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Comment How would it work? (Score 1) 168

In a simple case, a line that displays the current inventory of widgets.
What does it say?
Widgets: 10
10 Widgets
You have 10 widgets

How will it handle the 1 case?
Widgets: 1
1 Widgets
1 Widget
You have 1 widgets
You have 1 Widget(s)
You have one widget

How and where are the rules defined? Are they kept somewhere with the resulting code?
How does "Make it bigger and move it to the left a little more, No, not so much." work?
And this is a simple case.

Sounds like investor bait.

Comment I didn't get one either, but they did good work (Score 1) 130

It's not everyone's everything yet,
but Apple brought some better ideas to the VR face huggers.

Meta treated it like a phone. Run an app, exit, go dark, run another.
Apple had the idea to always keep you in a coherent environment.
Not throw you in the dark void when you switch tasks.
That's an important step in making these things work,
and other VR devices missed that, and it's difficult to do right.

What Apple needs to "succeed" is a shared realtime generative AI environment.
We can't model and texture and mocap our way to the metaverse.
That's the missing VR piece. It's a bit too soon, but close.

Apple's showing some capable hardware and now have some user field experience.
If somebody could make a continual, cohesive AI generated world,
even if it starts out looking not that great, not that big, hallucinations and all,
there will be many people that will pay and never leave.

Comment Caravan of Fools (Score 2, Insightful) 31

These captains of industry are lining up thinking that this time they will be the ones that will get the better of the insane sociopathic thief.
The joke will be on them when he launches his revenge nukes because he can't be King of the World. I give it to about the third week of February.

Comment Nobody's going to Mars (Score 1) 125

Musk used the Mars story from the start of all of this.
Videos of dad, mom and the kids holding hands in Elon City.

But it's not built to transport people. You can see that by the design of it.
It's a purpose-built Pez dispenser for Starlink deployment, and that's it.
That was always the intent, but "it's for my Starlink network" is a hard regulatory sell.

A Mars mission, should it ever exist, would be an interplanetary scale money hole for SpaceX.
Starlink is already making money today, plus other benefits.

Musk may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.

Comment Re:So many missing options (Score 4, Interesting) 245

The Big Bank that Mrs. works for has been closing its data centers and moving everything to Azure.
Everything. And of course, they're all communicating using Teams, mirroring what Biggest Bank does.
All Microsoft, everywhere.

And now, they want to "pair" all of their developers with a new programming buddy, Visual AI.
Seriously. But most engineering is being moved to India anyway, so lucky for them.

I'm sure it's coincidental that Big Bank's CEO sits on Microsoft's board.

Comment At least someone is putting some thought into it (Score 2, Insightful) 69

It'll get cheaper, drop that childish thread.

Anyway, Meta treated their face hugger like a phone strapped to your face.
It goes blank or into gridword whenever a new app runs.
And their art direction is laughable. No taste, as they say.
You're put in their dumb, ugly world instead of your world.

What's insightful about Apple's approach is that the hardware is fungible,
the face hugger can eventually shrink to minimal and the development that went before will still apply.

Comment Until Apple (Score 1) 13

Until Apple releases their face hugger for public consumption, everything in VR is probably on hold.
Samsung already has bills of materials and prototype mules worked up,
but shoehorning the maybe-close-enough software into the phone OS is going to take a while.

Zuckerberg still hasn't realized they should have turned that car around years ago.

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