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Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by CRConrad »

aierou wrote: post #580
tgv wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If the metaverse is truly a decentralized, collaborative space We're talking about facebook here. I expect the metaverse to be designed 100% according to the wishes of ad buyers. And Cambridge Analytica.

Right. Just like we're currently living in a world where IBM controls all computers.

We did, up until Microsoft inherited that role, and now share it with the rest of "FAAMG" (no 'N'). You're basically still correct, only ludicrously -- and I suspect intentionally -- outdated on the identity of the puppet-master.

I'll take your underhanded way of trying to ridicule the idea as a tacit admission that you actually agree it's true, but have some undisclosed motive to discredit it. (Own a lot of Facebook shares, or what?)

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by CRConrad »

meheleventyone wrote: post #723
snovv_crash wrote: post #681

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Well sure, if an external object hits your car above the CoM then it will roll. I suspect we're talking past each other, I was referring to the handling characteristics, not the response to an impact.

I think you misunderstand. My demonstration uses an external force for simplicity. To illustrate the stabilizing effects of moving the CoM up and down. The results are the same for other sources of body roll as well. We're very much not talking past one another. I recommend just doing the experiment to convince yourself because as I and Animats note this is a very common thing to do in games. As I said in my last rep…

Driving in a curve (make it infinite if you will: a circular track) your tyres will try to hold you glued to the road, and the centrifugal force ("doesn't actually exist", yadda yadda -- but it works for the purposes of this discussion) will try to push you outwards.

The tyres exert their force at road level, the centrifugal force at the height of the CoM. The CoM usually being above road level, the centrifugal force will tend to tilt the car outwards.

Lower the CoM to exactly road level and there is zero tilting moment; your car might slide outwards if it loses grip, but it will remain upright with no tilt, because the centrifugal force has no vertical leverage relative to the opposing gripping-force of the tyres -- they're opposing each other in the same horizontal plane.

Lower the CoM below the road (magically travelling through the soil without interacting with it), and there is again leverage, only this time with the centrifugal force pushing outwards below where the car is trying to stay attached to your desired trajectory and thus tilting the top of the car inwards, towards the inside of the curve or the center of the track.

:: Moving the CoM down has a stabilizing effect down to road level, but if you go lower than that it starts destabilizing again, only applying its rolling force in the opposite direction.

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by CRConrad »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #570

The metaverse might be bullshit but billionaires are essentially betting that life for the average person is going to be so dismal that an increasing number will completely disconnect from society and live their lives virtually. It's dystopian but it's the future many are predicting.

> It's dystopian but it's the future many are predicting.

Not only predicting but apparently hoping for and trying to bring about.

Trying to bring about a dystopia: Yup, they're the baddies all right.

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by CRConrad »

m0zg wrote: post #84

It's not even a question. We're long overdue to exit online and return back to the real world. It's a struggle but it's doable. Meet other real people IRL. Go to bars and shows. Have sex instead of watching porn. Marry. Have kids. Have real, physical hobbies instead of computer games and scrolling instagram all day. Exercise. Play sports with other people instead of watching them on TV. Sleep well. Read paper books t…

100% agreee on everything except:

> Read paper books that you actually own.

What's wrong with reading borrowed books? Public libraries are a marvellous invention!

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by rambambram »

CRConrad wrote: post #765
rambambram wrote: post #114

I'm willing to take this further: The CLOUD is bullshit because it already exists, and it's called the internet

"The cloud" was always bullshit. There is no "cloud"; it's only other people's computers.

I know now, but I once fell into that trap. Just a couple of years I leave the programming field, I come back and everybody talks about 'the cloud', I really thought for another couple of years that I missed something important that only I didn't understand. :')

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by fennecfoxy »

michaelmrose wrote: post #668
reddog wrote: post #597

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What if the essay topic was "Tell me what a tiger looks like".

The Tyger By William Blake Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the…

The tiger

He destroyed his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out

https://826dc.org/student-writing/the-tiger/

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by tim333 »

dandotway wrote: post #71

Text is mightier than the Metaverse. Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting. We could discuss Hacker News stories with video chat but we prefer text. News and politics junkies prefer reading text tweets on Twitter to watching talking news anchors. Once upon a time Amazon was a company that only sold books. Dried ink on dead trees. And in the early internet age this book seller outperformed…

In the beginning was the word.

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by CRConrad »

rambambram wrote: post #766
CRConrad wrote: post #765

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The cloud" was always bullshit. There is no "cloud"; it's only other people's computers.

I know now, but I once fell into that trap. Just a couple of years I leave the programming field, I come back and everybody talks about 'the cloud', I really thought for another couple of years that I missed something important that only I didn't understand. :')

Yeah, so did I for a while -- even though I never left the industry!

But as soon as I tried to find out how this "magic" was supposed to work, it evaporated.

Re: The metaverse is bullshit

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Post by THATthereguy »

opyate wrote: post #577
slightwinder wrote: post #569

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> Text is mightier than the Metaverse. "A Picture says more than a thousand words." > Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting. Because text is asynchronous, and persistent. Text is a weak medium, but with specific strengths which can beat others in certain situation if they can played well. > We could discuss Hacker News stories with video chat but we prefer text. I guess you haven't discove…

I'm waiting for the day I can Ctrl-F on a Youtube video, say a key phrase, then the video jumps to the point where someone says the key phrase (or the video is about the key phrase). Meanwhile, text is so much more easily consumable. (Youtube Premium junkie here, BTW.)

Not directly related to YouTube, but I found a site called playphrase.me that will let you search for text able show your clips on movies where that text is said. I love it and this comment reminded me.
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