Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"No participant study has been run yet, so we're not claiming superiority ahead of the evidence," he said.

Why not? Seems a simple thing to do before the development gets very far, certainly before the "press release" stage. Probably because they have actually done participant studies and found that trippy map visualizations aren't particularly good for info at a glance or safe for use while driving. The whole design should have been driven by participant studies from the beginning.

The whole article wreaks of a "solution" in search of investors and a problem. No one needs a near street level view for navigation, they've got that already. Adding a layer of Escher-like distortion seems unlikely to make getting information at a glance from a map any better.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

Good question. Also, given the way AI tools are creeping into everything, can we really declare that any modern Photoshop are truly free of AI?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago

Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a "poser" to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some "cool" new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don't have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren't we all?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 25 points 3 days ago

Is the joke that Stranger Things is nothing like Twin Peaks at all?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, well what can I say. The comment section is always full of idiots, myself included.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Nevermind that regardless of any other factor the absence alone for such a long time means that the ethical thing to do would be for him to resign.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be clear, I don't think they are up voting because they think it is real.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think more people just really want these kinds of stories to be real than actually believe this happened. I know that if I had some totally legal way to really fuck with those corporate fascists and the police and the only cost was an ugly wrap on my piece of shit car or van, I'd do it without skipping a beat.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

2026 looks like a good way to impale yourself.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was referring to that glorious hair.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Not all the colors of crayons are available in the RGB space. Some colors will always look different when captured for a digital photo.

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