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by grumbel 3y ago
Worth pointing out that most of that video is fake[1]. Though it and its debunking video are still a great example how to make entertaining fictional content with a little help of AI. It probably won't be too long before somebody build
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by grumbel 3y ago
Must be a US specific thing, since we had those pinsetters in nine-pin bowling/kegeln in Germany for many decades, e.g. a Kegelbahn from the 1960s[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLZqO4ySoQ
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by grumbel 3y ago
> Compared to the adaptive xbox controller this thing looks absolutely useless to me. The XBox adaptive controller doesn't have sticks either. The two big touchpad-looking things are just two big digital buttons without any touchpad
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by grumbel 3y ago
Those effort are always a bit iffy since those very same companies go to great length to lock third party controllers out of their ecosystem, as well as fail to support even their very own controllers from previous console generations. If r
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by grumbel 3y ago
> Why not propel a platform you don't have to fight against? That does not exist and fundamentally can't exist. A platform is by definition a thing I have no control over. Somebody else runs the thing and they can do with it
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by grumbel 3y ago
It's doesn't really matter what the service is doing when you aren't using the service in the first place. Right now I can use `yt-dlp`, download videos from Youtube and watch them in a video player of my choice. I never have
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by grumbel 3y ago
Yep, efforts to replace Youtube (and the rest of BigTech) should be spend on building better search and cataloging of videos across all the Web instead of focusing all effort on one specific hosting technology that nobody uses. I'd be
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by grumbel 3y ago
Asking an LLM about letters is like asking a human about the individual wavelength that make up color. They might be able to infer it from text they read, but their sensory system is simply incapable of detecting any of that directly.
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by grumbel 3y ago
One big difference is that LLMs don't do loops, new words are produced in a fixed amount of steps. They can't go "give me a minute", think for a bit in the background and come back with an answer. That's why you can
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by grumbel 3y ago
> I personally wouldn't keep my private photos on a public network, but everyone is different. Well, that's exactly the problem, isn't it? IPFS could be extremely useful for local and private storage, as it provides a netw
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by grumbel 3y ago
Enable -Werror for the reproducible builds, leave it off for the rest. That should solve most of it. The biggest and rather frustrating issue left is that warnings are heavily tool depended, not just in that new tools will produce new warni
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by grumbel 3y ago
The & captures the `userId` by reference and makes it available in the lambda body.
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by grumbel 3y ago
How do you agree on those root principles? Don't you need a set of even lower level shared rules and ability that allows you to agree on anything in the first place? If I show the paper with the rules to a dog, I don't think they
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by grumbel 3y ago
> I never thought we'd see a no questions asked return policy for digital games and yet, with steam, it's a fairly simple process. That was however not Valve's idea, but only came in response to EA Origin offering a return
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by grumbel 3y ago
AGPL is only concerned with source code, it doesn't address how to handle a user's data in any way. Giving you the source, while keeping your data under locks is perfectly fine under AGPL. Meanwhile the GDPR has the concept of &qu
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by grumbel 3y ago
The issue for me is more that the FSF hasn't kept up with what is happening in technology. Software these days is often a secondary concern, as you aren't the one owning the computer, instead it is all running remotely and it&#x27
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by grumbel 3y ago
The one big issue I have with coroutines is that they are often impossible to serialize. With a state machine you can just take your state and write it to disk, but with coroutines that state is hidden in the stack of the coroutine and the
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by grumbel 3y ago
The only problem with Cardboard was that Google didn't it follow it up quickly with a real standalone VR headset, nor did anybody else for that matter. The Oculus Go only came out four years after Cardboard. And it wasn't until Qu
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by grumbel 3y ago
Meta is targeting one billion people in VR. They have stated that numerous times throughout the years. Meta does not like gaming, they tried numerous times to move away from it and focus on social VR. At their conferences over the last few
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by grumbel 3y ago
> Meta has no real interesting in delivering anything other than a product they can ship to millions of people on day 1 at a low price point Ahm, are we forgetting the QuestPro? Meta tried to build their "Apple headset", 5x the
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by grumbel 3y ago
I would care more about markup if the browser would actually be able to do anything interesting with it, but for most part markup is a just a default style for an element, the semantic meaning is ignored. The <time> tag is about the l
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by grumbel 3y ago
I don't think so. While you can artificially stimulate the vestibular system, getting that to work precisely across all the users of the headset would be rather tricky. But the even bigger issue is that even if you overcome that, you s
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by grumbel 3y ago
I think the biggest problem is the controller and locomotion. Almost all VR games available right now use controllers to navigate around the virtual world. Meanwhile Apple has shown nothing that allows you to move around in the virtual worl
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by grumbel 3y ago
You can do that with NixOS, booting back to an earlier version is literally one click in the boot manager and happens instantly, as the OS is just resetting some symlinks under the hood. For Debian you might need a file system with snapshot
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by grumbel 3y ago
Python is an example of a language that works like this. When the constructor throws, 'out' remains not defined, but you can just do 'out = ...' in the catch block and define one with a fallback value. So all the code af
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by grumbel 3y ago
Yep, I had to resort to that a few times. With a bit of syntactic sugar that could be turned into something like: auto value = try Foo("will fail") catch(...) { return Foo("will work"); // or
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by grumbel 3y ago
Code like: QImage image("filename.png"); is pretty common. Qt solves this by not throwing an exception and using a Null image check: bool QImage::isNull() const but that throws all the extra information that an Excep
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by grumbel 3y ago
Little aside, but I feel a lot of the drama surrounding exception could have been solved with a little syntactic sugar making their handling easier. Something along the lines of Perl's "|| die("...")" pattern would
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by grumbel 3y ago
> the interface making assumptions about the implementation details of every potential implementation. No, as you'd force the implementation to catch their implementation specific exceptions and rethrow them in the way defined by th
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by grumbel 3y ago
BingChat says it's Helliconia[1] by Brian W. Aldiss. Nightfall and the movie Pitch Black also go in that direction. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helliconia

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