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by mrandish 1y ago
The link in this thread to the live glasses live demo is of Zuckerberg at FB Connect. The "fail" is when someone repeatedly tries to call the glasses he is wearing on stage. The person calling apparently has no trouble making the
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by mrandish 1y ago
I care deeply about protecting first amendment free speech and I'm troubled by the government's expanding encroachment on the first amendment, a concern which goes back at least six administrations. I've posted about it frequ
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Either way it suggests some troubling early implications about how well Meta's AI work is going I fully expect the AI to suck initially and then over many months of updates evolve to mostly annoying and only occasionally mildly us
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Sorry but people are entitled to pressure other private citizens when they say disagreable things. I said > I'm 100% supportive of disagreeing, debating, peacefully protesting, ignoring and even mocking ideas we don't agre
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by mrandish 1y ago
We really need to stop the cancelling of people for saying controversial, disagreeable and even deeply offensive things. I don't agree with what Kimmel said and I wouldn't have said it myself but it also wasn't outside the bo
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by mrandish 1y ago
The "About" link on the upper left of the site's homepage goes here: https://kguttag.com/about-karl-guttag/ But I found his blog a couple years ago and have been reading it ever since. Karl follows VR&#x
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by mrandish 1y ago
As someone who's been avidly following and sampling VR/AR since the 90s, in recent years I've changed my opinion. While I'm not as confident as you seem to be, I do now think it probably never goes into widespread all-da
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by mrandish 1y ago
When running a brand new game most savvy gamers don't expect 120fps 4K HDR native on an 3+ year-old hardware. But they might reasonably expect 60fps at 2K native. So, apparently, the CEO - or the PMs that report to him - decided to shi
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, my background is in broadcast video engineering. An edit suite I'm in regularly has a $10,000 24-inch BVM-E251 reference monitor for color grading. At home I have a $4,000 LG C5 OLED. My dedicated home theater room is based around
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I find this dubious I agree. In both cases a continuously varying voltage is driving speaker cone deflection. If the voltages of two different signals vary in precisely the same way, the cone will deflect to exactly the same degree and
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by mrandish 1y ago
Auto tune pitch correction is entirely separate from whether a properly engineered digital recording can match an analog recording to a level well beyond the ability of human biology to detect any difference in randomized, controlled, doubl
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by mrandish 1y ago
> like people in the 80s who swore that vinyl records "sounded better" I'm not one of those people who ever thought vinyl sounded better than a properly recorded and mastered digital version and I've always believed a
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by mrandish 1y ago
> If the release cadence is too slow... Another reason to get a new video codec standard finalized sooner is that hardware implementation and deployment in mass market consumer SOCs is glacially slow. On the software side, encoder and de
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by mrandish 1y ago
It's ironic that Apple makes screen size incredibly expensive for every millimeter - and then designs UI which proceeds to waste that pricey real-estate as well as user time by burying options (or worse, simply removing many advanced u
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by mrandish 1y ago
Just fyi, the device at that link is currently showing $9.62 for a single unit, once logged in and the one-time-only "Welcome deals" are eliminated. But AliExpress pricing can vary hour by hour based on seller, inventory, algorith
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Numident is used to store records of every person who has ever applied for a Social Security Card IIRC, a Social Security Card application is a multi-page form which contains a good portion of the info most financial institutions use t
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by mrandish 1y ago
Dealers sometimes have promos or get spiffs for selling financing which can further reduce the price for a net savings to the buyer. On one purchase we were upfront from the start that we were paying cash but after we negotiated the final p
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by mrandish 1y ago
Based on my recent sampling, I'm unsure what's on-screen the other 12 out of 13 seconds. /s More seriously... this shows just how insanely profitable online gambling is. Sports programming is generally the most expensive ad
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'm still rocking a four year-old Note 20 Ultra. I bought it new the week after they announced the Note 21 Ultra when it was clear they were dropping expandable storage. So it's five year-old tech and I can't see any compelli
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by mrandish 1y ago
There's a longer trend but also a clear inflection point around the rise of mobile phones and social media. N=1 but we delayed getting a phone for our kid until a few months after she turned 13, which was a good choice because now we w
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT That person is incorrect. WinXP started selling at retail in Oct 2001. I started using it at work in early 2002 and as a senior employee
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by mrandish 1y ago
> if the tool was that good people would be beating down their doors to get it. Yes! "Forced features" are a misguided effort to drive internal usage metrics. There are other ways to let users know about new features, short of
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by mrandish 1y ago
Thanks! I think it makes it easier to read. Personally, I would make it the default as it is more the norm on today's web but, of course, myriad counter examples exist and opinions will vary.
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by mrandish 1y ago
> There are different ways to measure this like how many years and what counts as an "AI investment" Indeed. Anyone familiar with public company financials and budgeting (like Wall Street analysts) know any number like this is
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by mrandish 1y ago
I don't know about "impugn him" but there are SEC regulations and legal standards for when a public company CEO makes "forward looking statements", however the standards are looser when speaking casually vs in an ea
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by mrandish 1y ago
I really like the content but the text blocks being justified makes it more difficult to read than it needs to be.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Hopefully this will provide sufficient incentive for Elon to focus more on business and less on social media, politics and culture war distractions.
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by mrandish 1y ago
To me, the weirdest part of this is that they're doing it because it apparently works so well on Trump. I can intellectually understand Trump having differing views from mine and a very different personality but it's hard to compr
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by mrandish 1y ago
I agree with both your points. Wikipedia is extremely useful because it's generally very good - and it's also not perfect. I'll add I don't think it can be any closer to "perfect" than it is because the same
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by mrandish 1y ago
> perhaps lead to other BASIC implementations being open sourced as well. A good start would be for MSFT to also open source the related BASIC-68 and BASIC-69 versions. > "The extended 8 KB version was then generalized into BASIC

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