Mbourgon
@Mbourgon@lemmy.world
Instead of a “renaissance man”, I’m a “renaissance nerd”. Pinball? Sure. Sci-fi? Of course. video games? Natch. 70’s Italian Prog-rock? A raison d’etre.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
Unsure why you got downvoted. Same experience here. I already script and program, sometimes I just want stuff that’s stable.
- Comment on Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks? 1 week ago:
Yup. Made the news and night show talk shows and everything… just not enough to actually bring it back. :(
- Comment on Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks? 1 week ago:
They tried that, but it got cancelled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Taco
- Comment on Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog 1 week ago:
iOS does a decent job of showing it - on the normal list of messages, you get the sender, the first 45 letter or so of the subject, and then their “summarize” icon followed by two smaller-font lines (about 75 characters) of the summarized body
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
God yes. Did 1 cruise and literally saw the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, Michelangelo’s David, walked around in Pompeii, scaled a volcano, saw where the Olympics started, the Parthenon, amazing art (Birth of Venus just to name another), incredible food, incredible people. Spent months planning it, ton of pics, and now make some “new” dishes all the time.
OP: meds and a therapist. Meds to fix the chemistry, therapist to teach you how to live life happily.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
I wish that there was some sort of equivalent of Reddit gold… That is a fantastic comment, with a ton of useful advice. OP cooks his own food, a better way to find new food and things you’ve never come across otherwise, is by traveling. It really does broaden the mind, gives you a better perspective on things,… But Mr. ININ, I hope the best for you. You did some awesome stuff and can’t anymore. I feel your pain.
Op: see the world. Get the shittiest inside cabin you can on a cruise ship that goes to a bunch of different countries. Think of it like a sampler pack of that part of the world. If you see something that strikes you fancy, plan to go back. Plan all the things you want to do or see. Look on some guides online. If you don’t knowwhat to do with the money, you can’t take it with you, go do something with it.
- Comment on Created Kindness Kommunity 2 weeks ago:
Sorry. I’m a horrible person and see the worst. Rise above and make it awesome! (Just don’t call the mods the krewe or something. ;)
- Comment on Created Kindness Kommunity 2 weeks ago:
Not the greatest name, let’s be honest here. You’re one K away.
- Comment on Underground Music Discovery - a wide variety of lesser known music genres 2 weeks ago:
TIL! Thanks! I’ve wondered why the F there are zero posts. That said, I’m on Lemmy.world and not constantly on my phone, so that’s not a good sign.
- Comment on Bird Flu's Breeding Grounds: the path to a safer food future 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR - instead of all that chicken stuff, how about we work more on replacing them with lab-grown meat. Not a bad article, just a lot of background, to get to that point.
- Comment on What even is fire? 3 weeks ago:
That’s incredible. I hadn’t seen that particular bit by him before. Very cool!
- Comment on my first proper astrophotography photo 3 weeks ago:
Deets? Telescope? Lens? Stacking software?
- Comment on Does "ackshually" not mean "I know I'm being picky/pedantic/needy/wooooshed here, but technically it's..."? 4 weeks ago:
While combing the neckbeard
- Comment on Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway 4 weeks ago:
Latitude and Longitude are in there. As is screen brightness. He does acknowledge that he is on Wi-Fi, but that’s still super suspicious
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
waveguide here’s a good article on it: theverge.com/…/stanford-ai-holographic-ar-glasses…
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Several others, though a couple seem to be about a POC.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Some reasons.
- Apple needs new products - even something like this gives headlines, reminds people about the cool product, so maybe they choose a different one. Even if it doesn’t make money it keeps Apple as “new and innovative” and helps recruitment.
- Gets it out there for developers to try out, come up with use cases and killer apps.
- People (prosumers) come up with uses that Apple and Devs may not have thought of.
- Allows people from #4 to bring them to work - after all, that’s how Apple got big in the first place… People bringing their Apple ][ & visicalc, since their IT wasn’t responsive enough or people hated working on mainframes. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the doctors brought it in himself thinking it might be useful.
- Allows Apple to come up with justification for the R&D money for the GUI, UX, hand gestures, etc that they’re going to need later. Gotta keep shareholders happy.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Here’s a good article about this specific waveguide: theverge.com/…/stanford-ai-holographic-ar-glasses…
TLDR - they need special materials to allow small/thin glasses for XR goggles. This looks like it could be huge.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve seen where doctors are using it for surgery and I see all sorts of parallels to the portable computing movement of the 90s, which were about having tablets instead of a ton of manuals, and some of the AR/MR where it shows them where everything goes while looking at the part in question.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
I went and did the Apple demo. I was there for something else at the time, and they had an opening, so I jumped on it. I highly recommend doing the demo, it’s honestly really freaking impressive. I’m not positive what the killer app is for it yet, or if this is just a step in long term AR/MR, but what they’ve done is really impressive. Yes, it’s expensive as hell, and my suspicion is that long term the displays will be replaced with a waveguide (Stanford’s looks pretty good at this point), so it won’t need the external-facing display, but they’ve got the head and hand-tracking in a good spot, as well as the gestures needed for it.
Maybe, the killer app will be the overlay itself, where it uses a camera/location/audio to see what’s going on and present more context. Looking at a menu? Okay, I’ve had this and this and liked it, but their X I’m not a fan of. I need Y from the grocery store, where is it on the shelves… more than anything, I think that they saw what Google glass could become capable of, and thought that the phone as it is now (screen, etc) was going to become obsolete at some point, and they were terrified of losing that race.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 3 months ago:
I think he’s talking about the LLMs, which…yeah. AI and LLMs are lumped together (which makes sense, but classification makes a huge difference here)
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 3 months ago:
Not all of this, you have some points in here (smart TVs are worth mentioning), but a lot of this is elsewhere, too, though. And was done before AI. A LOT of things are in public records, for instance. Yes AI and interconnectedness it makes it easier, but this is nothing knew. And the fact that they’re still this bad at targeted ads means there’s still hope.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 3 months ago:
“Ted Kennedy killed more people than Three Mile Island” - Bumper sticker.
That’s said, I facepalm at Fukushima. And desperately want more modern systems
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
This happened a couple of months ago…
theconversation.com/scientists-have-figured-out-h…
“This discovery could be revolutionary. Imagine being able to monitor organ function without invasive procedures, or see precisely where a vein is to draw blood. It could also pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding how diseases affect the body at a microscopic level.”
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
Fringe is probably all of those.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
Gotcha, I was just wondering what specific “slightly bad shit“ paper, and ethical dilemma, they had run across
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
What question? What paper? Inquiring minds want to know!
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 3 months ago:
You are the wind beneath my wings and the annoyance to my wife. Buffalo^7 is a glorious phrase
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 3 months ago:
But its name IS Bison Bison Bison!
- Comment on Spoopy Science Costumes 4 months ago:
I think I’ll have to do a modified version of that, Imposter Syndrome where half of you is in a suit and the other half is sweats and a t-shirt. “Hi my name is” “how others see you”/“how you see yourself”