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by avaer 9y ago
I look forward to a time when journalists doing journalism is what's valued in the news. When technology to fake things is everywhere, maybe we'll pay for accurate newspapers again. With something other than our willingness to be
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by avaer 9y ago
Today I learned! If you're working with a scene graph you still need to glue your matrices to WebAudio, but I'm consistently amazed at how far you can get without a library in modern browsers.
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by avaer 9y ago
Related fun fact: if you're using THREE.js, you might not know that basic positional audio is supported right in the library. It works with regular <audio> elements via WebAudio. https://threejs.org/docs/#api
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by avaer 9y ago
I'm not sure humans prefer "actual experiences" every single time; the business models of Facebook, Amazon, and Google depend on that not being the case. Back when the internet was still low-res and slow people said the same
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by avaer 9y ago
Moving from local storage to remote storage has "no regards for serious security"? Am I missing something? EDIT: My misunderstanding! I thought it was an implication that it does not change the security parameters. And I completel
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by avaer 9y ago
The alternative is forcing media companies to adapt to market demand. Instead we're forcing developers and users to adapt to media company demand. That's worse than letting crappy proprietary plugins continue to die a deserved dea
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by avaer 9y ago
ML driven content blocking for ads and other garbage such as social widgets and beacons. Red screen warning as deceptive on any site that tries to hack its way around the filter.
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by avaer 9y ago
Interesting contrast to the Carmack school of thought: _do_ build your own game engine and don't even reuse anything you made before, because you'll know better this time.
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by avaer 9y ago
This post is a list of links you'll find on the natural Google searches. That's fine as a gateway drug, but you'll get more mileage out of frequenting one of the AR/VR subreddits or chats. For things in the early stages,
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by avaer 9y ago
I wonder what the break-even is for buying defensive posts when people catch on.
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by avaer 9y ago
You plan your company around timing by understanding the market and where it's going. Timing is a useful abstraction, as long as you don't use it as an excuse. Blaming timing for being wrong is blaming your customers for not wanti
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by avaer 9y ago
I prefer to think of it as: one person's destructive biological impulse is another person's effective business idea. If you recognize it you can vaccinate yourself.
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by avaer 9y ago
Believing in a just world is another quirk of biology to overcome.
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by avaer 9y ago
The best? Write your own blockchain; speaking from experience. The easiest? Read https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/ .
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by avaer 9y ago
Impossible is hard to square with the people in this thread (myself included) that did it. You don't have to tell your boss you're not reading notifications. You just have to eliminate the notifications that serve no purpose excep
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by avaer 9y ago
If privacy isn't worth anything, someone should tell the advertisers spending billions to buy it.
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by avaer 9y ago
As far as UI goes I can see it being a keyboard to your mouse. Some UIs like menus are actually easier to design and interact with in a 3DOF plane. But as far as hardware goes 3DOF is just a stepping stone; we only use it because it's
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by avaer 9y ago
Performance aside, Daydream does not have 6DOF. There's a bunch of hacks you can do around 3DOF, but the experience would be severely crippled without 3D tracked controllers.
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by avaer 9y ago
Does anyone know if this kind of white hat stuff has been tested by law? Because it seems in the realm of possibility that if a large botnet hits you and your responses crash a bunch of computers you could do serious time for trying it. I&#
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by avaer 9y ago
Plausible, but wouldn't it be 123.46?
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by avaer 9y ago
There's hope that convincing simulation technology can remove other humans from the equation and keep the stupidity contained, the way we've done with other intoxicants. But that's a chicken and egg problem, because a prerequ
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by avaer 9y ago
Easier to _generate_, but also easier to disprove. So maybe not easier to fake. The article briefly touches on this.
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by avaer 9y ago
I honestly can't think of many things that require more Hacking than writing a fast, compatible, multiplatform console emulator, followed by writing a How It's Made.
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by avaer 9y ago
Because as your patron Google ultimately calls the shots. You are still an employee beholden to your monolith employer.
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Node.js security updates(nodejs.org)
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by avaer 9y ago
You know the old joke where the mentor says "pay me 100 dollars and I'll show you how to make a million dollars"? I laughed a little because reading the post about facebook's user growth immediately nags me to sign up fo
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by avaer 9y ago
I imagine it's not hard to lose 150 million if you give it to someone who has never managed 150 million, and make them unaccountable to anyone.
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by avaer 9y ago
There's a bit more to it. Proof of work hashing and ledger consensus rules and difficulty targets and fee schedules and forks. It's still all standard bachelor's degree algorithms, and I agree with the gp that it's not t
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by avaer 9y ago
Tangential: is "blockchain" a Proper Noun? This page can't seem to decide. I always thought this phenomenon came from journalists writing about blockchains not understanding that a blockchain is a data structuture and not a s
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by avaer 9y ago
> And yes, I recognize that this hasn't been "proven", but really what's the chance [...] Occams razor is that he's at the very least doing something that's inappropriate. Occam's razor is a tool to win

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