Fusion is cool and all but fission alone comes so close to the promises of fusion in terms of power delivery, we've not even come close to reaching the full extent of what can be done with nuclear fission today!

Yeah but I just don't feel the need to bring a tablet sized device with me everywhere. If I have a tablet I either have it at home or maybe packed away in a suitcase for use at the hotel.

One thing I was thinking of recently, is that maybe foldable phones could solve two issues for Apple at once.

They want to push 3D headsets for spatial computing, but these are really expensive currently when done well, and it's a lot of effort to drive down costs.

Meanwhile that's always an aded expense to other things you need other than have, like a phone.

But what if a cheaper version of a 3D headset, used the foldable nature to work better as the display part of a 3D headset?

That is to say, you would be able to slot a phone into something like the Vision Pro, and use the phone screens as the screens for the headset.

It would fit better on your face folding since it would wrap around your face better. The optics might be a little odd but I'm sure they could be adapted for.

The headset would still have it's own processing and camera/sensor hardware for passthrough.

Essentially it would be a super-high end take on Google Cardboard... and Google Cardboard did work so the idea has some merit.

In search of a problem. If I want a larger screen I'll buy a tablet. I've seen the Motorola foldable from a year or two ago selling for as little as 350 bucks but passed it up. I just don't see the point

That's not going to happen because it's mostly patents keeping inkscape and gimp from catching up to Adobe coupled with interoperability issues.

For Linux as a whole gaming especially online gaming is a major issue plus if you do anything with fancy hardware like creating music or more advanced video work. I suppose if AI made it so easy for companies to write drivers that they just did it it would be less of an issue. That won't solve the patent issues or the interoperability issues.

You just coping. The majority of programmers don't do design they write functions. When those programmers lose their jobs they aren't going to just take a bullet to the head. They're going to bust their asses to move into the more complex design roles.

Years ago I was goofing off in low paying jobs and then I got saddled with a kid and before I knew it I needed more money. Never mind that inflation and price gouging was rapidly guzzling down my income requiring more money.

I wanted to goof off and relax in the easy jobs I'd had but I couldn't do that I didn't have a choice. So I had to bust my ass and make more money. Otherwise before I knew it I was going to be facing homelessness.

This means I ended up competing with people and throwing my hat in the ring for much higher end jobs. That increases supply.

I do not understand why people think the laws of supply and demand go out the window when their wages are concerned but it stinks of cope. We know the shit's coming and we know we're about to get our asses kicked and we probably some of us have even figured out the solutions to these problems.

But we don't wanna do it because we want things to be the way they are now and we don't want to have to change things like our worldview or thought processes. The kind of flexible thinking that's required to maintain our quality of lives is something we just either don't have or don't want to have.

Instead of that, realistically they should just get rid of TSA now. The cameras around the airport are enough to scan the faces of all travelers. Scent detectors like you list can be put in toilets and around the airpots to narrow in on travelers with suspicious smells. And the scent/facial scan in restroom stalls means bathrooms can double as detainment centers, locking down the room when soemthing bad is detected. :-)

How economies work.

Let's say productivity goes up across the board in programming by 20%. That means 20% fewer programmers because we don't enforce antitrust law so there is little or no competition and companies don't have to worry about startups anymore.

so now you've got several hundred thousand programmers gunning for your job. They are facing homelessness and starvation if they don't pull it off so they really put their nose to the grindstone. Maybe a quarter of them can reach your level.

So congratulations you got 100,000 people gunning for your job. Best case scenario when your boss notices this and cuts your wages. Worst case you get replaced by somebody younger who will work longer hours for less pay.

Were always there. And they were always some of the nastiest in the industry. Blizzard got away with that because people motherfucking love blizzard and they can do no wrong. They've got a realities distortion field that would make Steve Jobs envious.

It does help that the game is perfectly playable and fun without the microtransactions and it helps that it runs on relatively low end hardware. It's been a graphics card shortage for going on 10 years now. You can pick up a $400 mini PC with an AMD 780m and run OverWatch at 1080p medium of the few tweak settings and get 60 FPS Plus

Dude the entire premise of this discussion is that AI will no longer suck for the front end or anything else.

You're just putting your head in the sand. You could make the argument that it'll never get there but honestly with the leaps and bounds we've seen in the last year alone that's a pretty weak argument

Keep in mind Ubi is worthless without a whole host of other programs and protections.

Otherwise the 1% buyout all the capital and production capacity and they can just use monopolies to raise prices and suck your Ubi money right out from under you.

So far the only people with any leverage proposing Ubi as a solution have been right wingers who want to use it as a way to eliminate all other regulations and social programs. The idea is you get your Ubi and you shut the fuck up because hey, we're giving you free money, what's wrong with you? It's there to absolve them and the rest of the community from doing anything else to maintain a proper civilization.

Realistically we need fully automated space communism. But it's like those sci-fi horror stories where people perfect organ transplant before organ growing. We're going to develop too much automation with too much technological unemployment before we are emotionally and socially ready for it.

I will periodically post screeds about technological unemployment pointing out that 70% of the middle class jobs lost since the eighties got taken by machines, how Donald Trump's commerce Secretary admitted that even if factories come back to America they will be automated, and then of course how self-driving cars and AI are going to devastate what was left of our service economy.

I will not at any point in time say anything about what I think the solution to that problem is. With these screens I'm really just trying to start a conversation

I will immediately get at least one often two or three people all modded up complaining about how I want to destroy all the machines and I'm a fucking Amish or something...

That's because the majority of people cannot imagine any other solution to the problem of technological unemployment besides either a) pretending it isn't happening or b) going all Luddite on the machine ass and smashing it with a hammer.

I mean I'm an American and we just had a presidential election where the president had one issue that he hammered again and again and again which is that he was going to raise tariffs to 100% or more on All imports. And the people who voted for him are extremely surprised that he did it and that they now have to pay more for everything that's being imported...

It's like that line about Charles Babbage. Pray thee if I put the wrong numbers in with the right numbers come out...

I am not able to rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that would provoke such a question...

That's what we're up against folks. And Ubi is not going to wallpaper over that.

About you and me to these jokers. The kind of things that can be used to do basically anything from opening a bank account to getting unlimited health insurance to buying houses. Treasure trove doesn't even begin to address it.

And we are giving all of it to them. Every last bit of government data is going to be in Elon musk's and his teenage boys' hands.

And it turns out they are completely incompetent morons who can't even keep basic passwords secure.

True but it is still the team that is responsible for OverWatch and the success of the game.

In order to break the union they would have to make quick and brutal changes to the team. You would lose all sense of continuity. 4 years is a long time in the game industry and a bit of turnover here and there even if you ended up with a whole new team ship of Theseus style wouldn't break things.

But if blizzard goes in there to break the union they're going to have to fire basically everyone. You can replace the planks one at a time and the ship is fine. Going in there with a chainsaw and a flamethrower and you're not going to have a ship left over when you're done.

I ironically find myself agreeing with the employees here.

Overwatch is such a pablum of woke crap that I endorse anything that will kill it more quickly. Go union!

Here's an example of the "rigorousness" of such science.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclimate.org%2Fin...

Let me be clear, I think the research done and data gathered is amazing and insightful. The authors are careful to regionalize their conclusions but cautiously generalize only when reasonably likely.

What I take issue with is the exception handling; when the pre 1000ad data very clearly doesn't fit the expectation, they just TOSS IT OUT (shrug). If your data -which looks solid- shows a significant change when you don't think there should be one, FOLLOW THE DATA.

The result, of course, is a reinforcement of the good old "hockey stick" - little change until recently which fits a desired climate change narrative so much more neatly...