midnitewarrior
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Comment · 15 days ago
You can use a rock to hammer a nail, it will sorta get the job done but it won't be great at it.
Comment · 20 days ago
You are describing transmission holograms, the best visual fidelity but it had to be illuminated by laser light. Reflection holograms had a small field of depth before getting blurry but we're visible in white light. Dichromate Gelating (DCG) holograms were also white-light visible, had a smaller depth field than reflection holograms, but we're very sharp and bright. A lot of novelties were made using the DCG process, like novelty glasses that had alien eyeballs in the lenses.
Comment · 20 days ago
You could also cut them into pieces to duplicate the holograms. They would obviously be smaller. A cut hologram includes the whole hologram, just from the perspective of that part of the cut piece.
Comment · 20 days ago
It wasn't that prohibitive. When I did it, I had a helium neon laser recovered from an old supermarket scanner, but it can be done with one of those $10 keychain lasers. The chemicals weren't too expensive, but the holographic plates could get pricey if you wanted a lot of them.
Comment · 20 days ago
Holographic display tech is interesting stuff, but the tech in the article refers to laser holography on a holographic emulsion that is developed similar to a photographic chemical development process.
Comment · 20 days ago
The traditional emulsion had peak sensitivity at 633nm. I don't know much about it otherwise but it was much easier to handle as glass plates rather than film. Russia led the science of this for decades.
Comment · 20 days ago
I wanted to pick up doing holography again, but I discovered that Integraf, founded by legend TJ ( https://www.integraf.com/about/tung-h-jeong ), stopped selling the film and supplies.
Much of the supply chain for modern hobbyist holography was sourced out of Russia, and the ongoing wars have made those materials unavailable.
There are some newer processes out there, but there were probably thousands of us that grew up using those HoloKit holography kits distributed by TJ.
Comment · 23 days ago
AI has no moat, tokens have no price floor.
As a tech business, it's a bad business. The moat is your sales channel and getting companies locked into your platform in multi-year agreements. When companies build systems on your AI API and test it's performance and integrate it across systems, they don't churn, reintegrating, re-testing, and re-skilling costs money.
Comment · 23 days ago
If the talent can't come to Microsoft, Microsoft will offshore near the talent.
Comment · 1 month ago
This looks like it could be very useful for about 3 months. If you're lucky those 3 months will occur after it launches.
Comment · 1 month ago
Look into https://www.fullstory.com/ , many major websites use this, it's basically a real-time video view of the user's browser screen. You can see where they move their mouse, how quickly they are typing, each character one at a time.
I worked for a company that would have phone support for users, and we'd be watching their screens giving gentle suggestions to them as they were using our app for how to do what they needed to do. We never offered up what we were doing, but given users' poor descriptions of what they were doing, FullStory was an amazing customer service tool.
Comment · 1 month ago
100% totality means there is nothing to damage your eyes. I stood exactly on the line a few years ago and we had over a minute to look at it without glasses. Don't be 2 seconds early or late putting the glasses on though. I stopped looking many seconds early to ensure I wasn't staring up unprotected when the sun started showing again. There was an app that talked through the stages with exact timings and a countdown clock which worked perfectly.
Comment · 2 months ago
...and I won't be revisiting Cursor again.
Comment · 4 months ago
idk if it's broken.
I think it's more like, "We don't want our harness to need to be able to interpret every version of our conversation format indefinitely."
Comment · 4 months ago
Go see Weird Al. It was a really great show. My wife only knew one of his songs (Word Crimes, she's a professional editor), and she loved the show. I loved it too.