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by Miraste 2y ago
Nadella has such practiced corporate-speak it's impressive. I went to a two-hour talk and Q&A he did, and he didn't communicate a single piece of real information over the whole session. It was entirely HR filler language, the
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by Miraste 3y ago
The open models have varying levels of censorship (Llama 2 Chat would make Oliver Cromwell say "too far"), but it doesn't really matter because the retraining it takes to fix them is within the capabilities of single hobbyist
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by Miraste 3y ago
Laws banning products is the exact opposite of the invisible hand.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I know, but the other two sensors are for color temperature and light level. There's no reason they couldn't be in the bezel or the bottom of the display, and they don't need that massive chunk just to mount a camera. Before
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't believe those are the only options. Why is the notch so big ? If they kept the webcam the same size and made it a hole punch in the display, instead of surrounding it with a giant blob that still can't do Face ID, it woul
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by Miraste 3y ago
That's only a battery pack. All the electronics are in the headset.
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by Miraste 3y ago
People saying the Quest 3 and the Vision Pro both support AR reminds me of the feature comparison checklists back in the day between iPhones and Windows Mobile. Yeah, they both have a "browser." They both have "apps." Tu
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by Miraste 3y ago
This could mean anything from a limit on physical thickness to not supporting something like prism correction. It'd be nice if they were more specific. There are already some good VR headset prescription lens makers I'm sure are g
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by Miraste 3y ago
Among other issues, that paper is about VR headsets that use 60GHz antennas, which are much higher energy than normal radios. The Vision Pro doesn't have one and the technology has been more or less phased out.
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by Miraste 3y ago
People use "screen door effect" and "overly low resolution" interchangeably even though they aren't the same thing. The screen door effect--visible gaps between pixels--in the Quest 3 is minimal, but the resolution
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by Miraste 3y ago
Sure they do. At this rate the planes will stop working well enough to take off, eliminating accidents forever.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I haven't trusted Alaska since the Flight 261 crash, where they failed to do basic maintenance for so long that the screw threads in the stabilizer system wore away and locked the plane in the "straight down" orientation. And
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by Miraste 3y ago
I absolutely agree. I meant it as a comparison to issues like the infamous MCAS, which was wrong on purpose on all 737 Max 8s everywhere. There isn't a change in outcome between the flaws, but I think the difference between a mistake a
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by Miraste 3y ago
Two of those are manufacturing mistakes, and it seems likely the door one is as well. Not that that helps the passengers, but they're not systemic design flaws. That anti-icing system is deranged, though. They effectively installed a t
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by Miraste 3y ago
Twitter is the only one that became embedded in corridors of power around the world. Even if it has less misinformation and ragebait than the others (which I doubt), it does more damage because of the people engaging with it.
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by Miraste 3y ago
I'm a New Yorker subscriber. The existence of this editorial and the fact someone there thought it was fit to publish is exactly why I'm so glad Twitter is slowly failing. I hope journalists break their addictions soon. Twitter wa
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by Miraste 3y ago
No, they don't. But they did create the VA site: https://www.usds.gov/projects/va-dot-gov And they're involved with the Department of Education, although I couldn't find out exactly what they built.
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by Miraste 3y ago
GOV.UK is dramatically more competent than USDS, are they not? I admit I'm not terribly familiar, but I wouldn't want to depend on the agency behind the Department of Education and VA websites for anything. I've seen the VA s
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by Miraste 3y ago
Right, why on Earth would anyone call making up new definitions of "seats left" and "lowest fare," changing the price based on purposely hidden variables and not admitting it, and tricking users into believing extra fees
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by Miraste 3y ago
She seems to have deleted her LinkedIn in the past half hour. Interesting. Edit: Just had to be logged in to see it :/
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by Miraste 3y ago
OpenAI suspending subscriptions is especially suspect because they've dynamically altered GPT-4 usage limits many times before to handle increased load, and they didn't touch it at all last week before closing signups entirely.
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by Miraste 3y ago
GP didn't say that AI was easier than expected, rather that AI is easier than robotics, which is true. Compared to mid-century expectations, robotics has been the most consistently disappointing field of research besides maybe space tr
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by Miraste 3y ago
Blender and Krita fit the different-but-not-bad workflow defense, but GIMP's is outright terrible. Instead of the specific buttons, compare how many steps it takes do something in GIMP vs PS. For almost anything, it's either >2
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Nothing else Paradox publishes has AAA graphics, and that's not the target audience for their games. The first Cities Skylines didn't beat Sim City because it had better graphics. It was
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by Miraste 3y ago
You are mischaracterizing the position. It's not "Calvin and Hobbes is done," it's "Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Waterson and he's done with it." If lost strips came out or he announced a continuation, fans w
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by Miraste 3y ago
I don't understand what you're getting at. I'm talking about the number of people involved, not the length. I know a few comic strips that were handed off to new creators after the original died or retired, and they're v
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by Miraste 3y ago
I hate this opinion, but even accepting it at face value, it doesn't apply to comic strips. A TV show is a mishmash of dozens of visions from the start, so it's easy to let the Ship of Theseus continue on with new writers or seque
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by Miraste 3y ago
The concept of "human remote driver" isn't feasible. Imagine driving a car using a cell phone network Zoom call. It's less safe than just stopping.
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by Miraste 3y ago
>killed hundreds of pilots Wow, I thought you must be exaggerating, but it was literally hundreds. Some air forces lost nearly half the planes!
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by Miraste 3y ago
This is a plague on the software industry. No one wants a new design language every two years, or all the buttons in the frontend to be moved to different places with different icons. It's not "innovative" or "exciting&q

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