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by mosura 7mo ago
At some point people are going to start asking awkward questions going all the way back to the PayPal mafia and everything that has subsequently happened. Thiel landing on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group just looks too ridicu
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by mosura 7mo ago
Aha, yes the resulting OEM freakout would do it.
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by mosura 7mo ago
The question here is what metric at Microsoft was bad enough for them to make a post like this?
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by mosura 7mo ago
This whole episode is a charade to do exactly that while claiming they are morally superior to China because the UK does it “for the children” while China does it because they are just evil authoritarians. For Tiananmen Square substitute Ra
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by mosura 7mo ago
From a detached perspective Play Services itself is practically sanctioned malware and this is to protect that monopoly.
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4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches(bbc.com)
465 points by mosura 7mo ago|874 comments
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by mosura 7mo ago
Your admittedly exaggerated example is arguing against the entire concept of relational databases, which is not a winning proposition. You do not write programs with one map of id to thing as you are suggesting here.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Often significant improvements to every aspect of a system that interacts with a database can be made by proper design of the primary keys, instead of the generic id way too many people jump to. The key difficulty is identifying what these
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by mosura 7mo ago
Promoting the idea of one data structure with many functions contradicts: “If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.” And: “Use simple algorithms as well as
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by mosura 7mo ago
Perlis absolutely is not saying the same thing, and as the commenter notes the functional community interpret it in a particularly extreme way. I would guess Pike is simply wise enough not to get involved in such arguments.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Better to have 100 comments on one topic than 10 comments on 10 topics.
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by mosura 7mo ago
> If want to solve a problem - it's natural to think about logic flow and the code that implements that first and the data structures are an after thought, whereas Rule 5 is spot on. It is? How can you conceive of a precise idea of
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by mosura 7mo ago
Perlis is just wrong in that way academics so often are. Pike is right.
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by mosura 7mo ago
VRChat is what you would point at to justify the creation of Horizon Worlds, while saying “it is just too creepy for normies”. Neither of those extremes are tolerable.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Which is almost word for word the state Microsoft have been in for over 20 years. To the point it was a running joke at MSR.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Zuckerberg wants a cyberpunk future, not some 3D immersive HR department on your face.
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by mosura 7mo ago
The usage numbers probably reflect what happened in this house: since the pestering to confirm age and the horizon worlds update the Meta VR devices have literally not been recharged. They had the foundation of something half reasonable at
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by mosura 7mo ago
Right, if these countries want these laws at least ensure the verification is all done within the country in question and the data never leaves. Of course, that defeats the entire point of the exercise.
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by mosura 7mo ago
You and many of your repliers are framing this as a “like” thing: it’s not. The key question is “can you trust this guy?” and he is so clearly not trustable it’s amazing. Makes them look like the FTX of data processing.
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by mosura 7mo ago
The fact Alex Karp has any security clearance at all boggles the mind.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Soccer without beer would be like college basketball without the gambling.
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by mosura 7mo ago
At that point what you are describing is a theme park ride. It only works a handful of times though before people get bored of it and want something else.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Back pre digital I was once lucky enough to see Aliens on one of the private cinemas at Fox, and it was astounding. I think people underestimate how poorly operated most normal cinemas used to be, combined with maybe not the best prints etc
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by mosura 7mo ago
> The US and the UK spent vast amount of money chasing exactly your line of reasoning with nuclear warhead decoys. Chevaline is a culmination of the effort, and it's retired for 30 years. OTOH if you built a successful decoy system
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by mosura 7mo ago
For different definitions of cheap though. While the pure gyro/accelerometer stuff does suffer from major problems the improvements in SLAM using just cameras in the last 15 years are insane.
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SaaSpocalypse Now(hantverkskod.se)
2 points by mosura 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mosura 7mo ago
This comment may yet motivate me to actually build the system in question so I can avoid having to read ones like it in future.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Easy: be responsible at the same time for tens of billions in upside. Post VR it is not like investors don’t know what this is. Meta bets and bets big.
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by mosura 7mo ago
Maybe, but that just pushes that load on to the user that defeats the point. Computers are about automation.
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by mosura 7mo ago
A few paid and unpaid newsletters have quietly become very big. Traffic from them completely eclipses this place, and because everyone gets the email at once it is a really sudden and painful spike. Most I have encountered (generally via re

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