Pup Biru

yeah viable is such a variable concept

i guess like… i have a friend that is a lab tech, and he vibe coded a stand alone HTML and JS page for their team to take CSV and filter it… the excel process they used before was horrendous… in that case, i guess that’s a viable product: it works, isn’t buggy (or at least bugs will become well known and able to be manually avoided or worked around)… i’d say that’s an MVP but wouldn’t be so if you wanted to productise it

vibe coding is trash for MVPs… it’ll get you there, but as always the achilles heel of vibe coding is maintenance and bugs

vibe coding is great for a POC, but the defining difference between a POC and an MVP is that a POC is made to be thrown out, doesn’t have to work all the time (you can say “ah yup just need to give it a kick” when you’re showing it off and manually intervene)

vibe coding is good to show a basic, unmaintainable, non-production version of a feature of function, but then you need to take that and manually build it into your MVP - perhaps by copying some minor parts of the POC, but verifying every step

perhaps simply putting something like cling wrap over the lens and moving it for each photo would be enough: adding some scratches and roughness that slightly changes each time you move it

i’d guess that the digital processing is a well known change so you can account for it

after all, modern post processing on a phone afaik is done in the raw sensor data, so is using a lot more data than is actually stored in the JPEG: it probably leads to more information being available than if it weren’t done (more shadow detail rather than crushed blacks, etc)

The same applies to radio transmitters and every analogue medium like probably microphone or preamp or ADC.

exactly why when you buy any halfway decent mic there’s the option to buy them in sets: they’ll have come off the production line together so that their imperfections are as close to each other as possible so that they sound as identical as they can be

there will always be burner phones

of course you’re right! we should just shut down some of the largest mines in the world

i foresee no consequences from this

(related note: south australia where one of the largest underground mines in the world is, largely gets its power from renewables)

people should probably move from canada and most of the north of the USA too: far too cold up there during winter

the fact that it made you uncomfortable, or at least thought that it was too much is the point. in the future the author/designers are making a comment on sexual exploitation for profit is commonplace and has been normalised

it’s there to make the setting similar to those familiar to us from universes like blade runner, altered carbon, (to a lesser degree) firefly. it’s the standard sci-fi canon that future corporatocratic society is filled with these things: the money buys whatever you like - the basest of desires are on the table no matter what

and it’s also there in all of those universes as a comment on exploitation and morality: just because you (or rather a select few) can buy it doesn’t make it right

it may not often be part of the narrative per se, but it’s an integral part of universe building: you can’t have narrative in a void, so you need to build a convincing universe to tell the story inside

sounds reasonable… i’ll just go tell large parts of australia where it’s a workplace health and safety issue to be out of AC for more than 15min during the day that they should do their bit for climate change and suck it up… only a few people will die

perhaps for that particular group… though i had a friend whose old af macbook air had stopped updating literally years ago, and he still used it because it still worked… but then apps slowly stopped working

i installed linux on it, and he was actually really keen to give linux itself a go, and it worked great for him!

i gave him an old macbook a little while after that, and he’s back on macos now, but he said he’d switch back in a heartbeat if there were problems (slowness, update compatibility, etc)

i guess the thing being he’s not really technical enough to care about the OS other than outcomes, but also was actually interested in linux itself to learn for the sake of it… he’s a lab tech, and vibe codes data manipulation tools, so not a lot of IT-related skills, but always interested in learning

yeah that’s pretty fair. i often argue pretty similar with context

australia has our head so far up the US’s ass that we’ll probably take some non functional mock ups of F-35s, pay full price, and thank them for also not delivering the submarines we agreed on and paid for and call it a day

PLA is pretty brittle AFAIK. these need to be squeezed, so i’m not sure it’d do… perhaps they could add something to it? but whether that additive would also be compostable… it’d certainly make it non-recyclable

then you have to pay for it though

the UN is a place for diplomacy at all costs: nothing more. any action that comes from the UN is simply a secondary outcome of facilitating talk between countries

it’s not meant to have teeth - it’s meant to facilitate agreement, and avoid misunderstanding

there are lots of different covers for license plates which block photography only, and allow humans to see the plate. i’m not sure how all of them work

for the tricks that mess up AI, yes

but i believe this comment was talking about things like IR blocking covers and such

and they’re probably highly illegal pretty much everywhere because they stop speed and red light cameras working and that’s exactly their marketed purposes

this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle

it’s not technically legal afaik… the license defines a user pretty rigorously