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A standard C corp (and more relevantly its officers) is legally obligated to maximize profit for shareholders at the expense of any mission. For a B-corp if the investors sue the b…

Mastodon migration is not atomic and requires the instance you are migrating from to remain operational (and non-adversarial) long enough for all of your friends' instances to noti…

you're just factually wrong on this, sorry.

> I think you're overestimating how taxing going "viral" is on an ActivityPub server. if one of your posts goes viral, it doesn't get hit for every follower you have. It'll only be…

Just gonna throw out a link to this whitepaper co-authored by the now-CEO of Bluesky and one of the lead authors of ActivityPub https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398

> Bluesky is not owned by you, and while you currently might have some say, as soon as the VC ROI pressure starts building, nobody will care. Bluesky is a PBLLC which pretty severe…

I think if you replaced the plc directory with a corporate domain that would be pretty straightforward?

but I thought that Bluesky wasn't meaningfully distributed /s

I think the main attractions are that it has pretty minimal syntax + core libraries, does a good job binding to C FFIs, and the interpreter is fast.

It also applies to C++ and Java!

Very interesting idea, although one potential concern, depending on implementation, is that a lot of landmarks are copyrighted in a way s.t. you can include them in maps of a large…

Thanks! And no - we don't have whitepapers, but if you want to get a sense of our philosophical influences, I point to Daniel Ritchie (a prof at Brown)'s publications as he's one o…

We're planning the list for our next 10 or so cities! =)

There are some limitations with getting big mesh models into Roblox but it's definitely possible - I'll ask if my engineer who's been working on testing that if he has recommendati…

Our inverse procedural modeling process produces 3D models representing/explaining the structures we see in our input sensor data, so it doesn't require hand-modeling first. > Is t…

We haven't been ingesting historical datasets that allow us to generate them, no.

Yes, we generate water-tight meshes for buildings that are 3D printable (and terrain can be made 3D printable pretty easily). Bridges are one of the weak-points in our current reco…

all boroughs!

We just hosted a GameJam on itch and.... you definitely aren't the only one thinking that: https://itch.io/jam/new-york-new-york/entries

It looks like their core business model is modular asset packs, not necessarily tied to real world environments? Potentially some overlap, but I would guess it's unlikely we would …

We are doing inverse procedural modeling rather than photogrammetry, so there will be some idealization/iconification that takes place - but this also allows end-users to bring in …

I am one of the founders of this company! Happy to answer any questions that crop up.

FWIW, this isn't mentioned in the book, and only extremely cursorily in the official Rust docs, but looks like 128bit atomics have landed (on supported architectures): https://gith…

Bringing the real world into virtual space for every creator has been a passion of mine for over a decade. Come on over and download as much or as little as you want. Can't wait to…

Yeah, debugging possible outcomes of undefined behavior in C/C++ is pretty much exactly a mystery language exercise. With older compilers, the usual question is "Will `-2 >> 1` per…