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Near as I can tell, second life seems to have around 40-50k typical users online. Which is sizable, but not amazing.
50k active users online right now would put Second Life at the 13th most active game on Steam.
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> This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so. That's not a legal requirement, it's a carrier request. > For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware. That now turns off once you take them out of the country though.
Things must have changed in recent years, as it must have absolutely started out as a mandatory legal requirement. From my understanding it dates to some of the earliest digital cameras that didn't have shutter noises built-in and has nothing to do with carriers.
https://articles.inqk.net/2018/02/09/japan-iphone-shutter.ht...
watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.
I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. >In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS. from Johnny Mnemonic What can we do to make it more utopian?
If you stream without a face camera at all it generally hurts your ability to grow an audience, and unfortunately our society is still pretty focused on appearance so if you don't look great you're going to potentially get a lot of toxicity in your chat. A vtuber avatar acts as an equalizer in this sense and also lets people express their personality and aesthetics visually in a way that might not otherwise be easy - they can pick eye and hair colors they think represent them without having to use colored contacts or hair dyes, etc.
A few different people I know found that having a vtuber avatar made it much easier for them to get into streaming regularly and it did grow their audience, so I'm happy to see the technology catch on and improve.
Half the comments here are talking about the vtuber herself. Who cares. It's been talked before. Just imagine if half the thread is discussing what gender she is. What I am interested in is the claims here https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/#rust-is-... . (what is it called if it comes with a proof?). The resident C/C++ experts here would have you believe that the same is possible in C/C++. Is that tr…
In C? No, not unless you write your own scaffolding to do it. In C++? Maybe, but you’d need to make sure you stay on top of using thread safe structures and smart pointers. What Rust does is flip this. The default is the safe path. So instead of risking forgetting smart pointers and thread safe containers, the compiler keeps you honest. So you’re not spending time chasing oddities because you missed a variable initia…
Smart pointers are no panacea for memory safety in C++ though: even if you use them fastidiously, avoiding raw pointer access, iterator invalidation or OOB access will come for you. The minute you allocate and have to resize, you're exposed.
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I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media? I don't like when youtubers I enjoy watching switch to streaming and then all their content is identical "poggers" chat and donation begging garbage. Streamers all feel the same, regardless of the content. I don't feel there's any value to a hundred instances of a stupid emoji streaming by in a """chat""" window, and everything just feels like attention…
Doubly so the twitch chat is going to mirror the streamer. So if the streamer is being a goon and playing up the twitch culture, you'll get twitch chat. But you can also have a very different chat experience if you establish from the get go that chat is to behave a specific way.
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There was a Black Mirror episode that makes plain the downside of a virtual representation: it can be taken from you and manipulated by someone else. The persona becomes a sale-able commodity, and can be separated from your control.
I remember hearing that this exact thing happened a few years ago in either Japan or South Korea. There was a talent agency that had three-four performers who took shifts streaming games through a shared vtuber persona who had build up some popularity. At some point the agency fired the performers and replaced them with a new performer who didn't have the same performance. The fans weren't told but it was immediately…
watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.
> watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! What would really push it into cyberpunk territory is if it turns out this is not an actual human but an AI-controlled virtual person.
Half the comments here are talking about the vtuber herself. Who cares. It's been talked before. Just imagine if half the thread is discussing what gender she is. What I am interested in is the claims here https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/#rust-is-... . (what is it called if it comes with a proof?). The resident C/C++ experts here would have you believe that the same is possible in C/C++. Is that tr…
In C? No, not unless you write your own scaffolding to do it. In C++? Maybe, but you’d need to make sure you stay on top of using thread safe structures and smart pointers. What Rust does is flip this. The default is the safe path. So instead of risking forgetting smart pointers and thread safe containers, the compiler keeps you honest. So you’re not spending time chasing oddities because you missed a variable initia…
The m1n1 hypervisor specialised for debugging is a pretty genius idea. Is anyone aware of anyone else taking a similar approach? Seems like it would be a pretty generally applicable technique and would make OS/hardware driver development a lot more approachable.
But the modern day these development is crazy.
How can yo manage a 100+ structure in a language you just learnt (Rust) for a secret GPU the vendor does not share info.