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Yeah, it’s the use case. Qualcomm had smartphones in the 80s, General Magic had the smartphone in the 90s, but it took more than another decade to actually combine phone and browser into the right form factor and fast enough mobile connection and a world wide web to make it work.

For AR there were moments too. Niantic with global positioning, 5G with fast mobile internet, but that was not enough.

Input method isn’t clear yet (Apple may have solved it with gaze-pinch), form factor not consumer market ready. Actual use case that is worth the price point? Nah

Then there’s litterally noone to rely on anymore. Any seemingly actual Left doesn’t have power.

I don’t know… democrats always rolled over the past few years and used the increasing crisis as fundraising opportunity.

Dude, the other day I was reading some rag because there was nothing else to do in the train… One article was just Trump’s agenda without any commentary. How is that news if you don’t put it in perspective and with the context that Trump barely reached any of his goals in the first term. Unbelievable.

Yes, actually at my job a co-worker just found exactly such a bug yesterday: Debug build zeroed out the variable and the release build didn’t. So the bug only occurred in the release build, but could not be reproduced on the debug build where the developers work on. So in the end he found it because of the different compiler flags used for debug vs release builds at our work place.

Yep, variables that are merely declared are not initialized, so their value is not guaranteed. Could be anything.

You’re charging the class for a thought crime!!

Horrible code. First, it doesn’t compile because there’s no ; at the end of the class definition.

And then more importantly you have a private destructor which means this CriminalScum’s destructor will never be called, so you can’t charge it with distruction either. Or are you telling me this CriminalScum has friends?

Congressional approval is necessary for entering treaties, not for leaving them. Congress tries to change that. Hopefully in time

The largest differentiator to other devices by Apple really is the always-on cameras and the idea that you can/should use the device with always-on cameras in public. Otherwise Meta/Oculus have already done just as much as Apple has done here. Apple’s entry into the market just heats up the discussion around the “Metaverse” again.

I work in the space myself and wearing a VIO system on your head can really give you a lot of health and personality information. The device sees your iris and can identify you. It can analyze your gait and with some “AI magic” even notice and detect movements of your extremities outside the visual field of its cameras.

Devices like these can also be helpful in the medical space though: Not just for diagnosing diseases in the brain or of the eyes, but also help with therapy of patients by augmenting reality with virtual content that can help. One classic one is Parkinson’s patients who can walk again normally with some virtual visual guides on the floor.

Clearly that’s not the main goal of Apple, and obviously not of Meta, but it’s not all bad if used correctly. A privacy first approach is definitely necessary. And it’s not completely true that M$ doesn’t give a damn. With their Hololens they did for instance introduce a privacy preserving mapping and localization system. Nevertheless Apple has a good privacy track record compared to other tech companies.

With the amount of verbiage and ex-employees they’ve taken over from Magic Leap it’s not far fetched they were looking into a see-through device as you describe.

For sure. I wonder if it’s even worth it or just look creepy to look at a pair of two eyes deep in the uncanny valley.

It’s half a kilo strapped to the front of your head. There’s lighter products out there right now that can do similar things. I don’t see this first iteration as anything revolutionary.

Statistics

“Terrorists” as in “every male person over 18 + 40% women and children as collateral damage”.

Clearly speaking out of both sides of his mouth and it’s glaringly obvious.

Definitely not a fad. It’s used all over the industry. It gives you a lot more control over the environment where your hosted apps run. There may be some overhead, but it’s worth it.

Am I the only one old enough to remember that no 3D GTA ever released on PC first? This should have been expected.

How much longer can this still be excused by anybody?

It’s not about child abuse, it’s about not making enough money so they need their children to help out. If they get a fair salary, they don’t need to exploit their kids for labor.

That is why I’m buying chocolate made in Africa, rather than chocolate made from beans from Africa. That way the value is generated there and not here.

Agriculture and land use currently have some of the best potential to capture CO2 from the atmosphere as well as improve ecosystems that may bring back pollinators and other helpful and stabilizing organisms. Let alone the fact that we are poisoning our own water.

Yet we tend to be most conservative on that front.

See how everybody is talking about it, watching about it and it’s still happening.

You could even formulate the call for ceasefire in a way that shows the US has learned from the “war on terror” blunders. They could even point to already public war crimes and point out this should not happen to them.

There has to be a path to reform and correct past mistakes. The US does not do that, not because of a controversial past, but because of the intent to continue past and current policies in the future. You don’t call out war crimes if you want to keep your options open to commit your own in the future.

Might be a problem with the factory then.

You gotta allocate your GFs statically or this just keeps happening.

Dude, imagine taking the time out of your day to actually make a meme (like the one posted). I really can’t be bothered.

Netanyahu the holocaust revisionist of all people.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

Not a Biden fan myself, but will West even be on the ballot in all states? How’s the establishment candidate the spoiler if the “main candidate” isn’t even an option everywhere?

And: you don’t solve any fundamental problems if you don’t have the data for it. If the information isn’t in your data, the network will start guessing and it will be horrible.

Covid made me completely lose trust in society (they couldn’t even follow basic measures), the government (completely unprepared, constantly lying to the people), the economy (suply line issues for years show that any safety or redundancy was optimized away), even family members (half of them anti-vaxxers now).

How are we going to manage the far larger crisis of a climate collapse? We won’t.

I even got some money with FTX and now I’m going through the claims process to maybe get something back with the bankrupcy filings.

Anyway, I always considered that money unsafe and “play money” because of the unregulated, uninsured nature of Crypto exchanges.

So I definitely don’t hate the guy more than people who harm other humans or the environment, the basis for human life (I never traded in PoW crypto). How about Perdue Pharma and the Sackler family? They are some real scum. I just wish I had lost my money doing some stupid mistake trading, not because of an untrustworthy exchange.

Damn, anyone who plays their informant clearly has blood on their hands. Same with Kushner who told Saudi of the US loyal informants.

Can’t his ideology be explained as right-wing and anti-establishment. That would explain most of zhe lyrics and why he’s opposed the song is being used by the RNC. Only candidate with clear anti-establishment rhethoric is Trump. That’s why he got so popular in the first place.

Meanwhile it’s “two-tier” for his supporters because he finally has top face consequences for his criminal behavior.

It’s gotta be this one. Marketing works partially with the subconscious and association. They want you to get a fuzzy feeling when you see their logo or a product of theirs in a (web) store. If you don’t get a fuzzy feeling, but you are reminded of the vile fascist shit you read while you saw their ad, you will avoid buying their product, even if you can’t quite put the finger on it.

I get this warning in my IDE (VS Code) so I feel safe:

The character U+037e “;” could be confused with the ASCII character U+003b “;”, which is more common in source code.

As if it were so easy. You could already argue Facebook algos already facilitating genocides. Or radicalizing anti-vaxxers. And many others.

If an AI has gained the power to overthrow governments there’s no servers to unplug, because we probably rely so much on it that it’s similar to saying “unplug the internet” or “turn off all electricty”. Or frankly: “stop using oil”.