Exactly. Do they actually have mobile users? Why?
VR was a dull experience but it was an experience. A "flatscreen" version just ends up being a bunch of shovelware minigames akin to YouTube Playables. Maybe they figure they can monetize that somehow. After all, their whole platform is dependent on capturing the fleeting attention spans of bored people with low-effort entertainment.
Mobile devices are just computer, but in addition have so many additional attack surfaces plus arbitrary enforced obsolescence on software can really make it worse than a general purpose computer. The browser really should be easily upgradeable in perpetuity and not locked to an OS version. It's irresponsible planned obsolescence of devices that causes this.
Time to dust off my old Quest headset. Maybe there will be a party, Restaurant at the End of the Universe-style.
'cause it is close to us.
My money's on the Crushinator
Lucky for us, it's already been studied in depth: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
The present work examines potato frying in hot oil during the short duration low gravity conditions achieved in a Parabolic Flight Campaign organized by the European Space Agency. An innovative device has been constructed, allowing the simultaneous observation of bubbles dynamics above the potato surface and the thermal behavior inside the potato flesh. It is seen that even in the absence of buoyancy i.e., during parabolas, vapor bubbles still detach and depart from the surface of potato permitting hot oil to maintain contact with the potato surface and leading eventually to a fried product.
I assume they'd have some kind of nuclear reactor to get the 1.21 GW necessary to start the process, but once the chips get hot enough, they should be able to power themselves.
It comes from poop. Like, from a butt.
I was going to say the same. Before AI emerged, most search results were already clickbait trash, often aggregating dozens of boilerplate answers to simple variations of a question to boost SEO. Combined with "social" walled gardens, that's what really sent the Internet into its death spiral.
Remember when a search would yield a web forum discussion or blog article about the specific topic you want? Those kinds of results almost never happen now. All those enthusiast forums have either been shut down or moved to private venues on Facebook or Discord where it's not searchable. At least Reddit's results remain searchable even if its format encourages flame wars and trolls. It's been a slow decline over the past 10 years, but AI has only been the final nail in the coffin for the public Internet as we knew it.
I still use the arrow keys, you insensitive clod!
But it's been proven that 48kHz really whips the llama's ass
What does Meta need all this AI compute capacity for? Running Moltbook at scale?
I learned this myself recently after buying a 75" Hisense QLED TV. I expected vibrant colors... but instead got a lot of color banding and flicker. I learned that the panel itself was actually a cheap 8-bit panel and unable to actually display these colors, so even if they did use "quantum dots" they weren't doing much. There's a lot of deception going on here. I think a lot of the progress in TVs lately has been around how to dress up these cheap panels, since the underlying panel tech on the low end hasn't much improved over the past 10 years. You can only put so much lipstick on a pig.
That said, most people probably don't care and would never notice, so does it really matter? Maybe there's an injustice going on here but it's a subtle one.
Yes, it already has. Ultimately it speeds up boilerplate code, and reduces the need to read documentation to figure out how to do what you want. However it firmly places the onus on the programmer to accurately describe what he wants.
The idea of only needing a "six minute-conversation" is nonsense. If anything, more emphasis than ever must be placed on requirements and honing the specificity of those requirements. It still takes days or even weeks of planning if you're building a maintainable complex system. You can at least iterate on designs faster than ever, though.
I think of this as pretty much replacing the kind of work that electrical engineers used to do with board design and circuit layout... Now they use an expensive tool like Altium, and then while they may still tweak the output, by and large the layouts are automatically generated by the software and only the high-level requirements are fed into it. All the work is done in the writing of requirements, which often take the form of hideous XML files. With LLMs this just puts one more level of abstraction between the programmer and the actual code, and should change the way we write code but not the way we think about it.
Karakuchi!
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce
