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SO can we finally put "learn to code!" to bed as a rebuttal to people having trouble finding work or find themselves phased out certain professions?
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Sagacity posted:To be honest, I actually quite like that someone is willing to pour literally billions of dollars in developing VR. Sure, I don't care about the business VR aspect either, but having all this R&D can't hurt and if it leads to more immersive fart apps I'm all for it. BiggerBoat posted:SO can we finally put "learn to code!" to bed as a rebuttal to people having trouble finding work or find themselves phased out certain professions?
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Nov 10, 2022 01:14
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PT6A posted:We have a flight training device at work that's worth six figures, uses three very expensive projectors, and still makes a lot of compromises in terms of realism to do it. If you could do it in an Augmented VR space, you could do the same thing in a smaller physical space for a fraction of the cost, while providing greater realism. I think the money-making aspects of VR haven't even started to be fully explored, and I find it absolutely ridiculous that Meta's first inclination was to do poo poo that had no point and no one asked for. If Meta was investing tens of billions into making VR tech for flight training, truck driver training, ship sailing and especially military hardware training Zuck would be being lauded as a genius, because it would legitimately have a very clear real world, profitable, endgame. Theres going to be massive money to made in VR for those applications, and in the quite near future too. Instead for some reason Zuck is obsessed with remaking second life, its nuts. I'd love to hear a valid justification for why the investment has gone down that path instead of what appears to be the far more lucrative and useful (but still cutting edge / innovative) applications.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:25
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Blut posted:If Meta was investing tens of billions into making VR tech for flight training, truck driver training, ship sailing and especially military hardware training Zuck would be being lauded as a genius, because it would legitimately have a very clear real world, profitable, endgame. Theres going to be massive money to made in VR for those applications, and in the quite near future too. Honestly, that's what I see. Because it's absolutely brilliant for those things, in the way that nothing else can be, short of millions of dollars per device. Flying MSFS in VR mode has "disoriented" me in a way that a traditional simulator, even with a motion platform, never has, and it's absolutely the closest analogue to what happens in real life when you fly into the edge of a cloud. And, with AR (not currently implemented) you need a cheap panel of buttons and switches that would maybe be a few hundred dollars to build?
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Nov 10, 2022 01:32
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It's really a huge mistake for meta, now that I realize it. They're trying to build another social media outlet when they could go all in on VR training and end up as a huge defense contractor with a solid chunk of basically every other industry.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:36
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Morrow posted:It's really a huge mistake for meta, now that I realize it. They're trying to build another social media outlet when they could go all in on VR training and end up as a huge defense contractor with a solid chunk of basically every other industry. A social media company turned defense contractor would be cyberpunk as hell.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:39
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Morrow posted:It's really a huge mistake for meta, now that I realize it. They're trying to build another social media outlet when they could go all in on VR training and end up as a huge defense contractor with a solid chunk of basically every other industry. Google and others tried this already (the AR thing for business/training particularly with google glasses) and it's not gone well. So while I do agree that it's the likely first real commercially successful use it's not a new idea and not a sure thing. It's also not what Facecbook/Meta as a company does. So why would they be any good at it? Why would they be more likely to succeed at this that some other company, perhaps one formed with this goal in mind?
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Nov 10, 2022 01:41
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Motronic posted:Google and others tried this already (the AR thing for business/training particularly with google glasses) and it's not gone well. They aren't, but it's slightly more likely that they'll succeed in doing something they haven't done before but has an actual point, rather than doing something they haven't done before which is useless. At least in the former case, they only have a complete lack of experience working against them, whereas in the latter case they have to deal with that all the same, plus trying to sell the world's least useful product.
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Nov 10, 2022 02:01
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Motronic posted:Google and others tried this already (the AR thing for business/training particularly with google glasses) and it's not gone well. I'm not sure anyone's tried AR/VR at the same time though. AR on its own is not great. But, AR used to place physical objects in VR (currently used for controllers, so it's not impossible) is the missing link for these roles.
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Nov 10, 2022 02:06
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PT6A posted:They aren't, but it's slightly more likely that they'll succeed in doing something they haven't done before but has an actual point, rather than doing something they haven't done before which is useless. This is entirely fair, but not exactly a glowing review. Yes, they have money, but there's lot of money looking for the next big thing - and that money seems to think it's not them.
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Nov 10, 2022 02:12
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Reality Labs is researching all sorts of things, it doesn't all trickle down to Horizon. Right now Zuck's keeping the best demos to himself but I'm sure they'll find sufficiently evil uses
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Nov 10, 2022 03:29
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When tech bros reach a certain level of success their brains break and they genuinely believe they are a character in a sci fi movie, pioneering the future. What they don't realize is they are usually identifying with the villain character and world domination plots don't work if the core conceit is joining a VR meeting with your cartoon coworkers.
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Nov 10, 2022 03:40
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Isn't r&d at Facebook making a video deepfake machine?
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Nov 10, 2022 03:44
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They've become experts at faking leg. Their dataset? Wikifeet.
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Nov 10, 2022 03:49
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Motronic posted:Google and others tried this already (the AR thing for business/training particularly with google glasses) and it's not gone well. Which sucks for them because we're in the market for AR devices for training and letting workers working on validated system access SOPs while doing the work. We have multiple trials going on and
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Nov 10, 2022 08:01
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Google glass wasn't AR in any meaningful way, just an always-there screen.
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Nov 10, 2022 08:45
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So now Elon has required that any work-from-home requests have to be vetted by him personally. To rephrase slightly, he's about to lose the other half of his workforce, and either he still doesn't understand what the word "delegation" means or he knows that every under him hates him so much they'll instantly ignore every policy he sets. Or both.
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Nov 10, 2022 14:03
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He's always been laughably anti remote work. It goes against his slavery/colonialism mindset where he wants indentured servants chained to the desk/mars rocks/etc. Reality would like a word but we'll get there when he backtracks in a month or shuts down Twitter before 2023.
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Nov 10, 2022 14:15
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You, an idiot a week ago: Tanking upfronts is the dumbest thing Elon could do You, an idiot a few days ago: Payfor verification without actually verifying anything is the dumbest thing Elon could do Me, very intelligent today: Picking a losing battle with the FTC is the dumbest thing Elon could do https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1590724259114291201 https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1590725083294990336 (Jokes aside: This is an almost unfathomably bad idea for no gain whatsoever)
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Nov 10, 2022 16:51
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pumpinglemma posted:So now Elon has required that any work-from-home requests have to be vetted by him personally.
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Nov 10, 2022 17:48
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Tech Nightmares: an almost unfathomably bad idea for no gain whatsoever
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Nov 10, 2022 17:48
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Ruffian Price posted:The guy keeps underestimating simple tasks, he'll go "ughhh nevermind" the second he sees a queue of more than ten requests He did the same thing at Tesla. It's most likely just code for "nobody gets to work from home unless Elon already knows their name and personally likes them, or unless they can get one of Elon's favorite flunkies to appeal to him on their behalf".
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Nov 10, 2022 17:51
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No time like the present for Meta or Google to launch a Twitter clone and succeed. I mean it might not succeed but there's probably not going to be a better opportunity to try.
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Nov 10, 2022 17:54
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Paracaidas posted:You, an idiot a week ago: Tanking upfronts is the dumbest thing Elon could do Not afraid of the FTC, is afraid of keeping people around to ensure compliance with FTC.
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Nov 10, 2022 17:58
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Paracaidas posted:Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night  How bad does it have to be for the chief privacy officer of a social media company to resign in protest? That's like the chief face-eating officer of the leopards-eating-faces party stepping down in protest over the high volume of recent face-eatings.
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Nov 10, 2022 18:01
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Owling Howl posted:No time like the present for Meta or Google to launch a Twitter clone and succeed. I mean it might not succeed but there's probably not going to be a better opportunity to try.
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Nov 10, 2022 18:10
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Name the first successful social-media launch from Google. 
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Nov 10, 2022 18:11
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:he's choosing to blame the nebulous, shadowy woke activist enemies of free speech which only exist in his head for collapsing revenue, instead of accepting that his largest customers (big companies with advertising budgets) are staying away from his dumpster fire website Yeah, this is basically Walt Disney blaming communists for unionization efforts rather than his own lovely policies. By the way, the pictures from the 1941 Animator's Strike are amazing. Do check them out.
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Nov 10, 2022 18:23
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Binance has decided not to bail out FTX, after very brief due-diligence: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63577783quote:Binance said reports of "mishandled customer funds and alleged US agency investigations" had swayed its decision not to buy FTX. I especially love the fact that they could just, you know, suspend deposits as well as withdrawals, but they left the door open for any idiots and put up a big "Don't do this" sign instead.
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Nov 10, 2022 18:38
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Owling Howl posted:No time like the present for Meta or Google to launch a Twitter clone and succeed. I mean it might not succeed but there's probably not going to be a better opportunity to try. Google has enough messaging apps please no more i beg you
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Owling Howl posted:No time like the present for Meta or Google to launch a Twitter clone and succeed. I mean it might not succeed but there's probably not going to be a better opportunity to try.
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Nov 10, 2022 18:50
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Paracaidas posted:yes, I know,
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Nov 10, 2022 20:13
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Ruffian Price posted:The guy keeps underestimating simple tasks, he'll go "ughhh nevermind" the second he sees a queue of more than ten requests Some people will just ignore him, especially if they don't work in the same build he's showing up to (if he's even showing up to one). What'll he do, fire them? He'd have to take a break from killing Twitter to do that and it's not like their job's secure even if they do as he says.
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Nov 10, 2022 20:22
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Cicero posted:YouTube essentially became one, sorta. That's the route that could work for Google imo. Make something that's useful for its utility first, then make it social later. Except that YouTube comments are a notorious hellhole. Honestly, I think the only successful Google social media offering was Gmail. Back when there were interoperable messenger protocols, Google Chat was fine.
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Nov 10, 2022 20:44
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Big Hubris posted:Anyone who's saying you're wrong is wrong. https://mobile.twitter.com/logoffplease/status/1586631101384359937 Watch Season 3 ep 1 of blowback people. https://mobile.twitter.com/logoffplease/status/1586631631473086464 Jimbo is a billionaire and doesn't need your money. Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Except that YouTube comments are a notorious hellhole.
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Big Hubris posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/logoffplease/status/1586631631473086464 the citation very clearly supports the quote. did you post it without reading the source? bottom of the left column is where the relevant part starts. it states the UN attempted to set up all-korean elections but were blocked from doing so by the soviet union.
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Nov 10, 2022 20:52
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YouTube does a lot better than other platforms in getting rid of egregious comments. The “kill urself” type of thing gets removed pretty quickly these days. Their main problem now is spammy comments and lol that they still haven’t solved for some guy pretending to be the uploaded and commenting “hey transfer crypto into this account heh”
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All efforts to reduce junk messages and scams happening on your platform are commendable, but people fall for iTunes gift card scams all day long because it arrived in an email, where if you posted them a letter or turned up at their door and tried the same thing they'd work out that it was obviously a con. You can only get to a certain level with technology, do people just assume that if it got as far as being displayed on their screen that it's passed through filters and is kosher?
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Twitter has never actually made money so why would anyone want to do that? Twitter made money when its shareholders sold it to a bigger idiot for 44 billion dollars. Working as intended.
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