without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still sell like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.

I noticed that Arduino are using it for the 2.0 of their IDE. I guess a big part of the benefit here is providing a workbench base for different types of IDE with different goals, similarly to Eclipse.

Not a million miles away from VSC’s extension model but it allows deeper customisation which is fantastic for embedded hardware and software houses that need that deep integration without dealing with vendor lock in.

Is this the end of the metaverse?

I mean, it was DOA so I guess my question is more: is this Zuckerberg acknowledging that the metaverse is dead, finally?

There’s a reveal trailer and a launch trailer for Clair Obscura that give very different perspectives on the plot, well worth watching both.

Obligatory: thanks for all the daily posts!

Oh I wasn’t implying you were! My ire is directed entirely at RM for their mismanagement.

Someone defined the process at some point though, and often it’s documented. I’ve worked at several banks and large financial institutions and have had plenty of people tell me “I don’t know how X works” but never “Nobody knows how X works”.

I currently work at a bank and I’m yet to encounter anything that someone couldn’t at least send me documentation for, however apocryphal.

The problem here is that it’s fairly clear that the post office allowed Fujitsu to both define and implement the processes such that they are not compelled to provide the blueprint for them as part of the contract and they are now held to ransom over it.

This is the kind of colossal fuck up that heads should roll for, no less so as it is happening in the shadow of one of the biggest corruption scandals in British history.

Crucial code doesn’t exist, all code is disposable mess that tries to mimic a real world process; and it sounds like the post office fucked up by not even knowing how their own processes work in practice.

Their best option here would be to revert to pen and paper until they figure out how the hell they actually make money.

In the meantime, fire the board and exec team for not meeting their most basic fiduciary duties.

Any plans to play Oblivion or Clair Obscura?

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I’ll pass

Hi, I have a degree in computer science and work with AI every day.

Feelings aren’t a good way to measure things scientifically, they are right about that.

But saying that words can just be filtered is easier said than done. You’re back at needing to do a lot of processing to identify and purge these words. This is still going to cost a lot of money and potentially lead to less meaningful inputs. Now you also have to maintain the software that does the word identification, keep it well tested, maintain monitoring and analytics for it, and so on.

So, in short, everyone here is wrong and I’m considering packing it all in and buying a small potato farm with no internet connection.

Gesundheit

Can’t tell you, that’s Level 6 classified. Sorry bud.

Don’t need yet, and that’s my whole point.

Netflix’s approach is: “we know you probably don’t want this shit, but if you ever do it’s behind this big button on page 1”.

That’s helping you avoid kids content, not hindering you.

2% of China’s GDP also, so noticeable but not the knife in the side that the Whitehouse seems to think it is.

Netflix does this so that (most of) the children’s content appears only in the children’s section. This means you don’t have to sift through 800 versions of cocomelon to find Singles Inferno. They’re literally acknowledging you don’t have children and helping you find the content you want, and simultaneously not preventing you from accessing it when your sisters little crotch goblins come over for a visit.

Most first-world-problem shit I’ve ever heard.

I know the formula, but the joke is about the claim that they used the AI to get the formula

long run

This is the crux of the problem when losing funding like this