Caracas288

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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Somewhere, the locomotove nomads travel the wastes of North America in their reinforced rail cars. They never speak to one another, but sometimes you can glimpse the deisel smoke of a distant train on the horizon at sunset…
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
This is how most consumer vr used to be before the (oculus) quest, and it worked fine. The data path was massive with base stations etc. A lot of people did get motion sick, but its probably more to do with framerate, one would have thought
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
The previous argument was wrong and imprecise, as it could be used against any modern technology, none of which can be fully understood by a user, in the sense that any vulnerability would be completely invisible. It’s clear they have made
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Yes, make the battery 2x bigger and include the compute in that. It would be so cool to be able to plug in arbitrary input devices too, like a dvd player, but its understandable that others don’t feel this way, and it would totally not be a
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Those datacentres would be in the same position of trust as a VPN provider in that the data must be unencrypted at points in the process. They could be making it very safe, and the things apple says they are doing would make it as safe as
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
The critical mass of people who don’t use critical thinking as their main means of decision-making.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Of course, but it’s interesting to see how they apply that marketing mold to security devices, by making up use-cases which nobody is buying them for. It contrasts with the crash detection and health stuff where realistic scenarios are show
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
This is an interesting subject; would you recommend any other books? For someone with very little knowledge of things like this.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Some might say the information here is even more padded and puffed than in a traditional presentation.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
And talking for exactly 10 seconds while the ai generates to maintain the semblance of a live demo.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
It seems very disturbing in the current environment somehow, like nothing bad ever happens in Apple world, when in reality many things are falling apart. For example the part about cameras, where they seem to advertise them not as security
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Maybe so It’s interesting to think about the ‘best’ way to organise a society; its enticing to think that society could be contained in a single encompassing structure, but such a structure is impossible. Human-implemented anarchism might b
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
The idea is it wouldn’t work on trust, each element would be bounded by forces other than a single structure; getting to the state in which self-regulation is possible is the difficult, or maybe impossible, part. When in the regulated state
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Someone creating a more intuitive, graph-based UI for rules would be good, otherwise it’s easy to get lost in the overlapping mess, like you have to run the ‘bank email’ rule run before the ‘promotion’ rule, but after the ‘important’ rule.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Altman’s orb is as terrifying as it is because businesses might see it as a solution to a real problem—a problem he helped to create.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
That’s probably the sensible route… No use being idealistic about these things, public companies aren’t known for their sentimentality after all :)
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Is there an actual reason for it, apart from Apple hurrying devs along? For the consumer, the benefits of backwards compatibility are obvious, but it’s sad that companies don’t see it as a selling point. Well, we wouldn’t want anyone using
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
they often have a magnesium bottom shell
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
The trouble with our age is that, despite the abundance of intermediate-level information, expert teachers in specific, and shrinking, professions are as hard as ever to access, if not more so.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
mephi
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
TextWrangler!
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
That’s an excellent idea, single-purpose devices with lots of capability within their domain are ideal. If it were to manifest as a commercial product it might unfortunately just become an app on a souped-up e-reader. But maybe that wouldn’
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
What if each country had a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to compensating those who have made creative works. It would be controlled by a federation of libraries or a central library, The ‘creative goods’ would be made available to the ent
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
It’s dissapointing that the only significant obstacle standing in the way of this ‘privatisation’ was Elon Musk’s personal vendetta, when it affects the entire world’s future. Big money.
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
No, I didn’t say police should ignore violence, I actually said that existing laws would be sufficient. I was referring to governments ‘ignoring’, i.e. not further restricting rights to protest, not the police ignoring protests. To address
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
I’m assuming here the government isn’t inherently altruistic, and that citizens have to fight for their rights rather than simply be handed them. My question is, what is the reason that more restrictions on protest are being brought in now
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
More often than not, constraints refine and focus a project, rather than restricting it. It’s best to start work with as few variables as possible, and only add new ones when absolutely necessary; You make a lot more progress that way. For
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by Caracas288 4mo ago
Regarding the broader picture, it’s interesting that despite the ineffectiveness of even major protests over the past decades—Iraq being the prime example—governments are introducing more obstacles to disincentivise them. From the perspecti