we need ray tracing for audio!
also, materials handling.
maybe these early attempts are not great examples yet, but headed in the right direction. spatial sound i think makes sense in applications like gaming or, say, a vr chat room or something, but music? you don't want spatial music. you want a nice warm hug from the music or you want to be fucked by it, you want to be inside the music or it to be inside you; from every possible angle.
we are really drowning ourselves in these first world problems with hyper gimmicky useless crap. stick to the basics and do it better. keep it simple stupids.
i suppose there's something to this 'head turning' experience, but what immediately came to my paranoid mind was all that sweet juicy private data that they will likely have access to. knowing what you look at/are doing while you listen to music. your entire bodies movement is related to the way your head moves. the only people i picture that do nothing while listening to music, just sitting there actively listening, are hifi guys in their hifi chairs.
why spend resources on this though? how do you set the 'reference' point? the source of where the music is supposed to come from? if you're at a concert and turn your head left and right, there's not much change in where the source sounds like it's coming from. even if you turn around, the sound at a concert is so consuming that even turning barely makes a directional difference. the next best thing after a wall of sound is four walls of sound.
when you think about it, we have basically perfected many things. i see a lot of pervasive technology going more towards using customers as products rather than providing more value to them. in other words, the added feature/value becomes the way to harvest more granular data.
i think anything boxy is antiquated. you can always swivel your monitor for more vertical real estate. being able to look at two windows side by side i think is more valuable than increasing vert at the expense of horz.
all this 1x1 and 4:3 business just sounds like hipster nostalgia to me. granted I'm not a programmer, but we're not all programmers either. it's almost as if there's some virtue signaling going on there. oh the desire to be different in a mass produced world.
from what i remember open core doesn't need to disable sip to function, just to install. the firmware is the actual firmware upgrades released by apple [everyone was shocked they supported this] that come embedded in the osx updates. my updates worked fine.
I'm pretty sure sip gets re-enabled each boot, but to check for authenticated root volume i think i need to install the g20 to run crutil or whatever it is.
happy to hear that I'm not the only one [sys admin type person] doing this.
although i use Windows, i do have Catalina installed [and Debian for the triple boot]. also using open core. I'm pretty sure i downloaded a copy of osx from one of their repositories 0.o
I'm super lazy, it's really not that hard.
my average cost for hardware since i bought my Mac is now less than 400/year CDN. is it worth it? while I'm slightly concerned about the security [I'm probably the biggest risk anyways since I'm not confident in my knowledge of secops], i get 95 fps playing pubg, can edit in 4k, run 100+ tracks in Cubase, and run 3 different OSes or as many vms as you'd like [which i think can also run bare metal vm on the 144 firmware upgrade]. on top of that the case still looks good and I've kept at least 50+lbs of ewaste out of landfills or whatever... seems pretty worth it [hopefully no one ever tries to steal pictures of my cats]
[we could also get into a discussion about the right to repair bill in the EU, talking this way]
do you game? i feel like that might have been intentionally left out of the interview?
what info would you keep unencrypted on your servers?
how much does a colo cost for a 2u server typically? how about back in 06?
is rsync a good solution for video files backup?
what are the benefits over say, running a home server and keeping physical backups at your friends house or iron mountain or something?
can rsync use 'live' encrypted data? in other words, how do you encrypt/decrypt on the fly? say for streaming an mp3 or something? [not that you would do this if you were paying per GB...]
please excuse my ignorance. I'm not a real sys admin, just an old wanna be hacker that could never get his shit together.
i can't read the entire article, but i can read the comments. it doesn't look like anyone is talking about the real reason for CBDCs. which is to create more liquidity. in other words, to get money out of escrow while international cross border payments are settled.
when a large transaction [billions] is made between two countries, there must be that much of each currency in either institutions account. it is there for days or weeks at a time. so that money isn't being put to work, it's just sitting there. a CBDC would settle these transactions within seconds. this is why something like xrp is interesting to many people.
specifically, CBDCs are interesting where the IMF is involved. they issue to countries something called special drawing rights, SDRs. these are a basket of currencies used to 'balance' the international monetary system between the developed world and the developing world. [the world bank is where the g7-20 do their banking].
a 'one world currency' might look something like a CBDC SDR. since currency transactions can be immediately settled anywhere in the world, a [diversified package of] SDR would essentially serve as a 'world dollar'.
as an aside, the economic reset being promoted, coincidentally by the world economic forum, i think, is an attempt at a peaceful transition away from the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency. and while it might be china's Yuan or reminbi that replaces it, i think it might be something more like an SDR. or, in other words, a basket of currencies lumped into one digital currency; a one world digital currency.
hrrmm, any suggestions on personal projects that will make mill-i-ons?
I'm half serious. like how can i make an algorithm that auto trades vwap starting with a $1000 account?
anyone have links for projects in;
building your own receiver.
building a laser.
building a 4 story walk up multi family unit.
building a particle accelerator
programming a kernel from scratch
how to get a super hot mail order Russian bride for free
how to convert your car to hydrogen cell
how to create your own cannabis genetics
i threw some in there to see if you're paying attention, but maybe there should be a thread for cool projects [not just github like].
i wonder this; if there is a stop loss already on the books at x price and a HFT enters a market order at that price when a stock is falling, which order will get filled first? i feel like answering this question would sort of answer the argument you guys are making?
as for useful work... we should really just be honest with ourselves/each other [and machine learning/ai might help us to do this] about what is actual useful work. it begs to challenge freedom, but ultimately i think we're headed for an efficiency level that will make the most efficacious worker look lazy af...
you're quite right about this.
although i would say that we do actually store memories in our bodies. this is where extended abuse and trauma really take their toll on people. think about shell shock in veterans. they train and train for combat. then they see combat and the trauma then embeds itself in the 'muscle memory' of training. then something random happens but triggers the muscle memory and the memories come flooding back.
same for say, abused wives. say they get out of their situation and meet a nice person. then one day that person gets angry that the dog shat in their best shoes and they have a fit which reminds her of her previous relationship. the memories come flooding back.
depression is the same. for me it's been a recurring failure of academic and meritorious achievements. in our society not achieving these things is like a frying pan in the face when you want to do something that requires experience say. sure, I've learned to duck, but everytime life swings a frying pan at my face [being fired, not meeting qualifications, being considered unreliable/unintelligent etc] all those old memories come back. so you end up dodging one frying pan and get hit by another, as if there were some kind of compound interest frying pan abyss. my metaphor for the muscle memory of depression. eventually you just take the hits cause what's the use in trying to dodge the pan?
i will say this though; after being on disability for a decade there is something bitter sweet about the rising levels of depression brought on by covid. while i don't wish depression on anybody whatsoever, and hope one day we'll find some perfect somatic solution to it, misery really does love company.
I'm not sure how to get the depression out of the muscle memory, but i do know we need to do a better job of getting people away from their trauma.
are you enjoying working towards your goals?
they're mostly right when they say it's the journey not the destination. goals are good when they're a part of the journey. as a means to an end... that's what they are. the end.
trust me young person, I've been on disability for depression for the last ten years! it's all been a purgatorius bad dream. align your goals with the work you love and tell yourself it's ok if you don't meet your goals.
I've reached many of my goals. for instance; flying an airplane. but i never was a fighter pilot like i wanted to be.
we are all a set of experiences. unique in this regard. that's the beauty of it all. so don't be less in by the prestige [see my recent posts on prestige ;]
1. creating a backdoor defeats the purpose of having encryption in the first place. it makes the creation of encryption irrelevant and pointless. a chicken and egg scenario. so it's an all or nothing kind of argument.
2. don't quantum computers make all encryption obsolete anyways? and with quantum encryption, whether or not your data gets compromised, it tells you that someone tried to, or got access to, your encrypted data.
it seems like the government already has a backdoor for all encryptions since they already have a quantum computer. so i think that this whole argument is more about setting the precedent of control over a population. gaining consensus and solidifying power. something you do when you're trying to increase your influence [which someone says the gov is always trying to do]. applying the use of force to encryption.
i think the thing for humanity to realize is that absolutes exist only in oblivion
maybe these early attempts are not great examples yet, but headed in the right direction. spatial sound i think makes sense in applications like gaming or, say, a vr chat room or something, but music? you don't want spatial music. you want a nice warm hug from the music or you want to be fucked by it, you want to be inside the music or it to be inside you; from every possible angle.
we are really drowning ourselves in these first world problems with hyper gimmicky useless crap. stick to the basics and do it better. keep it simple stupids.