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Meta's AR/VR Hardware Teams Must Cut Spending By 20%
  • That's not something you can tell from the numbers given, because it depends on their total spending, not their losses. Maybe they spent 50B/year and made 40B/year back, leaving them with 10B in losses. I that case reducing the spending by 20% to 40B would make them even

  • Queer Amsterdam wants to ban Israeli flags at Pride Walk, Halsema prohibits ban
  • Is the "Palestinian Authority police" Israeli? Because from the article it doesn't sound like it - neither does the name tbh.

    From the article (emphasis mine)

    [...] local Palestinian Authority police are aware and keep files on him and other homosexuals, blackmailing them into working as spies and informants

  • Queer Amsterdam wants to ban Israeli flags at Pride Walk, Halsema prohibits ban
  • gay and trans Palestinians

    Hot take: I don't believe Gaza is progressive enough to have a large population of openly gay or trans people.

    Not sure why you're making this a LGBTQ thing anyways, mistreating POWs and seemingly intentionally maximizing civilian losses should be bad enough by themselves.

    [Edit: formatting]

  • Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?
  • LLMs work by always predicting the next most likely token and LLM detection works by checking how often the next most likely token was chosen. You can tell the LLM to choose less likely tokens more often (turn up the heat parameter) but you will only get gibberish out if you do. So no, there is not.

  • I speed tested a few browsers here are the results
  • The browser does not influence your download/upload speeds, with the exception of Tor, because it sends your traffic through a series of VPNs.

    I don't know what you measured, but it's not the difference between browsers.

  • Any websites to help me find the genre of a song?
  • If it's a well-known artist, looking them up on Wikipedia is a good way to get an idea what genre they make. A website that does this for all songs individually would probably be AI-powered and wrong most of the time.

  • Microsoft's screenshot everything feature isn't so bad
  • An unpopular opinion can have more or less thought put into it and be genuinely interesting and get up- or downvoted accordingly. Just like a photograph in a photography sub can have more or less thought put into it and an interesting or boring subject and get up- or downvoted accordingly.

    Genuine photograph and the people downvote it... In a community named "photography".

    Sounds like utter nonsense doesn't it

  • More Than 50% Of Fortune 100 Companies Are Already Using Apple Vision Pro
  • Mind you, I'm not saying vision pro is not promising or useful. I'm saying, that in a corporate environment, it's very hard to find a business case where you'll be able to justify the >3500€ price tag to your manager.

    The best business case I can think of right now, would be for development teams that want to get started developing VR apps. Likely that's also what all of these companies bought one for.

    But you state a lot of things as fact, so I should ask, have you used one at all?

    Unfortunately I have not. It hasn't been released where I live yet. The closest I have gotten is my Quest 3.

    You dismiss "editing videos" as if that's not an incredibly useful to be able to do that.

    It is really useful. But if you're already editing videos professionally, it needs to be an upgrade over what you're using right now. An upgrade big enough that it makes back the cost of adjusting your workflow and the 4000€ investment.

  • More Than 50% Of Fortune 100 Companies Are Already Using Apple Vision Pro
  • Classical VR use cases like simulators and 3D design are better served by competitors. Most of the software runs on Windows or Linux, and you'll likely want the most ludicrously powerful graphics card(s) you can fit into a computer, which an M3(?) chip is notably not. Also proper controllers are generally useful for professional VR applications.

    But at least it's good for productivity, right? Wrong. For productivity purposes, it's effectively an iPad Pro with an infinitely large screen, awful battery life, that is somewhat bulky to transport and costs at least 4000$ by the time you have a keyboard and a reasonable amount of storage. And all of that for a device on which you, as of now, can effectively only write emails and edit videos on.

  • Which GPU or GPU brand would you buy for gaming these days?
  • Supposedly Nvidia has become a lot better on Linux lately. They finally dropped their weird framebuffer API or whatever (the one that was the reason for horrible Wayland compatibility and also caused a heated Linus Torvalds moment), and I think they even made their linux drivers open source.

  • ELI5: What kind of security mechanisms do software companies use to ensure that the source code of their products will be practically impossible to discover?
  • For most of the code, I don't think anything special is used.

    Compiling the code already obfuscates it enough. Most function, type and variable names are removed, the compiler does some optimizations and what you end up with is already pretty indecipherable code soup.

    There are obfuscators that make the resulting binaries even harder to read/decompile, but further obfuscation also makes your code run slower.

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