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I mean, it's somewhat possible, depending on context. However even if it helps someone with vision realize their goals 10 percent faster, it helps the person with zero vision pump out slop 100x faster than someone with good content to make.

Where's the roadkill?

A very quick turn let's you see the other half. Bonus, you can look at it from the perspective of a pole and get a much better view of the parts of earth that map projections just utterly mangle. Particularly helpful for understanding arctic geopolitics.

The distortion only applies if you take the screen flatness literally, and no one is going to accuse a 3d game of being hopelessly distorted by virtue of being on a flat screen.

Directions work fine, at that scale you can't even see the difference between a globe and a flat map. It's just zooming it out.

You have to zoom out to see about 500 miles on the screen before the curvature would even be very noticable, and at that point you aren't caring about the navigation in detail any more.

The one travel related thing is getting a better immediate sense for why a plane or boat runs a particular course which doesn't make sense on a typical map.

Well, the benefit is this very discussion here, that 2D projections necessarily have distortion on zoom out..

Note that the 2D map is almost certainly already rendered into a 3D context, it's just how modern graphics are done. Rendering textures to a curved modeled surface for isn't significantly different than rendering them to a perfectly flat modeled surface.

Even better than Bing maps, if you go to Google maps, click 'layers', then click 'more' and check 'globe view', then you have a google maps that on zoom out just happens to render to sphere instead of 2D. Not the least bit more resource intensive, apples to apples with the same textures that it would have used to build the 2D map but just projected onto a sphere instead.

Eh, a 3D sphere with mapping is quite workable. Bing maps can click over an overly detailed globe and the 'sphereness' of it only starts to matter when you zoom out. It's only a bit of a strain because of the texturing, and it's not much of a strain at that.

It would not be crazy to have a more accurate interactive behavior instead of assuming that zooming out enough to see continents should still be flattened out.

Another perspective.

Once upon a time, it was pretty normal to watch something and not be able to pause or rewind. It was perfectly expected that you might not get every single word and you didn't really think twice about it, just like you don't think about how you miss some words in real life.

But now, we can pause, we can rewind. We can get exactly what was said and we get preoccupied with making sure we understand every single word. So captioning becomes even more critical.

Fascinating enough, this might be actually "ok" by they are in the accelerationist camp, then the anti christ is a good thing. They think the world is beyond saving and thus the faster the end times come, the better.

The evangelicals are more likely thinking of the middle east rather than US. Biblical prophecy notes Israel being attacked as the key point of kicking off the end times. This is why accelerationists push so hard for Israel to get embroiled in violent conflct. Even if it is a counter attack, still counts by the prohpecy.

In America, they would likely describe things as "on the mend" as they are getting their way.

Looks like it is genuinely rotary dial design. Those aren't buttons, they are holes. The text is on the black background, the clear plastic above it has holes cut out. There's quite a bit of thickness to that plastic and it's some distance from the black backing. Looks very much like a rotary phone looked, though understandable that most folks haven't seen one up close.

His story was a bit less flattering. The narrative the advocates want is that Torvalds is all in on vibe coding the kernel.

The actual story is that he found it somewhat useful, even as it gave him wrong information and directed him to get help from a developer. A useful, but limited augmentation.

If Torvald's account were the accepted reality, they wouldn't be steamrolling rural locals to make so many datacenters and wouldn't be demanding we need more natural gas power, and wouldn't represent the majority of our economy. They would have utility and be available, but not so obnoxious. Well, maybe, they might not have bothered with so much expense in training for this level of capability, but the cost is sunk now.

Of course most development isn't Torvald's level, it is human slop. So there's more to things than the actually complicated work that AI is limited for.

But it's not only critics that oversimplify. Advocates are obnoxiously bad at declaring everything is all good with AI

I'll second the volunteering, though I never really feel comfortable socializing among the volunteers, it still feels good actually doing something I think matters, but at the same time know I'm utterly replacable and no one would specifically need me to do any of it.