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  • Baggie@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow can we return to techno-optimism?
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    18 days ago

    Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.

    I feel like lately we’ve hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that’s created because it can be, but not because it’s needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.

    We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn’t have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I’m excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that’s boring as shit.







  • Probably too diffuse still, you would need a focal point in front of the bulb for it to cast a recognisable shadow I think? Because the reflective dish would be bouncing light at all angles around the stencil, including inside the intended shadow. You need something exclusively pointing light in a focused beam.

    The flashlight on my phone seems to be a pretty decent for this kind of thing, so whatever led and design that’s got going on could work.




  • I recently replayed it. It’s kind of a weird one, but yes I’d say worth 5 bucks even as a window into the past.

    The interrogation gameplay mechanics are a bit vague and difficult to understand exactly how to make the game do what you want, or even what you think the entire mechanic does, but to its credit it doesn’t usually give you a hard game over when you make mistakes. I failed an interrogation for example, but I got a few extra scenes of comedy that I didn’t see last time when I succeeded.

    It pioneered facial capture in video games, but it’s out of sync with the rest of the body animation. Combine that with the low res textures and it’s a bit uncanny at times. Fascinating to see given where motion and facial capture is today though.