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New comment by zardo in "Whatever became of holography? (2011)"

zardo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:04:03 +0000

We have holographic displays, they have expensive components the picture sucks, and they're are on optical workbenches, but there is real hardware.

It's not exactly like looking through a window, they can do that, but they can render an image in front of the window as well as behind it.

New comment by zardo in "Whatever became of holography? (2011)"

zardo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:56:54 +0000

Not all holograms are displays, except in the sense that any piece of photographic film is a display.

New comment by zardo in "Whatever became of holography? (2011)"

zardo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:51:52 +0000

There are still light field cameras available, but they're all call for pricing industrial cameras.

New comment by zardo in "Thinking will become a hobby"

zardo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:57:27 +0000

Thinking was a hobby in the ancient Athens wasn't it?

New comment by zardo in "Thinking will become a hobby"

zardo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:55:27 +0000

Enclosure was well underway in England, so they probably understood the dilemma of modernization simultaneously increasing total productivity and lowering the living standards for a large population.

New comment by zardo in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

zardo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:27:24 +0000

Aren't permissions on notifications less restricted then full disk access?

New comment by zardo in "GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design"

zardo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:21:29 +0000

Chocolate lovers will delegate chocolate eating objectives, GPT-Hersheys will automatically eat the chocolate.

New comment by zardo in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

zardo — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:30:07 +0000

Also the ability to set the training input limit in the past could be useful.

New comment by zardo in "It's 90 Degrees in the Arctic"

zardo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:19:17 +0000

The dunce glasses

New comment by zardo in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

zardo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:14:17 +0000

Thieves. People are afraid to say it but thieves are responsible for almost all theft.

New comment by zardo in "Transit rewards"

zardo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:53:48 +0000

The why would be the ~100 municipalities in the bay area.

New comment by zardo in "Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)"

zardo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:54:12 +0000

The high infant death rates in Iraq prior to the global war on terror were also the result of US intervention (by liberals btw).

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

New comment by zardo in "Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?"

zardo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:54:30 +0000

I would benefit from lower ram prices so I would love to see the AI panic result in restriction on the datacenter build out.

New comment by zardo in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

zardo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:57:08 +0000

A great option if you're having trouble throwing up.

New comment by zardo in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

zardo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:16:15 +0000

> A line of constant bearing will always be a great circle.

That's not right. Imagine heading due West, and keeping your compass pointing West every step anywhere not on the equator. That traces out a longitude line, not a great circle.

New comment by zardo in "AI, ex-Soviet engineers, and the Holy Grail of rocketry"

zardo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:44:10 +0000

The vast majority of launches now are now commercial LEO satellite constellation.

Would ITAR prevent Amazon from contracting with a Chinese launcher?

New comment by zardo in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

zardo — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:27:05 +0000

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New comment by zardo in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

zardo — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:40:53 +0000

What terrorist attacks?

New comment by zardo in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

zardo — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:02:33 +0000

Those greedy bakers that only got into baking for the bread (money).

New comment by zardo in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

zardo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:59:24 +0000

If you're going to destroy the book anyway you'll go with the easier method for a good scan(separate the pages from the spine)