Been playing with this through the ChatGPT interface for the past few weeks. Couple of tips. Update the css to get rid of the gradients and rounded corners. I found red with bold white text to be most consistent. Increase the font size. If two labels overlap, push them apart and add an arrow to the element. Send both images to the API, a version with the annotations added and a version without.
I would love a bit of AR object recognition with overlays in a target language for language learning. Via the mics you could overlay a translation of whatever was just said as well. A little pinch on an object could tell you what the object is.
Another similar idea with object recognition would be an AR scavenger hunt.
This is amazing. VB6 and later mIRC were pivotal to my learning as a kid. Well done author on capturing the essence of what made VB6 a great and productive learning tool.
I re-evaluated VB6 with age. We "internet kids" liked to shit all over those dated-looking widgets, but the productivity boost it allowed Grown Up People to write apps to Get Real Shit Done, remains fundamentally unmatched today.
Its main limit was really the same as Windows: it was fundamentally a single-user application model. It's a shame that Microsoft didn't really manage to make something equivalent for the internet age - mostly because of commercial choices made to support Windows and SqlServer.
+1. People seem to have forgotten the impact of VB apps. I would go so far as to say VB was world changing. Suddenly everyone could create professional-looking apps in whatever domain their business needed.
The fact that VB apps had all kinds of DLL hell and security issues cant entirely be laid at the feet of the non professional VB devs of the era, but its cast a pall over what was in some sense a golden age of productivity.
I love Australia but I do not like them — they’ve been such a disappointment to me. They’re the smart kid that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and had so much potential. But, rather than forge an amazing path, out of fear they systematically sabotaged their own success by following the drop-kick popular crowd. Source: Australian now living in NZ.
Like you, I really struggle with Australia (I was born in NZ. Lived 30 years in Australia, now a digital nomad).
Australia seems to be doing everything in it's power to not be climate friendly. Dismantling carbon tax, trying to maintain coal power[0], exporting coal, putting taxes on electric cars[1] (WHY?!). Plus, other things I've likely forgotten.
This is without all the other items unrelated to this story. Treating refugees badly[2][3], and finding new ways abuse indigenous Australians[4].
I can't see myself living in Australia again. Not that the rest of the world is perfect by any means, but if I had to pick at this point it would probably be somewhere like the Nordic countries that seem to take their international responsibilities seriously (I'm sure it's not all roses there either).
This was such a weird move across the board. Climate change rejection aside though, I think there could be a sympathetic (to the government) explanation somewhere in there:
Eventually, EVs will need to be taxed in some way, if only to make up for the loss of fuel excise tax. It's far less controversial (and politically suicidal) to introduce a tax when only a tiny percentage of (presumably non-politically-donating) Australians will actually have to pay it.
Then once EV usage hits a significant percentage, there's already a tax in place that everyone takes for granted. And in the very unlikely event that such a tax would be repealed, what a great card to play at election time.
I can't remember who said it, but it reminds me of the "we should have taxed the Internet when we had the chance" comment. A realisation which came far too late (thankfully) for the government to do anything about it.
If the AU government didn't have such a denial / fossil-fuels attitude, I could even accept that. Unfortunately, with every other position that they hold it's hard to take that kind of explanation seriously.
Second edge: because they can't afford to make the electricity generation plants big enough and the electricity grids robust enough to stand the charging of millions of electric vehicles on a daily basis.
I'm an Aussie that left 15 years ago, and just flew back 2 weeks ago.
It's been really sad to watch the political leadership in Australia be so obviously bought by the massive mining interests, and continue to prioritize their wants and needs over those of regular folks and the environment. Australia will continue to go downhill until that changes, and I fear it could be a few decades until that happens.
Australia should be leading the world with green energy, instead we keep pandering to the massive mining conglomerates.
Don't let NZ's clean green marketing efforts delude you. Auckland is the most car dependent city in the world outside of the US. Christchurch is the most car dependent small city in the world.
To put that in perspective, there are as many cars on the road in Auckland per day as Berlin, which has 3.5x the population.
I'm both an Australian and NZ citizen. One of my parents is Australian and the other NZ.
Not that my ancestral line matters at all the legitimacy of my views. I spent 30 years living in Australia and I'll point out all the flaws I want.
Otherwise, nobody in Australia should ever criticize China (or insert any other country). But that's not the way the world works, nor the way I want the world to work. Everyone should be held to account. We don't exist in a vacuum.
With the recent stripe billing changes and now invoicing, it is starting to feel like involuntary “upgrades” on core features is how stripe gets to be a trillion dollar company. Sometimes I hate VC.
