FrankyHollywood

Well, not with a micromirror array which directs a different image to each eye.

Would love to have it at home and watch a concert! I tried watching a VR concert at YouTube with goggles but the experience is not very relaxed

"Slop kiddies":D

There is some effect however. Many kids including mine used to have there first phone around their 10th birthday. Now I see parents around me waiting longer due to the ban.

Sure if you are 15 you can get a phone yourself, but for younger kids the ban has a positive effect.

Exactly, the article also mentions "Only about 1% of those used in the US are made domestically".

It's already being done so it seems more a cost related issue than lack of knowledge.

For me it's funny to see the discussion is completely black-white, like everyone is hooked.

I have 3 kids, 2 use their phones like half an hour at a time, the other is completely hooked, hours and hours. If I don't intervene he doesn't dress in the morning, and continues until he really can't keep his eyes open anymore somewhere around 3am.

For him I use the parental control on my router. All his devices have time limited wifi, and he has no data in his phone plan. Since I've done this he goes outside more, and has developed other interests. Today he actually prepared lunch for us, a 14 year old boy!

My point is, I think it's better to help your kids use their phones moderately instead of completely blocking. I once heard from an alcoholic who always keeps beer in his fridge. Not to drink it, but to be sure you learn to deal with this shit, and wherever the beer is, you can manage not taking it if you don't want it.

Interesting how experience can differ. A trauma for you was my most important lesson learned during high school years.

Sometimes a good teacher doesn't give the answer straight away, but just enough to let you discover yourself. That's a huge difference.

Don't know if TikTok is the problem, a generation ago (some) kids mindlessly watched cartoons for hours a day.

I think this is mostly about learning to think and develop grit.

As a kid when I wanted to play a game I had to learn dos commands, know how to troubleshoot a non functioning sounds blaster etc. Sometimes took me days to fix.

Doing this develops understanding of a domain, problem-solving skills and grit.

My kid just opens steam and everything works. Any question he has he asks AI. I am really curious what effect this will have on this generation. It is tempting to quickly say "they will be brain dead zombies" but that seems too simplistic.

In 20yrs we'll know!

Yes piracy is more necessary than ever!

In my student years I used DC++ just to watch free movies. With the rise of streaming I kind of forgot about it, until I got annoyed.

I don't like the Spotify. Most songs I like are available, but the 'playlist' experience is terrible. A lot of songs are actually part of an album. "Is an album like a playlist on a disk?" my kid asked. No it's not, a playlist is a randomly assembled list of songs, but an album are songs who belong together, they are the album.

And video streaming is the opposite. The experience is nice, but there is so much missing even if you have multiple streaming subscriptions.

Besides convenience there is politics, what if Trump wants a list of everyone who thumbed up 'The White House Effect' on Netflix?

So, after many years I took an old Raspberry 3 and started torrenting again. To my surprise piratebay is still active (although my old account doesn't work anymore, no clue how to provide new content).

I'm really happy, the Raspberry has a Samba fileshare. Just download the VLC app on your smart tv and you can stream anything you like.

I know there are more advanced solutions to torrenting, but I like this simple approach, and it makes me completely independent. Let's start sharing great content again!

$100 billion, what a number. It makes me a bit cynical. The amount of useful developments you could finance in either clean energy, education, nature preservation, medicine, anything.

But no, let's build us a slightly better code generator.

Strange times we live in...

The article states "When that same data is transformed into a knowledge graph"

This is a non-trivial exercise. How does one transform knowledge into a knowledge graph using RDF?

RFD is extremely flexible and can represent any data and that's exactly it's great weakness. It's such a free format there is no consensus on how to represent knowledge. Many academic panels exist to set standards, but many of these efforts end up in github as unmaintained repositories.

The most important thing about RDF is that everyone needs to agree on the same modeling standards and use the same ontologies. This is very hard to achieve, and room for a lot of discussion, which makes it 'academic' :)