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“Then the town was taken over by bears“ and other stories of ignoring reality in favor of impossible political views.
 @J12t whoa, thanks for letting me know! It made Hacker News too -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395866 I really think the average wind speed over recent years has gone up where I live. Eg im sitting in the back yard have lunch, as I have in summer for many years, and I cannot remember it ever really be windy. These days it’s almost always so. Is there a place where I can research wind speed data collected over many years? I haven’t been able to find one,  @J12t maybe grab the NWS data for a couple of area weather stations? I'm on mobile, so haven't dug too deeply, but yeah: yesterday sucked, today feels uncomfortably windy too. @J12t it’s also much windier here. I think in the last 10 years. Definitely in the last 20. A Union. We should create a Union. Like a labor union. But of Fediverse users. A Fedi Union. Just like a #labor union aggregates the diffuse power of many #workers into something formidable that can stand up to the concentrated power of large #capital, a #fediverse #union could stand up to the concentrated power of, say, large tech companies entering the fediverse, if needed. Tell me why this is a bad idea. “Is the algorithm plotting against us?” Apparently there is a book. Hmm… I wonder whether these algorithms have some kind of pinky handshake you need to know before you get admitted to the algomason lodge meeting. Based on a recent experience, it appears one can go through some well-respective computer science colleges and get a bachelor's, without having any idea what to do with a #Linux terminal / shell. Is that true?
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@J12t many colleges have CS programs rooted more in theory than in practice, and you don’t need any computing device at all to study the theory. I think it’s because many colleges originated in a tradition of intellectual hobbies for men so rich they could expect to never have to work for income, and recent changes have not transformed them into trade schools. And since trade schools don’t have software engineering programs, the closest thing I know of is boot camps  @J12t I stopped at an Associate's instead of getting a Bachelor's, but based on the courses I was taking when I dropped out and the remaining courses I needed for the Bachelor's, that seems to be the case. Of course that was a decade ago now so things might have changed.  Nothing in computer science / software engineering can be authoritative — as there is no "king" of computer science/ software engineering — But my guess would be that some of the stuff from Computer Graphics & Video Games would apply. Sometime when you find a problem in your code / setup, you are so lucky, because there was no systematic way you could possibly have found it within your lifetime. Guess that's me today :-) “Google risks forced breakup of ad business” by EU antitrust authorities. That’d be … something! Is #Meta going to port Horizon Worlds over to the #Apple #VisionPro? Or not? A bit of a strategy conundrum for them. What about the other Meta apps? It might actually depend on Apple and how willing they are to not go full walled garden on it. @J12t they created the metaverse so they could control the hardware, partially because Apple screwed them over with Ask Not To Track. No way would they port it to AVP just so Apple can do that all over again. There are over 100m refugees world-wide today, up by 19m in one year. Let’s count ourselves lucky reading this, like me, sitting on my own couch. So fascinating how many reviewers talk about the emotional impact the #VisionPro demo had on them. "Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing" https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-vision-pro-a-watershed-moment/ What does the #music video look like in the time of the #visionPro? If somebody really talented and innovative had a go at it? @J12t One of the obvious ways I'm guessing is to use the augmented view to have the bands, or artists performing in whatever space you're viewing. If they can get clever with ai and CGI, your fav artist is navigating the tight space between the coffee table and bookcase, before flopping down onto your sofa with their guitar as they head into verse 2. That’s not conventional wisdom. “Obesity changes the brain, with ‘no sign of reversibility,’ expert says” https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/health/obesity-changes-brain-wellness/index.html |
