Adding helicopters near the start of game dev: "A Helicopter is a Vehicle." Adding helicopters late in game dev: "When you think about it, a Helicopter is just a very advanced type of Door."

Raman spectroscopy - through opaque enclosure! Mind-boggling and very clever stuff. youtube.com/watch?v=89_HY1…

Legend tier: "Andy van Dam is saying good-bye in style to a conference [SIGGRAPH] that he’s been attending regularly for a half-century." He also taught graphics here for «more than five decades (as Andy says, “longer than anyone in the known universe”)». cs.brown.edu/news/2023/07/2…

I love how there are a ton of “FREE Robux” bots attacking the replies in the same way that the Crypto ones were That tells me everything I need to know about this garbage

The shelter is absolutely at capacity and I have so many vet appointments to pay for this month. I'm ransacking my house for stuff to sell today, but if you have any spare change you could throw our way, I would HUGELY appreciate it gofundme.com/f/Hollys-Merry…

To Regulate Tech, Nullify Click-Through Contracts m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023… Moshe Vardi

Did Unity just massively screw up their customer base, esp. the smaller studios and indies? theverge.com/2023/9/12/2387… Fees per *installation* instead of the customary revenue sharing? Massive price hike for the already existing tooling subs? And on 4 months notice. Whoa ... 🤯

Hmm, Meta is discontinuing both Bogo and Dead & Buried on Quest next March. Not cool, esp. given that Bogo doesn't require any server component and kids love it.

The amount of continued gaslighting by Unity for Games speaks volumes. 1) They try to make it sound like the retroactive change doesn't apply, but it still applies retroactively to all released #Unity games.

Superb talk on the biggest and most expensive programming mistakes: youtube.com/watch?v=qC_ioJ…

Dangerous "#Death #Dalek" lights still on #eBay cc/ian @ Dangerous Prototypes Strange Parts Liam Proven youtu.be/2EpIxtVVXcE

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken nature.com/articles/d4158… <— “The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding…”

I’m not insinuating about the concepts of standalone. Mobility has value But I wonder if it’s kinda pointless to build a battery within if people are always telling me to tether to huge battery packs or wall plugs anyway

Hmm, with the announced "Subscribe/pay or give us your personal data for advertising" push from Meta, I wonder how long we keep the access to Quest accounts without having to pony up some extra dosh? Maybe time to finally ditch all Oculus HW? 🤔

"Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?" newyorker.com/humor/sketchbo… Superb essay!

I recommend everyone to take 4 years to do a PhD, because those 5 will be the best 7 of your life

With this hype around LLMs, I am seeing tons of well respected professors publishing half (if not quarter) - baked work just to keep up with the competition! I will advice them as they did advise me once during my PhD. This has to stop, focus on quality and not quantity… I feel

We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend.

If you are building a Mixed Reality app, you need to see this thread. MR is an edge case nightmare. Meta doesn't know how to properly test it yet, and if you don't know this, you will get 1 star reviews. Here are the top edge cases I had to deal with building Pillow 🌙 🛏️ 👇