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by jrm4 2y ago
I suppose (and Gibson is great), but I've always felt that this sort of addiction doesn't require VR? Like, to whatever extent people are going to do this, it's ALREADY HERE.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Facts, this is one level above obsessing over the look of the website :)
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by jrm4 2y ago
Blah blah blah. This is way forest-for-trees stuff. I work in higher ed and have used this stuff forever. What OP said is simpler and closer to the easier answer. The person PAYING isn't the consumer; the actual consumer (me and the st
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by jrm4 2y ago
Makes sense: But do you need to BUY one? This is the thing I realized with VR sets, personally. They are a great day at the fair, but who goes to the fair EVERYDAY?
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by jrm4 2y ago
Yes, I'm finding the "meh" here is expandable to most of the companies, and that's a great thing (e.g just got a $500 card and OpenHermes feels comparable to anything and it's running fully locally) I know there&#
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by jrm4 2y ago
As an avid non-consoler, I'm like why not? As I understood, the flagship game for the PS3 was GTAV and also for the PS4 and also for the PS5
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by jrm4 2y ago
There's something weird and sad about Roblox for me as an old-timer who still has silly dreams about free/open software internet utopias for just fun? There's so much creative (programming etc) energy in that place and, for w
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by jrm4 2y ago
Yup. I sort of independently discovered this mechanism, and not just for "cheating," but for group work. Didn't even have to go individual interviews. It was simple, I let students work in groups to do coding stuff (it's
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by jrm4 2y ago
So, I was a decently heavy IRC user back in its heyday. Today, "the kids" are all about Discord -- and I do mean the geek coding creative kids most like me but younger and I absolutely see why. I think I do lament the abscence of
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by jrm4 2y ago
Yup, another fair point. Such is crypto.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Fair take, but I strongly bet he'll beat these charges. The Veblen stuff is interesting game theory actually. He's explained in detail that it's all strategy; he gave millions to charity but no one paid attention, so he'
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by jrm4 2y ago
IMHO, The cryptocurrency "Hex" has the best inflationary mechanism. First side note, Proof-of-work isn't dead, but it should be. Proof-of-stake is vastly superior (return isn't based on how much electricity you burn, but
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by jrm4 2y ago
Weird that such an obviously not well researched take gets this high here? Like it or not, there are already a TON of experiments that are far smarter than this one in operation now, on e.g. Ethereum.
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by jrm4 2y ago
I'm using "reconstruction" loosely here. What I'm trying to describe is the process that our brains use to think about ANYTHING and why it's nothing at all like how computers reread a series of ones and zeros.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Spot on. Additionally, what makes it SO BAD for us (I work in higher ed) is the "bundling." It would have been madness to be like, your chalkboards and gradebooks and chairs all must be approved by and come from ONE company, and s
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by jrm4 2y ago
The decisionmakers who pay the money (school beauracracy) and the actual customers who use the software (students and teachers) are different people for the LARGEST MARKETS, and therefore you get the worst incentives.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Right? I literally don't believe that aphantasia meaningfully "exists" given what we've learned about brains. I'm reminded of the great article I saw about how "Your mind is not a computer?" No one remembe
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by jrm4 2y ago
Perhaps the worst possible name, going by the spirit/ideas similar to trademark. This is calling your programming language "Program"
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by jrm4 2y ago
I'm guessing you mean a child-porn related crime here, which -- maybe -- but we're still in the process of determining whether the other crime/tort did, which would be copyright infringement.
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by jrm4 2y ago
It's much more narrow than that, if you read it. It appears to be "knowingly make the naughty picture and also know that it's directly tied to a person and that it's naughty"
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by jrm4 2y ago
So, people should read the bill. Roughly, my take is: It does feel true that this is hasty and responsive; there's an obvious "demand" for this kind of legislation. That being said; I don't find the bill itself to be p
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by jrm4 2y ago
Kodi became it's own deeply complex thing; far from a WM/DE? I suppose I mean something that Linux people would recognize is a DE. A slightly easier and TV-ish interface, but still ships with e.g. apt or pacman or whatnot, etc.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Real talk -- where is the guerilla, f the system, Linux WM/DE designed for TVs? It just seems weird that this doesn't seem to exist. Like, you get something close to it and then it becomes Kodi or something.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Unlike now, where only innocent people are convicted and everyone knows all the science that always works, like DNA testing?
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by jrm4 2y ago
Oh no. I think all I mostly mean here is "plays more nicely with current stuff."
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by jrm4 2y ago
Oh, correct. I think by "work" I merely meant "here is the mechanism," not "this is why they are successful."
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by jrm4 2y ago
You know, I was getting ready to write something entirely dismissive here and I had to stop. While insufficient , the major point here I think is essentially correct. Or at least the converse/inverse, one of those words is: Which is:
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by jrm4 2y ago
Great point, it reminds me of when I read about how "trials by ordeal" sometimes worked. Consider the boiling water/oil thing: If you're innocent, you can "stick your hand in and not get burned." What they did
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by jrm4 2y ago
Right, I think people here are vastly underestimating this idea of "What if I want to play around with really PERSONAL stuff." I've been keeping a digital journal about my whole life. I plan to throw that thing into an AI t
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by jrm4 2y ago
What do you mean by useful here? I'm saying because I've had the exact OPPOSITE thought. The intersection of Moore's Law and the likelihood that these things won't end up as some big unified singularity brain and inst

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