to have used multiple solutions depending on the browser.
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I think the killer app will be online meetings. Online socializing really.

I work fully remote and Zoom/Meet works fine for meetings. But I kinda dread things like team happy hour and find you have to keep them structured like a meeting to work with group video calls.

Visuals aren't even the key factor here. It's audio. I find the obstacle to casual socializing is not being able to directionally focus audio so overlapping conversations are possible.
Looks like they measure usability of features: the more often a feature is used, the more useful it is. Coincidentally the more they nag the user about a feature, the more often the feature is used, i.e. the feature becomes more useful. Welcome to attention economy.
Yay! Hopefully that means I can tell Siri to list my Audible books, then tell it to play one. No need to deal with Audible's amazingly sluggish UI with VoiceOver. More seriously, I can't wait to see what the accessibility folks can do with gen AI. They were the first to use image classification AI to describe images, and they're super great at it!
It's really cool! I hope to see some products come out soon.
A lot of the benefits I see people proposing for blockchain systems - things like "an immutable log of real estate ownership that no-one can ever tamper with" - look to me like they would be better handled by the certificate transparency log mechanism rather than by a proof-of-work/proof-of-stake blockchain.
This is quite common trope here among young generation, feeling left out of property ownership like its some basic human right guaranteed by UN charter. Like previous generations were not left out of same/other stuff as well. That the post you respond to is not flagged tells you quite something... Too often these folks have outright communist mindset to set the world as it suits their current needs, which to somebody like me being raised in pretty hard oppression and practically slavery from russians is a proper insult.

There are whole highly developed countries (higher than US for example in terms of personal freedom, ie Switzerland) who simply don't have home ownership as something usual and folks focus on actual quality aspects of living. Populations are consistently among the happiest (and healthiest) in the world.

Correlation != causation but maybe not joining property rat race (which was always the case, just tools were few and apart for most) has some significant benefits. And if its just about safe investing then we moved topic completely elsewhere, back to good ol' universal greed.
Just connect the pipes.
The insurance file is still encrypted.

There are still lots of angry articles about how it will PUT LIVES AT RISK if it is unencrypted.

The powers that be appear to be walking a tightrope between not exposing their own assets and trying to make an example out of people who expose war crimes while trying not to put lives at risk.
I'm not really disputing your broader point, but this:

> Porn is what got VHS to succeed over Beta.

Is just not true. For one, porn absolutely existed on Beta. But more broadly, by the time the content available on each format mattered, VHS had already won the format war.

That's because both Beta and VHS were primarily developed and marketed as a way to record TV to watch later. Tapes were way too expensive to make selling pre-recorded tapes viable when both systems launched. Pre-recorded tapes eventually did become popular, especially in the rental market. But that only happened well after VHS clearly won the format war, mostly due to VHS's longer recording time.

For more details, Technology Connections has a long rant about this misconception in this video: https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs?si=X-FYCRAzowXOdqBb&t=931
Not really it's just a cost of doing business and if paying that cost "legitimizes" you then the ROI is probably significant.
Why do you presume that people commonly use it for non-trivial things? It excels at trivial things. That's what most people use it for, probably. Like google search. Is there something that leads you to think otherwise?
I have deep respect for Python and like working in it, but Python's standard library has only one of the attributes listed on the comment you're responding to. The Go standard library is different in a variety of ways from Python's standard library, and, to the original commenter's point, it is far more common to replace portions of the Python standard library with third-party packages than it is with Go's standard library.
Amazing!

Their citations are going to go through the roof!
Sure seems likely! Definitely not natural flow to start a section lol
Yeah, I have a similar-ish project that I should see about about adding these images to.[1] Will have to see if they have a nice API.

1. https://botsin.space/@ExhibitExplorer
I’m much more afraid of getting hit by a car than a cyclist because I understand basic physics.
I think even at $100 the AVP is hard to justify for most people. It’s a solution in search of a problem (which I feel is generally the case for all VR tech).

Overall though I think the issue is common across consumer tech. The space is extremely saturated. People have so little time left it’s crazy. Devices monopolize people’s attention. I wonder if we’ll figure out a way to move past this, as a species, and get back to more meaningful interactions.
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I trained an AI model with plants... 10 models so far and growing. A good baseline for a future exterior design service
You aren’t wrong in general, but as another MPLS local I will say that driving culture remains strong here, so picking a fight with Uber/Lyft isn’t going to hurt the average person here as much as it might elsewhere. It remains rare to not have a car here.
no other language has even attempted to compete with PHP

PHP has been very good at reinventing itself and being its own biggest competitor. Zend outcompeted PHP3, PHP5 outcompeted PHP4, PHP7 outcompeted PHP5 and so on. Compare a site written in modern idiomatic PHP8 using something like Laravel to a site written in classic PHP3 and they might as well be two different languages.