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For me it was "Print shop pro" - the 20 minutes of buzzing from the dot matrix to end up with a blocky birthday card to fold in half. Indistinguishable from a bought one!

The creation really is amazing. I harnet heard of the book but got a long way through it!

Wow, amazing article. I hope it gets the attention it deserves.

Yep, same, testing it now and it flies!

Your side comment about saunas got me searching. It's quite amazing (though based on small populations) - I'll be giving this a try, thanks for pointing it out!

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)...

This 'documentary' sums it up perfectly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg

Interesting! What software did you use for that? And how did you set your keyboard up?

Looking good! Would have loved this to have treegrid functionality, please consider it.

This reminds me of the old Simpsons ep where Homer realises their pet elephant costs a lot and decides to retrospectively update pricing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQNPS9v_VU

When calling the GPT-4 API I get this answer:

Sally has 2 sisters. Each brother counts Sally and two other girls as sisters, which means there are three girls in total. Since one of these girls is Sally herself, that leaves two others as her sisters.

When I said 'nope', it corrected itself and gave the right answer.

That's a great find, thanks for the link!

Love the idea of this - but it'd be great to have a list of the languages supported (I'd be wanting C# - it's not listed in the 'treesitter bindings' you've linked to, not sure if that means it isn't supported)

And of course, yes I'd need to be able to provide my gpt4 api key.

I dare say one of the next iphones will introduce the 3d video/photo capture capability. Then you could capture with the phone and view it later on the headset.

This is nicely done. Finding a reasonable csv editor was a 'white whale' I searched for for some years. I found that with EmEditor (commercial, I'm not associated with them), the killer feature is swapping between normal text editor and csv cell based editing seamlessly. I still tell anyone I see dealing with csv's about it. I wish the macros weren't in their own language, but performance on large files is crazy fast.

This is a really worthwhile goal. I grabbed my Quest 2 and jumped onto the site. I wondered if the artifacts around areas in motion (eg the parachutist) are from compression or the 6DOF conversion process? Some 'tiling' effects on the grass areas had me wondering the same, but I imagined these were because the algorithm generates a certain size mesh even when the surface is fairly flat.

What options are there for filling in 'unknown' regions? On the fire spinner video, you can move your head from side to side, but you get darkish blobs shadowing out from behind the performer and the trees. That got me thinking about stereo separation with multiple 180 vr cameras as you mentioned, and how many 360 degree cameras (and/or TOF sensors etc) we'd need to approach real time photogrammetry and a scene where the VR user could walk a meaningful distance within the filmed environment. How plausible would that be given all your experiences in the area?

I'd love to see some downloadable full quality ones to see them in all their glory! Best wishes with it.

After using a macbook with bootcamp for years, I finally bought a Surface Book 2 a couple of years back, thinking the same thing. Was close to the top of a line, nearly $6k AUD. Nice 'not butterfly' keyboard, unified hw/sw manufacturer. From the first few days it was problematic - had to reinstall from rescue media, and it intermittently failed to see the GPU. In between times, normal windows updates would create annoying issues - no more screen brightness adjustment for example. My least favourite one set the volume on any reconnected bluetooth device to 100%, thanks guys.

I'll give it to them though, they didn't quibble about replacing them. On the third one, the keyboard went dark and the top half failed to identify the bottom half (they snap apart so the top half is like a giant ipad, for those unfamiliar). So dozens of device issues popped up constantly. At that point they were ready to give me a fourth and I opted for a refund.

So support is good, the idea is fantastic (loved that crazy giant ipad!) but the dream of the 'hardware creators making sure the OS works perfectly' makes complete sense and has been proven by Apple. But MS failed to do it. I still live in hope for a future iteration that realises the promise.

PS. I know a few people who have others in the surface line which seem reliable, so those are likely to be much better.

The idea that they wouldn't exist if not 'made for food' sounds like a pretty anthropocentric view, what do you base that view on? Aren't cows competing in the same genetic race for survival every other species is? They certainly aren't like a fruit that's designed to be appealing for consumption - except perhaps for the selective breeding we've done since domestication.

Thanks, looks interesting. I find Markdown a great idea in theory, but have found very few examples of wysiwyg markdown editors that work 'as you'd expect'. For me that means:

- Bullets with multiple indents going from 1 to 1) a. etc - Table handling - Usual formatting like heading levels etc

And there seem to be lots of flavours of markdown too, just to add another layer to things.

I use a few things for this (on windows):

- For notes, OneNote, though I'm always on the lookout for an alternative with decent UI and syncing, but using open file formats. Full text search simple enough with this. Code formatting isn't good but there's an addin where the free version formats it as it was copied.

- To search local files, Voidtools Everything is great. Searching instantly by filename is a real time saver.

- If I want full text search of a large base of documents, I used Likasoft Archivarius which cost me $30 about 10 years ago and is still handy. It's the only local desktop search I've found that supports full text indexing of tons of formats like outlook .ost, etc and can look inside archive files

- For backups I've continued to stick with external drives, mirrored periodically with Freefilesync. 3 copies - one as master, two mirrors ensuring one is offsite.