FrankyHollywood

Well, not with a micromirror array which directs a different image to each eye.

Would love to have it at home and watch a concert! I tried watching a VR concert at YouTube with goggles but the experience is not very relaxed

"Slop kiddies":D

There is some effect however. Many kids including mine used to have there first phone around their 10th birthday. Now I see parents around me waiting longer due to the ban.

Sure if you are 15 you can get a phone yourself, but for younger kids the ban has a positive effect.

Exactly, the article also mentions "Only about 1% of those used in the US are made domestically".

It's already being done so it seems more a cost related issue than lack of knowledge.

For me it's funny to see the discussion is completely black-white, like everyone is hooked.

I have 3 kids, 2 use their phones like half an hour at a time, the other is completely hooked, hours and hours. If I don't intervene he doesn't dress in the morning, and continues until he really can't keep his eyes open anymore somewhere around 3am.

For him I use the parental control on my router. All his devices have time limited wifi, and he has no data in his phone plan. Since I've done this he goes outside more, and has developed other interests. Today he actually prepared lunch for us, a 14 year old boy!

My point is, I think it's better to help your kids use their phones moderately instead of completely blocking. I once heard from an alcoholic who always keeps beer in his fridge. Not to drink it, but to be sure you learn to deal with this shit, and wherever the beer is, you can manage not taking it if you don't want it.

Interesting how experience can differ. A trauma for you was my most important lesson learned during high school years.

Sometimes a good teacher doesn't give the answer straight away, but just enough to let you discover yourself. That's a huge difference.

Don't know if TikTok is the problem, a generation ago (some) kids mindlessly watched cartoons for hours a day.

I think this is mostly about learning to think and develop grit.

As a kid when I wanted to play a game I had to learn dos commands, know how to troubleshoot a non functioning sounds blaster etc. Sometimes took me days to fix.

Doing this develops understanding of a domain, problem-solving skills and grit.

My kid just opens steam and everything works. Any question he has he asks AI. I am really curious what effect this will have on this generation. It is tempting to quickly say "they will be brain dead zombies" but that seems too simplistic.

In 20yrs we'll know!

Yes piracy is more necessary than ever!

In my student years I used DC++ just to watch free movies. With the rise of streaming I kind of forgot about it, until I got annoyed.

I don't like the Spotify. Most songs I like are available, but the 'playlist' experience is terrible. A lot of songs are actually part of an album. "Is an album like a playlist on a disk?" my kid asked. No it's not, a playlist is a randomly assembled list of songs, but an album are songs who belong together, they are the album.

And video streaming is the opposite. The experience is nice, but there is so much missing even if you have multiple streaming subscriptions.

Besides convenience there is politics, what if Trump wants a list of everyone who thumbed up 'The White House Effect' on Netflix?

So, after many years I took an old Raspberry 3 and started torrenting again. To my surprise piratebay is still active (although my old account doesn't work anymore, no clue how to provide new content).

I'm really happy, the Raspberry has a Samba fileshare. Just download the VLC app on your smart tv and you can stream anything you like.

I know there are more advanced solutions to torrenting, but I like this simple approach, and it makes me completely independent. Let's start sharing great content again!

$100 billion, what a number. It makes me a bit cynical. The amount of useful developments you could finance in either clean energy, education, nature preservation, medicine, anything.

But no, let's build us a slightly better code generator.

Strange times we live in...

The article states "When that same data is transformed into a knowledge graph"

This is a non-trivial exercise. How does one transform knowledge into a knowledge graph using RDF?

RFD is extremely flexible and can represent any data and that's exactly it's great weakness. It's such a free format there is no consensus on how to represent knowledge. Many academic panels exist to set standards, but many of these efforts end up in github as unmaintained repositories.

The most important thing about RDF is that everyone needs to agree on the same modeling standards and use the same ontologies. This is very hard to achieve, and room for a lot of discussion, which makes it 'academic' :)

For more background on the development read Idea Man from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a really interesting read (at least the first half of the book, later chapters are describing how he spends his money being a billionaire)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_Man

Backward compatibility.

Intel provides processors for many vendors and many OS. Changing to a new architecture is almost impossible to coordinate. Apple doesn't have this problem.

Actually in de 90s Intel and Microsoft wanted to move to a RISC architecture but Compaq forced them to stay on x86.

'Reader view'! I use it on a daily basis.

Don't know if this is standard for any browser now, FF is my main browser since I left Opera...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

We are in the early stage :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-ZktmjIfE

Well people differ. Look around at your colleagues, some have dry eyes and lower back pain from working hours without interruption on a boring task.

Others, like myself, are easily distracted, quickly bored and only work hard with a specific goal in mind. Working on smaller tasks makes it easier to not be distracted. I feel this is more important for people with ADHD.

But you are right, in the end it is useful strategy for everyone :)

Actually it's only 16% https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-global-breakdown-of-green...

I have never read more bullshit in my life than during the corona pandemic, all written by humans. So you should never trust something you read, always question the source and it's reasoning.

At the same time I use copilot on a daily basis, both for coding as well as the normal chat.

It is not perfect, but I'm at a point I trust AI more than the average human. And why shouldn't I? LLMs ingest and combine more knowledge than any human can ever do. An LLM is not a human brain but it's actually performing really well.

Thx for sharing!

For a long time, I was lazy, and took pride in quoting Bill Gates "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

I thought I was smart, but after years I discovered I became more lazy, and had never developed any deep knowledge on matter.

"if it's the more difficult path, it's probably the better path", I like that :)

How do you know? :)

There is a lot of research done right now, funded by the EU. But uncertainties are huge, and the tipping point for the Amoc could be between 2050 and 8065 [0].

It's a complex problem, and almost impossible to model correctly, but that doesn't make it science fiction.

[0] https://www.climate-tipping-points.eu/post/why-we-cant-predi...

There we are, we enter the area of values and 'good taste'.

It's easy for a tech company to say it's not their responsibility. There is a disclaimer and some 'terms and conditions' so you meet your legal obligations.

Spotify is allowed to fill kids heads with dirt, dirt which no record label would ever publish, and no kid would ever hear without streaming media.

Legally it's fine but it feels shallow and poor. I guess it's the reality of stream and social recommendation algorithms.

Oh I'm not angry, just saw a possibility for improvement :)

It is not an impossible problem. Most of these song sound like they have been recorded in someone attic. These are not songs published by a record label.

Just make the recommendation chance smaller for privately published 'songs', with core theme of poop and no adult audience. Something like this, some engineer at Spotify can do this.

>We have designed Spotify to be appropriate for listeners 13+ years of age

I did not know that, so officially my kid should not have it's own account.

Still that doesn't make it better in practice. Spotify is able to predict average age from listening behaviour. I was recommend the 'Dad's music' playlist last week :)

They know your age, and they could use that for something positive.

> they will usually find that stupid stuff

I know and I don't mind, kids can have a laugh. I am just annoyed with the fact that most recommendations after are also terrible. There are plenty of popular songs they will also like. The medium is the message.

Spotify decides what is in these recommendation lists. Not actively prompting junk would have my preference. Just like you don't want school cafeterias only serving fries and donuts.

> At the level of automation we've reached in society

We have been automating work for many centuries. And after a hundred years Keynes prediction [1] still isn't reality, somehow we keep finding ways of keeping ourselves busy :)

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we...

I agree, the analogy is shaky.

Adding extra components to you solution, like Kafka, adds complexity, overhead, maintenance etc. While adding an extra rocket stages reduces load, because you get rid of the extra rocket element as soon as it has been used. It will make the rocket lightweight once it is in final orbit.

The intention is good, but the analogy isn't right, it's actually the opposite :)

I never like analogies in decision making, especially when done by management who don't understand technical details of a solution. "Sure we need Kafka, we can't send a tank ship into space can we?"

In theory I'm also for decriminalization, but in practice it doesn't work. Some drugs are so intense, can't compare to your Friday night beer. See the heroin epidemic in Amsterdam during the 70s, some neighborhoods became completely uninhabitable and an emergency status was declared. It just doesn't work.

"The Dutch Hard Drug Epidemic, 1972–Present" https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep42912.9

"Heroïne-epidemie in Nederland" https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%C3%AFne-epidemie_in_Ned...

Indeed, I was never aware of it, until Covid... millions of people believing in nano-bots raining from the clouds programmed by Bill Gates and many other unbelievable far fetched idea's, people just believed it like it was common knowledge.

And the false believes have far reaching impact, like polarization in society and deaths. Just today I read that Dutch vaccination rates are lower than ever [1]. Diseases like polio are no longer a 3rd world problem, but could revive in Europe as well.

[1] https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2512681-vaccinatiegraa...

global warming is actually peanuts compared to worries of previous generations, like the cold war, school kids got instructions on what to do if an atomic bomb would fall on city!

stress and worries are from all times