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by mrandish 1y ago
Because going >50% over-budget isn't a good way to further anyone's career in exhibit design, engineering and construction. I have a friend who works at a firm which specializes in engineering and constructing exhibits for muse
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by mrandish 1y ago
> For all we know, the middle is just air and crumpled-up old newspaper. I think this is the answer. I suspect the exhibit designers had a cool idea for a display, did a rough estimate of the area needed and then commissioned the exhibit
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by mrandish 1y ago
It's important to understand that: * Commodore B.V. only owns the Commodore trademark and logo. They do not own any of the Commodore source code, patents, designs, etc. They do not own the Amiga trademarks, logos, source code, ROMs, et
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by mrandish 1y ago
That sentence made me assume OpenAI leaked this story to WSJ as a negotiating tactic. You're right that leaking this indicates OpenAI's position is weak. The threat to make an antitrust complaint is also strange since 'going
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True... and in AR the Liquid Glass UI actually distorts reality.
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Translucent UI is usually a bad idea outside of movies and non-critical game interfaces. Reading the article's claims about translucent UI being ideal for AR, all I could think about was how bad this roadside traffic sign would be
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by mrandish 1y ago
> it's common for those who have compromised someone's password to flood people with these notifications and auth prompts And by excessive reauthing, legit platforms and apps are helping scammers by conditioning users to click
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by mrandish 1y ago
> probably just thinking "Well it's wires somehow, I just don't know how," Yes, I agree this is likely a big component. It's interesting to ponder why "less pure" versions of levitation get bigger react
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by mrandish 1y ago
I used to hang out with Penn back when I was a castle member and he never mentioned that to me. I guess it's possible that happened but it would have been a very long time ago. The Magic Castle was founded in the late 1960s by two br
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by mrandish 1y ago
The Magic Circle is a private magic club in London England. The Magic Castle is a private magic club in Hollywood California. The Magic Castle has a restaurant and regular magic shows by professional magicians in three theaters. The perform
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> even when you know how the effect was done are more stunned by the precision in the work. This is indeed true. Those who look at magic as merely a puzzle to be solved are really missing out on the beauty and wonder of it. After a lifet
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by mrandish 1y ago
I watched it when it originally aired and agree it was surprisingly unimpactful on TV. Interesting backstory: I know someone who worked on the creative team for that TV special and while developing new illusion concepts, they brainstormed t
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by mrandish 1y ago
> were in fact - paid audiences. I hadn't heard that. It also strikes me as a little odd since both of those effects can be done for real so there's no good reason to cheat in that way. Houdini popularized the elephant vanish a
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by mrandish 1y ago
As a former professional magician and lifelong magic enthusiast, no serious magicians hate this guy. On the contrary, his show was great because it drove interest in magic which is good for working performers. The "Magicians HATE him&q
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by mrandish 1y ago
> "well it didn't really live up to the sphere thing" I never thought it didn't live up to being a Sphere. The outside is definitely a big ass sphere of impressive proportions. To me, that impressive size (for whateve
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by mrandish 1y ago
In think you only got to the edge of the space.
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by mrandish 1y ago
A lot of people I know assumed that the Las Vegas Sphere interior screen was on the "other side" of the exterior dome. They were surprised when I showed them this image: https://i0.wp.com/alia.com.au/wp-conten
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by mrandish 1y ago
You probably already know this, but the light tunnel intro wasn't computer graphic imagery. It was created using optical effects generally referred to as slit scan. The same technique was used to create the star gate sequence at the en
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by mrandish 1y ago
This has always been true of physical casinos as well. If you win over time, you'll be 'uninvited' - as demonstrated by how quickly casinos will ban anyone they think is card counting in blackjack (which isn't illegal or
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by mrandish 1y ago
If that's correct then it's a significant problem with LLMs that needs to be addressed. Would it work to have the agent keep the talky, verbose answer to itself and only return to a finally summary to the user?
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by mrandish 1y ago
> The ones who see it as insincere just ignore it and move on. Except I "just move on" to another product. The only person I know who doesn't find this pretension annoying is my 90 year-old mother. I don't have time t
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by mrandish 1y ago
Oh, I see. I'm already well aware of the many substantial limitations of LLMs and the counter-intuitive nature of these gaps. My comment was pre-assuming a scenario where the chat AI could usefully and correctly answer the question a
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by mrandish 1y ago
> you will be surprised a lot more than if you think of them as humans, so the latter is the better abstraction. I'm not following what you mean here. In what ways do you think I'd be surprised?
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, I assume it probably does except maybe during periods of elevated alert. A large military airbase capable of being home base to bombers is like a small city, with thousands of civilian workers. Anyway, the drones used mobile internet b
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by mrandish 1y ago
The default obsequious, yuppie buddy chatbot personas of today make me hate them. Douglas Adams in Hitchhiker's Guide perfectly captured the infuriating annoyance of machines programmed to act like overly polite friends when he had th
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by mrandish 1y ago
> excellent monochrome 640x400 monitor While that was an advantage for the Atari ST, the Amiga standard desktop was in a non-interlaced 640 x 200 4-color mode that could do 80 x 24 text for productivity apps (word processing, spreadsheet
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by mrandish 1y ago
To reduce latency, I wonder if the phones were connecting to a covert site in Russia which had a high-bandwidth, lower-latency wired link, maybe a front company established in Russia for the operation with servers and broadband internet con
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, I assumed they didn't need GPS because they knew exactly where the trucks that were the launch sites were to be placed and they knew approximately their targets would be sitting on a certain section of airport tarmac. The pilots w
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> The 80s and early 90s home computer era will be better preserved than anything that came after it. Indeed. Sadly, many more recent games will probably be lost to time forever due to DRM, online service components going offline or never
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by mrandish 1y ago
Sure, there is clearly some "rose-colored memory" effect going on - how could there not be? As someone who used Amigas, Atari STs, Macs and PCs back in the day - and who still owns over a hundred unique models of vintage 80s and 9

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