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by trafficante 8mo ago
Vagueposting is a different beast. There’s almost never any intention of informing etc; it’s just: QT a trending semi-controversial topic, tack on something like “imagine not knowing the real reason behind this”, and the replies are jammed
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by trafficante 1y ago
I wonder if Apple will be able to bridge the biggest gap between their hardware and Meta’s: the price gap The new Ray Ban AR glasses retail at a Meta subsidized $800 - has Apple ever released subsidized hardware? I remember when the Vision
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by trafficante 1y ago
Eye of the Temple has some of the coolest VR-specific movement tricks I’ve ever seen. If you’re getting close to your IRL boundary, it sets up a rolling log as part of a puzzle. To stay on a real forward-moving rolling log, you have to walk
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by trafficante 1y ago
This isn’t just good news for the oldies. Gen Z in particular seems at first glance to be balding earlier and at higher rates. I had no idea what the heck “Norwood” meant until some young Zoomer guy clued me in.
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by trafficante 2y ago
FWIW, American Descendants of Slaves (ADoS) have an average European genetic admixture of ~24%.[1] 1. https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5
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by trafficante 2y ago
Pretty sure Trump won the national popular vote this last time around though? And there’s a strong (politically neutral) argument that Clinton could have pulled off an EC win in 2016 if she had taken Trump more seriously - eg: she never onc
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by trafficante 2y ago
-American women are winning hard at college -Chinese men once said in a survey that they feel threatened by high achieving women -Therefore men as a group are most at fault for the decline in marriage and TFR Has anyone written on this is
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by trafficante 2y ago
>> Who would go to Mars without a way back? For a reasonable chance of being forever immortalized as one of the first humans to step foot on another planet? Granted, I myself will never get the opportunity so it’s easy for me to say “
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by trafficante 2y ago
I wish there was a sane and humane way of shutting off the infinite supply of out-of-state (and, increasingly, international) transients. Our homeless programs here in Portland are absolutely overwhelmed with people who arrive here daily fr
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by trafficante 2y ago
If this wasn’t a cynical joke, I sincerely beg you to cover your eyes, plug your ears, and never again ask how the sausage is made. The older I get, the more I can empathize with Cypher from the first Matrix movie. Sometimes, ignorance is b
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by trafficante 2y ago
Remember about a decade ago, when you’d read about YouTube’s algorithm creating an “alt-right pipeline”? Without making any judgments on the alt-right label, it was absolutely a real thing. Many documented cases showing how a fresh account
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by trafficante 3y ago
Your frustration is understandable, particularly in this situation where the critical failures weren’t the fault of outsourced engineers. But we really need to pump the brakes on the whole “everything must be in the passive voice and overly
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by trafficante 3y ago
When the Democrats hold power, this crisis will be exploited to enact heavy taxes on 401ks and the like (recent think tank white papers are creating ground work for this). When the Republicans hold power, this crisis will be exploited to cu
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by trafficante 3y ago
Yep, once your brain gets over the immediate novelty of VR, it’s very difficult to get back that “Ready Player One” feeling due to the absence of sensory feedback. If/once they get it working though, society will shift fast. There’s an
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by trafficante 3y ago
Same thing with my nephew, though he did pick up on the cars. He also was very confused by the “Ronald Reagan? The ACTOR??” joke but immediately thought that BTTF2 Mogul-Biff was supposed to be Trump.
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UEVR – Universal VR Mod for Unreal Engine 4/5 Titles(github.com)
3 points by trafficante 3y ago|0 comments
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by trafficante 3y ago
Seems like a fun afternoon project to get this hooked into one of the Skyrim TTS mods. I previously messed around with elevenlabs, but it had too much latency and would be somewhat expensive long term so I’m excited to try local and free. I
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by trafficante 3y ago
The think-tank -> influencer/trad media pipeline has been optimized to the point where it successfully has captured the long tail of most potential public political discourse. On virtually any hot button topic, ready made points, co
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by trafficante 3y ago
What is causing the healthcare staffing issues? Is this all still related to Covid? Every single healthcare and adjacent person I’ve spoken to in the past year and a half has nigh-universally expressed a sense of impending doom. My PMC doct
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by trafficante 3y ago
Can’t speak for the grandparent poster, but I’ve heard/read enough casual claims of “donating plasma reduces microplastic load in the blood” that it’s been somewhere in the far back of my mind to research further. I already donate bloo
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by trafficante 3y ago
Interesting point about gaming input latency: I haven’t been really interested in twitchy flatscreen FPS since the early days of Overwatch 1 and my VR stuff is mostly bottlenecked by network and decode latency.
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by trafficante 3y ago
Is there a term for people who aren’t especially sensitive to refresh rates? I notice a difference in frame times fairly easily due to the stuttering, but can barely tell the difference between even 30-60hz on a flatscreen game (I do notice
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by trafficante 3y ago
I’m confused why the authors of the original study pegged education as only explaining 5% of the gap, functionally unchanged since the 70s when the labor market was far more favorable towards blue collar work. As far as I’m aware, there’s a
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by trafficante 3y ago
Apropos of nothing else, it sure has been…interesting to witness nearly all of the big name right wing (and many of the larger fringe right wing) accounts on X immediately abandon the America First rhetoric and time travel back to the year
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by trafficante 3y ago
Not sure if your hypothetical was meant to be a reference to the absolutely hilarious classic “Gilbert Gottfried reads 50 Shades of Gray”, but it has me wondering how much of the inherent comedy comes from “the voice” and how much comes fro
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by trafficante 3y ago
Sure, “trust nobody” is a literal impossibility even if you’re way off the grid like Ted K. But I don’t see many people pushing that sort of extreme ideal as a response to the replication crisis or the fraud coming out of highest levels of
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by trafficante 3y ago
Same here in the burbs of Portland: ~$8k/month with a six figure buy-in. And that’s for a place aimed strictly at “professional class” Boomers - I can think of at least 2-3 other retirement places that are significantly more expensive.
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by trafficante 3y ago
Largely because, as others have said, the best case scenario is that the US at least partially funded the lab’s research. Worst case scenario, it was made in a lab but not a Chinese one. I don’t personally subscribe to this belief due to la
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by trafficante 3y ago
As a relatively uninvested onlooker with regards to “NATO bad/good” (but heavily leaning to “bad”): I found this to be a surprisingly compelling counter argument to the anti-NATO messaging on James Baker making false promises regarding
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by trafficante 3y ago
It seems to be absolutely everywhere now. Currently spending the weekend packing for my first move in 5-6 years and, no exaggeration, every single new contract (lease, utilities, garbage, etc) had a forced arbitration clause. When did these

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