cbarrick

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago (5 children)

So you're telling me that there was a Mac super computer in '05?

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The EU gave Google an option: pay or take down the content. The latter option was a bluff, and Google called them on it.

I don't think this will hurt Google at all.

But it will certainly drive less traffic to these news sites if they are banned from Google. And that will hurt the news sites.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

EU: You have to pay to show our news.

Google: Ok. We won't show your news.

EU: Pikachu face

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, they don't have to release the source code. A compiled version would be fine.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

Older multiplayer games would let you self-host the server, long before the current trend.

Ubisoft doesn't have to continue to host servers. They just have to release the server code. Zero cost to them.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch banks?

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch brokers?

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch from Venmo and PayPal?

Which Americans are not in a similar position?

X Payments is doomed to fail. He missed the boat. The market is already saturated, and they've lost all brand loyalty.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And were they any good?

My car runs Android Automotive^1 on an Intel Atom and performance is trash. I would hate to have a phone on the same platform.

^1 As in, the car runs Android directly, not Android Auto running from a phone.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

What are you going on about? Have you ever ridden in one of these?

They do have these buttons...

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9172373?hl=en

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

I see. Yeah, obviously the world only has 3 spatial dimensions, so you can't represent 4D data spatially.

My general point is that we have additional senses that we can use to represent additional dimensions. And that totally counts as "visualization".

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And it is not possible to "visualize 4D"

Sure it is.

  • 3 spatial dimensions + time
  • 3 spatial dimensions + 1 color dimension (grayscale)
  • 2 spatial dimensions + 2 color dimensions
  • etc

And that's not even counting projection. All the time we interact with 3D data that's projected to 2D (almost every photo you've ever looked at). There are similar ways to project 4D to 2D.

(Not defending the video or anything, just pointing out that visualizing higher dimensions is something we know about for ages.)

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think so.

At first, Xockets sounded like a legit tech company to me. But a closer look at their website reveals that it's actually run by a bunch of patent attorneys.

https://www.xockets.com/our-team/

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