Life could be VERY rare and precious (even single cellular) - is it "Selfish" of us not to be attepting to seed other places where it could take hold? If all of life on earth is wiped out at least there could be our seeded life on Enceladus, then let evolution take its course. (Yeah, I know, invasive species and all that).

A Gamp is a sloppily tied up umbrella. Like Slashdot's spelling. Regarding simple typos - one thing AI coding is very good at is finding logic issues and typos such as this.. I'm sure many of us have spent countless hours finding relatively simple mistakes in code. Although AI is scary especially to "nuts and bolts" junior coding, I can't shake the feeling that this is a good thing - I wish I could have had those countless hours back to do more productive things.

The last programming project from Bill Gates was microsoft basic for the trs 80 computer.


I remember the movie TRON coming out - On my TRS80 - TRON was a BASIC command - TRACE ON ... to debug code and see what line number was running. Made me smile knowlingly as a baby nerd. The stop command - TROFF hasn't been made into a movie...yet.

I had my folks send my Tandy TRS80 COCO away to a factory for a BIOS update just to get the RENUM command, which would modify the line numbers to get you more sweet sweet middle-line numbers... which was needed if you needed more than 9 numbers between 10 "print hello" and 20 goto 10... (and you weren't forward thinking enough to make bigger numbers initially, or write spaghetti code to jump around)

Without paying millions raising kids, they won't need subsdies, they will have as many gold plated butler-robots as they like (or a legion of paid helpers I guess, who then pay taxes, if youre boring). Its only the forced-poor of the mass multi-breeders who need the subsidization. I guess future taxes subsidising the climate disaster if you DO have kids would be ok too. Obligatory obvious plant https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobviousplant.com%2Fprodu...

Surprisingly, in the long term, having less (or zero!) kids does have the largest impact to reducing the climate emergency. In a way this is the only good news I see about solving climate change thats coming about at all. Also reduces wars. A lot.

..you insensitive clod!

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Hell, the latest Q3 firmware update finally allows multiple floating AR windows around you very much like the apple device, at cost that six times cheaper.

You can still bounce lasers off the mirror Neil and buzz left there..... I do like the story about how the mirror-bounce was once shown in a "Big Bang Theory" episode ...and caused shockwaves in the moon landing denier groups.. Pity you need a a B grade sit-com to teach anyone science these days. Probably the only prime-time science a lot of people get.

I love my quest 3 and use it all the time with my pc wirelessly. (And not just for games - great for movies and productivity with three massive virtual screens -great for coding).. I couldnt imagine having to go back to "Cabled" VR like the PSVR2. Since I purchased mine, Three friends also have got one... I feel that Quest 3 may be the breakthrough headset VR has needed. It's cheap, and "just works" wirelessly over wifi. (And now doesn't need facebook accounts - win!)

I'll never revert to meta, although I do like the Quest 3.

Less population = less destruction of nature, and less global warming. Something poetic about microplastics saving us from overpopulation too. Bring it on.. But maybe stop juuuust before the 2006 movie "Children of men" type scenario.

Why don't all these "isolation" type movies ever have VR helmet? Want trees? 9 months in Skyrim VR? - pfft. Easy. And that's without mods.

I'm concerned a lot of people crave little endorphin hits of novelty, no matter the source .. human or AI generated. I feel that a lot of people won't "care". And those litte hits are even more tempting when it reinforces your worldview, no matter how "synthesized" those hits are.

I'm enjoying it - but I'm mostly dabbling in 2d - has everything I need there. I did some stress tests and find sprite generation FASTER than unity - probably because there's less overhead. I'd say 80% of it is "oh that's nice" and 20% "what the hell were they thinking?". The built in physics is ok, but there's already plugins for stuff like box2d and JOLT for 3d Their built in language is easy to use - GDSCRIPT - I find it ... Pythonesque - but you can do C# as well - but that's splitting the community a little. It's really having a windfall of support right now - UNITY wins with it's third party tool support, but man, there's a lot of stuff appearing for GODOT daily at the moment. (Probably from UNITY developers moving over)