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Madison, WI
Joined November 2010
I booted up my VR headset on a lark for the first time in a few years, and then dove in to figure out what I missed. In the interim time, the current and foreseeable version of VR will not be more than a toy.
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I think folks want to liken VR today to the early days of the internet, but it isn’t. The devices are expensive, but without a practical benefit to drive adoption. The tooling is multiple orders of magnitude more complicated than making a website for your dog in html
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The view-master comparison is the most fitting. It’s a thing you strap to your face to experience some neat things. Then when you’ve seen the Grand Canyon in stunning 3d, you can put it in storage and forget about it. I guess this is all to say, don’t put money on Zuck
Getting real tired of these 3x hardware store weekends
New house came with a learning thermostat. Each night it automatically sets the temp to 64, and each night I manually raise it to 67. Not sure what it’s learning, but I don’t think it’s learning anything about temperature preferences
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Learning all sorts of fun things today, like how to reset a refrigerator motherboard.
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Not sure if I’m more or less annoyed that the reset appears to have fixed the problem
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It would appear I spoke too soon. Now I am perturbed.
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I think you mean "Not Even $1M"
Is this derivative? Is it transformative? Does it contain elements of the original? I thought I knew how IP law around AI art would shake out, but I'm not so sure anymore.
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That was a pretty good run Golfle 4/14 (☀): -8 🐦 | 🐦 | 🐦 | 🐦 | +1 | 🦅 | 🦅 | 🐦 | +0 mercurywave.itch.io/golfle