TFW you're in Iceland but all @triciaakatz wants to do is play with AR✨p a r t i c l e s✨
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Lead XR Software Engineer (Immersive Production Technology) // formerly , // he/him
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Turns out the market doesn't need as many tech workers as tech workers would like to think. Those are absolutely not the jobs being created
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it's so disorienting to see the insane number of tech layoffs recently and then to see today that the US added 517K jobs + pushed unemployment down to lowest level in 50 years... can't tell if i'm just in a tech echo chamber or if i'm missing something else here
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all four horsemen of the apocalypse (fire, flood, famine, pestilence) are direct results of climate change. Can't think of another environmental factor that hits all 4
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Accurate
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Best coders I know work with a setup like this from Eastern Europe.
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Men Tweet The Darndest Things (While in Prison for Sex Trafficking)
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Again, things I'd do for free
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You're offered $1 million, but you can never use React/React Native again. Do you accept?
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anyone run into any issues with ARFoundation (ARKit) & URP on *silicon* based Unity builds? I'm fairly handy with the pipeline and camera passthrough seems broken (ye olde black screen). Can't repro on non-silicon builds. CC
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(nothing before XP, either. XP was apex)
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I'll gladly do it for free if someone only forced me
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You’re offered $1 million dollars, but you can never use an OS after Windows XP again. Do you accept?
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you know effective altruism is over when even hacker news dunks on it
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I suspect it's not even the actual DL speeds that are the issue, just the UX. The game is fully downloaded, still stuck on 0 / 0 bytes.
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some things stuck at 0/0 bytes. Some things stuck at 95% percent. No notifs. No way to check what's actually going on. The whole thing is 10X more agency-less in VR
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recently I've been seeing a lot of complaints about Quest download speeds / UX in general and I just want to add:
wow, yeah, it's pretty terrible, isn't it?
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just watched an immersive VR experience. Was thinking about how easy it is to spot something made with Unity - the Shuriken vibe, the PP stack artifacts, the light rendering.
The smug satisfaction lasted all the way to the credits where, of course, this showed up
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Nonzero chance that a few years down the line Binging becomes a synonym for "intelligent, meaningful GPT-4 assisted search" while Googling ends up synonymous with "trashy ad-infested unhelpful spam"
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I've genuinely never heard, played or requested freebird in any live music event. I don't believe that's a real song. It sounds like top dadrock parody.
Streaming links shall not convince me otherwise, it's probably some genAI music bullshit
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non-bluecheck tweets rarely reach anyone anymore, this may be the last time I hit 420. Farewell, niche micropopularity, it was a fun ride
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This is not a monetization strategy. This is a burn down the platform strategy
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just looked at twitter api pricing (as they turn off the free api) and it is insanely expensive. e.g. search starts at 30 cents per request.
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Hey folks, even if you're not planning on using Mastodon instantly, you should take some time this week to create an account and set up your follows.
Twitter is starting to charge for API access to the migration tools in 5 days, meaning the migration tools will probably break.
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the death of the 3DS sucks so bad. i know we joke about how easy it is to hack (and it is) but also like. the DS form factor is so unique and also was so ubiquitous for a while that this is like an entire mode of engagement with games just slowly going away as the hardware dies
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<model-viewer> v3.0 is here! This includes two major new features: Dynamic Hotspots and Animated Textures.
See all the bug fixes, editor improvements, etc in our release notes: github.com/google/model-v
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The Lincoln Highway: Across America on the First Transcontinental Motor Route
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twitter really is in a competition with netflix to see who can ruin their valuation the fastest, huh
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One of my favorite albums in the whole world just arrived. First vinyl edition ever (which is weird for a 1993 record). Small wins baby, sometimes it's the small wins
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"The First of Them": Ben's idea, from the Cordyceps' perspective
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Would like to see "The First Of Us" a film set in medieval times in which a remote village has to survive the first Cordyceps mutation.
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The AI for the endless procedurally generated Seinfeld episode got stuck and the AI Jerry has been standing in complete silence on the microphone for the past 10 minutes
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A Blockbuster™️ move if there's ever been one
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Netflix's new password-sharing rule: Every 31 days your device must log in on your home network — or it will be blocked.
thestreamable.com/news/confirmed
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Like printers, these exist, and would be considered technological marvels of the highest degree if they didn't suck so badly and break down so frequently
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a washing machine that automatically dries the clothes what are we even doing here
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the woke mind virus must have gotten to him
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A THREAD on 's work for #Andor, based on the in-depth interview with ILM vfx supe Scott Pritchard. beforesandafters.com/2023/01/31/her
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presenting STEREOGRAM, a split-screen platformer in a broken world
out now!
managore.itch.io/stereogram
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My annual reminder.
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My life thus far has been one long struggle to tell Toby McGuire and Elijah Wood apart. Just finished Spiderman 3, and… I’m officially giving up
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Thinking again about how Kate Bush got Donald Sutherland in the music video for Cloudbusting
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(Future’s looking grim for code monkeys but ninjas and gurus are on the come-up!)
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