nervousvarun

Semper est Russia.

In 2014 asking AI "what it is" wasn't an option.

Interesting. Anybody out there been able to do this with a Quest 3?

Agreed but for it to happen implies altruistic, non-profit based corporate decision making R&D & subsequent manufacturing etc.

No doubt the innumerable shareholder overlords out there who place the basic good of humanity over profit are pushing for it as we speak!

Why bands tour so much more now...only way to make $

I'd go so far as to say the VAST majority are not.

"back of the napkin" logic:

~2M FAANG employees (source: Gemini & this includes all types of employees...is your avg Amazon delivery driver regularly reading HN?)

~10M HN users (source: Gemini (via HN post :)) )

To the extent it doesn't negatively impact the stock price sure but you would agree the CEO and any sort of power-trip they have is ultimately beholden to that right?

My sentiments are fairly similar.

In the US at least the middle class was already being hunted to extinction and it seems reasonable. This is just accelerant on that already burning fire.

"not always strictly profit maximization."

Maybe in the short-term but public companies with shareholders won't allow this in any sort of long-term way right?

I have family in Lakeland, Fl which is an area that is currently deciding on whether to build one. All I've heard from them is they're worried about their power rates and water bills going up. Their assumption is the added strain on the local infrastructure will be passed on to them.

People are drowning everywhere with inflation and anything that is perceived to lead to a higher monthly bill is going to encounter resistance.

All true...been a huge fan since it originally aired. I was about the same age as the characters and doing the same work and got all the references and loved every minute of that show but looking back now overall I only feel regret for not buying BC when I saw this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1KcjkWdoU

Consider yourself lucky...You are one of these mythical creatures who don't get migraines from caffeine withdrawal. My wife is the same.

When I quit I get splitting headaches that are way more severe than a typical tension headache. Completely debilitating without medication. Get them for a week or so (also get the muddier thinking but I could live with that).

Obligatory recommendation for: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World by Mark Pendergrast

Fantastic book. I first encountered it...in a coffee shop :) Read a chapter and immediately bought the book for myself.

As with most things cyberpunk, Gibson also did this masterfully w/ the Panther Moderns, specifically Lupus Yonderboy. One of my favorite parts of Neuromancer is when Lupus has his interaction with Armitage and says (from the link below) "Lupus didn't bother to count it, being sure that 'Mr. Who' paid well to remain so, and not be a 'Mr. Name', which Armitage received as a threat."

Gibson (and later Stephenson) were prescient enough to realize that anonymity would be a commodity in the near future.

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Lupus_Yonderboy

Really excited to see what Apple does with these guys in the upcoming adaptation.

Brian May stands out even among that group (well maybe not w/ Les Paul there)

The guy built his own guitar as a teenager and has played it for the rest of his career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special

Right as an American this reads like "American who's never been to large Asian cities like Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing etc..

Totally agree. When people say "Reddit is mostly bots" I find they're really talking about political subs.

Niche/hobby subs are mostly bot-free.

How could they possibly have solved it faster than this? There's no magic to this and it takes time like anything else. Yes there's digital footage but someone has to go through it. The murder in Massachusetts isn't immediately obviously related.

Of course the family wants it solved right away but there's a reality to this that seems to be overlooked here but is also not unique here. A lot of murders are never solved. Luck is a factor all the time.

I keep seeing this sort of sentiment everywhere and I'm trying to understand it. The same thing happened after Charlie Kirk was killed and the arrest there hinged on a confession by the killer to his dad. A lot of commentary then that the police/FBI got lucky. Ditto Mangione. They got lucky he was found in a random McDonalds.

What exactly is the expectation here? Is there some sort of wide-spread belief that the world works like an episode of Law and Order and every crime is instantly solved by rolling up your sleeves and doing good old fashioned detective work?

Would assume for the majority of planned murder to be resolved as quickly as these highly publicized cases have been (the Kirk deal took about 2 days also) there's going to have to be an element of luck. Piecing together digital/forensic evidence is going to require time and effort. If it's not an obvious connection (domestic violence etc.) and there's no direct witnesses it seems logical you only have a few outcomes:

A) Going to be solved due to a lucky break

B) Going to be solved after a ton of time/interviews/piecing together forensic evidence

C) Not be solved.

Also he only "got away" because he killed himself. They likely would have caught him fairly soon after this because they had his identity from the car tags. I guess the point is though luck is all you have if it's solved this quickly because it's so random.

Man you just unlocked a memory. I'm about the same age...I had forgot about when we lucked our way into "turtle trapping" (didn't know until I read your post it was even called that). When the lives counter goes crazy (we called it "infinity men") we genuinely had no idea what was going on at first and thought we broke the game.

It happened when a buddy and I were completely bored messing around with the game and I remember calling my friends and explaining it but no one "got it" until we showed them.

Obligatory Banks Culture universe reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

Basically when the "minds" are benevolent deities all scenarios are possible including this one. We can spend our time with cats, we can even turn into cats...as he writes about "Changers" who genetically alter themselves or shift species at whim.

And as always if someone acts up and violates the Golden Rule they get a slap drone: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone

Ah ok. That’s uh…a quite the obscure custom but alrighty then!

Just curious...what's the point of pointing out the year? Typically that's done to emphasize out of date content.

Would you expect a map of comparative latitudes to significantly change in a decade?

Only tangentially related but maybe interesting to someone here so linking anyways: Brian Kohberger is a visual snow sufferer. Reading about his background was my first exposure to this relatively underpublicized phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_University_of_Idaho_murde...

You're right! Edited the post...thanks for pointing this out was actually a mistake on my part the article was about incorrect dosage which was the point I wanted to make.

Seconding this...also works well when I wake up in the middle of the night to get back to sleep which unfortunately seems to happen more and more every year.

FYI it's unlikely you will eventually develop a tolerance, but it's important to not increase dosage: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-mi...

Makes sense...basically the energy equivalent of Herbert's https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit

Is that actually true? The U.S. was pretty damn divided in the late 60s.

Widescale race riots, Vietnam war protests, a President and Presidential candidate assassinated etc. That said a few cms or so difference and that bullet takes out Trump.

Certainly divided right now just genuinely not sure if it's quite at that level or not.

Or...it could be as simple as his being born in Central America and this taking place in the U.S. means they didn't have access to his earlier health records.