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Their designers were too busy rounding corners.
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Wall Street Journal: "The Amazing Things You’Ll Do In The ‘Metaverse’ And What It Will Take To Get There" [^]Quote: “The metaverse is going to be the biggest revolution in computing platforms the world has seen—bigger than the mobile revolution, bigger than the web revolution,” says Marc Whitten, “senior vice president and general manager of create” at San Francisco-based Unity Software
While the Orwellian reality of "the surveillance state" becomes more salient in millions of lives, and the definition and meaning of "privacy," "intimacy," and "friendship," is undergoing transformations whose fractally pixelated outlines are not yet clear enough to decipher ...Quote: “In addition to being the next generation of the Internet, the metaverse is also going to be the next chapter for us as a company,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
The latest future-mongers, riding on the coattails of Ted Nelson (Xanadu [^]), William Gibson, and other far-seers and pundits of yore, are busy pumping billionaires' rocket fuel into the web ... promising lift-off from this mundane world of primate physical incarnation ... into a noosphere unbounded by such pedestrian impedimenta as space, and time, flesh, blood.Quote: “The avatar experience will feel so real that you can hardly tell the difference between a virtual meeting and a physical meeting ... And the virtual experience will be better.” Daren Tsui, chief executive of Together Labs
As i get ready to sit-still and watch my breath while my mind slowly unravels the "blooming buzzing confusion"[0] of my present states of consciousness which i am so immersed in they constitute my "reality" ... i think at some point i'll remember Robert Louis Stephenson's words:Quote: "for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.[1]
Dare i ask: "aren't we always living in some form of reality which is, more, or, less, virtual ?"
[0] William James, 1890, James used this term to refer to the newborn child's world of undifferentiated sensory experiences. i'm fudging it here  James' view is not fashionable today; see Slocum's short critique: [^]
[1] "The Lantern Bearers" 1888 essay
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Lofty goals when MS can't get Teams to work like it should.
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Hi Dave,
Between the new-shiny on the horizon that promises perfection and the gritty cracked dirt-filled surface of ordinary-in-our-face: the wrecking ball of reality ... swings 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 17-Oct-21 4:33am.
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It's all a bunch of overhyped nonsense. You're not going to be able to "walk on the moon in your pajamas," as the article claims.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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i agree with you on several levels, but, imho;
1) there's nothing fanciful about the increasingly omnipresent surveillance being adapted world-wide. and the emergence of technopolies, and governments, that amass astounding amounts of personal data.
2) look at social-networking, computer gaming, and digi-porn and the incredible number of hours various groups/age-groups are immersed in virtual realities now on a daily basis, often to the point of addiction, or health damage.
3. the coming of wearable haptic sensors (mentioned in the article) will usher in a new dimension to virtual interaction.
4. more important in my view (not mentioned in the article) are bio-sensors, brain-wave analyzers, and their potential direct interaction with the human body. the current generation of bio-hackers are already testing the edges of what's possible, and you can be sure the military is investing in research.
today we have no problem letting a pacemaker implant stabilize a hear; tomorrow we'll play the lottery to get a mega-dose of endorphins released by our gaming implant 
i'm not troubled that i'll be dead before all this happens at dscale 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I'll stick to my plain old email account for business purposes, and 'phone calls to keep up with friends and family, thank you very much.
Whenever I speak to some of my relatives, I make certain to include words such as 'nuclear', 'fusion', etc., just to give the drones in the NSA some work.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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i'm the only one i know in my (Thai) neighborhood has a mobile phone with with no internet, and no camera. the phone's now 12 years old. no land-line either
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Good for you! We Luddites must stick together!
(I have to admit that my 'phone has a camera :bows head in shame: )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: We Luddites must stick together!
Agreed, count me in! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As such, the class action lawsuit states that consumers had been deceived into buying a product that was designed to artificially and unethically introduce functional bottlenecks by tying them to ink levels, even if there's no practical link between them. They should try next time with HP... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I won't be surprised if it turns out it's a bug that was never caught in QA. It's easy to think of a b_enableOperations set as false when ink is low and every component of the firmware checking it before going formward.
I corrected a slew of them in my firmware development stints.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: I won't be surprised if it turns out it's a bug that was never caught in QA.
You being that trustful?
If might be, but I don't think so... if it was a bug, there they would have fixed it and that's it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 18-Oct-21 17:11pm.
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Nelek wrote: You being that trustful?
It's suche a common bug, that I myself corrected, inserted and corrected again so many times I'm willing to bet on it. If QA doesn't do all the tests for every product it may easily happen, and low cost consumer electronics is not bound by standards like ISO26262. Also not attributing to malice whatever whatever.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Bloomberg:Quote: Using sophisticated techniques drawn from statistics and geometry, mathematicians have developed tools that could play a huge role in a gerrymandering lawsuit filed in Ohio and during court fights expected in Georgia, Texas and Oregon. The algorithms can determine whether a map benefits one party or another, with the aim of providing courts and citizens with an objective gauge rather than relying on partisan arguments.
While both mapmakers and their critics have long used software to draw the lines, this year will be the first redistricting cycle in which opponents will have the mathematical measures to objectively show that a map is gerrymandered as the maps are being approved for the next decade. That could potentially alter a process that may determine control of the U.S. House in next year’s midterms.
“I’m thrilled to have math nerds and quants of all kinds enlisted in the battle for democracy,” said Dave Daley, author of two books on redistricting.
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Politicians picking their voters is not democracy. I'd rather the whole districting process didn't involve human hands.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hi, HTC (please forgive the fact i am reluctant to call you "Honey" because that word/name is so often used in a patronizing way by men in referring to women),
"Democracy:" i can't afford "ideals" at my age; i have to get by living off "values." My pastures are so fully covered with tipped-over sacred cows i can't see the grass. 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Exactly. An objective rule, any objective rule, would keep interested parties from tampering with the results.
I was going to make some more comments, but there was a reason why Mr. Maunder closed the Soapbox. You can probably think of an objective means of redistricting without my opinion.
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Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri with plenty of big changes namely the Linux 5.13 kernel and GNOME 40. It's The Year of Lemurs!
I figure I post when there's a new Windows version, might as well hit the competition
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In the prior versions of .NET, there wasn't a native way to break a collection into a set of smaller collections. Caution: API may contain nuts
Am I missing some subtle difference from paging? I guess that it's one call, no math?
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Some of us have been 'chunking' for years: [^]
I find it hard to justify adding this to the language.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Older technologists often complain that ageism is a huge factor in job interviews, preventing them from landing new positions despite their extensive experience and skills. "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance."
Yeah, I probably use that one whenever I post about this topic. Sorry. (not sorry)
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There are good youngs and bad youngs as well as there are good elder and bad elder professionals...
The best could be actually having a tandem to profit from the strength of each side of the coin.
The biggest problem is, that many recruiters / managers can't tell the difference and mostly fall for the crappy buzzword bingo.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In my aged experience, it's not age per se, but salary. I recently even had a recruiter yell at me for asking 'too much'. It became clear the client wanted high six five figures code monkeys.
Which brings up a second factor; they don't want someone criticizing their design, code or procedures with legitimate complaints.
Finally, some hiring managers believe you are going to try to take their job. It's psychological projection; they simply can't believe many, especially older, engineers have no desire to be in management (this situation is worse if the engineer ever was in management.)
modified 15-Oct-21 14:02pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: It became clear the client wanted high six figures code monkeys.
If the client wanted to pay high six figures, then what could you possibly have been asking for that was too much?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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