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> Many buildings are copyrighted Well, let me stop you right there. That's the bit that needs fixing.

It won't matter. People will assume it has a camera. The product category is most likely (and rather predictably) dead if it depends on people wearing them ubiquitously and in publ…

> frogmaxxed raninemandibularprognathism-maxxed?

Don Draper in the elevator meme?

> but the productivity gains and economic surplus. I think you might be missing out vast swathes of human experience here. Some things are about joy, or god help me - fun. (For the…

I'm happy for Simon to post what he wants, when he wants. He's earned it.

> I can't say I've been impressed with LLMs generating code What the hell are these people doing? Running 2 year old models on the lowest settings and then throwing their hands in …

If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.

If it was still possible to get verbatim results from Google then I believe "mwah mwah vision" would have been an authentic Googlewhack pointing at this comment thread.

Ok but you're commenting on the general concept of animated gaussian splats. That's existed for a while and it's unrelated to what this actual post is about which is a new compress…

> I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California. Some people might argue that it's not meant to be about what you personally get back…

Related work-in-progress if you like polyhedra and tiling transformations: https://ixxyxr.github.io/polyhydra-web/ It has the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra and allows you to apply a sup…

When I first learned about computer science at the age of 11 or so (and in 1982 or so) the first page of the text book put digital and analogue computers on what seemed to be an eq…

The Peter Thiel connection is especially toxic for a lot of people outside the US. Whether it's substantive or just optics doesn't make a huge difference.

I have no idea what point you're making here.

Yes. But that's not the point I'm addressing.

I'm a bit late in replying - but I've been a user of Google Docs since launch by choice and still use it by choice. I've never really worked "corporate" but the few times I've had …

> their mistakes aren't based on their understanding, it's basically random guesses Whilst I don't claim any true "understanding" as that is a very loaded term that doesn't mean it…

I can't help but feel that people continually underestimate how bad human written code becomes over time. The exception is probably single-person passion projects or open source pr…

No. That wasn't a whoosh. Or even a woosh.

That's hyperbole. They have flaws, but at the very least, when they were launched, they were arguably best in class. I'm not sure how much me sticking with them is due to familiari…

That's really surprising to me.

"quotation marks"

Aw jeez. Just take it in the spirit it was intended and stop trying to score "more spiritual than thou" points. We are all deep one day and shallow the next. We are all workaholics…

People are rendering huge splat scenes on mobile devices using LOD. This (currently) requires CUDA and an NVidia GPU to work. I would have been much more impressed to see a demo wh…