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by mvkel 3y ago
What a cool trick to pull that off!
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by mvkel 3y ago
This is the Netflix algorithm problem. They had an algorithm that perfectly recommended content to you. Then they scrapped it and went back to star ratings. Why? Netflix makes money from monthly subscriptions. They lose money when actually
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by mvkel 3y ago
To me this rings similar to the laments around news: "why does it always have to be bad news, can't we see the good news every once in a while?" If it didn't work, we wouldn't see it. If the only way to stop it is t
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by mvkel 3y ago
Wouldn't the opposite be some kind of Electron-type situation, where each locally-running app gets their own discrete instance spun up? Sounds slow and unnecessary.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Ollama is fantastic. Truly makes running an LLM locally as easy as installing an app. Their node/python connectors are great, too. I've been able to reduce costs for my projects by offloading "easy" prompts to a local Mi
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by mvkel 3y ago
They use a ton of exotic materials in it to lighten it up. The obvious lightener for me is the front screen. the whole "eyesight" thing is extremely gimmicky and could have gone without on the 1.0.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Makes sense to me! There are so many useful edge cases that justify its use. Watching high def content alone is a pretty strong justification.
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by mvkel 3y ago
What's the alternative? You have goggles strapped to your face. Personas are the only thing you -can- do to have any sense of presence on a call. It's not perfect. It's not even good. But it's better than nothing.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. I bought an AVP on day one to be used -exclusively- as a monitor extender for coding. It's untenable. The only way I could avoid significant neck/back pain from the weight was to sit in a reclining chair.
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by mvkel 3y ago
So there's Nano 1.0, Pro 1.5, Ultra 1.0, but Pro 1.5 can only be accessed if you're a Vertex AI user (wtf is Vertex)? That's very difficult.
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by mvkel 3y ago
This is hilarious and a perfect capsule of the times we live in
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by mvkel 3y ago
Data is oil (including synthetic), and consumer data companies (social networks) are sensing that their data is soon going to be the only defensible IP they have. Gotta hoard every little bit of it to maximize market cap
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by mvkel 3y ago
What's $100B among friends?
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by mvkel 3y ago
For context, "cool" in my comment above was of the "neat" variety. With a sprinkle of sarcasm.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Pwned. Rereading your comment, I apologize. You were citing the most common "cons" of it, which are totally valid reasons not to buy one. AND it's still the best VR experience we've got :)
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by mvkel 3y ago
TLDR Build a 600 mile long accelerator that shoots neutrino beams through the earth to make all nuclear bombs lightly explode, rendering them useless. Cool.
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Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by mvkel 3y ago
Is this not simply because software is no longer art, but commerce? If you're making something for someone else, your soul isn't in it. So who cares?
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by mvkel 3y ago
Ironically, my old 2016 Honda Pilot had no knobs to speak of. It was infuriating to lower the volume when it randomly decided to crank it to full blast. All Teslas have a dedicated volume/mute knob. Who's following who?
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by mvkel 3y ago
So you're saying Musk, all by himself, tricked the world into making Tesla the best selling car of 2023, and tricked all the other auto manufacturers into copying him? Damn, he's smarter than I thought.
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by mvkel 3y ago
You can do all of those things with a simple sentence upfront. You'd have to do quite a bit of work to find a GPT that preloads that sentence for you.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Would you consider yourself an early adopter? Based on this comment, I'm going to assume not. Cars have been around for over a century, so you'd be forgiven for not seeing them through a lens of innovation. But modern EVs have pla
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by mvkel 3y ago
Agreed. Custom gpts, like plugins, feel like a complete distraction to OpenAI
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by mvkel 3y ago
Just saw that the hand tracker continues to interpret input if you're typing on a Bluetooth keyboard. That's... embarrassing. This should have been a dev kit.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Exactly. Marginally better (or worse!) in virtually everything. And Apple is supposed to be the master at taking a bit longer to nail it. If anything they just inadvertently demonstrated how flawed strapping a screen to your face is if you&
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by mvkel 3y ago
disagree. Apple TV is fine albeit solving boring problems. This is a solution that creates 20 new problems. > too much credit to a corporation What does this mean? Are indie developers supposed to do a better job than a corp (see: a grou
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by mvkel 3y ago
That was the surprise to me too. Lower FOV than a Quest 3? Inexcusable.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Wild that the Quest 3 sounds like a better device. Call me crazy, but if Apple can't figure this out, maybe the concept itself is flawed.
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by mvkel 3y ago
I think your description is the absolute best case scenario. In reality, it will collect dust. It needs to "do work" faster, or at least more conveniently, than a computer can. Just needing to put the thing on is a massive hurdle
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by mvkel 3y ago
Cease and desist letters are cold emails. It can scary to receive one, but once you unwind what the accusing party has to gain from it, you realize it has as much teeth as a tweet.

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