Honestly it seems stupid but fine to me. Like if someone random comes up to me on the sidewalk and says hey if OpenAI announces a browser tomorrow, you give me $100. If not I'll give you $1000. Obviously I'm not going to take them up on it, they clearly have inside information.
If you're betting on a prediction market without insider information then you're just... The fool who is soon parted from his money one way or another.
I generally feel like people should be free to do whatever insane stuff they want with their own lives.
> I generally feel like people should be free to do whatever insane stuff they want with their own lives.
The problem with people doing insane stuff with their "own money" is the burden they often exact on their family or society.
Perhaps the realm of independence starts when loans are reasonable and current, there is sufficient child support, and they are meeting a base savings rate for their retirement.
Speaking of which, perhaps any UBI could also use a minimal criteria, reviewed annually but without any barriers on first year eligibility.
When our first child was born, we wanted to share photos with family. So I set up a Google photos album and shared it with parents, aunts, grandparents, etc.
It supports general chat plus comments and reactions linked to posted media. It's exactly what I wish social networks became... Something like the "circles" idea that Google abandoned years ago.
Now with several thousand images and videos and comments we're hitting the limits of what Google seems to have designed for with however shared albums sync.
This community feature though is the only reason I haven't self hosted all this stuff...
Well, yes, definitionally they are doing exactly that.
It just turns out that there's quite a bit of knowledge and understanding baked into the relationships of words to one another.
LLMs are heavily influenced by preceding words. It's very hard for them to backtrack on an earlier branch. This is why all the reasoning models use "stop phrases" like "wait" "however" "hold on..." It's literally just text injected in order to make the auto complete more likely to revise previous bad branches.
I wonder if a slightly broader search for existing solutions - for instance, https://defold.com - would have shown that quick-startup, 3d-capable, c-integrable, low-end-hardware performant game engines could have been grabbed off the shelf.
That said, this is cool and I would have probably celebrated a similarly fun project in their shoes. Perhaps the real accomplishment here is getting Toyota to employ you to build a new, niche game engine.
Toyota complained about poor performance on all of Unity, UE and Godot, but also about long startup times with Godot.
I don't know how bloated Godot is, but AFAIK libgodot development started as part of Migeran's automotive AR HUD prototype so I'm surprised to hear it has poor startup time for a car.
Godot is pretty lightweight (especially considering how powerful it is), generally about a second or less. But maybe they are looking for a fast enough startup time that the engine can be started when showing something onscreen and torn down when not visible. In which case, I can see the startup time being an issue.
The fact that they tried other engines seems to imply that non Flutter options were... Options.
If literally the only option was an embedded flutter view, then there was never more than one viable solution and looking into unity etc was wasted effort.
It’s possible to integrate other things into Flutter.
However, it’s not easy. I think their options were either a popular mainstream library or a custom solution, not investing into something more obscure and less popular.
Having used both, the experience of building actual UI with Flutter is a breeze compared to building UI in any game engine. I can imagine that most of the usage of Flutter is leveraging the huge amount of work that was already done to get efficient and capable UIs done with just a stack of widgets.
The places where it poses challenges in my experience are high quality typesetting/rich text, responsive UI that requires a wide range of presentations (i.e. different layout structures on mobile vs desktop), and granular control over rendering details.
But for functionality-oriented UI, it's hard to beat its simplicity and scalability, particularly when you want to develop on one platform (e.g. computer) and have everything "just work" identically on other form factors (web/tablet/etc.).
For example, Godot's editor is bootstrapped/built in Godot, and runs natively on Web, Android, and Quest XR among other platforms.
Also imagine that basic interactions were mediated by those monopolies: you had to print your bus ticket personally with software only available on your IBM.
The fact that the strategic wedge with which a successful, relatively socially-positive business manages to sustain itself isn't universally accessible doesn't negate its value.
The Venn diagram between people who shop at dollar stores and people who shop at Costco isn't empty.
If you're betting on a prediction market without insider information then you're just... The fool who is soon parted from his money one way or another.
I generally feel like people should be free to do whatever insane stuff they want with their own lives.
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