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by paxys 8mo ago
Neither. The VR space simply isn't it. Sounds cool in science fiction but nobody wants to spend their life with a giant headset strapped to their face. Their Orion glasses were the first time I could see the space actually going mainst
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by paxys 8mo ago
I tried the first Oculus dev kit in 2013 and got instant motion sickness after a short session. Tried some fancy Quest headset more than a decade later, and same thing. It's crazy that after spending like $100 billion in the space they
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by paxys 8mo ago
Hilarious thing to say a couple days after the news of 20% layoffs at Meta dropped. This is after a 10% "performance based" layoff last year and successive rounds of 10%+ layoffs post-covid in 2022-23. The company may have been a
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by paxys 8mo ago
Yup. The Facebook brand was long dead, and Meta is a good tech name even outside of AR/VR or metaverse. The fact that no one calls the company Facebook anymore shows that the rebrand was successful.
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by paxys 8mo ago
> This subreddit is mainly for sharing Spotify playlists. We're not a support community, and we encourage users to use official support channels for most issues. Literally the first line of the sub description.
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by paxys 8mo ago
I wouldn’t call what Meta is providing to the world “happiness”. Addiction is a lot more apt.
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by paxys 8mo ago
The stock lows was a market overreaction, and it corrected itself soon after. It’s not like Zuck got the company out of the hole by making some genius moves. Quite the opposite. Meta would be in an equally good or better position today had
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by paxys 8mo ago
It’s wild how much mismanagement Zuck is able to get away with just because he controls majority voting shares in Meta. At this point all of the missteps by the company in AR/VR, AI and everything else can directly be traced back to hi
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by paxys 8mo ago
Annual R&D spending of pharmaceutical companies: Merck - $17.9B Johnson & Johnson - $17.2B Roche - $14.6B AstraZeneca - $13.6B AbbVie - $12.8B Bristol Myers Squibb - $11.2B Eli Lilly - $10.99B Meta’s losses on Metaverse last year
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by paxys 8mo ago
I bet shareholders of SpaceX are thrilled to be exposed to this for no reason
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by paxys 8mo ago
There is no law regarding how and when (non-exec) employees can sell company stock. The SEC only restricts insider trading, and some companies voluntarily enforce blackout periods to reduce the chance of insider trading. Plenty of public co
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by paxys 8mo ago
Just look at the track record of SPACs for a preview of how that will turn out.
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by paxys 8mo ago
People writing the article ignore that Tesla's goal isn't to produce a chip but to take the company's stock through another pump cycle. When investors start to ask questions they will just hype something else.
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by paxys 8mo ago
Yup, the product is fine, but there's a reason all the other brands in the freezer aisle aren't raising hundreds of millions of dollars at 100x multiples. Burgers don't scale like smartphone apps. Here's a comparison - T
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by paxys 8mo ago
Will agree about Airpods Pro, but Max are a notch below the competition (Bose, Sony, Sennheiser).
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by paxys 8mo ago
There are two kinds of Apple products - those they make for the mass market and those that are for Apple "enthusiasts". Mass market Apple products may be expensive but they are still great value. Look at the $499/$599 Macbook
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by paxys 8mo ago
Crazy to think that they are now selling an entire Macbook for the price of these headphones.
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by paxys 8mo ago
> a website that visualizes data It is a website that visualizes the output of an LLM prompt and passes it off as data. Big difference between the two.
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Meta reportedly plans layoffs as AI costs increase(theguardian.com)
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by paxys 8mo ago
> You are an expert analyst evaluating how exposed different occupations are to AI. You will be given a detailed description of an occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. > Rate the occupation's overall AI Exposure on a s
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by paxys 8mo ago
Expert in AI != expert in labor markets. All the "research" on the site comes from a single LLM prompt.
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by paxys 8mo ago
Their last success was acquiring Instagram in 2012. Every new effort since then has been hemorrhaging money. They get away with it because they have two limitless money faucets in Facebook and Instagram, but their product strategy as a whol
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by paxys 8mo ago
In theory you can run any software on any hardware.
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by paxys 8mo ago
I wish creators of local model inference tools (LM Studio, Ollama etc.) would release these numbers publicly, because you can be sure they are sitting on a large dataset of real-world performance.
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by paxys 8mo ago
Desktop computers being as open as they are is an anomaly. It only came to be because the systems originated from research labs and hacker cultures rather than rent-seeking corporations. And even though corporations (like IBM and Microsoft)
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by paxys 8mo ago
WhatsApp and Messenger are pure messaging apps. For Instagram, DMs are just a tiny part of the overall experience.
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by paxys 8mo ago
Everyone is hypothesizing government backdoors and whatever else but to me there's a simpler and more obvious reason - AI. Companies started pushing E2EE a few years ago because users' private messaging data used to be a liability
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by paxys 8mo ago
There is a product reason - AI features are fundamentally incompatible with E2EE. If they want to bring more AI generated experiences and content into Instagram then the data needs to be accessible by them.
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Because they realized they need the data for AI
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by paxys 8mo ago
Is that really a problem? All the examples on the repo page themselves show LLMs running unintended operations on the "correct" service and messing up your data. And that is very much still going to happen with this wrapper. If an

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