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What if I use the iPad app?

They want it opt out vs opt in as they make more off ads.

I feel like there was a Cambrian explosion of UI design around the period of Geocities and web 2.0 sites like Digg. The Web was still in the early days of being monetized, and it had a fraction of the investment it has in terms of dedicated design teams, and all of the a/b testing to identify optimal design patterns for driving various actions.

Today we have survival of the fittest, and non-commercial design largely mirrors it due to that being what the tools and libraries to make sites offer.

What does T-Mobile get as part of this partnership from an ads and data standpoint?

I'd be surprised if there weren't something they were getting out of this that tied into their own ad solutions.

https://www.t-mobile.com/advertising-solutions

Darknet Diaries just did a whole episode on it.

https://pca.st/episode/e548fdef-c912-4468-9594-34b492644107

I wonder if we'll see a point in the next few years where we have a keyboard key that only works if you have a subscription to Microsoft to access their AI, which I'm guessing we'll have to do at some point because all of this costs a boat load of computing resources.

Had you tried going in physically and demanding a form?

I'm wondering if the implication is that Kaspersky has allegations of Russian government ties[1], so if they are outing something, it would targeting the US intelligence capabilities.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegatio...

Reminds me of playing a quick d&d session with a DM agent.

I quickly escalated the tavern starting area by convincing it not only were we in Faerûn of the Forgotten Realms. I then managed to get Elminster summoned and initiated a duel. And to do that I managed to convince it that the only reason Elminster was willing to accept was because I was actually an ancient sorcerer-king of Netheril.

Unfortunately for this AI fantasy world, this meant I possessed access to epic level spells like Tolodine's Killing Wind which I successfully cast. At that point Elminster expressed grave disappointment and noped out of the area.

Read Children of Time and have your mind blown.

Who benefits of Twitter truly dies? Who has invested directly or indirectly in Twitter? What is the intersection of those two groups and what is their connection with Musk?

Worse, free ad-supported tiers seem like they may be more profitable for them, so there's incentive to raise prices more to see if that can push more people to their free tiers.

Soon they will be more incentivized to keep you endlessly scrolling the video feed instead of watching something because the ad impressions will be more valuable.

Agree on the absorbing info bit. I got MSFS when in between things during COVID and have flown exclusively in VR. It let me escape and go anywhere when I couldn't in real life. Then I found myself watching hours and hours of videos on IRL procedures, how to use avionics, etc. I picked up stick and rudder and can only describe it as a book that seduced me into wanting to fly IRL with how it broke down what was actually happening.

Did my first discovery flight on New Year's Eve a couple years ago out of KPAO in a beautiful little DA40 almost like the one in the sim (though it didn't have fadec). Experiencing landing at KHAF during a beautiful sunset was subliminal. And so. Eerily. Familiar. I also was able to easily locate my house and do a steep turn circling over my home so my family could spot me. Landmarks from the air were familiar already.

However I definitely succumbed to staring at my instruments despite knowing that would likely happen. I also wasn't prepared for the sheer amount of sensory overload from the physical sensations and what I'll call "better graphics" of real life (better fov, frame rate, resolution, color range, model quality). It literally almost had me dazed driving home afterwards.

Since then I've gone on a few more flights and have over 200h in the sim. It has helped me get comfortable-ish with comms through vatsim, and I nailed my first day of landings by the numbers according to Cloudahoy data and my CFI. I fully attribute that to the sim as I already had somewhere internalized pitching for speed, power for altitude, and had some semblance of a sight picture and knowledge of how to fly a pattern. Though I wasn't prepared for the stick force needed to push the plane down on downwind after the first notch of flaps.

It helped me prep for an amazing flight tour in Kauai as well where I grabbed the flight plan of the tour plane and realized I needed to sit right seat if I wanted any good photos. Got to cloud surf for the first time then and the sim has nothing on IRL clouds. Or rainbows for that matter.

All in all, I attribute my desire to learn about flying to the sim. It is accessible and more affordable than flying, despite my Virpil hardware. I don't know if I'll go for my PPL with a growing family. Maybe if MOSAIC gets finalized and I can get my SPL in a safer than LSA trainer like a DA40 I'll do that.

This and books like Code give me such deep respect for the people who originally figured these things out.

True story, decades ago in HS we did the whole stock market competition. As a big gamer, I somehow convinced my team to dump everything into Nvidia.

We were 2nd in the state in Illinois, and I wanted to cement our place and possibly win by selling everything to lock in gains in the final week. The person executing the trade on our team accidentally shorted it and it went up a considerable amount in the last week knocking us down quite a bit.

At that point I seriously considered dumping my savings into Nvidia. I'd be retired right now if I had done so.

Not just VR, but think AR wearables as well. This is accretive to enabling smaller power sources without sacrificing capabilities, thus improving form factors.

Well, if you're an employee joining because the stated path is to find a successful exit vs build a sustainable business, your comp expectations may have reflected that and been lower than normal.

I wish there was a good beginner level entry point with a kit or something. But most of what I saw was "you need to build your own tools and then you can start" and that's too high a barrier for me.

Is there by chance a simulator of this on Steam if a good beginner hobby kit doesn't exist?

Did their children inherit it? If so, that may have been an important lever for leaving your children better off than you were.

He's about the classiest content creator out there right now, so it's a bit disingenuous to attack him like that. He's like a cross of James Burke and Alton Brown, but focused on coffee. Dude is a veritable YouTube national treasure.

I'd assert the mistake is thinking this is about an objective measure of productivity vs more pragmatic commercial real estate investments and in cases of poor leadership/management, needing to have people physically present to provide a sense of control.

Not even that, I'm surprised they don't just encode it into the actual uri and dynamically generate those on share and decode when someone clicks it. I'm not seeing why they need this as a parameter in the query string to begin with.

Can you share more details or anecdotes of politics there?

Does this mean housing prices might go down if the cooling results in larger scale layoffs?

Just know if you're ever in a related accident, insurance will ask/check if that was enabled for their analysis.

I really hope you're not implying that project managers are or need to be less smart than product managers.

They are different disciplines, and like any profession there's likely more people who are not good at it than people that are.

But I've worked with great visionary product people and excellent project and program managers (and strive to be one every day myself). Neither could do the other's job well or effectively. They need to be laser focused on different things, and their EQ tends to be tuned to different wavelengths.

Is there any solution for consistency yet that goes beyond form and structure and gets things like outfits, color, and facial features consistent in an easy way to compose scenes with multiple consistent characters?

Is there anywhere that tracks this alongside new and used car prices? Are those softening?

If anything, AI work feels like it has accelerated everyone with any dataset of value pulling up their drawbridge, reducing open interconnectivity of the web in hopes of charging for data access.

This started with scrapers and aggregation sites and has gotten noticeably worse.