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by _manifold 2y ago
Personally I've found that "well curated" sometimes becomes a double-edged sword in Costco's case. Mainstream brands can be expected to be available perennially; however, smaller/niche items and brands will often ge
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by _manifold 3y ago
Several years ago there was a craft beer joint in my area that had a gimmicky "stock market" system for their pricing - the more a certain beer was purchased, the higher its price became, and the less popular brews slowly dropped
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by _manifold 3y ago
Indeed, it seems like their whole plan to address profitability issues is just "get bigger", but all that's done is create a bloated, immobile monster that's completely lost touch with thee customer base that got them to
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by _manifold 3y ago
> The one good thing I see out of the coming AI cambrian explosion is that it'll hit the bracket of top 10% to 1% earners the hardest, while those above and bellow are safer. What are you basing this on? Perhaps I'm missing you
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by _manifold 4y ago
While it will inevitable be larger in the future, Godot's current executable size is so small something like this could actually work. At the very least I would want something like Unity Hub which can manage both projects and engine&#x
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by _manifold 4y ago
I think it's definitely more useful, especially long term, in a more controlled system where the government agency that is handling the actual CSAM is simply submitting hashes of the content the company (Microsoft, Apple, or whoever el
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by _manifold 4y ago
Yes, I did some more research on this as well. Apparently perceptual hashing is also susceptible to some pretty simple attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06628.pdf
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by _manifold 4y ago
>To use Take It Down, anyone—minors, parents, concerned parties, or adults concerned about their own underage images being posted online—can anonymously access the platform on NCMEC’s site. Take It Down will then generate a hash that rep
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by _manifold 4y ago
If I understand correctly, Samaritans have the same ethnic roots as Jews. The differences were more religious and ideological than racial. So with that in mind, saying the term "good Samaritan" is specifically racist doesn't
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by _manifold 4y ago
The thing that bugs me about "influencers" is that it seems in a lot of cases the content is formulated as a host for ads and monetization, rather than the creator focusing on creating worthwhile content first with advertising as
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by _manifold 4y ago
I didn't know there was an industry for that, I guess I should have figured. I might look into that for my own purposes. Although for what it's worth when I said "large format paintings" in my mind I was thinking very la
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by _manifold 4y ago
I think we're kidding ourselves to think that some nebulous concept of "the artist's journey" somehow informs the end result in a way that is self-evident in human-produced digital art. Just as with electric signals in t
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by _manifold 4y ago
>But to answer your question if we would have been stuck with 1992 technology the internet would have evolved differently, and mainframes would play a much bigger role, to the point that your desktop computer would be just a thin client,
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by _manifold 4y ago
This is pretty spot-on. At the risk of sounding like a hipster, or gatekeeper, I think the biggest tipping point was around the time that smartphones became commonplace in the mid-late 00s. The internet and web was already gaining momentum,
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by _manifold 4y ago
This dichotomy of player opinions seems to be present any time I see a discussion about Stadia or cloud gaming. I haven't tried it myself so I don't have a truly informed opinion, but just based on technical factors I'm extre
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by _manifold 4y ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I think the antithesis to your argument is that where synthesizers "failed", modern sampling technology has crept in, especially in scoring. It's less common in the
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by _manifold 4y ago
All advertising is a bait-and-switch. How is this any different?
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by _manifold 4y ago
Also if it was, it was most likely due to her breaking NDA. She's welcome to complain about it social media but overall this just doesn't seem newsworthy.
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by _manifold 4y ago
Technically, but by that standard everyone who's ever purchased marijuana at a state-legal dispensary is risking prison time as well. It's also one of those situations where the practical reality of being caught for something like
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by _manifold 4y ago
The direct technical explanation for the fidelity gap here, as has been stated elsewhere in the comments here, is that Meta's metaverse VR tech runs off of a smartphone chip. Performance is thus very limited. Further compounding this l
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by _manifold 4y ago
I'm not sure where Bloomberg is getting that number and I would debate even its ballpark accuracy - especially when Valve is a privately held company and notoriously tight-lipped about things like gross revenue and profits.
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by _manifold 4y ago
>If America was so racist, the single most successful ethnic minority wouldn't be Nigerians. Do you have a source for this? Not for debate, I'm genuinely wondering where the information comes from. From time to time I've h
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by _manifold 4y ago
Wow, this is kind of going all-in on phone verification, with what I would argue is a potentially classist end result. Also a landline doesn't work for verification? How does that make sense?
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by _manifold 4y ago
I feel like a "technology first, game second" approach is a trap. Perhaps I'm wrong and there are examples of it working out but in general it seems building a game to justify hardware is a losing proposition. In response to
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by _manifold 4y ago
Also Amazon[0], who found out that hiring a bunch of veteran developers, putting them in the same room together and showering them with money does not equal a successful game. Are there any examples of an established company "breaking
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by _manifold 4y ago
>Epic spent ludicrous amounts (I assume) of money on exclusivity deals and giving players freebies. But their store itself sucks. It's baffling to me that they took this angle. Hardware exclusivity I think in general is regarded as
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by _manifold 4y ago
The key difference is that Unity was a commercial venture from the start and Godot is a FOSS project. That's not to say FOSS development doesn't have its own challenges and potential issues, but I don't think it's fair t
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by _manifold 4y ago
Throwing in my support for Krita. I suppose it just depends on what you need in an image editor but in my opinion GIMP has been dead in the water for well over a decade at this point. Krita on the other hand has a pretty rich feature set an
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by _manifold 4y ago
There's a few landmark lawsuits I'm patiently waiting for now that these tools have become widely available and can be used by anyone for purposes that are not not necessarily academic: a) Artist/copyright holder suing LAION,
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by _manifold 4y ago
I still don't understand what the value of specifying a license for generated images is - at least in terms of enforceability. How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a locally-run tool? I su

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