regular camera that took shots of the office coffee pot?

well it predated ‘digital’ cameras, was around when film was still big - 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

128x128px greyscale feed was achieved with a video camera connected to an Acorn Archimedes quipped with a video capture card.

fair. but hope remains.

a man can dream

You need to be a better storyteller if you’re going to convince people are in the wrong, according to you, about something, otherwise they feel attacked

or perhaps they should be better, more informed consumers?

like, at some point people should be responsible for their own stupidity and self delusions.

ketamine is one hell of a drug

Zhang Wei can change his name to whatever the fuck he wants he’ll still ve Zhang Wei TikTok

seveneves was a banger, if you haven’t read it just go in hot.

you’re picking a fight that doesn’t exist.

have fun talking to yourself.

The only downside to the loss of physical media

and the fact that it can easily be stolen. I’ve had multiple large CD catalogues stolen, both in college and as an adult. Thousands and thousands of dollars of music <poof> gone.

No one has stolen my ripped music.

YMMV, but CDs are easy to gank enmasse. If it was all vinyl they would have had to take multiple trips pushing a dolly.

In the day of AI, will we ever have a new alternative?

perhaps we’ll see a resurgence of value added platforms that ensure it’s all human generated information. not an easy problem but… if there’s demand

depressingly plausible.

I would believe an AI could be a more impartial judge than anyone currently wealthy.

it’s also a bad vr headset. it’s an augmented reality headset that does vr secondarily. and surprisingly uncomfortable.

he must have been wearing a tan suit and everyone just got distracted

once they threatened to abandon it sure. eventually even corporations can be dragged into doing the right thing.

why do you think a title should be coopted by a bunch of developers?

You gotta fail somewhere to be succesful, and valve did just that.

you aren’t wrong, but I don’t even view them as failures so much as future investments.

maybe they mean open to copilot/recall

unreal has, at least since the 2010s, an engine that focuses on AAA looks and advanced features. 5 amped that up with nanite and other gpu stressful tech.

I personally found UE4 to be a bloated dev environment, but ymmv.

Plead permanent sanity.

temporary sanity is the best I can manage these days.

divvying up food rather than doing actual math.

divvying up - dividing food into equal proportions - is math.