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by andybak 3y ago
Yeah. The store design in this aspect is awful.
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by andybak 3y ago
> But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data I'm not sure I'm ready to concede the fundemental value judgement being made here. At least I refuse to accept it as a given rather then the core issue to be decide
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by andybak 3y ago
AI will be a mixed bag. Crypto is probably a net negative. You obviously disagree but opening with "A common HN bugbear is all the energy crypto wastes" is no more disingenuous than my reply.
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by andybak 3y ago
So is the only thing you watch on TV, unedited documentary footage? Also - ironic choice of username considering this comment!
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by andybak 3y ago
It's the only comparable platform that can run on anything from a phone to a PC to a VR headset. It's fully open and based on open standards. It's flawed, but I've seen it used to great effect for community, performance
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by andybak 3y ago
I suspect you're trying to be snarky but you're also inadvertently right. It's as cool as the content you put in it. I've been to several excellent events in Hubs.
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by andybak 3y ago
You can feed the output to NeRF or Gaussian Splat generators to produce 3d models: https://twitter.com/BenMildenhall/status/1758224827788468722 https://twitter.com/ScottieFoxTTV/status/17
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by andybak 3y ago
Datases.
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by andybak 3y ago
Didn't the w3c make a hash of that when it was mostly true? I'm thinking the XHTML debacle and related dead-ends.
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Girih Tiles(en.wikipedia.org)
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by andybak 3y ago
https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page322.html I know this location well. It leads to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_(High_Level)_ra... which was one of the "abandoned places&qu
732.
by andybak 3y ago
Bear with me here. Rushed and poorly articulated post incoming... In the broadest sense, generative AI helps achieve the same goals that copyleft licences aim for. A future where software isn't locked away in proprietary blobs and user
733.
by andybak 3y ago
I don't believe that the artist's wishes should always win out. We would have lost Kafka if his wishes were followed. I don't believe copyright should always win out. We nearly lost Nosferatu. As for ownership? We lost a wond
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by andybak 3y ago
dag - can I request a temporary pass on accusing people of not reading the article? I jest of course - but this comment thread seems to contain a lot of posts that appear to have missed the point (especially the "vehicles in the park&q
735.
by andybak 3y ago
The article carefully analyzed the way in which people on HN oversimplified or misunderstood the challenge of "vehicle in the park". Whilst you can disagree with their counter arguments - at least engage with the counter argument
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by andybak 3y ago
I rather agree than chasing mass-market VR (with "mass" defined as "the new smartphone") is a huge part of the problem. However I do think VR potentially has a large niche to fill amoung consumers, hobbyists and various
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by andybak 3y ago
> but we should not question the fact that Vision Pro is unquestionable proof VR is growing in this thread... I was simply asking that we don't recycle the same metadiscussion yet again.
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by andybak 3y ago
I still dispute that eye tracked selection will prove to be the correct solution. I think it might be part of the correct solution but eye, hand and controller based interactions all have distinct advantages and disadvantages and I'm
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by andybak 3y ago
They meant "Mixed Reality" in general. The Apple Vision Pro has just launched. You can debate whether it will be succesful or not (please - do that in another discussion thread as it a topic I grow weary of) but the timing is wort
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by andybak 3y ago
A friend of mine is a Microsoft DBA for mid-sized companies and was proclaiming how you can't do anything serious with Postgres. He said he was shocked to discover it didn't even have a query planner. Leaving mocking him to one si
741.
by andybak 3y ago
Please avoid phrases like "the woke mob" if you expect to be taken seriously. At least learn the current dog whistles...
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by andybak 3y ago
But you picked a known pathological case.
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by andybak 3y ago
Kinda citation needed time. It's not implausible that most people using ChatGPT want something socially neutral (by some definition) without needing to think about it too hard. Whether or not you think this is true, it's certainly
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by andybak 3y ago
Is "tectonically stable" a natural resource that relevant regions could use to their economic advantage?
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by andybak 3y ago
Would the issue be resolved by a resiliant way to lock all devices into a particular mode? i.e. "Word processing only" "specific website(s) only" etc I'm aware that actually implementing this in a fool-proof way is
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by andybak 3y ago
And the source repo for the (Unity) viewer app: https://github.com/LluisV/Z-Anatomy
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by andybak 3y ago
I'm confused. I first read an article along these lines over 20 years ago and it seemed a fairly intuitively solid argument with lots of evidential support. Has it still not become official policy?
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by andybak 3y ago
Hmmmm. I would argue the web would have been significanty different. There was a fairly big gap between Mosaic and Internet Explorer that Netscape filled and it was the period that largely defined the web as it came to be. Since IE was deve
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by andybak 3y ago
Hate what? The possibility that it might change one day? I'm confused.
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by andybak 3y ago
I'd really love some insights into usage patterns for the app I work on - but it's such a minefield that I'm not going near it. And yeah. It would probably help me improve the software.

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