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811.
by tootie 2y ago
Assuming you're talking about the tech market in particular my observation is that 2020-2022 was an absolutely wild aberration of runaway compensation driven by low interest rates and VC frenzy. In 2024 there are lots of well-paying li
812.
by tootie 2y ago
I'm confused about these gram-scale devices that have so many capabilities in board. And is the laser terrestrial or deployed to space?
813.
by tootie 2y ago
My oldest is at a pubic STEM school that requires an aptitude test for admission, so maybe a self-selecting bunch, but teachers give kids in-class and at-home assignments that require phones or laptops. Assignments are mostly turned in via
814.
by tootie 2y ago
No. But it didn't unfold itself to anyone else either. Shamans have never produced a single falsifiable hypothesis. Reality is exposed but by bit through observation and experimentation. Preferably while sober.
815.
by tootie 2y ago
There's only one reality that we're all in all the time.
816.
by tootie 2y ago
No one has ever left the normal state of reality. Only perception. Certainly humans have been hallucinating and imagining things forever. Also, lying about your knowledge is a pretty universal human trait. Graham Hancock is proof of that.
817.
by tootie 2y ago
Utterly spurious. The toolmarks don't match the experiment and therefore it was another civilization? Just stupid. They may have used a different type of grist for their drills. They may have had a technique for smoothing them after th
818.
by tootie 2y ago
https://youtu.be/zoOCcrgWkIA?si=qfsrmduoc7qgzSp7&t=188 He cuts it pretty sharp here. And then shows a technique for smoothing imperfections. Also a lot of the stones weren't actually cut perfectly. Only the ones th
819.
by tootie 2y ago
I can't find the video, but I recall watching this on TV when I was younger. They found an ancient abandoned quarry site in Egypt (same one?) and brought in someone to test cutting and drilling granite with copper tools and it worked.
820.
by tootie 2y ago
Humans have been humans for at least 200K years. And those primitive humans had the same capabilities we do today. But the kind concerted effort and organization required for monumental construction still took hundreds of generations to dev
821.
by tootie 2y ago
That theory is espoused by the same people who think it was built by aliens. It's not plausible. Per this study, by the time the Sphinx is built rainfall has already decreased substantially. The rain erosion theory requires the Sphinx
822.
by tootie 2y ago
Interesting. I picked it up working with Tobii devices a few years ago actually. I guess they updated their vocabulary.
823.
by tootie 2y ago
Could be, but not necessarily. Eye tracking usually means it's tracking the eyes of one or more people in a video. Gaze tracking usually requires your eyes stay pretty steady and close to the tracker.
824.
by tootie 2y ago
Quibble but this isn't "eye tracking" it's "gaze tracking". Eye tracking is detecting where your eyes are. Gaze tracking is what you're looking at.
825.
by tootie 2y ago
If he really is quitting over ethics he isn't going to Google or Meta. He'll probably go to Anthropic or academia. But who knows.
826.
by tootie 2y ago
Even before AI, I always considered my work to be like a Tibetan sand painting. As soon I was off the project it may have just been wiped away. Quite a few things I built never launched or never got adoption. You're never guaranteed su
827.
by tootie 2y ago
We played with lenticular displays and they are very good and very safe. But like it's just not that useful to have a 3d display. A 2d screen is perfectly good at conveying the same information.
828.
by tootie 2y ago
It's not a lack of software per se. It's simply not a very useful form factor. There's a fundamental limitation to what AR can do. Things like occlusion and balancing the brightness of real and projected images is just not so
829.
by tootie 2y ago
Look at the source. It's a Republican activist group supported by Avik Roy with multiple members of the Bush family listed as fellows.
830.
by tootie 2y ago
FREOPP is a conservative activist group not actually academic.
831.
by tootie 2y ago
It will also make it semantically easier to detect. I'm thinking about accessibility and crawlability but also in case anyone wants to write some "no popup" plugin.
832.
by tootie 2y ago
Nope. Not if the pop-up is first party.
833.
by tootie 2y ago
Headline unsupported by evidence. Share of tech jobs is not total tech jobs. It's more plausible that tech job growth in Texas is faster but tech job in CA are still growing.
834.
by tootie 2y ago
Sure, you can assume they're doing some things off the books, bending rules, abusing authority. Surely it happens everywhere. But they couldn't easily hide a massive program or fund it without a trace for very long. If you want to
835.
by tootie 2y ago
By statue, the NSA can't actually do that. The mass unwarranted surveillance of phone conversations was a short-term program that was ultimately shut down as soon it's existence became known outside the Oval Office. Even Bush&#x27
836.
by tootie 2y ago
The FBI is domestic law enforcement. They need admissable evidence. FISA grants warrants. NSA is operating on a different level with different objectives.
837.
by tootie 2y ago
Putting the word "desperation" in the headline is serious editorializing. It's a valuable story but Gizmodo is chasing clicks.
838.
by tootie 2y ago
I feel like I'm nuts but I think everyone in this thread is misreading this article entirely. He is not saying "NIMBYism is a myth" in that it doesn't exist. He's saying the premise the NIMBYism is a way to protect
839.
by tootie 2y ago
I read this years ago in NurtureShock. Studies of adopted kids showed they still shared more personality traits with biological parents than adoptive ones. In fact they measured the two biggest factors as genetics and peer relationships wit
840.
by tootie 2y ago
And the CTO comes out looking like a genius for getting an optimal solution he didn't even know existed.

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