Military industrialist Palmer Luckey orchestrated contemporary VR with his Oculus Rift so that consumers would subsidize the costs of his miltech projects. I believe this is the same thing. Push your miltech with the "gadgets and toys and digital assistants" angle so that regular people foot the bill.

> Push your miltech with the "gadgets and toys and digital assistants" angle so that regular people foot the bill.

I wouldn't characterize it so uncharitably. We need this military technology and if we aren't getting the funding or efficiency we need from the government and private companies see the need (and there is a need) then this is just an example of the dynamism of our economy working well. In some other countries when such a conundrum arises they can't response - reliant only on the government to put together some big program that doesn't go anywhere and can't pay high enough salaries to attract talented people to make it work.

Yeah, that's why I took the screenshot, so I don't have to remember it. Silly

Microsoft, who would also have an incentive to extinguish the largest hub for open source development, having already embraced and extended it.

15 years from now, they'll say it was obvious.

I would prefer unstyled HTML tables to this slop

I would prefer a crayon drawing

I would prefer just seeing the prompt

this is a novelty that great talented theremin players would find entertaining for 30 seconds before going back to their expensive Moog

So... What's the modern equivalent of gallery.apk ? Looking for just a simple image viewer that shows the "collections" view by default and preferably is GPL and does not attempt any sort of internet connection.

Once we start playing the "You-know-what-I-mean" game, you can be sure the other party is committed to not taking you seriously.

This blog post is a semantic argument, not a logical one.

Yes. And they should be tattooed onto the person's arm, so there can be no mistake. Maybe a bar code?

absolutely insane take