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In hindsight it was quite prescient to be installing renewables wasn't it.

It might have been better to lump some of those costs on gas rather than electricity. Polluter pays and all that.

I read this a few days ago, excellent article and an absolutely insane story.

Hyperion has a pretty well-developed view of AGI.

If you want an alias that's fine, just don't use it to do crimes.

What's an "AR bus"? How can augmented reality windows work on a bus unless you are (a) tracking the passenger's head and (b) there's only one passenger?

Screens outside the windows (not on the windows) can provide parallax, no need to track heads. However, in this case:

> They were attempting to pull off AR effects on the transparent OLED windows of the bus without accounting for lens distortion, field of view, parallax, occlusion, etc., and were frustrated and mystified when things didn’t appear to line up. They were completely naive to what depth and scale cues are and how to deploy them.


Can you elaborate? It seems to me that unless the screens are that far outside that they are where the target object is, two people that are offset laterally wrt the target object would have to be displayed something that's offset on the screen.

Imagine two passengers seating in rows r10 and r11, looking at the target T

A. You need to know where a passager's eyes are to display the POI in the right place. Even if each rows gets their own and only screen you'll need to account for their head vertical position (different people are different height) and movement, hence the eye tracking.

B. If you share a window between multiple people you end us with a POI mess with informations displayed multiplied by as much passengers in the bus.

   |- r9  -|w9
   |       |w9
   |- r10 -|w10   T
   |       |w10
   |- r11 -|w11
   |       |w11
   |- r12 -|w12
IMHO the only practical way is with personal headsets like [0] but then you don't need a bus: just use your foot or any transportation: it's AR and not VR.

0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpoLdQpPcAc


So is it an actual moving bus or just a simulation of one? I have not heard of the concept before

I always felt the problem with WinForms was the name. For many, many years I assumed it could only do forms (ie for data entry).

Linux can answer the question, but you're considering Linux as a monolithic platform which it isn't. If you ask "how do you build a UI for Gnome / KDE / Android?" then the answers are pretty clear.

Also, being KDE native means using QT which is a good cross platform toolkit anyways.

Tbh Qt is so big you've still got a few minutes of decision making after you've decided to use it. What parts will you use and how will you use them?

...but then feeling out of place on GNOME / GTK4 / LibAdwaita-land

Linux is a mess, but at least it's unapologetically so.


They've got unified themes that make GTK and Qt applications look nice alongside each other. Users who care will be using those. Users who really care might refuse to use your application because it isn't the toolkit they like, but you shouldn't lose sleep over satisfying such particular and demanding users. They're not paying you anyway.

Petzold is a legendary programmer. His book Code is worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPF/PC

"SPF/PC is an MS-DOS-based text editor and file manager designed to have an interface that was familiar to those using mainframe SPF and ISPF"


Which is why it's important that Tisza are holding rallies across the country. It turns out this (very old) technique is important again when online spaces are filled with slopaganda.

Quite honestly i don't think Tisza is a lot better. They will be somewhat better simply because state will temporarily become weaker due to change of people in power.

Hungary is an authoritarian nation. It was a mistake to invite it into the free world, it should've been kept away like Serbia.


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