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by grumbel 4y ago
The problem that Youtube has is that they already were what TikTok is today. Early ~2005 Youtube was extremely similar to what modern TikTok is, lots of amateurs talking into their webcam and not a whole lot of professional content. Youtube
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The 3 nostrils, 7 squished fingers are not that big of a problem, you can run other image enhancing AIs on top of the generated images to fix that, or just use inpainting and give it a few more tries to get it right. The models are also slo
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Only if you keep it really low resolution and low framerate. If you want something higher resolution, multiple camera angles or fluidly animated doing it in 2D quickly becomes impractical. Guilty Gears for example started out with 2D sprite
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There are still major breakthrough and improvements every few weeks, so I really wouldn't worry about already having hit rock bottom. But even ignoring that, we have barely even stared exploring what we can do with the technology as is
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Go to your favorite image search engine and try to replicate anything AI has generated. It's impossible. The results you get from image search are nowhere near as specific as what the AI produces. It's not even close. The only tim
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> Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Yep, the nice thing about Usenet was that you could refer to any message by a unique message-id. So the where and how you downloaded those messages was of no importan
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The only real alternative would be an open protocol that allows free message broadcasting and redistribution, such that the server becomes a dumb relay, not the arbiter of truth. Kind of like email, but everybody can look at your mailbox. S
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Yes, but it didn't break down the divide between the professionals and the amateurs. CGI is still not common in the amateur world. People aren't producing successful movies in game engines in their homes. That is still up to Holly
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> There's nothing inevitable about it. Everything you can come up with as a "solution" is really just a stop gap measure. Instead of specifying the style by name, you could specify it by example image. Instead of training
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I'd take a couple of steps back and try to fix the problem at the core. What the Web needs is a way to do backlinks. If we had them, everybody could just host their own content, in whatever format they want, and others could respond to
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by grumbel 4y ago
Due to the fuel leaking they couldn't see how much of the wing was missing, they only found out after landing the plane.
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On the contrary, I think focusing so much on emulating the real world is one of the core problem with modern VR, as the more you emulate reality, the more you are locked into the constraints that reality provides. Simple acts like picking u
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Apple bought and shutdown NextVR, which was doing most of the sports broadcasting in VR. So sadly for the moment, we don't really know what the state of the art is in that area. That aside, any kind of large event is extremely problema
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The virtual monitors stuff looks pretty in tiny Internet videos, but doesn't hold up on the actual headset. The resolution of both of the display and passthrough cameras is still abysmal, barely better than Quest2 and a tiny fraction
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'pushd' would imply that you want to 'popd' back out of it, but that's unnecessary, as the 'cd' will only affect a subshell that gets terminated at the end of the script. So for the user it makes no differ
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by grumbel 4y ago
What would be the justification for 'cd "$(dirname "$0")"'? Going to the scripts directory does not seem very helpful. If I don't care about the current directory, I might just go to '/' or
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by grumbel 4y ago
> Movement in VR is still being done with teleportation, it's just not a natural thing to do. It might not be natural, but it's essentially a super power. No need to walk where you want to be, you just point & zap over ther
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by grumbel 4y ago
Are you sure they are playing the right games (standing/sitting in place, teleport-only, modern headset that isn't a Google Cardboard)? I haven't seen or heard of anybody getting seriously sick after headset went 90Hz and the
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by grumbel 4y ago
> Bundling crypto in a browser seems absolutely insane to me. Almost everything wrong with the modern Internet can be traced to payment being difficult. If you could get small donations to sites, they'd be able to pay for themselve
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That requires being logged in and gets regularly reset.
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Motion sickness in VR is essentially a solved problem for stationary experiences. The headsets framerate and tracking is good to create a believable simulation of a 3D virtual space and walking around that space feels no different than walk
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The biggest problem here is leadership. The technology is "there" and has been for a while. The problem is that that "there" is not where Zuckerberg wants it to be. Zuckerberg wants to carve his own very specific niche o
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> I wonder if there are any classes of attack that only become possible using VR? Plenty. All you have to do is let the system slowly drift. Humans aren't very good at keeping track of their orientation and position without visual o
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by grumbel 4y ago
EFF is concerned with actual law and legal defense in court, they don't write licensees. They don't have their equivalent of a GPL. Nobody really does as far as I know. If you wanted to make the next Youtube or Twitter, but be &qu
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by grumbel 4y ago
If there is one area where the FSF has failed it's "user data". They focus only on the software side of things, which given their name and history is understandable, but more and more irrelevant in the modern cloud driven wor
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by grumbel 4y ago
It's not quite that simple. Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, but not Debian. Trying to install Ubuntu packages on Debian or the other way around will result in a complete mess. They are different and incompatible OS. That they share some ro
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by grumbel 4y ago
NixOS has had the new `nix` command for a long while, this bundles up all the functionality under one command just like `apt` or `guix`. It's still marked as experimental and has to be enabled manually, but once done you'll never
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How is that transformative? It's just a copy of the photo with some level adjustments and background colors. Takes about a couple of seconds to reproduce in your favorite photo editor.
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I am not complaining about those abstractions being possible, I am complaining about them being necessary for doing basic stuff that every other modern language solves with a builtin dictionary datatype. The more you use those abstractions
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> Which would you rather type out a hundred thousand times? Neither. But that proofs my point, Lisp is unreadable for the average user. If your first instinct is to not use the language itself, but write your own DSL on top of it to make

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